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Chris Corsano Improvisation Workshop
January 20 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
NOW Society Improvisation Workshops
January 20 – Chris Corsano
at 8EAST
4:00pm – 5:30pm
FREE with NOW Membership, Donations gratefully accepted (here).
for up to 15 participants
Since 1978, the New Orchestra Workshop Society (NOW) has presented music improvisation workshops, offering space for exploration and participation. Our workshops are for improvisers of all levels of ability and ranges of experience, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, age, race or religion. We protect privacy in our workshops and adopt the We Have Voice Collective Code of Conduct. Read more about NOW workshop policies here.
These workshops will be presented in person at 8EAST. Find out more about each workshop facilitator below.
Chris Corsano
CHRIS CORSANO is a New York-based drummer who has been working at the intersections of free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late ’90s. He’s a rim-batterer of choice for some of the greatest contemporary purveyors of “jazz” (Joe McPhee, Mette Rasmussen, Zoh Amba) and “rock” (Sir Richard Bishop, Bill Orcutt, Jim O’Rourke), as well as artists beyond categorization (Björk for her Volta album and world tour, Michael Flower, Okkyung Lee). Appearing on over 180 albums and touring in an ultra-wide array of collaborations, he’s a renowned solo performer in his own right, with a record due out later this year on the Drag City label. He’s built a highly inventive musical language through ecstatic free improvisation, extended percussion techniques, and the augmentation of his kit with circular-breathed reeds and bowed strings that coax new resonances out of the drums’ heads. Corsano’s been called “one of the world’s great drummers” by The Guardian, an “ace of the avant-garde” by The New York Times, a “powerhouse drummer” by Rolling Stone, and “arguably the most riotously energetic and creative drummer in contemporary free jazz” by Wire Magazine. Spin ranked him as one of the “100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music,” and in 2017, he received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.