American cornetist, trumpeter and composer Graham Haynes performs in concert with students who participated in a series of workshops exploring the concept known as “conduction.”* He is an Alpert Award For The Arts nominee and was recently featured on Vijay Iyer's 2017 ECM album, Far From Over. The son of jazz drummer Roy Haynes, Haynes is known for his work in nu jazz, fusing jazz with elements of hip hop and electronic music.
*Conduction®: The practice of conveying and interpreting a lexicon of directives to construct or modify sonic arrangement or composition; a structure-content exchange between composer/conductor and instrumentalists that provides the immediate possibility of initiating or altering harmony, melody, rhythm, tempo, progression, articulation, phrasing or form through the manipulation of pitch, dynamics (volume/intensity/density), timbre, duration, silence, and organization in real-time. – Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris (1947-2013)