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#improv

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
16 hours ago

December 4 is another sock holiday? Well that will probably make a certain mischievous 16th Century Munaciello (actually Arlecchino in a "clever" fairy disguise) happy!

https://nationaltoday.com/national-sock-day/

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #MySCA #RegramMySCA

Five actors perform a commedia dell'arte play in front of a house scenic piece on a wooden outdoor stage during a medieval camping even portraying  the stock characters of Arlecchino (badly disguised as a fairy) sealing shoes from Pantalone (who is confused and annoyed) while Brighella and Oratio pretend to be amazed and il Dottore looks on with academic interest.
Maurice Rickard
21 hours ago

Tonight, Monday December 4, from 8-9:30 PM EST (GMT-5), will be my 191st #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the #pandemic. I bought a lot of drone on BC Friday, and we have colder weather, so tonight might be...glacial. Might just bring out the home-built Res-O-Glas, if it feels right. Whatever happens will happen slowly. https://twitch.tv/onezeromusic

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
22 hours ago

Take the most interesting and often chaotically zany path!

"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting." ----Third Doctor (Robert Holmes via Jon Pertwee)

#MondayMotivation

#DoctorWho #DoctorWho60 #improv #improvisation #theater #parody #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Marcon #MarconOH #ScienceFictionConvnetion #SciFiCon

A group of actors portraying parody incarnations of the Doctor from "Doctor Who" holding sonic screwdrivers to effect a glowing orb during a performance in a hotel conference center panel room at a science-fiction convention.

Has the passing of a friend ever hit you in a way that made you say, "I must help make a better world"?

In Memory Of Tom

#music from #grief - #piano #improv #improvisations #PianoImprov #ImprovPiano
https://music.lnk.to/bA1z97

The cover art for "In Memory Of Tom" piano improvisations album.
Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
1 day ago

Oh, we almost missed Let's Hug Day! Plutonic and romantic gestures are a staple of commedia dell'arte and important connections for many of us. So practice some consensual hugging today - mustard and sausage warrior queens only optional.

https://nationaltoday.com/lets-hug-day/

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #OSU #OhioState #OhioStateU #OhioStateUniversity

Five actors perform a commedia dell'arte play in front of a black backdrop in a university dance studio during a medieval history conference portraying the stock characters of Brighella (disguised as a warrior made of sausage), il Dottore, and Arlecchino (smeared with mustard) looking shocked as il Capitano smears mustard on Vittoria (in a chemise and partially disguised as the queen of sausage people).
Adrian Segar
2 days ago

What does it mean to "be myself"? I reflect on being crushed by a teacher's remark at a school play, and how I now view the experience.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2020/11/can-i-be-myself

#improv #acting #BeingMyself

The author, Adrian Segar, at around 12 years old, wearing his school uniform
E.K.-Lounge
2 days ago

Ein anderes SpinOff der #SphericLounge um Florian Anwander macht bis heute Musik: #ambioSonics. Seit ein paar Stunden sind die Videos der letzten Session (149) online: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuSgYZLwu9i-kBheNZlgCX6ymBxrF7IKW
#improv #electronic #music #modularsystem #impro #gesang #ambient #chillout

The Unrefined Jagoff
3 days ago

New #guitar video up now!
Well, it posted itself at 7, but still!
#music #improv

https://youtube.com/shorts/9Ulw7e7a2Uo?si=Md35slIPLOUGVcgN

Adrian Segar
3 days ago

To improve the learning at your events, ensure your meeting messages are received. That's what I learned from the improv exercise "You".

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/10/lessons-from-improv-make-sure-your-meeting-messages-are-received

#meetings #EventDesign #messages #ConfirmReception #improv #exercise #You #eventprofs

meeting messages received: an illustration of a hand with the pointer finger pointing toward the viewer
Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
3 days ago

December 1 is Eat a Red #Apple Day! Or possibly use one as you are Capitano Testosteroné in a commedia dell'arte play at Pennsic disguised as the beautiful Isabella to take her place posing for a nude Renaissance portrait and fruit-filled still life?

https://nationaltoday.com/eat-red-apple-day/

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #MySCA #RegramMySCA

Three actors perform a commedia dell'arte play on a raised wooden stage in a pavilion tent during a medieval camping event portraying the stock characters of Isabella (only in a paint smeared chemise) flirting with il Capitano (disguised as a nearly nude Isabella for a painting) on a bench while being observed by il Dotore (and also Pantalone just off frame).
Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
4 days ago

#FlashBackFriday to "Mad Words" at the Case Western Reserve University Anime Marathon in Fall 2011 including the kyōgen "Ki no Mi Arasoi" with special guest stars from the Niji Dancers! #FBF

"The Battle of Fruits and Vegetables" might return at Zipcon in February 2024!

#kyogen #kyōgen #improv #improvisation #theater #AnimeConvention #AnimeCon #CWRU #CaseWesternReserve #CaseWesternReserveUniversity

Several actors perform a skit based on historic Japanese theatre in a university classroom during an anime convention, all dressed in clothing inspired by historic Japanese fashion but playing fruits and vegetables about to battle each other.
Amplifiers & Explosions
4 days ago

Here's this month's play talk play with Maria Sappho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orkRVOM_T8M

In this one we talk about instrument design (including her funky "to be played by mushrooms" instrument), improv structure/form, and the act of communicating (or not!) after performance.

#improv #improvisation #music #talking #conversation #preparedpiano #guitar

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
5 days ago

It's National Computer Security Day! Make sure your technology and yourself are protected, especially online - and not just from fictional parody anime mad scientists with hacking-capable of antique typewriters! ... So cool... Sumditch.

https://nationaltoday.com/national-computer-security-day/

#improv #improvisation #anime #parody #SteinsGate #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Marcon #MarconOH #ComputerSecurity #OnlineSecurity #hacking #typewriter

Maurice Rickard
5 days ago

My 190th #ambient #improv #livestream of the pandemic era is now available. This one's on #pedalsteel, and is particularly bassy and dense, with some reed-like and...instrument-adjacent, deep-underwater timbres. $0/name-your-price at https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-190

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
6 days ago

Thanks to a rush of brains to the head (or was that a giant D20?) we've finally completed a rough first draft of our D&D commedia dell'arte parody "A Mockery of Mimicry", a project we've been working on since 2019. Of course it's still a still a mess but we have some time before the premiere at Cleveland ConCoction in March 2024!

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #OSU #OhioState #OhioStateU #OhioStateUniversity #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #DandD #parody

Three actors perform a commedia dell'arte play in front of a black backdrop in a university dance studio during a history conference portraying the stock characters of Oratio, Brighella, and Arlecchino. Oratio is crying and clutching Brighella who has bent over to pick up his hat that was knocked off while Arlecchino watches with a stack of books in his arms. A graphic of a giant D20 die is Photoshop'd as if striking Oratio in the face with Brighella ducking.
Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
6 days ago

Last week we successfully tested over Zoom the draft for our newest commedia dell'arte "A Comedic Farce of a Fraudulent Cow in Calcio Fiorentino"! A few tweaks and more research into Renaissance sports and we'll be ready to start rehearsing for the OSU Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies's conference in February 2024!

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #OSU #OhioStateUniversity #OhioState

Several actors rehearse a commedia dell'arte play over Zoom (no costumes).
Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
1 week ago

Our commedia dell'arte plans for 2024 continue to chug along. In addition to writing drafts for "A Comedic Farce of a Fraudulent Cow in Calcio Fiorentino" and "A Mockery of Mimicry", we've started to storyboard "The Six-Sided Love Triangle" which might premiere at Pennsic!

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #MySCA #RegramMySCA

Three actors perform a commedia dell'arte play on a raised wooden stage in a pavelion tent during a medieval camping event portraying three young lovers in dresses.
Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
1 week ago

Wrapping up "The Deadly Sword" last week means i Sebastiani and friends have workshopped almost all of the historic commedia dell'arte scenarios from the Botarga collection! Tonight we move on to "Emperor Maumet & Diogenes"!

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #MySCA #RegramMySCA #SCAatHome

Two actors rehearse a commedia dell'arte play over Zoom.
Jen deHaan
1 week ago
Episode 3: Bottom Up Thinking & Plots in Improv Improvising in plotty or plot-driven sets might not come as naturally to bottom-up thinkers. Let's analyze very specific aspects neurodivergence and improv with copious levels of detail, why don't we.
Maurice Rickard
1 week ago

Tonight, Monday November 27, from 8-9:30 PM EST (GMT-5), I'll perform my 190th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the #pandemic . Tonight...might be home-built Res-O-Glas six-string...or might be something else. Let's find out. https://twitch.tv/onezeromusic

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
1 week ago

Outrageous costumes! Zany laughter! Chaotic fun! Being childlike at heart is important to our troupe so, as we continue to celebrate the 60th anniversary of "Doctor Who", the words of the Fourth Doctor (via Terrance Dicks & Tom Baker) always rings true: "There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes."

#MondayMotivation

#improv #improvisation #theater #DoctorWho #DoctorWho60 #SciFi #ScienceFiction #CWRU #CaseWesternReserve

Seven actors pose for a photoshoot of a "Doctor Who" parody play, all in parody costumes of individual Doctors or a similar style. Two are sitting on chairs in front as the Tenth (in 3D specs) and Fifth Doctors, examining a K-9 props. Behind them are a Sixth Doctor in patchwork (with a rainbow umbrella hat), a unique incarnation (in green patchwork) with a green glowing enery orb, a sorta-Fourth Doctor, a sorta-Second Doctor with a Rubix cube, and another unique Doctor in a leather patchwork long coat playing a recorder. Four of the five in the back are wraped in the Fourth Doctor's long scarf.
Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
1 week ago

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of "Doctor Who", here is a chaotic collection of 60 1-second clips from across the Patchwork Multiverse of Space & Time of our parody productions and other fun over the years from our original home at Case Western Reserve University to Marcon to Cleveland ConCoction to Woo-Con to the CWRU Film Society to Oddmall to InConJunction and so many more!

#DoctorWho #DoctorWho60 #DoctorWhoDay #improv #Dalek #TARDIS #improvisation #theater #parody #ScienceFiction #SciFi #anime #StarTrek #CWRU #Marcon #MarconOH #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #InConJunction #Oddmall #ScienceFictionConvnetion #SciFiCon

Let's Have Some Fun - Rachel Flowers (In the Moment) - Invidious
https://inv.citw.lgbt/watch?v=KLBiSIsmckc

#Jazz #Piano #Improv #RachelFlowers

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
2 weeks ago

Happy 60th Birthday to "Doctor Who", one of our fave fandoms that has inspired dozens of our parody plays and encouraged us to expand beyond our commedia dell'arte roots ... through all of time and space!

#DoctorWho #DoctorWho60 #DoctorWhoDay #improv #Dalek #TARDIS #improvisation #theater #parody #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Marcon #MarconOH #ScienceFictionConvnetion #SciFiCon

A cast of actors pose after a performance of a "Doctor Who" parody play in a hotel conference center panel room during a science-fiction convention portraying various incarnations of the Doctor, companions, rogues, and a Dalek and the TARDIS props.
Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
2 weeks ago

Happy Thanksgiving from The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company! Try not to be as ravenous as commedia dell'arte's always hungry and hapless harlequin Arlecchino who accidently confesses to "devouring" Vittoria! 🤣

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #OSUCMRS #CMRS #OSU #OhioState #OhioStateU #OhioStateUniversity

Kala Grogg
2 weeks ago

📯 This Saturday, November 25th at 8:00pm, I’m guesting with BATS Improv main company Generations (an improvised family saga) at Fort Mason.

Shows are pay what you will; reserve tickets here https://bio.site/kala I’d love to see you there!

#theatre #improv #SFTheatre #SanFranciscoTheatre #SanFrancisco #SFBA

Promotional poster for Generations on the right and on the left, a photo of the writer, with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother layered behind her.
Maurice Rickard
2 weeks ago

Monday night's #live #ambient #guitar #improv (on an old $60 Univox in Fahey tuning) is now up, and...it is slow. At times it feels geological. If you need a whiff of eternity in your listening, check it out. $0/name-your-price at https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-189

ok cheez
2 weeks ago

Kept you waiting, didn't I? Here's something I made. Love y'all!

#vcvrack #modular #modularsynth #improv #noisecore #hardcore #speedcore #breakcore

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
2 weeks ago

Let's roll that die again! We're once more aiming to stage our first D20 project play in 2024! This week we're making progress on a new concept for the draft of our D&D parody commedia dell'arte "A Mockery of Mimicry"!

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #OSUCMRS #CMRS #OSU #OhioState #OhioStateU #OhioStateUniversity #DandD #parody

An actor poses in a dance studio of a university as the commedia dell'arte stock character of Pantalone as if knocked the ground and sat upon; a giant green and purple graphic of a D20 die is superimposed as if on top of him.
The Unrefined Jagoff
2 weeks ago

New #guitar video up before the long weekend I probably won’t get much rest during lol
It’s over a minute long, so YouTube will most likely bury it
#improv #music

https://youtu.be/nYM-UD_k-rY?si=Wyorf4GnJ-IMBYT-

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
2 weeks ago

To prep for last night's final workshop of "The Deadly Sword" from the Botarga collection we finally made another character relationship flowchart of this historic commedia dell'arte scenario!

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #MySCA #RegramMySCA #SCAatHome

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
2 weeks ago

Today World Television Day! As a live theatre troupe, most of our activity is on stage but not counting YouTube recordings of shows of the occasional performance over Zoom, we've appeared on TV at least once during a feature spot for the first Cleveland ConCoction! Fitting this was of our Dalek Skarino since this week is the 60th anniversary of one of our favorite programs on the telly - "Doctor Who"!

https://nationaltoday.com/world-television-day/

#improv #improvisation #theater #DoctorWho #Dalek #SciFi #ScienceFiction #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #ScienceFictionConvention #SciFiCon #SentinelsOfTheMultiverse #SotM #superhero #television #TV

Screenshot from a TV program featuring two cosplayers (from the troupe) in the halls of a hotel convention center during a science-fiction conference portraying a green & purple parody Dalek from "Doctor Who" dueling with the Wraith from the comic book superhero card game "Sentinels of the Multiverse".
Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
2 weeks ago

Tonight, i Sebastiani and friends should wrap up "The Deadly Sword" with a third bonus Zoom workshop to finetune this historic commedia dell'arte scenario from the Botarga collection!

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #MySCA #RegramMySCA #SCAatHome

Simon I Groove, MD
2 weeks ago

My KJ at karaoke introduced me tonight as the man who "wrote his thesis on fuckin' kazoo solos".

So here it is: "Sing doodly doodly doo into a tube. Growl like a dog if it's an angry part. Otherwise, stay out of the guitarist's way and hit the beat or don't."

#Music #advice #karaoke #kazoo #improv

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
2 weeks ago

It's fitting that National Absurdity Day happens the same week as the anniversary of "Doctor Who"! While pretty much all of our shows are absurd, our latest Dottore Who parody play featured both a Dalek and the TARDIS transforming into magical anime girls and then into a kaiju monster and a giant mecha robot respectively all during a lecture on fanservice given by a god-like paladin bunny girl! 🤣

https://nationaltoday.com/national-absurdity-day/

#improv #improvisation #theater #DoctorWho #TARDIS #Dalek #anime #mecha #robot #MagicalGirl #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Marcon #MarconOH #ScienceFictionConvention #SciFiCon

Eight actors pose after performing a "Doctor Who" / anime parody play in a hotel conference center panel room during a science-fiction convention portraying the TARDIS transformed into a giant anime robot, an alien bunny girl, the TARDIS transformed into a magical anime girl, a perverted anime teacher, a unique parody of the Doctor, a green & purple Dalek, and the Dalek transformed into an anime magical girl.
Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
2 weeks ago

Happy Odd Sock Day from The Confused Greenies of Players' Patchwork Theatre Company and a 16th Century Munaciello (actually Arlecchino in a "clever" fairy disguise)!

https://nationaltoday.com/odd-socks-day/

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #Pennsic #PennsicWar #SocietyForCreativeAnachronism #SCA #MySCA #RegramMySCA

Maurice Rickard
2 weeks ago

Tonight, Monday November 20, from 8-9:30 PM EST (GMT-5), I'll perform my 189th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the #pandemic. It's time to use a guitar I haven't used in a while. Tune in to find out what that ends up being. https://twitch.tv/onezeromusic

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
2 weeks ago

This week is the 60th anniversary of "Doctor Who" which has given our troupe so much inspiration!

"Whole worlds pivot on acts of imagination." --Thirteenth Doctor (Chris Chibnall via Jodie Whittaker)

#MondayMotivation

#improv #improvisation #theater #DoctorWho #Dalek #StarTrek #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Marcon #MarconOH #ScienceFictionConvention #SciFiCon

In a poster with the motivation quote a photo of eight actors posing in a hotel hallway during a science-fiction convention after performing a sci-fi parody play and portraying pardy versoins of the Fourth and Thirteenth Doctors from "Doctor Who", a magical anime girl, an anime catboy, a Dalek from "Doctor Who" in a Star Trek original series cosplay red-shirt, an alien with a furry green head and four eyes on stalks, a reptilian, and a regular human; most are holding green and purple tribles from Star Trek.
Adrian Segar
2 weeks ago

Patricia Madson’s first improv maxim is "Say Yes!" This reminds me of a harrowing incident at the closing session of a three-day conference…

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/03/conference-facilitation-lessons-from-improv-say-yes

#meetings #facilitation #improv #EventDesign #SayYes #events #eventprofs

Say Yes: photograph of a large group of workers wearing blue shirts striking dramatic triumphant poses outdoors. Image attribution: http://www.flickr.com/photos/feastoffools/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
s1m0n4
2 weeks ago

A second video. Definitely too much light and I wasn't dressed accordingly but it was too cold to remove my trench coat

#juggling #poijuggling #improv

A second recording of my poi juggling performance yesterday
s1m0n4
3 weeks ago

There was still too much light in that spot unfortunately!

#lightfestival #poi #juggling #poijuggling #improv

Me juggling with multicolored LED poi
Maurice Rickard
3 weeks ago

Monday night's #live #ambient #pedalsteel #improv is now available: slow, sometimes dense, sometimes sparse, sometimes microtonal. Timbral variation comes from steel and wooden slides. Listen and download: $0/name-your-price at https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-188

Maurice Rickard
3 weeks ago

Tonight, Monday November 13, from 8-9:30 PM EST (GMT-5), I'll perform my 188th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the #pandemic. Tonight...feels like another night for #pedalsteel .

Drop by https://twitch.tv/onezeromusic for extremely slow vibes.

Obviously, the waterfall behind our home is not ‘ours’ at all. We just call it that out of habit.

#waterfall #MusicVideo #piano #improv
https://muz4now.com/2023/the-waterfall-3rd-music-video-for-tpitdr/

The story behind
SpellBound - First Music Video from "...The Dining Room"

#MusicVideo #piano #improv #story

https://muz4now.com/2023/spellbound-first-music-video-from-the-dining-room/

Maurice Rickard
4 weeks ago

Monday night's #live #ambient #pedalsteel #improv performance is now up. Even by my slow standards, this one's slower: seven pieces, each over ten minutes. It's the time frame of natural processes, like the movement of stars or clouds. $0/name-your-price.

https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-187

#PlotParty Day 3: Musical. This was actually an experiment with @tonygedrich from a while back where we improv'd some noise over plotter sounds; this was a nice excuse to dig it back out!
#PenPlotter #Noise #Improv #MastoArt

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
1 month ago

If you are voting by mail, you must have your ballot postmarked by TODAY (November 6) or dropped off in-person to the board of elections by Election Day tomorrow. Use your voice and use your vote!

See some voting resources: https://www.vote.org/

#vote #vote2023 #election #election2023

#CommediaDellArte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #Marcon #MarconOH #ScienceFictionConvention #SciFiCon

Two actors perform a commedia dell'arte play in a hotel conference center panel room during a science-fiction convention portraying the stock characters of Vittoria seducing Brighella (who is disguised as a futuristic parody of il Capitano) into signing a marriage contract. The word "VOTE" is superimposed on the photograph in red, white, and blue font.
Maurice Rickard
1 month ago

Tonight, Monday November 6, from 8-9:30 PM EST (GMT-5), I'll perform my 187th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the #pandemic, this time probably on #pedalsteel . Visit https://twitch.tv/onezeromusic for the vibes.

Maurice Rickard
1 month ago

Monday night's #ambient #guitar #improv on 2001 Epiphone Moderne is now up--my 186th of the #pandemic.

Each one of these seems slower than usual, but maybe they're all equally slow. Others often have recognizable timbres, but this one's more abstract. $0/name-your-price. https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-186

Maurice Rickard
1 month ago

Tonight, Monday October 30, from 8-9:30 PM EDT, I'll perform my 186th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the still-with-us #pandemic. I haven't decided which instrument to use, so tune in and be as surprised as I am. https://twitch.tv/onezeromusic

Solobasssteve
1 month ago

just posted a new video - 'It All Comes Together In The End' uses a much under-explored way of making music with a looper: looping the melody and then varying the chords underneath, rather than being stuck with the same four chord loop for hours. Give it a watch, it's fun ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpbOSNWwEMI

#music #solobass #looping #musodon #improvisation #improv #youtube

Spocko
1 month ago

@GottaLaff
Me too. My response is to suggest the "Yes, and" method, which I learned at Bay Area Theatre Sports.
I want show people how we can move the story forward.

(BTW, I studied under Keith Johnstone at the Loose Moose Theatre in Calgary Canada.
He wrote the book Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre)
#messaging #TheatreSports #Improv

Impro Improvisation and the theatre by 
Keith Johnstone
Maurice Rickard
1 month ago

Monday night's #ambient #pedalsteel #improv is now available to download or stream. Long pieces on a slow journey that ends up somewhere very lush.

Recent revelations around Bandcamp have been disturbing, and I hope the new owners reconsider how laid-off employees were treated.

If you're voting with your purchase, note that my releases are available for $0/name-your-price.

https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-185

Maurice Rickard
1 month ago

Tonight, Monday October 23 from 8-9:30 PM EDT, I'll perform my 185th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the still-happening #pandemic. Tonight's...likely to be #pedalsteel--feeling kind of bendy. Tune in at https://twitch.tv/onezeromusic

If you love #piano #music the way I do, you're going to love this #playlist - mostly #improv #PianoMusic
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7nJ4Ch04wzzwNLRj40Li4e

Pseudo Nym
1 month ago

When #ttrpg meets #improv

I once built a one-shot afternoon game to run with my players around "yes, and..."

I told them we were going to play a one shot, but wanted them to ask me questions about the setting and characters first. Anything they asked, I said "yes, and..." Until they realized I wasn't answering questions so much as letting them define the setting and their characters.

"Do I have super powers?" Yes, and everytime you use them, they tire you out."

Ended up with "B" team supers

Maurice Rickard
2 months ago

Monday night's #ambient #pedalsteel #improv--my 184th ambient #guitar performance of the pandemic--is now up on Bandcamp. (I'm more of a cost center than a profit center for them, so let's see how long this all lasts.)

In some of these pieces, the pedal steel takes on a chamber-ensemble timbre, while others are particularly vocal-sounding, with a bit of an October feeling. $0/name-your-price.

https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-184

Maurice Rickard
2 months ago

Tonight, Monday October 16, from 8-9:30 PM EDT, I'll perform my 184th #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the still-with-us #pandemic. Tonight, if all goes well with Mira, I'll be playing #pedalsteel . Tune in at https://twitch.tv/onezeromusic

Maurice Rickard
2 months ago

Yesterday I released this past weekend's live performance, and just after midnight released Monday night's 183rd #ambient #guitar #improv livestream. After various technical struggles, the music presented itself as very calming. $0/name-your-price.

https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-183

"In Memory of Tom" is a name-your-price suite/EP of 5 piano improvisations to honor the life of my friend
#grief #InMemory #piano #improv
#BandCampFriday #ccmusic
https://muz4now.bandcamp.com/album/in-memory-of-tom

Memory is sometimes clear and sometimes fuzzy — especially during grief
#grief #piano #improv #catharsis
#BandCampFriday #ccmusic
https://muz4now.com/2023/in-memory-of-tom-mentor-and-friend/

Behind the silhouette of a lone, tall tree, the sun is setting changing low, grey clouds to orange, yellow, and gold.

Honoring Tom Henderson
(with my #piano #improv "Teacher" from "In Memory of Tom")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Cp32K0WrY

Solobasssteve
2 months ago

Every Friday I do a #Bandcamp Listening Party for a newly remastered, or brand new, album. This week it's "Episode 50: A New Hope" - released a week after my 50th birthday, and just a couple of days after I was given the positive result of my chemotherapy. So music that's about hope, the future, the unknown, about gratitude, love & care. Come chat about it on Friday night (UK Time) - the RSVP link is here, so I know how many canapés to buy https://stevelawson.bandcamp.com/merch/episode-50-a-new-hope-listening-party
#bass #ambient #looping #improv

robbielink
2 months ago

Probably the most fun performance I've ever participated in. #WordJazz #music #improv #actors https://youtu.be/wZR8NjFyoK8?si=1D6v1P-a5pmVI0KO The fun begins around about 3 minutes in.

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co
2 months ago

The 60th anniversary of "Doctor Who" is coming soon! But today we can #FlashBackFriday to epic weekend at the first Pandoracon in Cincinnati, OH when we staged a trilogy of parody plays involving the bumbling time-traveler and commedia dell'arte including "Dottore Who & the Commedia Arch"! #FBF

#DoctorWho #Dalek #parody #theater #improv #improvisation #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Pandoracon #ScienceFictionConvention #SciFiCon #CommediaDellArte #commedia

Six actors perform a "Doctor Who" parody play with commedia dell'arte elements in a hotel conference center ballroom portraying a green & purple Dalek from "Doctor Who" in a Renaissance Italian hat, and parodies of Amy Pond as Isabella, Rory Williams as Pedrolino, River Song as Vittoria, the 11th Doctor was il Dottore, and Sexy (the TARDIS personified) as Colombina.
David August
2 months ago

Did you know Second City pays instructors less than one half the industry average?

Instructors and staff deserve a fair contract. Come support this Saturday, the 625th day since negotiations with Second City Chicago Training Center leadership began.

#improv #sketch #AICEstrong #UnionStrong #instructors #u1 #SecondCity

JOIN US: IT'S TIME TO GET LOUD 
outside Second City (North & Wells) [Chicago] 

Sat 9/30 
6:25-9:25pm 
Picket Rally for SC workers 

[photo of a person shouting into a megaphone]
Maurice Rickard
2 months ago

Monday night's #ambient #MoogGuitar #improv session is now up on Bandcamp. The music this time consists of shorter pieces that feel longer, letting things become what they are. $0/name-your-price at https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-182

#Listen to "The Piano In The Dining Room"
#piano #improv #PianoSolo for your listening enjoyment
https://music.lnk.to/GRCG3D

Maurice Rickard
2 months ago

Tonight, Monday September 25 (8-9:30 PM EDT/ GMT-4), I'll perform my 182nd #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the still-with-us #pandemic era. Tonight I'll likely use #MoogGuitar as a reminder about all the Moog employees who have lost their jobs due to the recent InMusic acquisition.

Tune in at https://twitch.tv/onezeromusic

And the most recent release in the "Jaydn, opus" series of #piano #improv -
The Piano In The Dining Room
- #TPITDR #PianoImprov #PianoJazz #PianoSolo
https://playmusic.muz4now.com/album/the-piano-in-the-dining-room

20 piano improvisations in the "Jaydn, opus" series. Here are the first five.
#piano #improv #PianoImprov #improvisation #PianoSolo #PianoJazz
https://playmusic.muz4now.com/album/jaydn-opus-1-5

Maurice Rickard
3 months ago

Monday's #ambient #pedalsteel #improv has flowed into Bandcamp. The 181st of this series, this one drifts through natural and unnatural settings, with symphonic and abstract timbres. It's a journey. $0/name-your-price. https://snwv.bandcamp.com/album/music-at-a-distance-181

Maurice Rickard
3 months ago

Tonight, Monday September 18, from 8-9:30 PM EDT, I'll perform my 181st #ambient #guitar #improv #livestream of the #pandemic era. (Appropriately enough, I've just gotten the new booster.) Tonight's likely to be #pedalsteel again. Tune in to https://twitch.tv/onezeromusic

Solobasssteve
3 months ago

I really love being surprised by my own music 🙂 Was listening to something on YouTube, left the room and when I came back it was auto-playing this, and I went 'wow! That's great!' before I realised it was me 😂

Give it your ears, on the best speakers you've got access to... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxf4mTsxZN0

#bass #bassguitar #youtube #music #looping #ambient #jazz #experimental #improv #improvisation