Events Archive

2024

Abstract Democracy has been a hot topic in experimental improvised music for some time. The self-governance of collectives such as the …
17 Oct 2024 15:30 Democracy – Materialization in and through music
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4 Oct 2024 21:00 musikprotokoll festival
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31 Aug 2024 19:00 Grazer Impro Fest

Abstract Experimental improvising musicians often celebrate the idea that music can come from (next to) nothing. This coin has two …
29 Aug 2024 16:00 Grazer Impro Fest

Abstract Many commentators in jazz and improvised musics have often concerned themselves with the ethical dimensions of musical …
12 Jul 2024 09:30 Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group conference
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25 Jun 2024 21:30 Tranzac

21 Jun 2024 20:00 Something Else! Festival
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19 Jun 2024 20:00 Suoni per il Popolo
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16 Jun 2024 20:00 Tour de Bras
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30 Apr 2024 18:00

28 Apr 2024 19:00 Contact, Tuning & Making

From “Composing with (Improvising) People: A Paramanifesto” “Compose” is a fraught word. Despite its etymological innocence …
22 Apr 2024 18:00 Signale Soiree
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Abstract Many commentators in jazz and improvised musics have often concerned themselves with the ethical dimensions of musical …
6 Apr 2024 16:00 Rhythm Changes conference
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Music is not a “thing” – music is something we do. But what do we do when we make music? Music-making involves a wide range of skills, …
23 Mar 2024 16:00 — 17:30 MaerzMusik
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(Musical) Ethics Lab 6 with the Splitter Orchester and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra — together at last — will take place in Berlin as part …
22 Mar 2024 20:30 MaerzMusik Festival
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2023

19 Nov 2023 12:00 — 20:00 (Musical) Improvisation and Ethics project
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8 Oct 2023 20:00 Fri Resonans Festival
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9 Aug 2023 20:00 Contact Festival

Marianne Svašek, voice Nathanaël van Zuilen, pakhawaj (two-headed drum) Christopher Williams, contrabass Jadi Carboni, tambura Eintritt …
30 Jul 2023 19:00 Dhrupad with Marianne Svasek

20 May 2023 20:00 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville
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Malcolm Goldstein, violin Christopher A. Williams, contrabass with a film by Zachary Kerschberg The legendary Malcolm Goldstein and …
17 May 2023 19:30 Live and virtual duos at Goethe Institut Montreal

Abstract In interdisciplinary projects that integrate artistic research, how do teams calibrate zoomed in (“practical”) and zoomed out …
20 Apr 2023 14:00 — 15:30 Society for Artistic Research Conference 2023
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11 Mar 2023 11:00 — 13:00 (Musical) Improvisation and Ethics Seminar Series
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28 Jan 2023 10:00 — 13:00 Symposium / Open Space: Improvisation und Ethik
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27 Jan 2023 23:05 Zeit-Ton radio show
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27 Jan 2023 20:00 Sound & Lecture no. 20
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with Joshua Bergamin Abstract It is well-established that rhythm generates embodied senses of belonging in musical and non-musical …
25 Jan 2023 20:00 Groove Workshop 2023
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17 Jan 2023 22:05 — 22:25 Art’s Birthday

2022

The venerable Wien Modern festival hosts Encounter 3 of the (Musical) Improvisation and Ethics project with the Vienna-based klingt …
22 Nov 2022 18:00 Wien Modern
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The venerable Wien Modern festival hosts Encounter 3 of the (Musical) Improvisation and Ethics project with the Vienna-based klingt …
21 Nov 2022 19:30 Wien Modern
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An introduction to the “(Musical) Improvisation and Ethics” project for students at the Hochschule Osnabrück, Institut für …
2 Nov 2022 13:00 Introduction to (Musical) Improvisation and Ethics at Hochschule Osnabrück
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27 Aug 2022 18:30 Musical Ethics Lab 2 with Splitter
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26 Aug 2022 19:00 — 22:00 (Musical) Ethics Lab 2 with Splitter
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13 Aug 2022 20:00 Hotel Pupik summer presentations

In this practical workshop at the Society for Artistic Research 2022 Conference at the Bauhaus University Weimar, we invite …
3 Jul 2022 10:00 — 13:00 SAR International Conference on Artistic Research

24 Jun 2022 20:00 — 22:00 Musical Ethics Lab 1 with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra
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4 Jun 2022 20:00 KONTRAKLANG – Montréal and Beyond
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A talk entitled “What’s Left of the Blurring of Music and Life? Some Pattersonian Speculations”, at a special program …
20 Mar 2022 16:30 Benjamin Patterson Invocations at MaerzMusik

19 Mar 2022 16:55 Ben Patterson Invocations at MaerzMusik

2021

For a variety of reasons both social and personal, I rarely feel the weight of musical history on my shoulders. I do, however, …
21 Apr 2021 13:00 Composing the Historical 2

2020

30 May 2020 20:15 A video performance of Scott McLaughlin’s The whole is encountered by going further into the parts at Drone Day, hosted by of-the-now, Victoria, Canada. NOTE: N American west coast time zone (PST)
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22 May 2020 19:30 Joining Korhan Erol and SCHWARM 13 for group improvisations with futuristic Greek theater in the courtyard of a crumbling East German office building

31 Jan 2020 17:00 Improvisation: Current Research and Theory

2 Jan 2020 12:00 — 12:00 3-month residency at the German Center for Venetian Studies.

2019

This presentation seeks to unpack the problems and possibilities of publishing a practice-based thesis in the arts as a native website. …
14 Nov 2019 10:30 Unpacking the problems and possibilities of publishing a practice-based thesis in the arts as a native website.

Since finishing his 2016 PhD dissertation on notation for improvisers, Tactile Paths, Christopher has become increasingly interested in …
13 Nov 2019 12:00 Open Scores Lab
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26 Oct 2019 21:30 Performance of Marc Sabat and Mareike Lee’s Light Ground with members of Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop at the SinusTon Festival

10 Oct 2019 20:00 New quintet project

30 Sep 2019 20:00 New version for the great ensemble Liminar in the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez
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28 Sep 2019 09:30 Phonurgia Nova 2019 radio art competition
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3 Jul 2019 20:00 Andreas Göbel, host of Radio Berlin Brandenburg’s Musik der Gegenwart, interviews Patrick Klingenschmitt and me about curating contemporary music at KONTRAKLANG
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14 Jun 2019 20:00 With works for solo guitar by Martin Iddon and David Fennessey.
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27 May 2019 00:05 — 00:20 Deutschlandfunk Kultur’s Kurzstrecke show broadcasts a new version of Ansage etc. for David Moss made for radio.
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24 Apr 2019 19:00 Premiere screening of choregrapher Jadi Carboni’s video dance with music by yours truly.

14 Feb 2019 00:00 — 00:00 3-day studio/research residency with Jadi Carboni and Deniz Peters

This presentation seeks to unpack the problems and possibilities of publishing a practice-based thesis in the arts as a native website. …
11 Feb 2019 18:30 — 19:30 Unpacking the problems and possibilities of publishing a practice-based thesis in the arts as a native website.

11 Feb 2019 16:00 — 17:30 Solo contrabass and washtub bass, performing pieces by Corner, Dafeldecker, Mc Laughlin, and myself. To be followed by an open workshop on Scott Mc Laughlin’s new piece for contrabass and ring preparation.
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Here I will attempt to unpack the role of notation in the workflow of On Perpetual (Musical) Peace? (PMP), a series of experiments in …
9 Feb 2019 15:30 — 15:45 IMR Notation for Improvisers One Day Conference
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8 Feb 2019 20:00 Solo contrabass and washtub bass, performing pieces by Corner, Dafeldecker, Mc Laughlin, and myself. With ORNIS (Kathy Hinde and Sabine Vogel).
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2018

7 Dec 2018 20:00 Premiere With Ensemble SuperMusique.
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25 Nov 2018 14:00 Public workshop of work in progress with Ensemble SuperMusique.
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6 Nov 2018 20:00 Mardi Spaghetti Series.

26 Oct 2018 00:00 — 00:00 6-week composer residency sponsored by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Goethe-Institut Montreal, Groupe Le Vivier and Hellerau - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Dresden.

17 Oct 2018 20:00 Performing Arcanum 17 and Robin Hayward’s Summation Tones Blues with Bob Hoffnar.
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14 Oct 2018 16:30 Public workshop of work in progress with Liminar.
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13 Oct 2018 13:00 Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez. Performing Borromean Rings, Arcanum 17, and Ben Leeds Carson’s Wonderment and Misgiving.
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10 Oct 2018 20:00 Performing Borromean Rings, Arcanum 17, and Ben Leeds Carson’s Wonderment and Misgiving.
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9 Oct 2018 17:00 — 18:00 Interarea focus seminar.

8 Oct 2018 19:00 Performing Borromean Rings and Arcanum 17.
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6 Oct 2018 20:00 Indexical Series. Performing Borromean Rings, Arcanum 17, and Ben Leeds Carson’s Wonderment and Misgiving.
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5 Oct 2018 16:41 Tactile Paths: an introduction to notation for improvisers

4 Oct 2018 20:00 Performing Borromean Rings, Arcanum 17, and Ben Leeds Carson’s Wonderment and Misgiving.
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1 Oct 2018 14:00 — 16:00 Concert Theater class.

30 Sep 2018 19:00 Performing Borromean Rings. Sonic Circuits Festival.
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29 Sep 2018 20:00 Performing Borromean Rings. With Jesse Kudler.
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27 Sep 2018 20:00 Interpretations Series. Performing Arcanum 17. With Miya Masaoka.
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25 Sep 2018 20:00 Performing Borromean Rings and Ben Leeds Carson’s Wonderment and Misgiving.
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24 Sep 2018 12:00 — 14:00 Harvard composers colloquium

23 Sep 2018 20:00 Non-event series. Performing Arcanum 17. With Mike Bullock.
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