Creative Music Think Tank
Sound Lines
Improvisation, Text and Media
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A Conference at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
June 24‐25, 2010
The ongoing emergence of new media presents both challenges and opportunities for improvisers from around the world. The Improvisation, Community and Social Practice research initiative (www.improvcommunity.ca) – in conjunction with Coastal Jazz and the University of British Columbia – invites proposals for presentations at Sound Lines, a conference on improvisation, text and media to take place June 24 and 25, 2010, at Vancouver, British Columbia, alongside the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
Presentations can range from theoretical to practical, from aesthetic to political in their aims and methods, and interdisciplinary work is welcome and encouraged. We are especially interested in provocative, informed work that deals with improvisation in as unlimited a sense as possible. Submissions are invited from academic and non‐academic writers, artists, performers and critics.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the many intersections of improvisational practices and various media:
The poetics of improvisation: writing and play
Free‐styling: hip‐hop improvisers
Signifying and/as improvising
The graphic score
Data‐clouds, rhizomes and assemblages
Broadcast: jazz on TV, jazz on radio
Audible pasts: recording technologies and improvisation
Improvisation and/in the theatre
Installation and performance: sound spaces
Dance improvisation
Electronic dissemination of sound and text
Improvisation and social media: playing and tweeting
Screening bodies
The film‐maker as improviser
Slam and spoken‐word improvisation
Sampling and improvisation
Machine subjectivities: improvisation and artificial intelligence Improvising prosthetics
Cyborg sounds
Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words — finished presentations and papers should conform to a 20‐minute delivery — by April 7, 2010 to Dr. Kevin McNeilly, mcneilly@interchange.ubc.ca or to Dr. Julie Smith, julie@coastaljazz.ca. Notification of acceptances will be given by April 14, 2010.
