Experimental, avant-garde, outsider: These are rubrics we use to define the wild fringes of the art establishment. But they can be just as elite as the academy they revolve aroundan outside that ...

Recent findings in neuroscience provide new evidence that musical creativity is not a static trait but a dynamic process ...

Music composition and improvisation represent two intertwined yet distinct expressions of creative musical practice. Whereas composition often involves the deliberate crafting of musical structures ...

On Saturday, the Deep In The Valley music festival is bringing the sounds of psychedelic improvisation to Red Hook, New York. The festival is the brainchild of Andy French, the writer behind music ...

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Rochester, N.Y. — Local musicians got a chance to learn some tricks of the trade Monday. Pianist Peter Johnstone led a jazz workshop at the Eastman School of Music, helping students of all ages learn ...

Percussionist Adam Forman is a co-founder of Improv Spaces, a hub for improvisational and experimental music. the nonprofit is debuting the Improv Spaces Music Ensemble at its annual music festival on ...

Given what Mozart initially improvised in his head and what he later wrote out are one and the same, the listener will derive equal satisfaction listening to Mozart spontaneously invent at the piano, ...

ROUND LAKE, N.Y. — Improv Spaces will be putting on the first annual IMPROV SPACES Music Festival, a five-day event featuring music and interdisciplinary collaborations, including dance and visual ...