Improvisation: Past

Meditative works for strings using drones, improvisation, and time-based structures woven together into an evening-length sound installation.

Stylistically diverse, subversive music by three members of The Rhythm Method alongside American composer Lewis Nielson.

Angie Eng highlights Asian artists and composers working in transmedia and computerized instruments.

New compositions for quintet by Will Mason featuring extensive live processing and electronic sounds, plus improvisation.

Electronic instruments coincide with acoustic instruments for improvised music from saxophonist Aaron Burnett.

Musical ideas merge from four directions by four creative musicians all moving in four directions.

Face the Music presents "Critical Mass" featuring works for 20 keyboardists & 100s of pounds of junk car parts — all performed by students!

Nels Cline, Zeena Parkins, Jen Shyu, and others perform Rhapsody, an acoustic song cycle exploring the experience of travel.

Yajna is a solo vocal ritual, a sacrifice to the metaphoric sacred fire to purge the dark energies of this era.

World premiere of “The Goddess," a 1934 Chinese silent film with a live score by Min Xiao-Fen and Rez Abbasi.