Hybrid Practice and the Composer-Improviser.

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Using a blend of musicological, theoretical, and compositional tools, this course will explore practice within “the Creative Music Continuum” – a cluster of influential artists and ideas wherein a delineation of roles separating composers from performers is blurred or absent, and improvisation figures prominently. Focusing primarily on African-American figures affiliated with the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) such as Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, and Nicole Mitchell, we will also explore various intersections with the likes of Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff and Du Yun.