Creative Music Studio Archive Project

Bio:

Read Ben Ratliff's NY Times article on the archive here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/arts/music/22berger.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

During the '70- and '80's, the Woodstock-based Creative Music Studio was considered the premier study center for contemporary creative music. Founded in 1971 by Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman , CMS brought together leading innovators in the jazz and world music communities. Unprecedented in its range and diversity, CMS was an acknowledged phenomenon in the international music world, providing participants with the rare opportunity to interact personally with the musical giants of improvisation and musical thought on a daily basis.

CMS is credited as the birthplace of Worldjazz - the improvisational and compositional expansion of the world's musical traditions. Now one of the main driving forces in many styles of music, this concept was pioneered very early at CMS, guided by authentic leaders. Don Cherry coined "Multi Kulti" here, now a household expression world-wide.

The CMS Archive, housed at Sertso Studio, in Woodstock,NY, contains more than 400 performances by ground-breaking composer/performers of the World Jazz and New Music genre (1972-1986).recorded at the CMS facilities in Woodstock NY., as well as at other concerts sites in the US. One only needs a glimpse of the complete Artist List (on left) to understand the need for this project.

Under the guidance of CMS-Director Karl Berger, the master engineer and composer Ted Orr leads the effort to transfer and re-master the tapes. The new masters will be stored and backed up in 3 different digital formats.

The collection of recordings is unique in its artistic scope and depth, capturing spontaneous performances by some of the most outstanding and ground-breaking composers/performers in World Jazz, World Music and New Music. CMS served as an incubator for new music for nearly 15 years, providing a musical laboratory for contemporary masters, guiding ensembles of highly motivated emerging artists and expanding the language of contemporary improvised music.

Among the artists leading ensembles on these archive recordings are Don Cherry, Anthony Braxton, Leo Smith, Foday Suso, Abdullah Ibrahim, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Cecil Taylor, Jimmy Giuffre, Frederic Rzewski, Carla Bley, Dave Holland, Paulo Moura, Nana Vasconcelos, Pauline Oliveros, Karl Berger, Ingrid Sertso, Baikida Carroll, Trilok Gurtu, Steve Gorn, Ismet Siral, Jack DeJohnette, Fred Frith, Oliver Lake, Lee Konitz, Leroy Jenkins, George Lewis, and others (see left)

The CMS archive project is considered revolutionary in that the re-mastered recordings will be returned to the contributing artists for their unrestricted use. Selected tracks of these recordings will be made available by participating artists to be included in a special CMS series of CD/DVD compilations.

The CMS Archive project is expected to launch a new wave of communication among the CMS participants and thus lead to further workshops, concerts and recordings. A not-for-profit recording platform, ArtistsCreateRecordings (ACR), has been established to support and showcase recording projects by CMS members.

At the discretion of the guiding artists, selections of the re-mastered recordings will be made available in CD/DVD compilations to the CMS network of artists, contributors, active and supporting members, as well as to educational institutions and dedicated radio hosts.

For more information on the CMS Archive project contact:

Karl Berger/CMS
+01 (845) 679-8847,
karlhberger@gmail.com
http://www.CreativeMusicStudio.org

< A popular book about the Creative Music Studio, “Music Universe, Music Mind: Revisiting the Creative Music Studio, Woodstock NY”, written by Robert E. Sweet, was published in 1996 by Arborville Publishing.

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this site was created by, and is maintained by ted orr

Member Since:

January 10, 2007

Members:

links are live

John Abercrombie
Barry Altschul
Maryanne Amacher
Ramsey Ameen
William Ames
Derek Bailey
A. Spencer Barefield
David Behrman
Karl Berger
Ed Blackwell
Carla Bley
..Lester Bowie
.. Anthony Braxton
Peter Brotzmann
John Cage
Baikida Carroll
Joseph Celli
Andrea Centazzo
Eugene Chadbourne
Larry Chernicoff
..Don Cherry
..Jay Clayton
Sara Cook
Jerome Cooper
..Marilyn Crispell
..Blondell Cummings
..Alvin Curran
..Ustad Z.M Dagar
..Olu Dara
Anthony Davis
..Don Davis
..Thulani Davis
..Jack DeJohnette
..Paul De Marinas
..Yaya Diallo
Robert Dick
..Aiyb Dieng
..Hamid Drake
..James Emery
Douglas Ewart
..Malachi Favors
..Semih Firincioglu
..Guilherme Franco
..Becky Friend
..Fred Frith
..Paul & Limpe Fuchs
..Allen Ginsberg
..John Giorno
..Jimmy Giuffre
..Gene Golden
.. Andy Gonzales
.. Jerry Gonzales
..Steve Gorn
..Andre Goudbeek
..Michael Gregory
..Trilok Gurtu
..Steve Haas
..Charlie Haden
..Mark Helias
..Julius Hemphill
..Dick Higgins
..Gary Hill
..Richard Hill
..Anthony Holland
..Dave Holland
..William Hooker
..Zakir Hussein
..Abdullah Ibrahim
..David Izenson
..Ronald Shannon Jackson
..Joseph Jarman
..Ahmadu Jarr
..Leroy Jenkins
..Howard Johnson
..Raymond Johnson
..Rrata Christine Jones
..Don Knaack
..Steven Kolpan
..Toshinori Kondo
..Lee Konitz
..Alhaji Bai Konte
..Dembo Konte
..Takehisa Kosugi
..Peter Kowald
..Garry Kvistad
..Steve Lacy
..Pheeroan akLaff
..Oliver Lake
.. Byard Lancaster
.. Jeanne Lee
..George Lewis
..Garrett List
Frank Lowe
..Jimmy Lyons
Michael Lytle
Michael Mantler
.. Dumisani Maraire
.. John Marsh
.. Stu Martin
.. Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
.. Harry Miller
.. Roscoe Mitchell
.. Louis Moholo
.. Butch Morris
.. Bob Moses
Paulo Moura
.. Don Moye
.. Sunny Murray
.. Pandit Pran Nath
.. Babatunde Olatunji
.. Pauline Oliveros
.. Ursula Oppens
.. Peter Orlovsky
.. Gerald Oshita
.. K. Paramjyoti
Evan Parker
.. J.D. Parran
.. Hannibal Peterson
.. Henri Pousser
.. John Prienenger
.. Vasant Rai
.. Steve Reich
.. Sam Rivers
.. Roswell Rudd
..Adam Rudolph
.. George Russell
Frederic Rzewski
.. G.S. Sachdev
.. Ed Sanders
.. Ingrid Sertso
.. Lakshmi Shankar
.. Schoenberg String Quartet
.. Alan Silva
.. Ismet Siral
.. Wadada Leo Smith
.. Harvey Sollberger
.. Speculum Musicae
.. Foday Musa Suso
.. Steve Swallow
.. Tamia
.. Cecil Taylor
.. John Tchicai
.. Richard Teitelbaum
.. Faruk Tekbilek
Haci Tekbilek
.. Yung Yung Tsuai
James Blood Ulmer
.. Erasto Vasconcelos
.. Nana Vasconcelos
.. Janine Pommy Vega
.. Murat Verdi
.. Collin Walcott
.. Ann Waldman
.. Carlos Ward
.. Philip Wilson
.. Gary Windo
John Zorn

Influences:

If you are a former
CMS Guiding Artist or Student,
please feel free to join our myspace group
CreativeMusicStudio

The Creative Music Foundation would like to thank Markertek for their generous support

Sounds Like:

1. Music Universe: Research and practice of elements common to all music that invites cross-cultural communication.

2. Music Mind: Ways to focus on detail; heightened sensitivity towards elements of rhythm, dynamics, harmonics, sound/silence, regardless of stylistic forms.

3. Personal expression, leading to very specific meetings of the minds.

4. The art of group improvisation and interpretation: building teams of individuals.

5. Projection and communication to audiences

6. Audience Development: The Basic Practice of musical laws, available to and beneficial for practically anyone, regardless of their prior level of musical knowledge. ( SoundSchool I )

7. Creative Relaxation, Liberation Through Sound: music/sound as healing and spiritual practice. ( SoundSchool II )

8. Applying the new experiences to specific traditional styles or contemporary concepts : Practicing and playing in groups, creating works, performing, recording, listening.

9. Taking the new experiences home, expanding familiar horizons, taking a new approach to projects, communicating with the CMS community worldwide.

All of these points relate to three principles of ancient wisdom:

* The laws of music spell out the laws of vibration, governing all areas and all aspects.

* The more personal you are the more universal you are.

* A group empowers the participating individuals.

Woodstock Jazz Festival 1980

Record Label:

Artists-Create-Recordings (ACR)