2017 Holyoke

Holyoke City Hall, Holyoke MA

Friday, March 3

Kevin Dacey, Neil Young Cloaca, Arkm Foam, Angela Sawyer

Loren Groenendaal, Paul Kafka-Gibbons, Brittany Karlson, Ian Kovak, Frank Turek

Matthew Azevedo, Michael F. Dailey Jr., Ras Moshe Burnett, Tara Toms/Cata Mtn Mouth, Id M theft able, Curt Haworth

Jeff Balter, Chris Hickman, Matt Luczak, Elizabeth Karp/Riprap, Olivia W-B, Allison O.

Conrad Benjamin, Jesse Collins, Ryan Mulhall, Matt Weston, Asimina Chremos

Joe Brown, Alexandra Derderian, Mia Friedman, Sam Hadge, Dave Miller

Al Margolis, Joe Mygan, Mickey O’Hara, Scott Prato, Dei Xhrist

Mitchel K Ahern, Andy Allen, Sneff Grusso, Jose Rivera

Ryan Baker, Jen Hicks, Christos Koulendros, Walter Wright, John Spreaders

Travis Hagan, Matt Lee, Victoria Shen, Chris Strunk, Esther Splett/Rehtse Ttelps

Grace Brooks, Tom Crean, Omeed Goodarzi, Bonnie Kane, Lauri Mc

Andy Kivela, Sophie Leetmaa, Erika Nesse, Nico Tracy, Katherine Liberovskaya

Andrea Pensado, Slippy, Michael Barrett, Alex Pelchat

Joe Burgio, Michael Peters, Sam Potrykus, Adam Bosse, Heather Downing Purcell

Dave Grollman, Jimmy Hughes, Max Lord, Adam Matlock, Ryan Kayhart

Saturday, March 4

Workshops:

1:00pm. Societal Implications of Improvisation: Walter Wright. Are artists the canaries in the cultural coal mine? Thankfully no, otherwise they’d all have dropped dead by now. However, artists and the arts are something of a barometer and, at the same time, something of a pain in the ass. “Whatever goal is set for art eventually proves restrictive, matched against the widest goals of consciousness. Art, itself a form of mystification, endures a succession of crises of demystification; older artistic goals are assailed and, ostensibly, replaced; outworn maps of consciousness are redrawn.” – Susan Sontag, The Aesthetics of Silence. Traditionally composition precede performance. The composer communicates his or her vision across time by means of a ‘score.’ The score is interpreted, rehearsed and finally, performed for an audience. Improvisation is composition in real time. In improvisation there is no score in a traditional sense, no interpretation. Without a traditional score, what is there to prepare, to rehearse?

2:00pm. Simple-structure acoustic playtime: Duane Ingalls, EJ Hampson.

3:00pm. Moving/sounding the inner/outer child: simple/comples is work/play: Loren Groenendaal.

4:00pm. Space Balm Ritual: Asimina Chremos.