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| | MSN Encarta - Improvisation (music) |
 | | Improvised counterpoint and harmony—whether added to plainsong melodies in the 12th-century or to folk tunes in the 20th—adhere to characteristic intervals and ways of relating to the original melody. | | | Common musical forms such as the prelude, variation, fantasia, and toccata all derive from acts of improvisation. | | | In the 18th and 19th centuries the solo concerto provided opportunities for improvisation in the cadenza, an interlude before the final cadence of a movement in which the soloist combined the development of themes with a virtuoso display. |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567105/Improvisation_(music).html
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| | Improvisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Blues, jazz and bluegrass are well-known for using improvisation. | | | Musical improvisation is also a widely used technique in music therapy, in the form of clinical improvisation. | | | Improvisation on "Improvisation": Karlheinz Essl and Jack Hauser talking about musical improvisation |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvisation
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| | Longform improvisation - encyclopedia article about Longform improvisation. |
| | The longform improvisational approach is contrasted with shortform improvisation, or shortform. | | | Longform improvisation is the predominant form of improvisational performance in Chicago, one of the birthplaces of modern improvisational theatre. | | | Longform improvisation, often referred to simply as longform, is an approach to improvisational theatre and improvisational comedy consisting of one or more scenes which are connected by a narrative thread or theme. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Longform+improvisation
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| | Milestones of the Millenium: Improvisation |
| | Sometimes, a composer was required to improvise a passage of an otherwise notated composition, as was the case with the 1808 premiere of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, Op. | | | Levin believes that improvisation is on the upswing. | | | The manner in which the cadenza is improvised varies among musicians. |
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http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/milestones/991124.motm.improv.html
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| | Improvising Character: Jazz, the Actor, and Protocols of Improvisation, Marshall Soules Ph.D. |
| | Discussions of jazz and improvisation as a mode of performance are often as complex and multi-layered as the polyrhythms found in the music itself, and often just as charged with emotion. | | | For Bailey, musical improvisation in either "idiomatic"-- such as jazz, flamenco or baroque--or "non-idiomatic": "most usually found in so-called 'free' improvisation and, while it can be highly stylized, is not usually tied to representing an idiomatic identity" (xi-xii). | | | While the degree of improvisation in the performance is often at the discretion of the director and subject to the discipline of the actors, improvisation in traditional drama animates character and promotes the illusion of spontaneity and presence. |
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http://www.mala.bc.ca/~soules/shepard/character.htm
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| | Improvisation Music Methodology - Godfried-Willem RAES |
| | Godfried holds that music culture needs improvisation simply because it is even a condition for the possibility of a democracy. | | | Exercises with pulse and rhythm and with improvisation. | | | Handbook for people who wish to play or teach freely improvised music and improvisation pieces. |
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http://www.logosfoundation.org/g_texts/improvisation-methodology.html
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| | MU 260 Intermediate Jazz Improvisation |
| | Sections of transcribed improvisations by jazz artists of the pieces performed in class are assigned to be practiced and performed, in tempo, along with the original recording of that artist's improvisation. | | | Length of improvisation and play-along solos to record: | | | Leave a few seconds of silence between the improvisation and the play-along solo. |
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http://cla.calpoly.edu/~prinzler/sitefiles/mu260Syllabus.html
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| | A Passion for Jazz! Improvisation |
| | Composed music and improvised music may seem to be opposites, but in Jazz they merge in a unique mixture. | | | It has been said that the best improvised music sounds composed, and that the best composed music sounds improvised. | | | Improvising harmonically employs chords and tone centers to inspire new soloing. |
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http://www.apassion4jazz.net/improv.html
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| | April conference at Illinois to focus on improvisation in music |
| | Ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl, an emeritus professor in the UI School of Music, is the organizer of "Improvisation: New Directions in the Study of Musical Improvisation," an interdisciplinary and intercultural conference that will be held on campus April 1-4. | | | The four-day event, “Improvisation: New Directions in the Study of Musical Improvisation,” takes place in various campus locations and venues, and will feature lectures, panel discussions, lecture-demonstrations and concerts by musicians and scholars from Illinois and elsewhere. | | | “Improvisation is a subject about which just about everyone in the field of music can contribute,” Nettl said. |
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http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/0316improvisation.html
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| | Arts Unlimited Arts features Wild ones |
| | Bird was a great improviser and that's where he thought great music came from and what great musicians were about. | | | In fact it would be a still more radical improviser, Ornette Coleman, who put a Pollock painting on the cover of his 1961 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. | | | For Parker, Pollock and Brando, to be a purely improvisational artist was unbearable - American freedom was unbearable. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1370298,00.html
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| | Singingwood — Improvisation |
| | In the field of music, improvisation is largely extemporaneous. | | | A less spontaneous form of improvisation is the art of arranging music. | | | And improvisation naturally leads to formal composition, to song writing, and writing musical scores. |
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http://www.singingwood.com/NewFiles/Improvisation.html
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| | On An Overgrown Path: Improvisation |
| | For a musician, whatever his background, improvisation is the most direct form of communication with the listener. | | | In every age and culture, improvisation came before all other forms of music. | | | The answer was: "If the check is good, the acoustics are good". |
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http://theovergrownpath.blogspot.com/2004/11/improvisation.html
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| | Cyberfret.com: Free online guitar lessons covering improvisation |
| | The Minor Scale - Expand your improvisations beyond pentatonic soloing with a look at the minor scale on the guitar. | | | Improvising over key changes - Ideas for the rookie Jazz guitarist, and improvisers of all styles. | | | 101 - The basics of learning to improvise on the guitar. |
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http://www.cyberfret.com/improvisation/index.php
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| | JAZZ MUSIC - The history of IMPROVISATION by Michael Furstner. |
| | Improvisation has been an integral part of music since the very beginning of music, and it has been a very important element in Western | | | improvisation suddenly (and inexplicably) disappeared from the Classical performances (see Footnote *), and Classical music as a whole has been totally dominated (and restricted) by the written score. | | | A few other types of European music have not suffered from the 'drought', and continued uninterrupted with their tradition of Improvisation. |
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http://www.jazclass.aust.com/articles/impro1.htm
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| | The Insight Improvisation Homepage |
| | Insight Improvisation is a vehicle for self-exploration and self-discovery. | | | Insight Improvisation differs from most forms of scripted or improvised theater in that it replaces the focus on "performance"—that is, presenting an artistic work for an audience—with a focus on the participant's mind-body experience. | | | Developed beginning in 1993, Insight Improvisation evolved as a way to connect active, expressive techniques—including authentic movement, storytelling, improvisation, writing, solo performance, and collaboration with partners and groups—with the skills and concepts underlying meditation, including mindfulness, choiceless awareness, and lovingkindness. |
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http://www.jgluck.org
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| | Improvisation |
| | Musical improvisation requires musical thoughts, the knowledge of the "language" of music, and the physical ability to play an instrument. | | | That is why I consider improvisation to be an essential skill in reaching a level of contentment as a musician, because improvisation requires you to know music. | | | Once this awareness took hold, my mantra as a teacher and budding improviser became the beat, the one, then rhythm, repetition and space leading to the musical phrase. |
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http://www.wholemusiclearning.com/IMPRintro.htm
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| | Improvisation |
| | In an improvising musical or theatrical group, for instance, no one must be interested in making a reputation or protecting one already made. | | | For one thing, most improvising was not quite so inventive as the language we used (and that most people still use) made out. | | | When people improvise together they usually do so, though not always and not necessarily, by taking some elements of what they will do as given, not subject to change during the course of the improvisation, leaving others as what it will be O.K. to vary and work with as they perform together. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~hsbecker/Improv.html
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| | Jazz Guitar Improvisation in ONE Lesson |
| | The chordal style described is free improvisation in nature, like many instrumental breaks in modern jazz or in free form acoustic jazz. | | | Knowledge of music theory or the ability to read music are UNNECESSARY to improvise with this system. | | | For those who have no improvisation or jamming experience of any kind or who may be intimidated by a lack of knowledge of what constitutes improvisation. |
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http://www.jazzmaster.com
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| | Improvisation- Greg Segal |
| | With as strong a base as improvisation has in 20th century music history, it is still viewed as suspect in many quarters. | | | Many jazz purists hate rock improvisation and think it's a lot of undisciplined crap; many rockers can't listen to jazz improvisation and thinks it's boring or lacks balls (Most of the latter have never heard a Mahavishnu Orchestra record. | | | It's not just that their musical expectations are structured- it's that their social expectations are structured, and improvisation is only a very minor part of that structure. |
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http://www.furious.com/perfect/improvisation.html
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| | Search Results for improvisation - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | in music, jazz vocal style using emotive, onomatopoeic, and nonsense syllables instead of words in solo improvisations on a melody. | | | American jazz pianist whose lush harmonies and lyrical improvisation so influenced other jazz pianists of the 1960s and '70s that it became the single most influential style since that of Bud Powell... | | | These meanings are interdependent and presume a tradition in which musical works exist as repeatable... |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=improvisation&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT
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| | A Personal View of Qin and Improvisation |
| | Most of the music played on planet earth is improvised, not composed. | | | and various other musics that are all rooted in improvisation. | | | To tell you more about this new Qin and Xiao improvisation album, I |
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| | Improvisation on "Improvisation" |
| | Because in improvisation, unlike composition, one is not "out of time" but in the middle of the passage of time, situations come up due to this responsibility and this compulsion that cannot be planned by a composer at the writing-table. | | | Even if I improvise solo and have prepared certain material and structural concepts, in the moment of playing, and in continuous contact with the sound created, the necessity of a progression will come up which I could never realise in customary composition. | | | After all, the danger of improvisation as well as of composition is in the belief that one has to show everything. |
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http://www.essl.at/bibliogr/improvisation-e.html
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| | Improvisation in spinning and knitting |
| | The more improvised the piece, the more I like the results on the whole, not to mention the happier I am with the process. | | | Contrarily to what you might think I wasn't so hot about the software concept in itself, but his discussion of what makes drumming sound improvised, and human, was fascinating. | | | As I've gotten older and more into knitting, I seem to turn more and more to improvisation as a source of inspiration and design. |
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| | T+D: Improvisation: not just funny business |
| | When most of us think of improvisation, the term brings to mind stand-up comedy and TV shows like "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" Although comedians do use improvisation, it's not strictly their purview. | | | We studied improvisation, working with [The] Second City [Improvisational Company, of Chicago] to understand more about the craft. | | | Alain Rostain discovered improvisation in 1991, while working as a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers. |
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| | Sax on the Web > Jazz Improvisation |
| | The Sound I Saw: Improvisation on a Jazz... | | | Developed to educate people in a culture where modesty is a virtue and the ability to improvise is not generally an inborn trait, the following classroom techniques can also be used by band directors to sharpen soloing skills in their big bands. | | | A New Approach to Jazz Improvisation by Jamey Aebersold (Audio CD) |
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| | NAEP Arts -- Vocal Improvisation Exercise--Student Samples |
| | Students’ vocal improvisations were assigned three different scores: Rhythm/Meter (general ability to sing in rhythm with the background tape), Pitch (general ability to sing in the key of the background tape), and Melodic Interest and Appeal (overall melodic creativity and use of appealing effects throughout the improvisation). | | | The ending section of the improvisation is rather simple and could use more rhythmic complexity. | | | Most of the notes sung are out of rhythm with the background tape; occasionally the student sings on the first beats of measures or beginnings of phrases. |
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http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/arts/musicvocalimp.asp
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| | Daniele Russo Improvisation on the Classical Guitar |
| | Improvising classical styles on the guitar: a challenge that Daniele Russo has accepted and successfully conquered, after completing regular guitar studies. | | | Since his second debut in Milan for the "Società dei Concerti" with a totally based improvisation recital, he regularly performs classical improvisations in Italy and abroad. | | | Needless to say, Daniele Russo considers improvisation the result of all his artistic experiences. |
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| | Technorati Tag: improvisation |
| | Improvisation Sheet Music Get improvisation sheet music at Sheet Music Plus. | | | electronic improvisation is fundamentally ephemisition: it is built... | | | european free improvisation pages: update february 2006 Posted in european free improvisation by siemers on the February 7th, 2006 please visit... |
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| | Books About Improvisation |
| | The moment improvisation is gone, there is no theatre on stage. | | | Improvisation Starters : A Collection of 900 Improvisation Situations for the Theater | | | We have to, because the show is nothing not "improvision" from the public's point of view -- for the first time for them and for you on stage! |
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| | Improv Theme Page |
| | The Improv Page is a clearinghouse for information about improvisational theatre. | | | Topics include: building trust, working together, moving, reacting, finding a through-line, and performing an improvisation. | | | This "Theme Page" has links to information about Improvisation. |
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| | Jazz Studies and Improvisation |
| | At the same time, it is essential that you master the jazz traditions of swing, melodic improvisation on tonal forms, and instrumental technique and expression in order to be a competent professional who can extend those traditions and function in a variety of musical settings. | | | Jazz Studies focuses on African-American traditions; Contemporary Improvisation provides students with the opportunity to synthesize such diverse traditions as jazz, contemporary classical, and ethnic music through improvisation, performance, and composition, with an emphasis on developing aural traditions. | | | Intervallic Improvisation, Melodic Rhythm and Graduate Improvisation Seminar |
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http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/degrees/majors/jazz.html
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| | Lee Konitz 10-Step Method |
| | He was the first one to present a method for improvised jazz playing. | | | The first, and most important, level is the song itself. | | | He got through to me because suddenly I was taking music seriously. |
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http://www.melmartin.com/html_pages/Interviews/konitz.html
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| | Improvisation I WRITE THE MUSIC |
| | Traditional Native American music and instruments combined with jazz and free improvisation. | | | Subharmonics, interactive computer music, and improvisation keep this violinist and composer busy. | | | Find a directory of links, music samples, MIDI files and improvisation loops. |
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| | Ask students what they think improvisation in theatre is. Ask them why improv is important to theatre. | | | How can improvisation belp an individual in his/her daily life? | | | You are to write a two-page essay which contains the following information concerning the Improvisation Unit |
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http://www.byu.edu/tma/arts-ed/units/impvunit.htm
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| | Cecil Taylor Panel Discussion |
| | It simply means that these people who choose to improvise utilize certain physical things in their characteristics and and transpose them to the instruments and, after a certain amount of years, these things take shape in a form
Like the Charlie Parker expression. | | | Taylor: Now, the only difference is that certain people wish to notate their improvisations. | | | Overton: Well, Hadyn used to improvise every morning, I read in a book someplace. |
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| | Improv -- Bio-Method Acting with Anatoly |
| | Tell the audience that the show is improvised ahead of time. | | | Workshop for Six-To-Eight-Year-Olds - Formal Theater And Improvisational Theater - Xvi. | | | Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is fifty percent of the performance.-- Shirley Booth |
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http://act.vtheatre.net/improv.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Improvisation: Search Results Books |
| | A Guide to Jazz Improvisation with CD (Audio) | | | Improvisation Starters: A Collection of 900 Improvisation Situations for the Theater -- by Philip Bernardi (Author) | | | Doug Munro: Jazz Blues Improvisation for All [IMPORT] |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/external-search?tag=bookstore0e86-20&keyword=Improvisation&mode=books
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| | Contact Improvisation |
| | CI25 was the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Contact Improvisation, held at Oberlin College, June 1997. | | | STREAM 2 - IMPROVISATION TOWARD PERFORMANCE--May 19-21 Instructor: NINA MARTIN This workshop is for those interested in Improvisation as a performance art and who intend to include improvisation in future performance work. | | | The Ontario Regional Contact Improvisation Jam is open to anyone, from anywhere on the planet, who is interested in contact improvisational dance. |
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http://www.contactimprov.net
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| | Contemporary Improvisation |
| | Gunther Schuller founded this innovative program in 1973 to explore the "third stream" that is formed when the streams of classical music and jazz are creatively combined. | | | You will begin to define yourself by choosing the artists or styles most germane to your musical personality then, through deep aural absorption of the your chosen musical roots, a synthesis becomes possible, and a musical self-portrait will begin to emerge in your improvisations. | | | Our graduates include such notable performers as internationally renowned jazz and Klezmer clarinetist Don Byron, keyboardist John Medeski of Medeski, Martin and Wood, and Jacqueline Schwab, whose solo piano improvisations were featured in Ken Burns’s award-winning PBS series "The Civil War." |
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http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/degrees/majors/contemp_improv.html
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| | A Jazz Improvisation Primer |
| | A Jazz Improvisation Primer is brought to you by the Outside Shore Online Music School, providers of educational products and services for jazz musicians. | | | Here you can find information on almost every topic relating to jazz improvisation, from jazz history to music theory to practical advice on playing in a group. | | | If you would like a printed copy, you can order it as A Whole Approach To Jazz Improvisation. |
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http://outsideshore.com/primer/primer
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| | Jazz Improvisation |
| | The series of articles below is part of the syllabus for Jazz Improvisation courses MUS 331,332 and 530 at the University of Wisconsin Madison. | | | A Jazz Improvisation Primer by Marc Sabatella, an excellent improvisation overview | | | From the class gig during spring semester, 2001, you can listen to two recorded excerpts set with my animations. |
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http://hum.lss.wisc.edu/jazz
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| | MECA - Improvisation Program |
| | For over forty years Oliveros has been a pioneer in the fields of improvisation, electronic music, and theater and ritual in music. | | | All artists who perform with the MECA Improvisation Program also conduct workshop events with students from the MECA Improvisation Ensemble. | | | The MECA Improvisation Program has been at the cutting edge of music education in Houston since 1997. |
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| | Contact Improvisation |
| | It's usually done as a duet (but sometimes solo or in larger groups), it's usually in silence; and it's improvised. | | | It is a dance that fine tunes your senses and wakes up your ability to listen and respond to what is happening in the moment. | | | See also the bibliography of contact improvisation collected at CI25. |
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