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 instruments

and 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 and

musical ideas to take away. Sunday 27th Nov 10.30-11.30

Workshops are free but numbers are restricted so booking is essential

All workshops take place at CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall St Glasgow,

For booking email: giocontact@gmail.com

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 +

Jan Bang

Satoko Fujii

Renee' Baker

Andreas Gogol

Gliondar Ensemble

Rope and Duck Company,

Muris With Lumps & and Peter Nicholson

Miguel Carvalhais/Bill Wells/George Burt/Raymond MacDonald

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

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