The improv@CIRMMT nights are a new series of concerts devoted to electro/acoustic improvisation with musicians from the CIRMMT community.
The second night is on Wednesday April 29th 2015 (9:00-11:00pm), and will take place at Café Resonance (5175a Av. du Parc, Mile End).
FEATURING (subject to change)
Hans Andia, violin
Daniel Anes, piano
Juan Sebastien Delgado, cello
Julie Delisle, flute
L. Alexis Emelianoff, Setar
Camille Fauvet, clarinet
Brice Gatinet, guitar
Eric Lewis, trumpet
Pierre Michaud, clarinet
Ofer Pelz, prompting
Peter Plessas, electronic
Vahram Sargsyan, voice
Kai Siedenburg, electronics
Cobra(1984) by John Zorn
Cobra is an unpublished but recorded and frequently performed musical composition by John Zorn that was conceived as a system with very detailed rules but with no pre-conceived sequence of events, or game piece, for a group of musical improvisors and a prompter. Zorn completed Cobra on October 9, 1984. The composition consists of a set of cues notated on cards, and rules corresponding to the cues that direct the players what to do. The number of players, instrumentation, and length of the piece is indeterminate. Because there is no traditional musical notation and the players improvise, the piece may sound radically different from performance to performance.
As was commented upon in some length in a 2004 interview, Zorn has, with his own words, "deliberately chosen not to publish (or even write down) the rules" to his game pieces, being concerned with the importance of personal instruction.Despite this, photocopies circulate among musicians internationally, and there is even a clean printing of all the cue categories in a CD booklet (Wikipedia, 2015).