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Music :: Multi-genre also The Arts :: Dance
FreeSessions at Westside Theater
7:00 PM (America/Denver)
The Westside Theater
Description:
The FreeSessions is an improvised music jam session to promote collaboration amongst musicians in Missoula across genres and ages. Our aim is to cultivate a healthy musical eco-system in Missoula. We are fostering a climate of improvisation, transcending musical styles and structures. This session is to encourage active listening among all participants and a full acceptance of all musicians. It is a place to grow your musicality and yourself.

The FreeSessions is an incubation ground for new musical projects and collaborations. Every month a curator presents a new piece of music or concept or improvisation for the first 30 minutes. This month, however, we will have no curator.

The focus of this session is to actively involve the impact and influence of multiple mediums on every improviser, regardless of their mode of expression.

A couple quotes to guide us:

“I am convinced that the creative process involves more than one element, and in our being musicians, music is just one of them. Simultaneously we are all multidimensional beings/bodies with all these worlds that configure us.” – an excerpt from Paula Shocron’s piece in Mutual Mentorship for Musician’s Anthology of Writings

and…

‘Levine recalled the performance as “very ensemble oriented” and noted that “solos were always in service to the dance and the overall piece. It was different than pure jazz because we were all subsumed into doing a music-and-dance piece. We were parts of the whole.”‘ – Rozanne Levine reflecting on a performance of the suite Document Humanum with William Parker, Patricia Nicholson and others in 1976. Included in the William Parker biography Universal Tonality by Cisco Bradley.
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Age Group: All Ages
Venue: The Westside Theater
Address: 200 Shakespeare St Ste. #2 Missoula, MT 59802
Phone: (406) 493-0123

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