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Winter
Quarter 2002
Music 110. Workshop
Cartographies
of Race:
Mapping Race and Space in California
4-5 units, Winter (Prof. Harry Elam)
Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:15 – 5:05
PM
& Lunch Lectures Thursdays 12 noon –1
:00
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What
is your sound?
The
music is always playing,
how do you find it?
Music Workshop
Lead by
Mark
Izu
www.firstvoice.org
These are some of the themes explored in this workshop for composers, musicians and people who write stories with music. Jazz, classical, ethnic traditional, electronic, turntable artists, welcome. Come create a new music, for a new world. Musician Mark Izu will lead this workshop as part of the Cartographies of Race course. Note: Please indicate your instrument on enrollment application.
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Mark Izu
is a composer and musician. Mark's compositions
are characterized by his seamless integration
of cross-cultural instrumentation into
the jazz genre. In addition to the double
bass Mark plays several Asian instruments
including the sheng (a Chinese multi-reed
organ) and the Japanese sho. As the
artistic director of the Asian-American
Jazz Festival for the past 14 years,
Mark has received both national and
international attention for developing
a new style of music, known as Asian-American
Jazz. Mark also served as curator for
the San Francisco Jazz Festival's New
Silk Road series, in which he composed
music for and accompanied world-renowned
percussionist Zakir Hussein. Mark has
performed his compositions throughout
the United States, Canada and Europe.
He was recently commissioned by the
Asian-American Jazz Orchestra and the
U.S. Congressional Civil Liberties Public
Education Fund to create Last Dance,
a multi-media jazz and taiko commemoration
of Japanese-American internment during
WWII.
Links
Firstvoice.org:
Mark Izu
Asian
Improv Arts
"The
Queen's Garden" (Audio
CD) by Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu
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