BODY AND SOUL
Embodying Jazz and Improvisation:
Playing with Ideas and Keeping It Real.
Call for abstracts
The 2019 (AJIRN) Australasian Jazz and Improvisation Research Network will again be a part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. The annual conference will be held in the new Jazz Club and Auditorium at the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University’s Clayton Campus - Australia.
Conference Date: Saturday 1st June – Sunday 3rd June, 2018
Abstracts and bios due 9th March 2019
Keynote speakers
Professor Raymond MacDonald
Special Guests TBA
Performance: Judy Bailey
NOTE: Although we consider all proposals for presentations, papers and performances, the conference will focus on four intertwining streams
Improvised lives
Improvisation exceeds any knowledge domain constraint. However, it is also contextual. But mostly it is about people who have something to say musically and are not afraid to change what they are saying as they hear themselves saying it.
Playing with uncertainty
At the start of their careers, many improvising musicians play tentatively and safely. At the peak of their careers, many embrace and deliberately seek uncertainty to force them to invent and resolve. Audiences too can approach improvised music with uncertainty, but as elements are recognised and anticipated, may also enjoy its uncertainty.
Theorising improvisation
An interesting strand of research is emerging that considers how Improvisation builds a complex, at times volatile, entity out of the elements that the players bring to it. Are there discernible rules to improvisation, along the lines of the characteristics of chaos theory?
Crossing boundaries
How has Jazz and Improvisation crossed boundaries? Perhaps a more pertinent question to be asked is whether boundaries in music are still relevant beyond simple appellation.
Papers and proposals for presentations can include live performances.
There will be two formats offered:
1. Presentations/papers of 20 minute followed by 10mins discussion.
2. Post Graduate presentations/papers of 10 minutes followed by 10 minutes of panel discussion. These papers can be on the topic specific to their research with expert feedback by a panel.
300 word abstracts/proposals and 150 word bios
Note: abstracts and bios should be submitted as Word .doc or .docx files.
Current enrolled Post Graduate students are asked to note their degree type and the stage of their research at the time of their submission.
PROPOSALS ARE DUE ON March 9 11:59pm 2019!
Applicants will be informed of their acceptance by 22nd March.
Costs: Full $250 + GST Student: $150 + GST
Conference fee includes catering.
Date: Saturday 1st June – Sunday 3rd June, 2018
Times: 9:30am – 5:00pm
Conference dinner: Saturday Night
Check website: www.ajirn.com
Conference Contact: Convenor, Rob Burke: [log in to unmask], or [log in to unmask]
Questions on theme please email: [log in to unmask]
*** Painting by Raymond MacDonald
Best wishes,
Rob Burke
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