Written & narrated by Derek Bailey. Produced & directed by Jeremy Marre.
“A Liberating Thing” examines the role of improvisation as a creative tool for the working musician—be it through the development of personal or collective systems of music making, a combination of experience and invention within a form, or the abandonment or antagonism of known forms in search of a liberating porosity.
"When you look at, from Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker up to the young rappers of today, it has to do with the sociopolitical and economic system setup in the United States of America where the education system did not accommodate their desires to become involved in music or any other arts... So they came up with different ways of dealing with the world of sound… and that is the contribution that still stands."
— Max Roach
Featuring: Max Roach, Butch Morris, Sang-Won Park, Max Eastley, Derek Bailey, Steve Noble, Alex Ward, Buddy Emmons, Sam Bush, Mark O’Connor, Jerry Douglas, Edgar Myer, Eugene Chadbourne
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Translation + Subtitles: Ramón del Buey, Chris Cogburn, Fernando Vigueras, Danae Silva
18:00 a 19:00 hrs, Screening
On The Edge: Improvisation in Music
Episode #3 "A Liberating Thing"
19:15 a 19:50 hrs, Contact Mic Workshop #2, testing and sound experiments
Colectivo Aloardi
20:00 a 21:00 hrs, Screening
On The Edge: Improvisation in Music
Episode #4 "Nothin' Premeditated"
21:15 a 22:00 hrs, Concert
Gabriel Castillo
20:00, Screening
On The Edge: Improvisation in Music
Episode #3 "A Liberating Thing"
21:00, Concert
Benoit Cancoin
20:00, Screening
On The Edge: Improvisation in Music
Episode #3 "A Liberating Thing"
21:00, Concert
Rovalbo (Rozo/Valencia/Botero)
Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.