Agile Futures: "Agilities"

Description:

A panel presented as part of Agile Futures: Approaching Improvisation, the eleventh annual International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation colloquium. Agilities included twenty-minute presentations by Jay Hammond, Michael Wallace, and Warren Mansell in lieu of Tom Scholte. 

In his talk “Dreaming from the Ashes: Fuel and Cosmic Hope,” Jay Hammond discussed the work of free jazz musician Ken Moshesh in dialogue with the writings of Octavia Butler.

Michael Wallace’s talk “Social Networks for Composition and Improvisation” presented provisional research he developed as part of his doctorate at Monash University that applied network theory to structures for musical composition and improvisation. 

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Tom Scholte was unable to participate in Agilities and instead, Scholte’s collaborator Warren Mansell closed the panel with a talk that explored Perceptual Control Theory and improvisation within forum theatre. 

Presented in collaboration with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of British Columbia and Coastal Jazz & Blues Society; and with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, and SOCAN Foundation.