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Grad Colloquium: “Voices Found: Lessons from 70 years of free jazz vocal and choral musicking”
September 23, 2019 at 4:00 PM
| Location: | Jacob Siskind Music Research Centre, 503 MacOdrum Library MacOdrum Library |
| Cost: | Free! |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Key Contact: | James Deaville |
| Contact Email: | james.deaville@carleton.ca |
University of Groningen professor Dr. Chris Tonelli recently completed the book Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing, a study of the history of free jazz voice, its connections to scat, sound poetry, and other vocal and interdisciplinary arts, and a philosophy of both what we expect from the voice and what happens when human voices produce sounds audiences don’t hear as (capital H) Human. In this talk, Dr. Tonelli will give an introduction to some of the key figures in the history of free jazz voice, the ethico-aesthetics of the practices they developed, the technological and interdisciplinary circumstances that shaped their music, and the ways their often unconventional sounds have yielded disruptive and liberating effects. Dr Tonelli will also discuss choral improvisation as a form of inclusive and intercultural community music practice and the ways practice-centered research and applied ethnomusicology have enriched his work.
Bio: Dr. Chris Tonelli is Assistant Professor of Popular Music Studies at the University of Groningen and a Research Associate with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. His research deals with the social effects of vocal timbre; histories of extranormal vocal music; voice and disability; perceptions and practices of pastiche/mimesis/imitation in popular music; and flows of transnational popular music in and from Japan. He also works in the field of community music as a conductor of radically inclusive and fully improvisational “Vocal Exploration” choirs and is an active vocal improviser and performer. His current book project, Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing, will appear in 2019 in Routledge’s book series Transnational Studies in Jazz.
