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What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.
—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965
Performances – remit
remit is a NY-based ensemble that, through the language of collective improvisation, builds unique, ethereal, rhythmically-charged, episodic music. drawing from concepts derived from jazz, blues, hip-hop, folk, electronic, and trans-African musical idioms, they alchemize those stylistic influences into musical remittances, dispatching…