1992 Channel4 Broadcast on Improvisation, written & narrated by Derek Bailey

racehorse · 02.25.2007, 06:10 PM

anyone interested in improvisation in music should watch this, it's brilliant.
watch it here:
http://www.ubu.com/film/bailey.html

A series of four 55 minute films shown on Channel 4 TV in the UK in early 1992. To say this was the best and most intelligent analysis of improvisation to be screened on UK television is probably unnecessary: it has in all likelihood been the only televised programme on this form of music-making. Written and narrated by Derek Bailey, produced and directed by Jeremy Marr, it developed out of the first edition of Bailey's book on improvisation (the broadcast almost coinciding with the publication of the second edition) and attempted to provide a world-view of the subject, not being bound by country, musical genre or preconception. The four programmes were:

* 1: Passing it on
Broadcast 2 February 1992 this programme featured: Douglas Ewart at Haynes School in Chinatown, Chicago; improvisation in Mozart with Robert Levin, piano and the Acadamy of Ancient Music with Christopher Hogwood; John Zorn and Cobra; improvisation in religious and devotional music and communities with: Naji Hakim - organ improvisations in Paris; Gaelic psalm singing on the Scottish Isles of Harris and Lewis; and Indian singing with Pundit Hanuman Misra.

* 2: Movements in time
Broadcast 9 February 1992, tracing the effects of migration on improvising links across continents and the production of new styles from the combinations: qawwali from the Sufis in New Delhi, Northern India; Hindu music of Rajistan with Ram Narayan; early medieval music performed in Andalucia by Symphony (Stevie Wishart, Mark Loopuy, Jim Denley); improvisation in dance with: Mario Maya, flamenco; Indian kathak mime and movement; and Egyptian gypsy music; the mixture of Cuban music and jazz with Eddie Palmieri.

* 3: A liberating thing
Broadcast 16 February 1992, concentrating on jazz based and free improvisation. With Max Roach at the Harlam School of the Arts; Butch Morris conducting (with, among others, Shelley Hirsch); Sang-Won Park and Korean music; Max Eastley's sound sculptures; Derek Bailey (solo and fleetingly with Phil Wachsmann, Steve Noble and Alex Ward); Steve Noble and Alex Ward duo; Nashville musicians including Buddy Emmons; Eugene Chadbourne.

* 4: Nothin premeditated
Broadcast 23 February 1992, with Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead; Buddy Guy; George Lewis and computers (and in quartet with Douglas Ewart and sound and video generation); mbira music from Zimbabwe; music of the Tonga people; concluding with a house party on the Lower East side.

Glice · 02.26.2007, 02:24 PM

Bump, and thanks, and a request that more people rep this person for posting this brilliant thing here. Ok, rep is ultimately bullshit, but on ocassions like this one hopes and prays that somewhere, somehow, it actually means something.

noumenal · 02.26.2007, 02:53 PM

Yes, yes, very good. Repitty rooo.

Glice · 03.01.2007, 02:22 PM

Bumpcore.

hat and beard · 03.01.2007, 05:18 PM

Can't get this to play on my computeer.

hat and beard · 03.01.2007, 05:19 PM

i spake too soon! it runs!

thanks!

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pokkeherrie · 03.01.2007, 06:51 PM

thanks.
looks interesting.

02.25.2007, 06:10 PM	#1
racehorse 100% Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 784	anyone interested in improvisation in music should watch this, it's brilliant. watch it here: http://www.ubu.com/film/bailey.html A series of four 55 minute films shown on Channel 4 TV in the UK in early 1992. To say this was the best and most intelligent analysis of improvisation to be screened on UK television is probably unnecessary: it has in all likelihood been the only televised programme on this form of music-making. Written and narrated by Derek Bailey, produced and directed by Jeremy Marr, it developed out of the first edition of Bailey's book on improvisation (the broadcast almost coinciding with the publication of the second edition) and attempted to provide a world-view of the subject, not being bound by country, musical genre or preconception. The four programmes were: * 1: Passing it on Broadcast 2 February 1992 this programme featured: Douglas Ewart at Haynes School in Chinatown, Chicago; improvisation in Mozart with Robert Levin, piano and the Acadamy of Ancient Music with Christopher Hogwood; John Zorn and Cobra; improvisation in religious and devotional music and communities with: Naji Hakim - organ improvisations in Paris; Gaelic psalm singing on the Scottish Isles of Harris and Lewis; and Indian singing with Pundit Hanuman Misra. * 2: Movements in time Broadcast 9 February 1992, tracing the effects of migration on improvising links across continents and the production of new styles from the combinations: qawwali from the Sufis in New Delhi, Northern India; Hindu music of Rajistan with Ram Narayan; early medieval music performed in Andalucia by Symphony (Stevie Wishart, Mark Loopuy, Jim Denley); improvisation in dance with: Mario Maya, flamenco; Indian kathak mime and movement; and Egyptian gypsy music; the mixture of Cuban music and jazz with Eddie Palmieri. * 3: A liberating thing Broadcast 16 February 1992, concentrating on jazz based and free improvisation. With Max Roach at the Harlam School of the Arts; Butch Morris conducting (with, among others, Shelley Hirsch); Sang-Won Park and Korean music; Max Eastley's sound sculptures; Derek Bailey (solo and fleetingly with Phil Wachsmann, Steve Noble and Alex Ward); Steve Noble and Alex Ward duo; Nashville musicians including Buddy Emmons; Eugene Chadbourne. * 4: Nothin premeditated Broadcast 23 February 1992, with Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead; Buddy Guy; George Lewis and computers (and in quartet with Douglas Ewart and sound and video generation); mbira music from Zimbabwe; music of the Tonga people; concluding with a house party on the Lower East side. __________________ She holds the room up by talk alone
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02.26.2007, 02:53 PM	#3
noumenal expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,855	Yes, yes, very good. Repitty rooo.
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hat and beard stalker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan Posts: 457	Can't get this to play on my computeer. __________________ 言わぬが花
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hat and beard stalker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan Posts: 457	i spake too soon! it runs! thanks! ! __________________ 言わぬが花
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pokkeherrie invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,289	thanks. looks interesting.
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