1st Cincinnati Improv Orchestra Open Rehearsal

Starting to prepare for 2018’s April performance of Signals For Immediate Music at the Contemporary Art Center,
we will have our first rehearsal with the orchestra part.
If you’ve been to one of my improv choir workshops, you probably know that I use the conduction signs borrowed from the London Improvisers Orchestra, and Butch Moris, which in turn, were developed further with the Royal Improvisers Orchestra in the Netherlands.
For coming wednesday I invited a TON of the most absolutly best brilliant musicians I had the pleasure and honor to play music with here in Cincinnati for the last four years. Yes! I gathered the Cincinnati Cats! And we are allot! Large ensemble, diverse instrumentation and approaches towards music. Boy o Boy I can’t wait to hear that first note!
What I am hoping to achieve in this rehearsal is an understanding of the signs and development of our unique sound as a group. So this is very exciting! And I am so happy we are doing this at the Loon!
I also want this rehearsal to be open for the public, since we will improvise, and musicians play better in front of audience.

Here are a few links for you to understand better what on earth I am talking about-
http://www.contemporaryartscenter.org/calendar/2018/04/27/ofir-klemperer-signals-for-immediate-music
https://ofirklemperer.wordpress.com/improv-choir-workshops/

The line up for this rehearsal, according to the confirmations:
Steve Patota – guitar
Ben Sloan – drums
Dave Mcdonnel – sax
Paul Patterson – violin
Zach Larabee – drums
Josh Moore – bass
John Rich – b clarinet
Jon Lorenz – sax
Peter foley – synth
Josh Fink – cello
Peter gemus – bass
Josiah Wolf – drums
Matt McAllister – drums
Matt Meldon – guitar
Doug McDiarmid – synth

Yes. Drum explosion. But it will be amazing to hear how quiet we can get, as well as how loud.

Hope to see you there!