Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber: A Workshop in Conducted Improvisation

In this unprecedented performance workshop, open to any student performers from any and all traditions--musicians, poets, actors, dancers, musicians, writers--Greg Tate, Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor at the Center for Jazz Studies for Fall 2009, will demonstrate how new musical material may be generated and existing musical material may be restructured and renewed in real-time performance, using Conduction, the versatile lexicon of hand and baton gestures developed over the past twenty years by improvisor and conductor Lawrence "Butch" Morris.

As leader of the innovative musical ensemble Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber, Tate uses Conduction in live performance and in the studio to compose and select material from a wide range of composers and genres--Thelonious Monk, Chaka Khan, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Mingus, Iggy Pop, and others. In this workshop, joined by  members of the Arkestra and the workshop participants, Tate will demonstrate these techniques and create new music.

Sponsored by the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, and presented in collaboration with the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program and the Music Performance Program, Columbia University.

For more information, please visit http://www.jazz.columbia.edu/events/other-events.html#tate