This episode features live recordings of two of the public talks given during the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium this year (Sept. 16 – Sept. 18). The first is by Rene Meshake and is entitled “The Gift of the Red-Tailed Hawk Flute”. The second is by Kathe Gray of York University and is called “Don’t Worry That It’s Not Good Enough for Anyone Else to Hear”: Finding Voice through Vocal Improvisation”. Both talks were given on Thursday September 17th, 2015. This episode originally aired on CFRU 93.3FM on October 22, 2015.

Sound It Out is hosted by Rachel Elliott who is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Sound It Out is produced in conjunction with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. The show explores whether and how improvised music can serve as a basis for discursive inclusivity, the creation of new forms of shared meaning, and more democratic means of connecting with each other.

Sound It Out airs on Guelph’s campus and community radio station, CFRU 93.3FM, on alternating Tuesdays at 5pm.

This year, Guelph’s Improviser-in-Residence is Douglas R. Ewart of the Art Institute of Chicago, AACM, and Aarawak Records. In this episode of Sound It Out you will hear Ewart discuss his project Crepuscule in an interview with Dr. Ajay Heble that took place the morning of September 17, 2015 as part of the yearly Jazz Festival Colloquium. Ewart talks about the powerful maternal figures in his early life in Jamaica and being inspired by the strength and understanding demonstrated by Thelonious Monk’s wife Nellie, for whom Monk wrote Crepuscule with Nellie. He reflects on the relationship between individual self-respect and group solidarity, and the value of improvising together with a positive valence on diversity. This episode originally aired on CFRU on September 24th, 2015.

Sound It Out is hosted by Rachel Elliott who is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Sound It Out is produced in conjunction with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. The show explores whether and how improvised music can serve as a basis for discursive inclusivity, the creation of new forms of shared meaning, and more democratic means of connecting with each other.

Sound It Out airs on Guelph’s campus and community radio station, CFRU 93.3FM, on alternating Tuesdays at 5pm.

The Character of Voice – Ruby Kato Attwood on Exclusion and Appropriation in Contemporary Opera

Today I talk with artist, musician, singer, researcher, and performer Ruby Kato Attwood about the beginnings of her new research project into voice and identity in contemporary music. Attwood is undertaking library and archive work as well as practice based-research in opera singing in order to understanding how developing this most intimate instrument can open up new subject positions and engender a recognition of the precariousness of voice in the operatic cannon. In this conversation Attwood highlights how some voices have tended to be excluded from opera while also being the unacknowledged source of appropriative compositional gestures. This episode originally aired on CFRU 93.3FM in Guelph, Ontario, on September 10, 2015.

Sound It Out is hosted by Rachel Elliott who is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Sound It Out is produced in conjunction with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. The show explores whether and how improvised music can serve as a basis for discursive inclusivity, the creation of new forms of shared meaning, and more democratic means of connecting with each other.

Sound It Out airs on Guelph’s campus and community radio station, CFRU 93.3FM, on alternating Tuesdays at 5pm.

This episode showcases the work of Navid Navab, a Montreal-based media alchemist, composer/improvisor, audio-visual sculptor, and multidisciplinary artist. Navab’s catalogue of work is diverse and varied, from interactive, public, sound extravaganzas to the design of precision sonic interfaces that make medical perception in the surgery room more intuitive. Underlying this array imaginative creations is a core awareness of the relationship between gesture and sound. Navab’s work uses the familiarity of gestures, such as those involved in cooking or pouring drinks, to re-enchant the objects that accompany those gestures, using sound. By manipulating and transforming the inherent sonic properties of materials we know from everyday life, Navid reacquaints us with the magic and wonder of our embodied experience. This episode originally aired on CFRU on August 27th, 2015.

Sound It Out is hosted by Rachel Elliott who is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Sound It Out is produced in conjunction with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. The show explores whether and how improvised music can serve as a basis for discursive inclusivity, the creation of new forms of shared meaning, and more democratic means of connecting with each other.

Sound It Out airs on Guelph’s campus and community radio station, CFRU 93.3FM, on alternating Tuesdays at 5pm.

Radio can be a forum for talking about art, and it can also be a form of art itself. Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann of Mobile Radio and Tonic Train discuss the relationship between their sound experiments with electronic music and the relatively untapped potential of radio as an artistic experience. Hear about their involvement in the beginnings of England’s Resonance 104.4FM, and their present relationship with 'Radia'. We discuss the essentially place-specific nature of sound in the context of simultaneous listening communities around the world, tuning-in, being surprised, relinquishing control, and the invitation to participate in creative radio expression. Originally aired in May 2016 on CFRU 93.3FM.

Sound It Out is hosted by Rachel Elliott who is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Sound It Out is produced in conjunction with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. The show explores whether and how improvised music can serve as a basis for discursive inclusivity, the creation of new forms of shared meaning, and more democratic means of connecting with each other.

Sound It Out airs on Guelph’s campus and community radio station, CFRU 93.3FM, on alternating Tuesdays at 5pm.

Christine Duncan talks with me about the development of the Element Choir in the context of her life’s work as an improvising vocalist. She describes how she came up with the unique system of gestural cues that she uses to conduct the choir, her approach to structured improvisation, and her early experiences in church music. In a conversation taking place on a park bench in Toronto, Duncan identifies her natural mimetic instinct and the joy inherent in vocal expression as the deep sources of her musical spring. This episode originally aired in May 2016 on CFRU 93.3FM.

Sound It Out is hosted by Rachel Elliott who is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Sound It Out is produced in conjunction with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. The show explores whether and how improvised music can serve as a basis for discursive inclusivity, the creation of new forms of shared meaning, and more democratic means of connecting with each other.

Sound It Out airs on Guelph’s campus and community radio station, CFRU 93.3FM, on alternating Tuesdays at 5pm.

This archival discussion between Paul Watkins and Wayde Compton from 2013 touches on the problem of identity, creativity in tradition, remembering past cityscapes, Hogan’s Alley Memorial Project, the DJ as sound archivist, lost sounds, R.Murray Schafer, Kid Koala, and Poetry! Take a look at Wayde Compton’s recent book of stories, The Outer Harbour, published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Originally aired in March 2015 on CFRU 93.3FM.

Sound It Out is hosted by Rachel Elliott who is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Sound It Out is produced in conjunction with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. The show explores whether and how improvised music can serve as a basis for discursive inclusivity, the creation of new forms of shared meaning, and more democratic means of connecting with each other.

Sound It Out airs on Guelph’s campus and community radio station, CFRU 93.3FM, on alternating Tuesdays at 5pm.

Ariel Swan discusses her 2014 album Symphony Plastique, facilitating youth agency through improvisation at Musikaddict, her recently completed Master’s thesis from McGill University. Additionally, hear Kenny Werner talk at the Blue Note on themes from his book Effortless Mastery. This show originally aired on CFRU 93.3 FM on February 26, 2015.

Sound It Out is hosted by Rachel Elliott who is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Sound It Out is produced in conjunction with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. The show explores whether and how improvised music can serve as a basis for discursive inclusivity, the creation of new forms of shared meaning, and more democratic means of connecting with each other.

Sound It Out airs on Guelph’s campus and community radio station, CFRU 93.3FM, on alternating Tuesdays at 5pm.

What recordings best convey the live feeling of improvisation? Today we showcase the views of IICSI affiliates about what to listen! David Lee suggests “Ra” by Evan Parker and Paul Lytton; Alexandre Pierrepont recommends Memorize the Sky; Maggie Nicols, Joëlle Léandre, and Lindsay Cooper “Live at the Bastille” is Chris Tonelli’s favourite; and Lisa Lorenzino sticks with the classic, Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. This episode originally aired on CFRU 93.3FM in Guelph Ontario on January 29th, 2015.

Sound It Out is hosted by Rachel Elliott who is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Sound It Out is produced in conjunction with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. The show explores whether and how improvised music can serve as a basis for discursive inclusivity, the creation of new forms of shared meaning, and more democratic means of connecting with each other.

Sound It Out airs on Guelph’s campus and community radio station, CFRU 93.3FM, on alternating Tuesdays at 5pm.

Poet and Spoken Word artist Jack Daniel reflects on what it means to bring fragmentation and disjuncture into the improvisational situation. How can words interrupt and provoke our habitual ways of being expressive together? Do they help us say what is unsayable, to acknowledge the underbelly of human existence? This episode originally aired on CFRU 93.3FM on January 16th, 2015.

Sound It Out is hosted by Rachel Elliott who is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Sound It Out is produced in conjunction with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. The show explores whether and how improvised music can serve as a basis for discursive inclusivity, the creation of new forms of shared meaning, and more democratic means of connecting with each other.

Sound It Out airs on Guelph’s campus and community radio station, CFRU 93.3FM, on alternating Tuesdays at 5pm.