Japanese

The Japanese Association for the Study of Musical IMprovisation
(in preparation)
JASMIM
jasmim.net




Uploaded at 2008-08-11
Membership application and Establishment meeting participating application

Please send the application form with the title ‘Membership application’ to jasmimprep[at#tmark]yahoo.co.jp by using the following form.


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I would like to join the JASMIM

Name:

Postcode:

Address:

Organization, Activity, Field, etc.:

E-mail:

Phone:

Are you student? (except graduate student)
**the membership fee: 5000 yen for individual members and 3000 yen for students (except graduate student) a year.

Would you like to join the establishment meeting?

Would you like to join the reception?

Is it possible for you to release your name as assenter?

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If you can join the establishment meeting, you can pay the membership fee at the registration.

If you cannot join the establishment meeting, please pay to the following budget account after 14th September.

This application form will be effective by approval of establishment of JASMIM in the meeting.

Please contribute your comment on 'the establishment of the association'.

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Phone and FAX: 081-78-803-7793
(Establishment Committee of JASMIM at Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Wakao)

E-mail: jasmimprep[at#tmark]yahoo.co.jp


Uploaded at 2008-08-09
Establishment meeting with improvisational performance

Improvisational performance with establishment meeting


Following the theme of the association, the establishment meeting will include improvisational performance by participants.

Please join the establishment meeting!

*Please bring instruments if you would like to perform. We have pianos.
*Since there will not be enough time for the setting, it is preferred to make your instrument ready to perform.


Please contribute your comment on 'the establishment of the association'

For those who are going to be the members, please email us with the title 'comments on the establishment of the association'.

Email: jasmimprep[at#tmark]yahoo.co.jp



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Please contribute your comment that would lead us to think about 'what the association will do'.

for example:

What to expect from the association

What you want to do in the association

What excites you about the association

Etc... Please feel free to write what you want.


Your comments will be appearing in the handout of the establishment meeting (handout version, web version) with your name.
The deadline for the handout version is August 17th.


Uploaded at 2008-08-07
Establishment Meeting of JASMIM

Date: 14th September 2008(Sun) 13:30 start

Place: C111 the Music bldg. the Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University

Address: 3-11 Tsurukabuto, Nada, Kobe, Hyogo, 657-8501 Japan

Access: Take Kobe City Bus No. 36 from Hankyu “Rokko” station, JR ”Rokkomichi” station or Hanshin “Mikage” station. Get off at “Shindai-Hattatu-Kagakubu-Mae”.
http://www.h.kobe-u.ac.jp/assets/images/accessmap/map_rokkodai.jpg

Meeting Schedule
13:00 Registration starts
13:30-16:30 Establishment meeting
17:00-18:30 Reception (move to another building)

Fees: Establishment meeting Free
　　　Reception (about) 3,000 yen


Uploaded at 2008-07-27
News Release

The Japanese Association for the Study of Musical Improvisation (JASMIM) will be set up on 14th of September 2008.

This association will be put a space for not only academic discussing musical improvisation but also musical improvisation itself. And it is organized by mainly researchers and performers from musical education, musicology, ethnomusicology, music therapy, performance and criticism.

Prospectus of JASMIM states the following:

Musical improvisation may be seen in almost every music culture. Improvisation has significant meanings in many kinds of fields, for example in jazz, rock, contemporary music, christian organ music, and folk music(India or Iran etc.). We think that what is necessary for us now is a space for not only academic discussing musical improvisation but also musical improvisation itself. We would therefore like to set up The Japanese Association of the Study of Musical Improvisation, and we invite everyone who is interested to join us.

If you have an interest in musical improvisation, and want to join us, you will get the qualifications for associative member. In this web-site (http://jasmim.net/english/), you will apply for our membership.

The establishment meeting of JASMIM will be held on 13:30, 14th of September 2008 at 111 the Music bldg. the Graduate School of Human Development and Environment Kobe University, and from 17:00, we will hold a party.

This establishment meeting will be had with improvisation by participants like a unique association for musical improvisation.


Uploaded at 2008-02-28
Internet forum

We have set up an Internet forum to exchange information or opinions for the people who want to join us and are interested. If you want to join our Internet forum, please contact us.

jasimprep[atttmark]yahoo.co.jp


Uploaded at 2008-02-21
Prospectus of JASMIM

Musical improvisation may be seen in almost every music culture. The only exception was modern western music culture that depended greatly on notation and was not a little removed improvisation. Improvisation has significant meanings in many kinds of fields, for example in jazz, rock, contemporary music, christian organ music, and folk music (India or Iran etc.)

It was in 1980 that Derek Bailey who proposed 'free improvisation' wrote the book 'Improvisation' Since then, the study of musical improvisation has increased in fields such as ethnomusicology, musicology, and music therapy. Recently, a lot of challenging and stimulating articles and books have been written, which makes clearer the course that musical improvisation is now taking. Of course Bailey's thought has also been affecting current music little by little. In addition, postmodern philosophy prepared the way for us to think about musical improvisation freely.

In such circumstances, we think that what is necessary for us now is a space for not only academic discussing musical improvisation but also musical improvisation itself. We would therefore like to set up The Japanese Association for the Study of Musical Improvisation, and we invite everyone who is interested to join us.

If you have an idea or a proposal for the association, by all means please contact me at the following e-mail address.

21, Feb. 2008

Chief organizer, Establishment Committee of JASMIM
Yu Wakao (Professor of the Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University)

jasimprep[atttmark]yahoo.co.jp


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