All Score Urbana

05/20/2025

Join us today from 5-7 pm at Rose Bowl Tavern for new and recently composed works from our Music and Dance-focused program, supported by an Urbana Arts Grant by Urbana Arts and Culture Program, co-sponsored by Rose Bowl Tavern and UC Independent Media Center.

11/03/2024

Join us on Saturday Nov. 9th from 5-7 pm at Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center for the third and final workshop of our current grant supported series: we will have flute, trombone, percussion, a choreographer/dancer, and composers on site to support your creativity (ideally works completed between now and late January will be featured on our concert).

This project is supported by the Urbana Arts Grant and features Travis Thatcher's Photon Tricorders, supplied by SEAMUS's CREATE grant.

09/14/2024

Just about eight years to the day it began, All Score Urbana is kicking off its new workshop sessions. All Score Urbana: Music and Dance continues to seek to support different musical creativity with on-site composer/performer/improvisor teaching artists, but also with a new focus on dance!

Come down to the Independent Media Center in Urbana for our session from 5-7 pm today. If you would like to work with us in a remote capacity please email ahead to [email protected].

As always All Score Urbana is free to the public. It is funded by an Urbana Arts Grant and sponsored by UC Independent Media Center.

09/06/2024

Hi all, with more details to follow, All Score Urbana is returning with another free to the community offering this fall. The first session will be from 5-7 pm on Saturday September 14th at IMC (202 S Broadway, Urbana, IL). All experience levels and age levels are welcome–bring an ongoing project or come explore ideas with us. While we want to focus on in-person collaborations primarily, message ahead if you would like to call in on a video call. We want to accommodate you and support your musical exploration.

This year, we have some very special teaching artists available as part of our Urbana Arts Grant-funded "All Score Urbana: Music and Dance" program. They include Dr. Peter Tijerina (trombone/improvisation), briar darling (cello/improvisation), Jacob Marc Henss (choreography/dance), Dr. Kerrith Livengood (composition/flute/electronics), Brant Roberts (percussion/improvisation), and Dr. Ralph Lewis (composition/electronics).

11/03/2023

Hi everyone, come hear a bunch of new and recently written music by participants in All Score Urbana's most recent program. It's tomorrow at 1:30 at Rose Bowl Tavern, and like everything we do, free to the public. Performances by Briar Darling, Peter Tijerina, and PAUL KOTHEIMER. Premieres of works by Lucas Marshall Smith, P. R. Martin, Daniel McKemie, Ethan James Prado, Dave O Mahony, and Paul Kotheimer!

This program is supported by Urbana Arts and Culture Program, co-sponsored by Rose Bowl Tavern , Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, and featured Travis Thatcher's photon tricorders as part of the sessions thanks to Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States 's Inaugural CREATE Grant.

08/16/2023

This Saturday, August 19th, from 1-3 pm at the Independent Media Center! Join us for the first time or the umpteenth time to work on a new or ongoing song, music composition, improvisation, or come to jam with us. Works created during this series will be presented at a concert later this year at Rose Bowl Tavern. Come work with trombonist Peter Tijerina, cellist Briar Darling, pianist Simon Raphael Tiffin, and composer Ralph Lewis.

We have score paper, pencils, and Travis Thatcher's Photon Tricorders for you to use.

This program is supported by the Urbana Arts Grant, Co-Sponsored by the Independent Media Center and Illinois Arts Council, with Travis Thatcher's Photon Tricorders funded by SEAMUS's CREATE Grant.

08/10/2023

Saturday was a lot of fun with Briar Darling, Peter Tijerina, and Ralph Lewis on-site at the Independent Media Center. People brought new pieces, took steps toward writing their first melody, and more. Drop-in and join us with a new or ongoing creative project you'd like to work on with us on August 19th. Message us with any questions.

Here's an afterglow improvisation from the end of the session on August 5th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0MKz7qf1PGH5IYpM8PDMmorHJOXoFu8csITRKfECSm9Y0RS1crCA6SP9E&v=jKQdtlHg-Bg&feature=youtu.be

An improvisatory and experimental jam after the 2nd of 3 workshops (FREE to the public) for All Score Urbana. We hope you enjoy "Scrawl Lore" for cello, trom...

08/04/2023

Come work with us in-person (or message us about working with us remotely) tomorrow, Saturday August 5th from 1-3 at Independent Media Center. Briar Darling, Peter Tijerina, and Ralph Lewis will be on-site to work with you on new and ongoing music projects. If you have any questions message us here or at [email protected]!

This program is supported by the Urbana Arts Council, is co-sponsored by the Independent Media Center and Illinois Arts Council, and features photon tricorders made by Travis Thatcher provided via SEAMUS's CREATE Grant.

08/02/2023

We had a lot of fun last time working with in-person and remote participants. Come join Peter Tijerina (trombone), briar darling (cello), and Ralph Lewis (composition) on Saturday at the Independent Media Center from 1-3 pm. Bring a new song idea, something you'd want to arrange for the teaching artists, a composition that is new or that you have already worked on or come to jam with us and the photon tricorders (see them below Peter and Ralph doing a short improvisation after the session).

If you would like to participate remotely, please message ahead–otherwise, drop in and work with us in person!

This program is funded by an Urbana Arts Grant, is co-sponsored by Independent Media Center and Illinois Arts Council, and features Travis Thatcher's photon tricorders thanks to SEAMUS's CREATE grant.

Ralph Lewis and I on an improvisatory and experimental jam after the 1st of 3 workshops (FREE to the public) for All Score Urbana. We hope you enjoy "Slide a...

07/20/2023

Starting this Saturday (1-3) at the Independent Media Center in Urbana. These in-person sessions (with remote participation opportunities available) feature teaching artists Briar Darling (cello), Peter Tijerina (trombone), Simon Raphael Tiffin (piano), and Ralph Lewis (composition. Bring a curiosity, a sketch, a song, or a piece you've hoped to have realized. :)

This program is supported by an Urbana Arts Grant, is co-sponsored by IMC and Illinois Arts Council, and features Travis Thatcher's Photon Tricorders for in-session use funded by a SEAMUS CREATE Grant.

07/17/2023

Hi everyone, this Saturday from 1-3 pm join us for the first of three free and open to all sessions of All Score Urbana. Start a new composition or song, bring an old work, come with questions or to jam. The sessions will all be held at 202 S Broadway Ave #203, Urbana, IL - Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.

This free-to-the-public program supported by the Urbana Arts Grant, Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, and the Illinois Arts Council. This opportunity features Travis Thatcher's Photon Tricorders, provided by SEAMUS's CREATE Grant.

03/08/2023

Hi everyone, we'll have more details about free-to-the-public workshops that will be coming up but we wanted to preview something we've been looking forward to sharing at All Score Urbana workshop sessions for a while. Thanks to Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States's first-ever CREATE Grant, we were able to purchase a number of Travis Thatcher's photon tricorders to include in our Urbana Arts and Culture Program-funded workshops. They use light sensors and are delightfully uncontrollable in a way that should make for many kinds of experiments and experiences for Urbana residents. They will be available (9V batteries by the handful too) at our events going forward.