Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Creative Music Foundation News

First Creative Music Studio Archive Selections Recordings Now Available — Rare Small Group, Orchestral and World Music Recordings

The rejuvenated Creative Music Foundation has just released the first compilation CD set comprised of music from the CMS Archive Project, nearly 500 concerts that took place at Woodstock’s legendary Creative Music Studio between 1973 and 1984. The 3-CD set, Creative Music Studio Archive Selections Vol. 1, featuring Ed Blackwell, Charles Brackeen, Olu Dara, David Izenson, Oliver Lake, Roscoe Mitchell, Ursula Oppens, Frederic Rzewski, Musa Suso, Nana Vasconcelos and many others, is being distributed by the American Composers Forum/Innova Recordings. It is full of rare recordings and musical combinations divided into Small Ensemble, Orchestral and World music performances.

Joe Lovano, Henry Threadgill, and Tyshawn Sorey Named Guiding Artists for CMS Spring 2014 Workshop

The Creative Music Studio continues its resurgence, offering the first of two four-day workshops in 2014 at the well-appointed Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY. Master musicians/educators Joe Lovano, Henry Threadgill, Tyshawn Sorey, Marilyn Crispell, Peter Apfelbaum, Warren Smith and Judi Silvano will join CMS Artistic Directors Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso as Guiding Artists for the CMS Spring workshop intensive, June 9 – 13. Registration deadline for is May 19, 2014.

Karl Berger's Improvisers Orchestra Announces Spring Performances at Shapeshifter Lab and El Taller

Karl Berger's Improvisers Orchestra starts its new season at Brooklyn’s Shapeshifter Lab and at El Taller on New York’s Upper West Side, beginning April 3. Founded in 2011, KBIO has performed over 60 times with a revolving cast of nearly 75 professional musicians. Each show features an open workshop/rehearsal, followed by a full performance.

Music Literacy Project Update – Notes from Guinea, West Africa

CMS alumnus Sylvain Leroux (flutist & saxophonist, etc.) is in Guinea, West Africa, launching a music literacy project he created and funded through a Kickstarter campaign. His project aims to develop a pedagogic music literacy method based on the use of his recently patented invention, the “chromatic tambin.” Sylvain wrote to us with an update from Guinea on how the project is progressing .

CMS Archive Project CD Selections In Production

The first volume of the Creative Music Studio Archive Selections Series is in production. Preserved through digitization and re-mastering, the audio files and package designs were sent to Innova, the recording label of the American Composers Forum, in late January. CD box sets, containing rare material by Charles Brackeen, Ed Blackwell, Oliver Lake, Nana Vasconcelos, Ursula Oppens and others, will hit retail shelves in April.

CMF Reaches HatchFund Goal – Campaign Extended to February 28

The Creative Music Foundation’s crowd-sourcing campaign with the HatchFund, the nonprofit crowd-sourcing organization dedicated to the arts, met its minimum goal of $4,000 to support the CMS Archive Project. Due to this success, HatchFund is extending the campaign to February 28 with the aim of helping CMF reach its maximum goal of $11,000. CMF’s relationship with the nonprofit American Composers Forum enabled it to work with HatchFund. The campaign will help CMF restore, digitize and preserve rare recordings from over 500 concerts that took place at the Creative Music Studio between 1973 and 1984. Artists include: Jimmy Giuffre, Ed Blackwell, Don Cherry, Oliver Lake, Olu Dara, Colin Walcott and Cecil Taylor, among hundreds of others.
Read more: http://www.creativemusicfoundation.org

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