Musical improvisation that takes place within the confidentiality of the therapeutic relationship can be a way of engaging with a specific traumatic past, and also a technique for fostering mental health overall by cultivating listening, respect for self respect for others, and being in the moment. Deborah Seabrook of the Creative Arts Therapies Department at Concordia University discusses the possibility of using clinical improvisation as a tool in community health. This episode originally aired on CFRU 93.3FM on July 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.

Practice your French with this archival conversation from 2007 with Malian musician JahYoussouf and Guelph multi-instrumentalist Lewis Melville. Hear them discuss music and family dynamics, coming to Canada form Mali, on not being a griot but being an artist, the social identity of the musician, and the inherently improvisatory nature of playing with other musicians.

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.

Melvin Backstrom, PhD candidate in musicology at McGill University, talks about individuality in relation to the formation of community both in political life and in improvisatory practices. We consider the tension between positive and negative liberty in relation to familiar and experimental forms of music, as well as the difference between collective models of improvisation on the one hand, and the valuation of heroic virtuosity on the other. Join us in thinking about the pitfalls of individualism in political, economic, and musical life! This episode originally aired on CFRU 93.3FM in Guleph, Ontario, Canada on the 18th of June, 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 is smorgasbord where Sound It Out searches around for its form and identity by taking up everything around it, including The Guelph Dance Festival, McGill Conductor Eleanor Stubley, Montreal’s own Katherine Peacock and Blind Love/White Light, a bit of reading from Hegel’s Aesthetics, and a talk by Michael MacDonald called the Decentralized Dance Party Manifesto:‘Boomboxes, Anarchy, and the Commons.'” This hour originally aired on CFRU 93.3FM, on July 3rd, 2014.

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.

Hear Post-doctoral researcherIlla Carrillo Rodríguez discuss cosmopolitanism in experimental music of the 1960s, and Gascia Ouzounian of Queens University Belfast reflect on leading performances of Cornelius Cardew’s Paragraph 7 in all sorts of circumstances. Listen to the The Monday Night Choir perform Paragraph 7, lead by Dina Cédric, as part of the Suoni Per Il Popolofestival, and the encyclopedia and inexhaustible Benjamin Piekut talk about “Improvisation and Indeterminacy in London: 1965-1975.” This hour originally aired on CFRU 93.3FM on July 21st, 2014.

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 is smorgasbord where Sound It Out searches around for its form and identity by taking up everything around it, including The Guelph Dance Festival, McGill Conductor Eleanor Stubley, Montreal’s own Katherine Peacock and Blind Love/White Light, a bit of reading from Hegel’s Aesthetics, and a talk by Michael MacDonald called the Decentralized Dance Party Manifesto:‘Boomboxes, Anarchy, and the Commons.'” This hour originally aired on CFRU 93.3FM, on July 3rd, 2014.

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 hour welcomes Dong-Won Kim to Guelph as Improviser-In-Residence. We learn of Dong-Won’s relationship with Korean traditional music, to loneliness and improvising, inspiration and digestion. Hear him playing with Jesse Stewart, Jeff Bird, and Jeff Cairns, and in conversation with Daniel Fischlin, as well as Danica Evering, and Alissa Firth-Eagland of CFRU’s The Secret Ingredient. Originally aired in September 2014 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.

If you didn’t get enough of Cardew and the gang in the previous episode, don’t worry, there’s more of Illa Carrillo Rodríguez, Gascia Ouzounian, Paragraph 7 (this time lead by Ouzounian and sung by a mob of innocent strangers). Hear an excerpt from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, and the always remarkable Marcel Swiboda, “Thinking and Acting Collectively Along the Lines of Cornelius Cardew”. This originally aired on CFRU on Monday August 4, 2014.

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.

If improvising is sometimes understood as a form of dialogue, what are we to say about solo improvising? Perhaps it should be understood as a dialogue with oneself, or between performer and audience, or performer and their own instrument, or even the performer’s own sonic memories, of trucks, birds, voices. Maybe it has another sort … Continue reading Episode #35: Solo Improvisation at Somewhere There Festival →

The weather affects us. This is never more obvious than in the middle of winter! But what would happen if we began to respond to atmospheric influences artistically, rather than just practically? If instead of cinching up our scarves we responded to the falling snow with a little improvised saxophone? And then paired that musical response with dance … Continue reading Episode #34: Adam Kinner – Atmosphere and the Transmutable Archive →