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IF 2024: Silence-Producing Machine
Wednesday, June 26th to Saturday, June 29th, 2024.
Fonoteca Nacional de México, Mexico City
(Part of the XXXVII International Colloquium, “Silence-Producing Machine: Improvisation in and Beyond Music and the Arts“)
Schedule subject to change.
All times local in Mexico City.
(CST – UTC/GMT-6 hours).
Wednesday, June 26th
18:30 to 20:30 – Welcome to Improv Fest 2024!
Concert I: Sentire (Seña y Verbo + Liminar), with: Eduardo Domínguez, Socorro Casillas, Antonio Sacruz, Carlos Iturralde and Omar López (Mexico).
Moderator: Benjamín Mayer Foulkes (Mexico).
Welcome by Francisco “Tito” Rivas, Director of the Fonoteca Nacional.
Welcome by the Improvisation Council in the Territories of the Ñ: Ricardo Lomnitz Soto (Mexico), Ana Ruiz (Tepoztlán), Ana Ruiz Valencia (Bogotá), Alain Derbez (México), Gonzalo Biffarella (Córdiba, Argentina), and Wade Matthews (Madrid).
Welcome by Ajay Heble, Director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (Guelph).
Thursday, June 27th
9:00 to 9:30 – Registration.
9:30 to 11:30 – Thought.
Panel: Ajay Heble (Guelph) and Wade Matthews (Madrid).
Moderator: Ricardo Lomnitz Soto (Mexico).
11:30 to 12:00 – Break.
12:00 to 14:00 – Subjectivity.
Panel: Gonzalo Biffarella (Cordobá, Argentina) and Alain Derbez (Mexico).
Moderator: Ana Ruiz (Mexico).
14:00 to 16:00 – Lunch.
16:00 to 18:00 – Presentation.
Improvisation in Relays, with: Santiago Botero, Juanita Delgado (Bogotá), Lewis Melville, jashen edwards (Guelph), Carlos Alegre , Remi Álvarez, Gibrán Andrade, Vania Fortuna, María Goded, Maricarmen Graue, Carlos Grecco, Andrés Guadarrama, Emiliano Cruz, Ángel Florido, Rossana Lara, Ricardo Lomnitz Soto, Eli Piña, Roberto Tercero, and Ollin Vázquez (Mexico).
Coordinator and Moderator: Wade Matthews (Madrid).
18:30 to 20:30 – Presentation.
Concert II: Trío Lesión, with Ana Ruiz Valencia, Maria “Mange” Valencia, and Santiago Botero (Bogotá).
Concert III: Ellen Waterman (Ottawa), jashen edwards (Guelph), Juanita Delgado (Bogotá), and Fernando Vigueras (Mexico).
Moderator: Gonzalo Biffarella (Córdoba, Argentina).
Friday, June 28th
9:30 to 11:30 – Implementation.
Panel: Ángel Faraldo (Barcelona), David Rothenberg (Newark), Kimber Sider (Guelph).
Moderator: Ajay Heble (Guelph).
11:30 to 12:00 – Break.
12:00 to 14:00 – Conversation and Presentation.
Conversation, with: Francisco Téllez (Mexico).
Presenter: Benjamin Mayer Foulkes (Mexico).
Concert IV: Germán Bringas, Todd Clouser, Dario Bernal, and Adriana Camacho (Mexico).
Moderator: Ana Ruiz Valencia (Bogotá).
14:00 to 16:00 – Lunch.
16:00 to 18:00 – Critical Studies in Improvisation: Genealogies.
Panel: Ajay Heble, Daniel Fischlin, jashen edwards, and Ellen Waterman (Ottawa).
Moderator: Wade Matthews (Madrid).
18:30 to 20:30 – Presentations.
Concert V: Ricardo Arias (Bogotá), Arcangelo Constantini, Gudinni Cortina, Juanjosé Rivas, and Doris Steinbichler (Mexico).
Concert VI: Wade Matthews (Madrid), Gonzalo Biffarella, Franco Pellini (Códoba, Argentina), Ramón del Buey (Mexico).
Moderator: Ana Ruiz (Mexico).
Saturday, June 29th
9:30 to 11:30 – Collaborate.
Panel: Rebecca Caines (Toronto), Cees Hamelink (Amsterdam), and George Lipsitz (Santa Barbara).
Moderator: Francisco “Tito” Rivas (Mexico).
11:30 to 12:00 – Break.
12:00 to 14:00 – Critical Studies in Improvisation: Projections.
Panel: Wade Matthews (Madrid), Ricardo Arias, Ana Ruiz Valencia (Bogotá), Gonzalo Biffarella (Córdoba, Argentina), and Ana Ruiz (Tepoztlán)/
Moderator: Eric Fillion (Kingston, Canada).
14:00 to 16:00 – Lunch.
16:00 to 18:00 – Presentations.
Concert VII: Vertical Squirrels, with Ajay Heble, Daniel Fischlin, Lewis Melville, Ted Warren (Guelph).
Concert VIII: ARMS, with Ana Ruiz (Tepoztlán), Mauricio Sotelo (Mexico).
Moderator: Ricardo Lomnitz Soto (Mexico).
18:30 to 20:30 – Presentations.
Concert IX: Spontaneous Generation [Generación Espontánea], with: Wilfrido Terrazas (San Diego), Carlos Alegre, Sarmen Almond, Dario Bernal Villegas, Alexander Bruck, Ramón del Buey, Misha Marks, Natalia Pérez Turner, Fernando Vigueras (Mexico).
Concert X: Suspended Drumset, with: Milo Tamez and Jerónimo Naranjo (Mexico).
Moderator: Benjamin Mayer Foulkes.