Avant Music News

Acclaimed composer John Chowning will be featured at a concert by Future Music Oregon, the UO’s music technology program, at 8 p.m. in room 163 in the music building. Tickets are $7 general admission, $5 for students and senior citizens, available at the door or in advance from the UO Ticket Office, 541-346-4363. Chowning’s compositions will be featured, along with interactive performance pieces by the Oregon Electronic Device Orchestra.

Forty-five years ago, a group of musicians from the South Side of Chicago changed jazz — or at least started to. By forming the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, they radically altered not only how jazz was produced and how it sounded, but how it was presented, as well. The AACM originators found their own performance sites, staged their own concerts and built their own syntax for jazz improvisation and composition.