Saturday, April 5, 2014

The Creative Music Foundation, News

The Creative Music Foundation makes it possible to profoundly experience and express our deep connection with the transforming energies of music, our universal language. CMF programs focus on the common elements of all music, emphasizing keen awareness, personal expression, intensive listening and cross-cultural communication, and providing unique opportunities for musicians, students and listeners from different backgrounds and traditions to explore together, share, develop, and broaden their musical understanding and sensitivity. CMF pursues its mission through workshops, residencies, coaching, concerts, recordings and archival projects that engage both listeners and musicians in the USA and around the world.

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.

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.
Read more: http://www.creativemusicfoundation.org

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