Hello and welcome to Improvised Music in Kingston, a podcast that explores the thoughts and music of a group of local musicians who are situated across various genres and who all incorporate improvisation as part of their practice. I am your host Paul Clifford. The show focuses on questions of improvising as individuals, improvising in a group, and what aspects of living in Kingston have impact on these experiences. Interview audio on these themes is matched with live music that the group members recorded during 2021-2023. This podcast is part of a Research-Creation project in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University.
In this episode we explore all things Kingston! We consider the question: what aspects of living in Kingston have an impact on the experience of playing improvised music both positively and negatively?
Host Paul Clifford asked the group members a series of questions about living here:
To describe the local Kingston community related to their genres of music
If they think Kingston has a dominant music culture? If so, please describe what that means
How living in Kingston has affected their practice, and
If they feel that the environment of Kingston allows them to express themselves musically as you’d like.
The music you hear was all recorded live and features all members of the group.
23 Oct 2023
Episode 5
In this episode we explore the questions: how do participants negotiate hybrid collaborations? and how do participants experience interpersonal interactions?
Host Paul Clifford asked the group members how they approach playing improvised music in a group setting, if they have had any experience working with other musicians outside their regular genres, and if they teach others about the type of improvisation they do.
The music you hear was all recorded live and features all members of the group.
16 Oct 2023
Episode 4
In this episode we explore the question: how do participants understand their musician identities?
Host Paul Clifford asked the group members to describe their musical influences broadly, if they consider their work to be part of a musical genre or genres and, if so, which ones and how do local audiences generally receive the types of music they perform.
The music you hear was all recorded live and features all members of the group.
9 Oct 2023
Episode 3
In this episode we explore the question: how do improvisors understand success in improvisation?
Host Paul Clifford asked the group members to describe how they evaluate the quality of their improvisations as well as how they evaluate the quality of improvised music when they listen to others, both live and recorded.
The music you hear was all recorded live and features all members of the group.
2 Oct 2023
Episode 2
In this episode we explore the question: how do participants improvise and what knowledge do they need to do it?
Host Paul Clifford asked the group members to describe some general ideas on how they approach improvisation as well as to describe their musical training background and how they learned to play improvised music.
In this episode we will hear from Spencer Evans, Kyoko Ogoda, Dave Barton, John Burge, Danton Delbaere-Sawchuk, and Teilhard Frost.
The music you hear was all recorded live and features all members of the group.
25 Sept 2023
Episode 1
In this episode we explore the question: how do participants improvise and what knowledge do they need to do it?
Host Paul Clifford asked the group members to describe some general ideas on how they approach improvisation as well as to describe their musical training background and how they learned to play improvised music.
In this episode we will hear from Chantal Thompson, Paul Morrison, David Parker, Liam Cole, and Sadaf Amini.
The music you hear was all recorded live and features all members of the group.
21 Sept 2023
Episode 0
In this episode we meet the project group by listening to their shared biographies, and playing an excerpt of their music.
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