Sunday, 6 November 2011
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
GIO Festival IV Workshops
As part of our fourth festival GIO are offering three workshops led by Renee’ Baker, member of the AACM, director of the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project and a passionate educator.
Workshop 1: for anyone with an interest in improvising, no experience necessary, all instrumentsand methods of making sound welcome. Sat 26th Nov: 11am-2pm, performing @ 3pm
Workshop 2: improvising for 3-5 year olds plus parents/carers. Expect fun, creative sounds andmusical ideas to take away. Sunday 27th Nov 10.30-11.30
Workshops are free but numbers are restricted so booking is essentialAll workshops take place at CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall St Glasgow,
For booking email: giocontact@gmail.com
Monday, 19 September 2011
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Festival IV
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra host their fourth annual festival at the CCA this November offering three days of performances, workshops and discussions that open up or re-frame improvisation in different contexts. Performances range from small and intimate to large scale vistas for orchestra and feature improvised encounters with films, video score, live remix and composition.
Full program here
GIO +
Muris With Lumps & and Peter Nicholson
Stuart Brown/Tom Bancroft/Chris Wallace/Fritz Welch Drum Quartet
We'll also be performing three new compositions written for the orchestra by Liene Rozite, George Burt and Emma Roche. And there will be a discussion chaired by the Dancehall Journal. Full program details to follow.
GIO Festival IV, 25th, 26th and 27th of November, CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow ( £6 per day £10 for 2 days)
GIO at the Sound Festival Aberdeen
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra are performing a new work at the Sound festival, Aberdeen in October.
With nearly ten years of concentrated listening and myriad collaborations under their belt Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra have collectively produced a large ensemble with a singular record in contemporary music. The performance at Sound will explore the ambiguities and contrasts in how improvisation and composition are conventionally viewed. The piece will focus on social relations as organising structures and, above all, listening.
Saturday 22nd October 20:30
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Details
With nearly ten years of concentrated listening and myriad collaborations under their belt Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra have collectively produced a large ensemble with a singular record in contemporary music. The performance at Sound will explore the ambiguities and contrasts in how improvisation and composition are conventionally viewed. The piece will focus on social relations as organising structures and, above all, listening.
Saturday 22nd October 20:30
Woodend Barn, Banchory
Details
Friday, 12 August 2011
GIO and summer school workshop participants perform at the Tolbooth, Saturday 13 August
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Summer School Performance
Sat 13 Aug, 7.30pm
£5/£3
GIO musicians have worked in a wide range of settings with people of all ages, including improvising with nursery and school children, children with additional support needs, university students and adults with mental health issues.
Inspired by a recent GIO live performance of improvisation to filmmaker Hans Richter’s experimental short films, the Tolbooth asked GIO if they would be interested in holding a Summer School focusing on the experimental short films of Stirling born filmmaker Norman McLaren (1914-1987).
McLaren developed a number of groundbreaking techniques in filmmaking and animation, and is known for combining and synchronising animation with music.
Consequently the first Tolbooth/GIO Summer School is on 9 –13 August for musicians aged 14 – 21.
This performance will be the premier of GIO and the workshop musicians playing live improvisations to screenings of select Norman McLaren films.
www.glasgowimprovisersorchestra.com
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Glasgow Jazz Festival
Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra will be performing at the Glasgow Jazz Festival on the 2nd of July at Streetlevel Photoworks Gallery. Starting in the Gallery their performance will gradually unfold spatial and sonic forms throughout Trongate 103. Starts at 3pm, free admission.
Daniel Spicer Article
Daniel Spicer has kindly written something about the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. You can download it here.
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
GIO at Edinburgh Filmhouse 15 May 2011
GIO perform live at Edinburgh Filmhouse on Sunday 15th May with special guest Guido Henneboehl. As part of The New Objectivity: Realism in Weimar Cinema season, GIO will accompany the silent films 'People on Sunday' and 'Berlin: Symphony of Great City'. See the filmhouse website for more info and ticket deals. http://www.filmhousecinema.com/showing/people-on-sunday/
Guido Henneböhl is a musician and concert organizer based in Berlin, Germany. He has worked with composers like Alwynne Pritchard, Jeremy Woodruff and Carlos Sandoval, and improvisers like Jochen Arbeit, Andre Vida and Brendan Dougherty. Henneböhl has a unique method of developing synthesizer instruments by circuit bending old keyboards and toys, and combining them with self constructed primitive synthesizer elements. The instruments are notable for their wide range of tones and dynamics, and produces stochastic-like musical phrases.
Guido Henneböhl is a musician and concert organizer based in Berlin, Germany. He has worked with composers like Alwynne Pritchard, Jeremy Woodruff and Carlos Sandoval, and improvisers like Jochen Arbeit, Andre Vida and Brendan Dougherty. Henneböhl has a unique method of developing synthesizer instruments by circuit bending old keyboards and toys, and combining them with self constructed primitive synthesizer elements. The instruments are notable for their wide range of tones and dynamics, and produces stochastic-like musical phrases.
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