Signal to Noise: the Journal of Improvised and Experimental Music is celebrating its fifth anniversary with its twenty-seventh issue and the launch of a newly redesigned web site, http://www.signaltonoisemagazine.org. The quarterly magazine's new Fall 2002 issue, available now, features an extensive cover story on the re-emergence of the seminal rap group, Public Enemy. Its new site offers greatly expanded content, including ten of the most popular features from the journal's first five y …
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http://www.improvisedcommunications.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NOVEMBER 18th, 2002 THREE NEW RELEASES FROM PLAYSCAPE RECORDINGS LONGMEADOW, MA - Playscape Recordings is proud to announce the December 3rd release of its three newest titles: George Schuller’s Hellbent, Tom Christensen’s Paths, and Michael Musillami/Mario Pavone’s Pivot. Founded …
MacArthur Award winning pianist/composer/educator Ran Blake will focus his annual week-long summer survey course on the music of iconic improviser Ornette Coleman August 13th through 19th at Boston’s New England Conservatory (NEC). Blake, who like Coleman studied at the legendary School of Jazz at Music Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts in the late 1950’s, has been on faculty at NEC for the past 35 years, serving as Chair of the groundbreaking Third Stream/Contemporary Improvisation Department since 1 …
The Chicago-based independent label 482 Music is proud to announce the April 1st release of the debut recording by the San Francisco Bay Area's Natto Quartet (formerly Trio Natto). Recorded live in concert at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California in August 2002, Headlands (482-1018) features seven freely improvised works created by the group's unique instrumentation of shakuhachi, koto, piano, and live electronics. By collectively leaving the traditional and cultu …
The Chicago-based independent label 482 Music is proud to announce the May 27th release of Montreal-based drummer/composer/artist Michel Lambert's latest recording, Out Twice (482-1019). Sponsored in part by the Canada Council, this recording is a collection of 11 spontaneously improvised pieces using Lambert drawings as graphic scores, each seeking to combine visual and musical expression into a single, cohesive language. The drawings are on display in the CD booklet and at www.482mus …