Home Page: System 50:50 for ensemble improvisation

quick intro

Quick summary using 50:50 ratio
Each player `improvises` for 50% of the piece
Each player is `tacet` for 50% of the piece
The totals are aggregated
Each player/improviser has their own clock and manages their own time
Each player has `agency` over the content they share during the performance.

The aim

System 50:50 in sound. The aim

• The aim is to create something new in a musical sense owned by those present by exploring the possibilities of freedom, improvisation and their limits in music.

The approach of System 50:50 for improvisers is to:

• Shape the sound with silence,
• Shape the ensemble size from moment to moment,
• To empower the musicians with agency and shape the music through active listening.

The System 50:50 method is simple, versatile, and flexible.
It can be applied to ensembles of any size to achieve the aim.

The potency and effectiveness of System 50:50 is especially apparent in larger ensembles—from eight players upwards

the curator

Phil Morton (Liverpool:UK) developed this system during a ten year, nay 20 year period. Phil Morton has been active in `free improvisation` as a player, promoter, teacher, since 1998 and as a listener since 1968. He commends this project `to the house` to the genre of free improvisation, as a unique methodology that unpicks the complexity of this music, its sounds, our reactions  and emotions using a simple method. Phil Morton's personal belief is that this is a gift that will keep on giving. A bold statement, it maybe a fallacy, or of substance, the research process will explore this and find out. If you would like to be involved, contribute, debate, whether you are local or global please make contact.

Phil Morton
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social media

• Facebook - Ssytem 50:50 facebook group. This is a closed group, you have to ask to join. In theory, the criteria to join the membership of this group, is that you have played in an ensemble using `system 50:50 for improvisers`
  
  • https://www.facebook.com/groups/1352948624792591