Oxford Brookes University,
Monday June 6th, 2pm - 4pm
This event was organised by Compost and Height and SARU
This interdisciplinary workshop examined a number of techniques you can use when improvising within a large group, focussing on global awareness and listening, while exploring strategies for achieving maximum variety and avoiding stagnation. Also discussed were concepts such as foreground/background, solo/support, and intention/non-intention.
This workshop was open to anyone interested in free improvisation, whether a beginner or intermediate or professional. And it is not just for musicians: the workshop is also for dancers, live video art, acting, and any other artform where improvising is important.
As an example of ways in which people from different media can work together, Gino used sections of “I, Norton,” an “opera” for improvisers that includes hand cues, graphic notation, and strategies. Other examples camee from the music of Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Butch Morris, and even Indonesian gamelan.
BIO
Gino Robair has created music for dance, theater, radio, television, silent film, and gamelan orchestra, and his works have been performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. He was composer in residence with the California Shakespeare Festival for five seasons and served as music director for the CBS animated series The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat. His commercial work includes themes for the MTV and Comedy Central cable networks.
Robair is also one of the "25 innovative percussionists" included in the book Percussion Profiles (SoundWorld, 2001). He has recorded with Tom Waits, Anthony Braxton, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, John Butcher, Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald, Otomo Yoshihide, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, and Eugene Chadbourne, among many others. In addition, Robair has performed with John Zorn, Nina Hagen, Fred Frith, Eddie Prevost, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Myra Melford, Wadada Leo Smith, and the Club Foot Orchestra.
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