Infinite Improvisation Podcast
Why improvising is more than something from nothing, and how creativity and collaboration can improve lives and save the world. Part discussion and part experiment, the show’s hosts American saxophonist Steve Treseler and Canadian poet/musician Lauren Best find the fun in risk-taking, unscripted conversations, and multi-disciplinary perspectives to creative practice. Brought together by a shared belief in transformation through improvisation, Steve and Lauren bring their audience along for the journey, making it up as they go. . .
Episodes
Infinite Improvisation Podcast: adventures in music and creativity with Steve Treseler and Lauren Best.
Founder of Siliana's Piano Studio, Bulgarian-American pianist Siliana Chiliachka is reimagining music lessons for young children, teaching technique, composition, and improvisation through Music Learning Theory.
In our conversation, we discuss that children are naturally musical and creative, but there is a lack of creativity i...
Infinite Improvisation Podcast: adventures in music and creativity with Steve Treseler and Lauren Best.
Canadian music educator and author Steve Giddings joins us to talk about sparking creativity in high school music programs on Prince Edward Island. He reveals what it was like to stretch from being a classically trained orchestral player to jamming in blues bars and playing in a ska brass section, and what ignited him to self-p...
Infinite Improvisation Podcast: adventures in music and creativity with Steve Treseler and Lauren Best.
In this episode, we talk about emphasizing creativity in music education for young people, from leading bands for Seattle’s JazzEd to Lauren’s approach to improvisation in small-town Ontario, Canada. We discuss program design with a focus on improvisation, how Lauren changed her approach to teaching piano, online group music less...
Infinite Improvisation Podcast: adventures in music and creativity with Steve Treseler and Lauren Best. The first episode of our interview series, a conversation with Ed Littlefield. We discuss Ed's journey studying Native Lingít music alongside jazz, community music making, composing a song for Betty White (first 10 seconds: https://youtu.be/yp0yf5PpqkA), and much more!
Ed Littlefield is a freelance percussionist, educator, and ...
Infinite Improvisation Podcast: adventures in music and creativity with Steve Treseler and Lauren Best. The fifth episode of a five-part series on how to improvise, exploring each of Infinite Improvisation's creative practices: Experimentation, Play, Limitations, Deep Listening, and Reflection. In this episode, we reflect about reflection and discuss how to be an ally to ourselves in the process of infinite improvisation.
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Infinite Improvisation Podcast: adventures in music and creativity with Steve Treseler and Lauren Best.
The fourth episode of a five-part series on how to improvise, exploring each of Infinite Improvisation's creative practices: Experimentation, Play, Limitations, Deep Listening, and Reflection. In this episode, we experiment live with listening activities. We discuss our potential for deep listening and how to develop our deep lis...
Infinite Improvisation Podcast: adventures in music and creativity with Steve Treseler and Lauren Best.
The third of a five-part series on how to improvise, exploring each of Infinite Improvisation's creative practices: Experimentation, Play, Limitations, Deep Listening, and Reflection. In this episode, we discuss the surprisingly expansive results of using, learning from, and embracing limitations. Featuring live musical experim...
Infinite Improvisation Podcast: adventures in music and creativity with Steve Treseler and Lauren Best.
The second of a five-part series on how to improvise, exploring each of Infinite Improvisation's creative practices: Experimentation, Play, Limitations, Deep Listening, and Reflection. In this episode, we dive into play—embracing the unknown, taking the scenic route while learning through exploration, and being kind ...
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