I even have the perfect title picked out for you: "Improvisations" — from "Improvisations to Music," her first comedy album with Mike Nichols.
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Against this, Ginobili's improvisations stood out even more than usual.
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Certain improvisations, like precise positioning and defensive versatility, have been standardized.
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Do you see your poems as improvisations or performances at all?
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When Drew dove into musical improvisations, it was with a laptop.
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Elsewhere he dashes into outlandish improvisations before even stating the melody.
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The pair ventures often into free improvisations: playfully dyspeptic, scattered, opaque.
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Watch a portion of Melinda Ring's "Strange Engagements," created from improvisations.
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We're the first film show that put improvisations on the air.
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Through the song or lyric improvisations children can be in control.
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"Our racy little improvisations went on long past many dawns," she claimed.
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Astounding on guitar, soaring off into a universe of riffs and improvisations.
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JERSEY CITY "Improvisations," Ibou Ndoye, Geraldine Gaines, Juliet Martin and Demetrio Alfonso.
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"We did ballet, jazz, improvisations, we made performances," Ms. De Keersmaeker recounted.
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Wu's vigorous, expressionistic improvisations often elided passages of figuration, especially of landscape.
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The flat, collage-like paintings — collectively, "Contact Improvisations" — also hint at aggregation.
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They nodded their heads effusively with every tweak of Tyondai Braxton's electronic improvisations.
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Songs typically started as improvisations built around a loop created by Mr. Brancowitz.
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Surviving scores and recorded improvisations from his final decade revisit that zone frequently.
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Increasingly, Mr. O'Dette and Mr. McFarlane challenged each other in their proclamations and improvisations.
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The song was inspired by the musician's improvisations while inside of a water tank.
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But improvisations like the museum hotel in Antakya might be the best available approach.
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His quintet jostles from occasional moments of unison playing into wide-burning group improvisations.
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Rather, they're a renegade performance — skillful improvisations, at high altitude — of 15th-century Flemish portraiture.
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Tunics with hawser-scale twists and knots extended Mr. Owens's continuing improvisations on classical draperies.
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His solos are free-flowing verbal improvisations built on standards of Manhattan history and architecture.
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Through it all, he finds a way to let his bebop-rooted saxophone improvisations shine.
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Programming includes discussions and sound improvisations by an impressive array of artists, scholars and critics.
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This performance offers the chance to see Ms. Gordon's edgy improvisations in an intimate setting.elsewherebrooklyn.
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Stark passages of pointillist writing in the piano turn wild, like avant-garde jazz improvisations.
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Occasionally Ms. Reid spun graceful lines underneath some of the vocalist Fay Victor's potent improvisations.
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He programs it with algorithms, so that the instrument responds to his improvisations in real time.
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Performed with stunning power in terms of structured improvisations, this was a movingly mysterious AIDS drama.
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And she explained why experimenting with Mr. Braxton's "language music" improvisations made other pieces better, too.
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That much is apparent on "Asteroidea," its engrossing debut album of free improvisations, released in October.
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"My fellow students would always ask me to play some Bach with my improvisations," he said.
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The recordings, in turn, feature violin improvisations by Gidon Kremer, as well as background noise and voices.
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He's on day 30 this time, which is some improvement, and he can deal with minor improvisations.
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Her installation is a carefully orchestrated arrangement abuzz with color, tonal shifts, endless variations, and considered improvisations.
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The dance is a series of structured improvisations built around Mr. Cooper's text and Mr. Cochrane's music.
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What isn't immediately clear on "Verisimilitude" is where Mr. Sorey's written music ends, and where improvisations begin.
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The Daniels edited the improvisations into an audio clip and gave it to the actors to memorize.
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The big group parts are basically all structured improvisations, which is quite different and terrifying for me.
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Her two improvisations on the theme of Hanoi's best-known contribution to gastronomy, pho, are more effective.
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Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy, each with marvelous back-heel improvisations, scored the first two goals for England.
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Whether playing spacious group improvisations or pressurized music with a rugged pulse, he maintained a dark, melancholic air.
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Her chords, both dense and concise, offset free improvisations that reflect Ms. Sanchez's careful attention to narrative clarity.
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But the prompt that Ms. Mnouchkine provided to get their improvisations going had nothing to do with that.
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"Jazz" today encompasses an entire ocean of post-collegiate musical work: highbrow traditionalism, renegade funk, droning free improvisations.
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"Jazz" today encompasses an entire ocean of post-collegiate musical work: highbrow traditionalism, renegade funk, droning free improvisations.
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Furthermore, players are given some freedom in realizing the score, their parts taking the form of structured improvisations.
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Playing a musical instrument, boxing in a competition, and even folding your laundry can be Zen-like improvisations.
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Their drone-based improvisations were recorded, and selections issued on CD under the title "Deep Listening" in 1989.
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Instead, their four years have been extended improvisations, their goals and achievements rarely reflected in the broader culture.
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In another notably unorthodox collaboration, Laurie Anderson will team up with Christian McBride, the festival's artistic director, for improvisations.
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This German television documentary captures the improvisations and rehearsals of the Harlem-based New Lafayette Theater Company after Rev.
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So one thing I'm going to do onboard is keyboard improvisations to go along with the text of those books.
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It is yet another example of mostly unsuccessful efforts in the last year to place checks on Trump's executive improvisations.
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" She also fails to work the sort of entertaining improvisations on her material that Ms. Fielding did in "Bridget Jones.
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Like, of course I'd ask them about the munchies—their tips and tricks, favorite improvisations, best laced pastries, all that.
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Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener have been collaborating for almost a decade, often on improvisations of a very free variety.
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His austere modal melodies guide the group in and out of improvisations that always keep the longer line in mind.
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He recorded improvisations onto floppy disks and used a four-track sequencer to overlay parts and create fuller symphonic compositions.
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After a run through the bobbing, stop-and-start melody, Ms. Horn traded improvisations with the tenor saxophonist Stacy Dillard.
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At these back-to-back shows she will engage in a series of free improvisations with the trumpeter Kappa Maki.
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In the past Trump's improvisations led to a significant number of failures, including several massive bankruptcies, to go with his achievements.
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On her own suite, titled "Dreams and Desperate Measures," Ms. Carrington enlisted Edmar Colón to overlay strings onto the group's improvisations.
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But a comedy career, more so than most others, is a series of ad hoc improvisations and recoveries from repeated failure.
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But Greaves' improvisations differ from Antin's in that they are performed upon a pre-written text rather than conjured ex nihilo.
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Could that be true, or was I reading too much into the improvisations of one of the world's most engaging bands?
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Ms. Courvoisier, a pianist, plays with a serious but open-minded demeanor; she crafts bright improvisations out of starkly defined parts.
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The metaphor fits: This is cerebral, modern jazz that still has a convincing pulse, and a wide berth for fetching improvisations.
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Each one features crudely recorded live improvisations that he has sliced up, pared down and spritzed with effects and extra instrumentals.
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They watched all 16 takes of Banner's response, in which Ruffalo's improvisations ranged from a deadpan "Oh, no" to screaming shock.
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Improvisations are like seeds: basic and uncertain at first, but place them in optimal growing conditions and they're bound to bear fruit.
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Ms. Lin performs a selection of works and arrangements of Scarlatti, Mozart and Gesualdo, to which Mr. Caine adds jazz-inflected improvisations.
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Before the speech, there was some discussion of whether Trump would use a teleprompter instead of relying on his typical rambling improvisations.
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He compares the variations each taleteller works on a traditional story to the improvisations of a jazz musician embellishing a familiar song.
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This Dutch-Israeli electronic duo is known for its heady, free-form live improvisations — they're something like the Phish of techno music.
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A jabby "Autumn Leaves" meandered into improvisations on the trombone, bass and keys, and the trumpet traded convivial bars with the drums.
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A remarkable player, he seems to understand what our ear wants — blooming harmony, melodic improvisations, firm landings — and how to deliver it.
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On a stage in the central gallery, four days a week, Spectrum dancers perform duets and trios derived from Mr. Byrd's improvisations.
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Titled Musik, the album consists almost entirely of original improvisations, recorded in the 1980s on a Korg OW/1 FD Pro synthesizer.
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Sarah Saltzberg knew from an early age that she wanted to be an actor and a writer, too, because she loved concocting improvisations.
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She performed at small, underground spaces and toured with artists of different disciplines, including musicians and poets, to present works based on improvisations.
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These teams perform 30-minute improvisations in a style known as a Harold, a format developed by the Chicago improv guru Del Close.
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Its debut album, full of darting and thrashing improvisations and Mr. Baraka's trenchant poetry, is widely seen as a landmark of the era.
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RUSSONELLO It's easy for Matthew Shipp's pelting, centrifugal piano improvisations — full of hard dashes, often in contradictory directions — to feel strident and strong.
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With the keyboardist Dennis Hamm and the drummer Justin Brown, Bruner can easily captivate festival-sized crowds with swirling improvisations and cathartic grooves.
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His improvisations hold your attention thanks to careful, smart pacing, and Stephens's willingness to sprinkle moments of simple beauty into his counterintuitive flights.
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At least, it's the most benevolent gesture from someone generally dispositioned toward confrontational gestures—like big festival sets turned into impromptu harsh noise improvisations.
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The next night, Aruna Sairam was a more informative, therefore more rewarding, guide to the fundamentals of Indian song, her improvisations witty and joyful.
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And although the musicians accompanying Pandit Krishnan Mohan Mishra failed to sync with him fully, his informal improvisations showed rhythmic spark and avuncular charm.
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The first is that Trump loves his rambling improvisations, and so does his audience, so he can scarcely be restrained from indulging in them.
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Their goal is to have their own sort of variations or improvisations or additions to the genre, but [also] to know they'll be similar.
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Although he was a gifted vocal improviser in his own right, Mr. Hendricks was best known for adding words to the improvisations of others.
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For musicians like Dexter, that meant breaking out from the constraints of the traditional dance bands and allowing improvisations to extend into unknown places.
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Some of her work is strictly improvisations, as on Free Improvisation Live Works I and II, where tracks go on for nearly 30 minutes.
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Each screening will be accompanied by a different musical accompaniment — sometimes by the original soundtrack by Simone Giuliani and other times by contemporary improvisations.
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The transcriptions of the improvisations have provided me with material that I can generate a lot of pieces from in a very fast way.
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The first half will feature a duo, Mr. Sacks with the vocalist Yoon Sun Choi, performing improvisations as well as standards and original compositions.
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Three things figure prominently in Iyer's music: the acuity of his attention, the coherent template of his improvisations, and his touch on the piano.
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There are few flights of fancy or spontaneous improvisations in Porter's writings to friends—for such a famous wit, there is remarkably little wit.
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"Lenox Avenue Breakdown" featured tuba, electric bass, flute and assorted percussion and consisted of four giddy, hotfooting originals that opened up into extended improvisations.
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Mr. Bowie had listened intently to "Casting for Gravity" as well as "Beat Music: The Los Angeles Improvisations," a self-released album by Mr. Guiliana.
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The piece will be accompanied by "Little Improvisations," Antony Tudor's dance about two children who are inventing games in an attic on a rainy day.
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Produced by the bassist Derrick Hodge, it's got a spacey, glistening ambience, but Francies cuts through that with his bright, forthright touch and dashing improvisations.
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In Mr. Torn's playing there were elements of Hendrix's snaky, blues-based improvisations, and elsewhere, the thickness and wide-open empty power of doom metal.
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The guitarist David Gilmore ran snaky improvisations around them, leading your ear gently astray until the rhythm section dropped decisively into a thrashing rock beat.
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"Such a reading would be unreasonable for our cases are 'governed by general principles, rather than ad hoc improvisations,'" he wrote, quoting an earlier decision.
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The work is actually three in one, interweaving a companion piece to "Actual Size," a celebration of female strength titled "Threading In," and structured improvisations.
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Thursday, next Friday and June 17, it interweaves a companion piece to "Actual Size," a celebration of female strength titled "Threading In," and structured improvisations.
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On her website, Ms. Ring explains that she began by videotaping the dancers' "raw" improvisations, which is easy to believe while watching the final product.
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Breezing past the quarter-century mark, this four piece from San Francisco has yet to lose the inventive instinct that fueled their early noise improvisations.
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An esteemed pianist, composer and instructor, Ms. Crothers encouraged students to invest in their intuition, and to chase improvisations as far as they could go.
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He received the title of Court Composer from the Elector of Saxony and, on a visit to Berlin, astonished Frederick the Great with his improvisations.
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" He continued, quoting a 2004 decision: "Such a reading would be unreasonable for our cases are 'governed by general principles, rather than ad hoc improvisations.
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Another highlight, on Saturday at Socrates Sculpture Park, will be "Pop-Up Dances," in which the performers create improvisations inspired by the art on display.
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Both liked to stretch tunes out into long improvisations; both had band members (John Cale and Phil Lesh, respectively) with roots in avant-garde music.
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Continuing Eggleston's idiosyncratic democratization, his album includes two show tune covers by Gilbert/Sullivan and Lerner/Lowe, the only Musik tracks that aren't original improvisations.
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When I say demos, we were recording sort of like long form, improvisations where we would repeat beats so we would have something to play over.
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They break down their mix of "doo-wop and hip-hop," as Day puts it, from Kleiner constructing the backing sounds to Day's improvisations during production.
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Now the band is playing live versions of those postproduced live works, with the stitches only somewhat visible, and the band spreading new improvisations within them.
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It was made on a shoestring, and Godard was brimming with manic brilliance, constantly rewriting the "script," and forcing improvisations upon the cast and the crew.
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Sitting in his doorway here watching sunsets "that test a man's credulity — great gory improvisations in scarlet and gold," Abbey often found himself utterly, blissfully, alone.
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An esteemed teacher and performer, Halprin is known for her use of scores, or task-based improvisations, as well as for making dances inspired by nature.
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The ingenious improvisations of a restless polymath and this stark memento mori by a disturbed visionary form a perfect pair of bookends for the Italian Renaissance.
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But his reputation rested equally on his abilities as a composer and arranger for large ensembles, interpolating bebop's crosshatched rhythms and extended improvisations into lush tapestries.
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" Mr. Brown mostly avoids this, which owes to his expertise, his charisma, his skillful improvisations and what Mr. Nyman calls an "extraordinary sideways way of thinking.
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" Mr. Brown mostly avoids this, which owes to his expertise, his charisma, his skillful improvisations and what Mr. Nyman calls an "extraordinary sideways way of thinking.
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Followers of The8bitdrummer will hear lots of drumming to video game soundtracks, but he's been known to turn his sticks to rock, dubstep, improvisations and original tunes.
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Prince later ordered all footage of the performance removed from YouTube — as a perfectionist, he likely did not want there to be a record of his improvisations.
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But in his early vocal pieces, and in his legendarily mesmerizing improvisations at the piano, he jettisoned rules that had been in place for hundreds of years.
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One of Morrison's session musicians, the jazz guitarist Jay Berliner, came to the artsy improvisations of "Astral Weeks" directly from working on jingles for Noxzema and Pringles.
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In the 1980s, he began solo improvisations to Glenn Gould's recording of Bach's "Goldberg" Variations, moving to classical music in often unorthodox ways, and with disarming freshness.
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On "Sun of Goldfinger," he is joined by the alto saxophonist Tim Berne (a longtime collaborator) and the drummer Ches Smith for two 20-minute-long improvisations.
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The trio played recognizable Bach melodies or pieces, like "Air on a G String" and the Prelude No. 1 in C, then took flight into bebop improvisations.
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In the Johan Renckhe-directed ad, the rapper, 34, and the actor, 36, play parents to a little girl who's told a bedtime story from Williams' imaginative improvisations.
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Tepfer wrote a series of algorithms designed to respond to his improvisations, producing a more dynamic range of sounds than his two hands could make on their own.
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Before and after her performance, a sound installation played of poets and artists discussing race, while a player piano ran through a preprogrammed set of Mr. Iyer's improvisations.
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In 1970, a state-owned record label, Polskie Nagrania Muza, released his debut album, "Music for K," in which he fronted a quintet that played lacerating, tumbling improvisations.
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Now 78, Mr. Cyrille has never lost his omnivorous musical appetite; his work ranges from free improvisations to smoldering small-group jazz to a collaboration with Haitian musicians.
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With a heavy, driving pulse and warm, arcing melodies, their music was distinctly South African, even as its swing rhythms and flittering improvisations reflected affinities with American jazz.
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Ms. Cowan, who was 10 at the time, said that her "Harlem Shake" was an exercise in layering, but with saxophone improvisations that nodded to the neighborhood's past.
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Mr. Pérez, Mr. Patitucci and Mr. Blade have found a way to make improvisations that are loose and unfastened, even at high velocities, but retain a cohesive tension.
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It is, like Freetown Sound, an intimate and thoughtful piece of work, flicking between piano improvisations and dance cuts, to shots of Hynes running down palm tree-lined streets.
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Yes, I have a long history of playing the upright bass and am definitely going to keep the political exorcism improvisations going, while living in a political twilight zone.
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For this piece, Talya Epstein, Maggie Jones and Rainey White developed material through blindfolded improvisations that considered the notion of clouds in both the natural world and human nature.
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Mr. Loibner often partners with D.J.s and folk ensembles from different traditions, and with a trumpeter and percussionist in Brot und Sterne, a trio known for trancelike jazz improvisations.
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Beginning in December 2016, Mr. Zuabi began workshops and structured improvisations in Haifa, Bethlehem, Jenin and Ramallah with the explicit goal of finding a diverse group of Palestinian actors.
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In a series of productions since 2009, its five core members, joined by others for individual projects, have built scripts out of improvisations on situations notable for their banality.
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When insurers pointed out that these improvisations would destabilize the exchanges and increase premiums, because they encourage people to enroll only when they were sick, insurers were politely ignored.
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It began using multitrack mixers — a move that Mr. Czukay would call "the beginning of the end," because it led the band away from its signature open-ended improvisations.
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He carries a set of joke-shop fake teeth in his shirt pocket, and has a habit of disrupting the routines of everyday life with absurd and outrageous improvisations.
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"[O]ur cases are 'governed by general principles, rather than ad hoc improvisations'", they explained, and circumscribing a ruling only to conflicts over rubber playgrounds fails to meet that standard.
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Everywhere else, the household object is asserted and reasserted through the warp and weft of linen rendered through precise, surgical cuts that have become one of the artist's signature improvisations.
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The three made their first sound collages in their bedrooms, recording improvisations and found sounds, including a teach-your-parakeet-to-speak record and a conversation between Mr. Wills's parents.
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In "Meet Ella," Nathan Bugh and Mr. Teicher bring a wider lexicon to several of Ella Fitzgerald's most crazy live improvisations; her inspired lunacy brings out the same in them.
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On Deerhoof's most recent album "Mountain Moves," a straightforward cover of the Staples Singers' "Freedom Highway" coexists easily with the title track's avant-garde improvisations, which feature saxophonist Matana Roberts.elsewherebrooklyn.
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"Set and Reset" is considered Brown's masterpiece, and an important milestone in 20th-century dance, for its foregrounding of perfected improvisations and "release technique"—fluid movements engaging with momentum and balance.
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But Mr. Allen was a vital presence, conducting group improvisations, and soloing a lot — sometimes in ballad tones à la Johnny Hodges, more often in shrill cries à la John Zorn.
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He acknowledges that for all the hit-and-miss nature of the grand improvisations, an economically dominant West did contain Communism and precipitate the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Sonny Fortune, a saxophonist whose incandescent improvisations made him an essential member of bands led by some of jazz's most illustrious figures as well as a respected bandleader, died on Oct.
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The show, driven by Toshi Reagon's soulful blues improvisations (performed live, onstage), is a celebration of tap as a communal experience, a vehicle for virtuosity, and an expression of joy. ♦
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Mr. Sorey's ability to devise lengthy, spontaneous improvisations with the tautness and logic of a composition was on display last month during a residency at the Stone, in the East Village.
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For the price of a donation, however generous, a chance to hear Carlo Gesualdo's writhing, harmonically outlandish Tenebrae responsories (1611), along with organ improvisations from the church's music director, Daniel Hyde.
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Over 45 action-packed minutes (the work has grown since its humbler beginnings at Fall for Dance in 2015), soloists emerge from the ensemble with improvisations ranging from euphoric to dystopic.
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An eclectic trumpet virtuoso who's been a leading voice on his instrument since the 1990s, Mr. Douglas presents "Dizzy Atmosphere," a program of improvisations and extrapolations based on Dizzy Gillespie's compositions.
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Amir ElSaffar, the Iraqi trumpeter and santur player, has played Newport before, but never with his Rivers of Sound orchestra, an intercontinental group with improvisations wafting up from loping, odd-meter melodies.
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When the consequences of this dysfunctionality dawned on the administration, panic set in, prompting a series of regulatory improvisations providing for the payment of billions in corporate subsidies to the insurance industry.
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He recorded a few albums as a leader, among them "Fictionary" (1992), a trio recital with Marc Johnson on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums, and "Solo: Improvisations for Expanded Piano" (2000).
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Schor, trading improvisations with another Esperantist, comes up with elmuri —"to take something out of a wall"—for getting cash from an A.T.M. The compounds give Esperanto a playful, almost childlike, character.
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Following the premiere of "Everything Must Go," his Bruckner curtain raiser for the full orchestra, he gave an intimate concert that included improvisations with Ms. Lee and the tap dancer Caleb Teicher.
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Winging It Joan Acocella draws a straight line from Dada through Merce Cunningham and John Cage to the recent improvisations of Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener at the Joyce Theatre (Dancing, November 26th).
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While "Samuel & Alasdair" started off as a novella written by Mr. Bovino and Mr. Curnutte, subsequent shows have been built from the ground up through elaborate structured improvisations, which are recorded and transcribed.
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The "Horse's Mouth" show, which combines personal anecdotes with structured improvisations, addresses many aspects of Egyptian dance: stick-fighting, whirling dervishes and, the form that probably does come to mind first, belly dance.
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Or maybe you'll take heart in the fact that while a computer is producing the extra notes that accompany his piano playing here, it is also responding in real time to Tepfer's improvisations.
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A proto-punk, pranksterish streak, inherited from Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Czukay's avant-garde roots with composers like Karlheinz Stockhausen, resulted in some intentionally destructive performances, and sometimes the improvisations just didn't fly.
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At the heart of the Miller program was a large-ensemble piece called "Autoschediasms"—the latest incarnation of a series of controlled improvisations that Sorey has led with groups sympathetic to his methods.
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Brown died on March 19.) Likewise the inclusion this season of Steve Paxton (his extraordinary improvisations to Bach's "Goldberg Variations"), whose Contact Improvisation class was Mr. Petronio's introduction to dance in the 1970s.
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Mark Arm, Steve Turner, Dan Peters, and Guy Maddison sound like they're working independently of each other—laying down improvisations on a theme in separate rooms—until the chorus coalesces and everything screeches together.
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The album was recorded with a fluid roster of a dozen of Harrington's closest friends and collaborators, taking hours of recorded improvisations, and later editing, dubbing, and mixing the material into a flowing composition.
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Mr. Greenberg credits them with generating the movement, through improvisations recorded on video, then copied verbatim; that process comes through in their comfort with the material and the pleasure it appears to bring them.
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His compositions radiated confidence; his solo-piano improvisations balanced conviction and meditation; his bass voice, in music by Meredith Monk, Peter Maxwell Davies and Frederic Rzewski, was a formidable mixture of reverberation and clarity.
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It's as if he were veering off into a search for cosmic harmonies, the very music of the spheres, and although I couldn't quite hear it myself, I enjoyed listening to his frantic improvisations.
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Only on his own unaccompanied improvisations, typically wedged between tunes, did he pull the focus off Mr. Ross and Mr. Wilkins — who often took solos away from each other, wrangling in a friendly repartee.
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Choral muwashshah are interwoven with instrumental and solo vocal improvisations to create the complex suites of music that are traditional in the Middle East, with a mood that is by turns exuberant and ecstatically devotional.
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On the other hand, it pretty regularly hit a good stride, especially in jazz and classical improvisations, where a bit of an off note can be played off and the rhythms don't feel so contrived.
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And more and more he looks to the past and brings it forward, revisiting, reusing and transforming motives from his own art, a pattern he likened to a jazz musician's improvisations on favorite, unforgettable tunes.
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But Mr. Ward and Mr. Hill went long stretches without playing at all, then only stepped up when their moment arrived, either to play written lines or supple improvisations, generally not at the same time.
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And more and more he looks to the past and brings it forward, revisiting, reusing and transforming motifs from his own art, a pattern he likened to a jazz musician's improvisations on favorite, unforgettable tunes.
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Having already forged creative partnerships with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, who admired her impeccable pitch, her four-octave range, and her vocal improvisations, Vaughan had no interest in singing any way but her own.
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The results sparked with exploratory frictions, as you can hear on the sanctioned bootlegs that Ms. Roberts recently posted online: three roughly 40-minute improvisations, all well worth hearing (though maybe not back-to-back).
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The documentary "Impulso," directed by Emilio Belmonte, follows Molina, who has been credited as one of flamenco's rising stars for combining traditions with improvisations and other experiments, as she prepares for a show in Paris.
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We see bits of Ms. Miller's rehearsals and in-progress showings, source material and improvisations, experiments that yield discoveries or don't, and lots of stuff (including dancers) that didn't make it into the performed piece.
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The triumphant film doesn't just rest entirely on Howard's masterful performance, it's built on her improvisations with the rest of the cast, making her not just the star but a creative force to be reckoned with.
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Only Connie's desperate improvisations are rarely all that funny, not when he brings disaster into the lives of everyone he touches — a one-man infection who gets more dangerous as the night gives way to morning.
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It may have been the same lecture over and over again, but die-hard supporters trailed him like fans of the Grateful Dead, attentively listening for occasional improvisations in his shouted assaults on the status quo.
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Her narcissism and her smarts are what keep her going, and it's fun to watch her get carried away by her thoughts and by her exciting improvisations with the audience, during which Jones never breaks character.
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They investigated structured alternatives to standard song forms as well as the long, declamatory improvisations favored by New York City's jazz avant-garde, exploring dissonance, serialism and polyphony, 21967th-century concert music and non-Western idioms.
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Contemporary films include "Free Jazz" (2015), a compilation of dance performances and improvisations by the Brontez Purnell Dance Company; and Aron Kantor's "Folsom Street" (2016), a stylized and choreographed vision of the famous San Francisco street fair.
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His voice is a bluesy, otherworldly moan with a hint of Sam Cooke and an occasional growl; his songs are verbal and musical improvisations, ruminating on the state of the world and the state of his soul.
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As Iraqi forces took control of the Old City and searched the area, they seized several of the Islamic State's undetonated car bombs, the heavily armored improvisations that became the most feared weapons in the militants' arsenal.
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Ms. Marston discussed the matter with her sister, a drama teacher, who had found an old cello in her classroom and asked her students to do physical theater improvisations with it, a concept that had proven interesting.
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Written in the wake of that misadventure, "Flesh & Bone" shines its light through a fog of bewilderment and outrage — moving from Mingus-esque miniature arrangements to open-air improvisations to the occasional splash of spoken-word poetry.
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Although she compensated her collaborators for the time spent making the masks and collective improvisations, now that the photographs are for sale, a share of the profits go to the Konkana people in support of their art.
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Soon enough, I also came to know a Los Angeles I would not have known otherwise: a city with its own brand of Spanish, a city shaped by the ceaseless improvisations, reinventions and ambitions of its Spanish speakers.
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But it was a second harpsichordist, Patrick Jones, who momentarily stole the show in one of Handel's wackiest and most inscrutable inventions: the extended improvisations that punctuate, not to say undercut, Armida's vengeance aria that ends the second act.
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He can make something cool out of flipping these improvisations, sure—2017's Highly Rare has some pieces that feel pretty unlike anything I've ever heard from experimental electronic music or jazz—but what could he say with them?
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Vongerichten said it was also a clear-cut way to ensure that, even if he wasn't cooking in all 38 of his kitchens, the dishes would still be true to his vision, without any unhelpful improvisations by local cooks.
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He was — like the jazz he loved — given to improvisations and permutations, a composer-performer who lived comfortably with his contradictions, although adversaries called him shallow and unscrupulous and even his admirers sometimes found him infuriating, unrealistic and stubborn.
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If you're like me, and most women, your own journey will be highlighted by a panoply of twists and improvisations and, if you're lucky, balls out comedy that will lift and drop and then lift you again to the next thing.
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Not only was the cast given the freedom to work on their characters and do improvisations to make them their own, but "Revenge of the Nerds" became a cult classic with legions of fans still watching the slapstick comedy today.
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He was using blues tonality and dissonance in his improvisations and original structures in his written music, organized in ways that were not traditional for jazz, even for the relatively new avant-garde sort with which he was generally associated.
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The night before, the double imprimatur of ICE and Mostly Mozart drew a capacity crowd to the Kaplan Penthouse for an abrasive and indulgent program of improvisations by the trumpeter Peter Evans and the pianists Cory Smythe and Craig Taborn.
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Recent improvisations include Italian long hot peppers, fried and crushed with coarsely ground hazelnuts, exuding a languorous heat; eggplant, deep-fried and tangy from a night in brine; and ground lamb contoured with fenugreek, paprika and cumin, under shattered almonds.
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The floor's Hudson River half accommodated a stage, chairs and bleachers where Mr. Taylor, who is 87, performed on opening night, his improvisations mirrored, interpreted and even anticipated by the avant-garde dancer Min Tanaka, one of his longtime collaborators.
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Soon after, the Theater of Eternal Music — Mr. Young's trippy ensemble, which once included the Velvet Underground's John Cale — crafted long-form improvisations atop an underlying drone that Mr. Young created by amplifying the hum of the turtle aquarium's motor.
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American concert films of the time were full of psychedelic effects and focused on audiences, but the continental approach was reverential, positioning these players as highbrow artworks unto themselves, their improvisations ready to be studied like a painter's brush strokes.
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Instead of putting electronic sounds in the foreground, he builds tracks from loops and improvisations that are likely to come from ancient instruments, particularly Andean ones like wood flutes, percussion and small guitars — though he might also try a sitar.
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Yet there is also something in this regulation that goes beyond defense against the worst possibilities, toward a discouragement of all the benign irregularities — the unruly felicities, creative improvisations, leisurely inefficiencies and insouciant eccentricities — that are the heart of urban life.
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Joined by Social Science, a midsize ensemble of younger musicians, Carrington puts forth a mix of simmering hip-hop, indie rock and jazz on the album's first disc, followed by a four-part suite of plangent group improvisations on the second.
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Also in the 1990s, Mr. Nordine began to add a new element to his verbal improvisations: Working from his elaborate home studio, he used a computer to introduce distorted, psychedelic visuals to recordings of his poems, which he posted on YouTube.
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We know that, each day, the robots are reset, and sometimes, during the downtime, they receive firmware updates, not unlike your phone or TV. The latest update includes a feature called "reveries," represented by tiny physical improvisations that stem from stored memories.
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Most of her performances since then are like this: riffing on events in her daily life with an eloquence any standup would envy, not least because these sets are actually scripted dialogue played to look like the improvisations of a natural-born talent.
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Few people had seen Ernst's big national debut as the previous speakers' long-windedness had pushed her well past the convention's TV witching hour of 11; a crowd hungry for The Donald's epic free-form improvisations was first being subjected to Lt. Gen.
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Muhal Richard Abrams, the autodidactic pianist, composer and educator who was known both for his diverse, unclassifiable compositions and improvisations and for establishing and sustaining the influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan.
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Inspired in part by social line dances and tap — and the improvisations that emerge from those forms — the dance, created in collaboration with Jodi Bender, Laurie Berg, Tara O'Con and Lindsay Reuter — is based on a collective memory of hops, glides and snaps.
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When: February 28–March 20 Where: AC Institute (16 East 48th Street, 4th Floor, Midtown, Manhattan) For their collaborative exhibition at the AC Institute, Brooklyn-based artists Biagini and Niemann will present an immersive installation based on a series of sonic and physical improvisations.
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Elsewhere there were moments of surging epiphany and explosive contrast, along with quicksilver traces of Mr. Cohen's Israeli heritage — most obviously in his choice of scales during several trumpet improvisations, though not the one that seemed to slow time to a dramatic crawl on the stage.
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As a representative of a red state that is more skeptical of Trump than most, and the biggest political star to enter the Senate since Hillary Clinton in 2000, Romney will be pressed repeatedly to comment on the Trump tweets, rants, and policy improvisations of the day.
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Other artists will take part in programs like "Talking Duets," which will feature Eiko performing structured improvisations with the choreographers Yvonne Meier, Elizabeth Streb and others; in "Precarious," guest artists, including Koma — who is dancing again — will perform solos in response to a quotation about grief and mourning.
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And the Sun Ra Arkestra, under Mr. Allen's direction and conducting (and with the charismatic singer Tara Middleton), played raucous improvisations over swing rhythm and extended its romanticism to the cosmos; their greatest-hits set ended with "Space Is the Place" and a ceremonial parade through the audience.
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Few saxophonists have had a starker influence on today's young jazz musicians than Mark Turner, 53, whose even-toned but constantly evasive improvisations helped to define the sound of New York jazz in the 1990s, uniting ideas from such diverse figures as Lennie Tristano, Joe Henderson and Sonny Rollins.
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A programmatic gap in the fall was creatively filled by improvisational dances from a number of artists, and that fix was so successful it will be repeated as "Shorties," described in press materials as "a flurry of micro-dances," featuring 23 artists in one- to two-minute improvisations. cathyweis.
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His most recent album, "The Dreamer Is the Dream," came out this year on ECM Records, and it has the markers of an ECM release: clarity to match the stoutness of its sound; an unfixed sense of time and motion; a broad harmonic palette that guides the improvisations.
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Though much of his music is heavily electronic, at a recent performance at the Roulette theater in Downtown Brooklyn, Mr. First switched among very traditional acoustic instruments during a suite of improvisations: a crimson sitar, a scalloped-neck electric guitar from Vietnam and a harmonica (just the regular kind).
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As part of Theater of Eternal Music, which played at the composer La Monte Young's TriBeCa loft, he contributed the dry, astringent sound of his violin to the ensemble's long-form drone improvisations, and his mathematical background provided the theoretical underpinnings of the group's unconventional system of musical intonation.
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Their music was the product of hours upon hours of serpentine improvisations––seriously, these dudes could noodle the Grateful Dead under the table––distilled into damn near perfect songs at the mixing board after they were subject to the canny (sorry) editing and tape manipulation of Holger Czukay.
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They ranged from one-time improvisations — such as his black-streaked "Automobile Tire Print," which he made by having the musician John Cage drive his car over 20 sheets of paper in the street — to a decade of sustained creativity as the resident designer of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
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It's playful but pointed.) Her scat improvisations are as unerring as her intonation, but some of the most jaw-dropping singing unfolds in slow motion: on "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)," over a moseying bass line, or "Time After Time," with just piano, at a gently billowing tempo.
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In fewer than three hundred pages of cogent prose, Rutherford-Johnson catalogues the bewildering diversity of twenty-first-century composed music, and, more important, makes interpretative sense of a corpus that ranges from symphonies and string quartets to improvisations on smashed-up pianos found in the Australian outback (Ross Bolleter's " Secret Sandhills ").
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Painted in reds and blues as luminous as those of Gothic stained glass, it communes with Rembrandt's seventeenth-century masterpiece "The Slaughtered Ox," which Soutine contemplated often and intensely in the Louvre, and it crackles with formal improvisations (one swift white line rescues a large blue zone from incoherence) and wild emotion.
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As Mr. Abrams did in his 21999 recording "Young at Heart / Wise in Time," A.A.C.M. members acknowledged jazz, blues and other forms of African-American music as their heritage, but adopted Duke Ellington's refusal to be defined by the past and Ornette Coleman's break from chord progressions as an infallible guideline for improvisations.
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Although the whole of Musik is highly original and interesting, I just couldn't get past the often grating sound of the synthesizer, which makes Eggleston's improvisations sound like something out of a science fiction soundtrack, or an old Western film, or fire alarm bells, or whale songs, or New Age yoga music.
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John Fahey, a great American primitive guitarist, had his biggest commercial success with an album of Christmas instrumentals after realising that "White Christmas" was a hit every year, and that he might be able to make a little money if he eschewed extended slide guitar improvisations in favour of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen".
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This is compounded by the fact that McCraven, a drummer by training, is also a whiz of an editor, cutting down the long improvisations that made up the recording into jagged rhythmic loops, giving the component jams—even the long ones—a slivered feeling that's rugged and collagelike in the way that classic rap productions are.
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ALASTAIR MACAULAY If you could imagine a musical analogue for texts by Hugo Ball or Kurt Schwitters (it helps that we have recordings of Schwitters reading his own work), it might be structured improvisations in the 1960s and '70s by, say, Roscoe Mitchell, John Zorn or the ICP Orchestra: noisy, festive, prankish, stubborn, with quick changes of affect.
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From the age of about five to 11, I would go there at least once a week, playing games, learning quotations from Anna's heroes (Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mother Theresa), putting on plays, and doing improvisations that almost always descended into me and my partner shouting at each other, because what was acting if not shouting?
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This Sunday, the shared program features Patricia Hoffbauer and David Thomson in a new duet; Stephen Petronio Company in an excerpt from Steve Paxton's "Goldberg Variations" (28), as danced by Nicholas Sciscione; and a screening of Weis's videos from the mid-211s of Paxton's improvisations onstage in Philadelphia and in the fields of Vermont to Bach's "Goldberg" Variations.cathyweis.
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Louise DE Jensen Quartet at Downtown Music Gallery, December 4, 2016 I was reminded of Oliveros when I walked down the steps of Downtown Music Gallery (DMG) in Chinatown to see Louise DE Jensen's saxophone quartet play a set of improvisations for one of the shop's wonderful and free shows in its ongoing Sunday night music series.
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Installed throughout the museum's eighth-floor galleries, the show will include copies of historic jazz-club stages that Moran built for the 2015 Venice Biennale; video pieces he made in collaboration with the artists Stan Douglas, Glenn Ligon and Lorna Simpson; and works on paper showing the transferred residue of his fingers' improvisations across the keyboard.
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Halaby's precisely rendered diagonal bars and planes couldn't be farther from Nozkowski's freewheeling improvisations, but they do discharge a sense of dislocation and the tragic in the predominance of black in two of the images, and the lack of a vertical or horizontal anchor in all three — a compositional slippery slope that threatens to cast us into an emotional free fall.
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The Stone has been wetting its feet there by presenting shows Friday and Saturday nights since June, and the few weekends I've been to the new space, it has appeared to foster the kind of open exchange that typified most nights on Avenue C. I've already heard startlingly successful group improvisations, and first-time bands of unlikely collaborators that gamely fell flat.
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The near three-month long improvisations on a theme of governance ended Thursday with the announcement of an administration headed by Giuseppe Conte, a law professor with no government experience tasked with running a cabinet controlled by the leaders of the two parties which form that administration – a signal of weak, divided and warring politics at the summit of power for the foreseeable future.
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The same could be said of plenty of at-first-formless songs from Can, the legendary German art-rock group Czukay cofounded, whose songs began as hours-long improvisations which he culled down, into compositions, movements, experiences, happenings, picking out the best parts, locating not so much the needle in the haystack as it were, as specific piece of hay among a haystack that only he and the band could see as different from all the rest.
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