The free improvisation music jam, The Bureau of Unexpected Musical Encounters is back

CENTRIFUGE

No. 41

Sheffield

Centrifuge brings together an exciting collection of improvising musicians based across the North and Midlands. Coming from a wide spectrum of musical backgrounds, and working within different musical practices, they will combine in various small groupings to deliver a program of freely improvised music. 

Thursday 13th April
Noise Upstairs

The Octet will follow Phil Morton’s score 50:50 that is  - 50 % freeplay & 50% tacet, silence during the performance of a thirty minute piece.The music, the musicians are driven by free improvisation in music, whilst they are constrained by the score can the musicians brings a coherence, grace and power to a music that is not composed.

Contact improvisation sessions in Liverpool

The Gathering Liverpool - an update, news item

In collaboration with the Department of Performing Arts at Edge Hill Universit, Concurrent will bring a week of innovative performances, workshops and discussions on improvisation to Tate Liverpool this February under their Tate Exchange programme. Engaging with the provocations that the most important exchanges are in ideas and between disciplines, the work will explore the non-verbal exchange of ideas through improvising, and how those processes translate between performance disciplines to support creative interaction across boundaries.

Open Circuit 2017 constitutes our most varied offering of contemporary music to date. Twelve different events spread across five days present a diverse collection of music, including concert music, structured improvisations, performers with realtime electronics, acoustmatic electronic music, and audio-centric video games.

Jigsaw Session 8 -  Improvisers' Networks Wales

This is an open & public workshop/performance session exploring the nature and practice of free improvisation in music through a mixture of; the playing of the music, discussion and simple workshop routines.

OscilloScope: experimental electronic music : Bangor