May 2010
5 posts
Giant Steps Robot - May 30th, 2010
Don’t bring any instruments. We want to explore free improvisation without the potential confines of our musical instruments. Imagine there is a peach. At the center, there is the concept of free improvisation. The flesh around the peach is the growing, codified lexicon of free improvisation that has become part of the scene at Racer Sessions: techniques, tropes, configurations, comfort...
Rob Hanlon - May 23rd, 2010
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Reflecting back upon the last four or so months of Racer Sessions, I find myself, because of these weekly meetings and the community that we’re building, approaching music in the most healthy fashion that I ever have. Because we have fostered a non-competitive, learning environment, I’ve been able to see musicians grow an astounding amount right before my very...
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Operation ID - May 16th, 2010
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May 16th: Music Makes You Move - Moving Makes You Music
This Sunday Operation ID will perform new music that is influenced, on the spot, by physical body movements. Composed portions of the music will have rehearsed, choreographed body movements (dance moves), while sections with freely improvised music will be fed by impromptu physical activity.
We have...
Cameron Sharif - May 9th, 2010
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A Conglomeration of Many Things – and The Two Realms
About the Composition
This week I would like to present a piece of music in two parts. It has been greatly inspired by reading the novel Demian, by Herman Hesse. The story essentially is a coming of age story – dealing with leaving the world of innocence and entering the world of knowledge. But it’s also about...