At SMT 2025 Minneapolis, Improvisation/Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Groups hosted a joint annual meeting, celebrating the 80th birthday year of Anthony Braxton. The meeting featured three 10-minute presentations on Anthony Braxton, his contemporaries, and analytical approaches to improvisation in contemporary concert music. A group Q&A then followed.
Time: 7 November 2025, 12:30–2:00pm | Location: Lakeshore B
- 12:30 – 12:40 pm. Business & Important Announcements from Post-1945 Music & Improvisation Interest Groups (Co-winners of the 2025 SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Group Publication Award were announced as well.)
- 12:40 – 1:00 pm. Antares Boyle. “Improvisation in the ‘50 for the Future’ Corpus.”
1:00 – 1:20 pm. John Scott. “Antecedents – A Case Study about Transitions in Free Improvised Music.” - 1:20 – 1:40 pm. Joel Hunt. “From Text to Sound: Henry Brant’s ‘Instant Composition’ and the Convergence of Improvisation and Structure.”
- 1:40 – 2:00 pm. Group Q&A