Saturday, Jan 31 (1 session) | 11:30 am-1 pm

Instructor: Taylor Ho Bynum

Spontaneous Sound Orchestra is an ensemble-based music improvisation workshop for kids and adults aged 7 and up, and all musical skill levels. Participants will learn to engage in improvisation as a listener and player through a series of musical prompts, games, and gestures. They are invited to bring their own instruments, and will also have the chance to interact with the music through visual art and craft: creating their own graphic “scores” using provided mixed media (cut-out collage, water colors, colored pencils, crayons, markers and so on) and building their own home-made instruments from household items, paper, and so on.

Taylor Ho Bynum (b.1975) is a musician, teacher, and writer, with a background that includes work in composition, performance, interdisciplinary collaboration, production, organizing, and advocacy. His expressionistic playing on cornet and other brass instruments, his expansive vision as composer, and his idiosyncratic improvisational approach have been documented on over twenty recordings as a bandleader and over a hundred as a sideperson. Bynum enjoys playing with friends in collective ensembles like his duo with Tomas Fujiwara, Illegal Crowns (with Fujiwara, Benoit Delbecq, and Mary Halvorson), and Geometry (with Kyoko Kitamura, Tomeka Reid, and Joe Morris), and as a sideperson in Fujiwara’s Triple Double and Shizuko, Reid’s Stringtet and Septet, Jim Hobbs & the Fully Celebrated Orchestra, and Bill Lowe’s Signifyin’ Natives. He is currently the director of the Jazz Coast Orchestra at Dartmouth College. taylorhobynum.com