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With the help of the Special Initiative Grant funds, Music for People will partner with and co-present the Connecticut Improvising Composers Project; advising and coordinating the commissioning, presentation and documentation of new musical works from four Connecticut composers created for improvising chamber quartet, performed in a range of settings across the state of Connecticut. As artists, we often have difficulty finding professional work where we live. CICP members work and perform internationally. We have made a conscious decision to make our home here in Connecticut, thereby enriching the cultural lives of our communities and positively impacting the revenues of our state. One might think of CICP as a cultural parallel to the local food movement: cultural localvorism. Presenters and audiences often evidence a bias towards importing their cultural diet: 'it has to be better if it is from far away.' CICP aims to change that pattern, working with presenters, funding partners and audiences to develop productive linked pathways to local and regional production and consumption of the arts. Music for People will partner with and co-present the CIC Project; advising and coordinating the commissioning, presentation and documentation of new musical works from four Connecticut composers created for improvising chamber quartet, performed in a range of settings across the state of Connecticut. The proposed project has three components: commission and rehearsal of new work from four CICC member composers;multi-media documentation of the commissioned work; public performance of commissioned work in venues across the state coordinated and co-sponsored by Music for People.

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