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<description><![CDATA[Ten Thousand Hours: A monthly podcast hosted by bassist/composer/educator James Ilgenfritz. Each monthly installment features an interview and performance with a special guest, with an emphasis on understanding the artistic temperament and the practical aspects of life as an experimental composer/performer.
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:09:16 -0600</pubDate>
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<title>June 2010: Matana Roberts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts speaks with James Ilgenfritz about the technical and metaphysical aspects of her dynamic and highly autobiographical music, including her ongoing blood narrative project Coin Coin (documented on her blog In the Midst Of Memory as well as an upcoming record on the Canadian label Constellations, and the interactive nature of her site-specific solo work. During the many years Roberts has been busking in New York and many other cities, she has come to see the process as an interactive dialogue with architecture. Roberts also discusses her early years in Chicago, including her association with the AACM and the support from Chicago elders like Fred Anderson an contemporaries like Josh Abrams and Chad Taylor. She also discusses her ongoing self-published Zine, "Fat Ragged", and her enthusiasm for the transformative power of youth outreach, specifically describing recent work with ICASP in Montreal and The Future of Music Coalition and Air Traffic Control in New Orleans. Roberts and host James Ilgenfritz also perform duo colorful and engaging duo improvisations.]]></description>
<itunes:author>James Ilgenfritz and Matana Roberts</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>46:43</itunes:duration>
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<title>May 2010: Pauline Oliveros</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Composer, improviser and deep listening proponent Pauline Oliveros discusses her more than 50 years at the forefront of experimental music, from her initial arrival in San Francisco in the 1950's to the celebration in honor of receiving the William Schumann Award from Columbia University, and beyond.  She discusses her innovations in the field of music technology, from her involvement in the San Francisco Tape Music Center to her current work with iPhones as instruments and the development of Adaptive Use Software, which enables physically challenged individuals to make improvisational music.  She and host James Ilgenfritz also discuss the changes that have taken place for women composers in the 50 years since she was the first woman to receive the award for composition from the Pacifica Foundation in 1960, and the aspects of her work that incorporate gender and contemplative disciplines, including her sonic meditations, her Deep Listening practice, and the 10th Annual Women and Identity Festival, curated by Ione.   She and host James Ilgenfritz also perform a number of eclectic improvisations, with Pauline employing her Roland Digital Accordion.]]></description>
<itunes:author>James Ilgenfritz and Pauline Oliveros</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>47:44</itunes:duration>
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<title>April 2010: Jon Rose</title>
<link>http://jamesilgenfritz.com</link>
<description><![CDATA[Violinist, improviser, composer, instrument builder, and installation artist Jon Rose discusses his work creating music by bowing the Great Fences of Australia. These include the famous Dog Proof Fence and Rabbit Proof Fence. Hollis Taylor's recent book/DVD Post Impressions documents this project, and a new work for the Kronos Quartet, was recently premiered at the Sydney Opera House. Jon also discusses the development of his Relative Violin philosophy and artistic trajectory, beginning with the inauspicious attempted destruction of his violin at the tender age of 7, just 2 years prior to Fluxus artist Nam June Paik did the same before an audience in New York. Discussion also leads to ornithology, and Hollis Taylor's work observing and decoding the music of various songbirds native to Australia, including the Pied Butcher Bird, the Crimson Rosella, and the Lyrebird. James Ilgenfritz and Jon Rose also play a handful of duos for bass and violin, with colorfully abstract directionality and, at times, striking comparisons to the actions of the birds discussed.]]></description>
<itunes:author>James Ilgenfritz and Jon Rose</itunes:author>
<itunes:duration>42:52</itunes:duration>
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<title>March 2010: Aaron Siegel</title>
<link>http://jamesilgenfritz.com</link>
<description><![CDATA[Composer and percussionist Aaron Siegel discusses his acoustic experimental work, which raises questions about the relationship between performers, audience members and the space they occupy together. Unique instrumentation and experimental notation systems are discussed as Siegel and James Ilgenfritz read through a compositional sketch for glockenspiel and double bass that includes some extremely brief improvisational sections.]]></description>
<itunes:author>James Ilgenfritz and Aaron Siegel</itunes:author>
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<title>February 2010: Dave Ballou</title>
<link>http://jamesilgenfritz.com</link>
<description><![CDATA[Virtuoso trumpeter Dave Ballou discusses his activities as an improvising musician, his work as a composer of chamber music,  and his philosophy on creativity. Topics include the Macro Quarktet (which he co-leads with trumpeter Herb Robertson), his transition from lead trumpet in the big bands of Woody Herman and Lionel Hampton to the school of creative improvisers he's worked with for the last two decades, and his compositions for members of the Meridian Arts Ensemble. The conversation is interspersed with duo improvisations between Dave Ballou and James Ilgenfritz.]]></description>
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<title>January 2010: Robert Dick</title>
<link>http://jamesilgenfritz.com</link>
<description><![CDATA[Innovative and iconoclastic flutist, improviser, composer, and pedagogue Robert Dick discusses the artistic influence of Jimi Hendrix, his early development as an innovative performer on the flute, and his Glissando Headjoint. Robert Dick's inimitable vocabulary of extended flute techniques can be found in short musical excerpts, both solo and duo with host James Ilgenfritz.]]></description>
<itunes:author>James Ilgenfritz and Robert Dick</itunes:author>
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