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This article was originally commissioned for and published on thesampler.org

At a time of unprecedented interest in improvisation across the arts,

One piece of advice I find myself frequently giving to musicians in group improvising situations is not to focus on what they can do at any given moment — either with their personal musical technique or beholden to their personal ego — but instead to focus on what the music needs,

bookPaul Hession, University of Leeds, School of Music, United Kingdom

Title of the book : Tele-Improvisation: Intercultural Interaction in the Online Global Music Jam Session

Intervenes in contemporary debates about the relationship between literature and field recording

Dialogues with Contemporary Musical Improvisers

bookBeyond Jazz: Plink, Plonk and Scratch: The Golden Age of Free Music in London 1966-72 Kindle Edition

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14 September 2025

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  • #941: 2025.07.27 [julian weaver]
    this edition of framework:afield, entitled mean sea level, has been produced in the uk by julian weaver. producer's notes: Combining field recordings with live and found sounds, scientific experiment and more, Mean Sea Level elaborates on literal, imaginary, and complex foreshores emerging around the mainland of the UK. […]
  • #940: 2025.07.20
    in this edition recent sounds from a perpetual favorite of recent years, manja ristić's sargassun aeterna is composed from field and hydrophone recordings from portugal, scotland, croatia and serbia, along with violin, synths, and shells. from here we await dawn, with 3 dawn recordings from various wildlife sanctuaries and forests […]
  • #939: 2025.07.13 [isto rahkila]
    this edition of framework:afield has been produced in finland by isto rahkila. producer's notes: I have long been interested in what is found between sounds or shapes and I think it has at least as much influence on what can be perceived by seeing or hearing. So to speak, it [...]
  • #938: 2025.07.06
    a dig into 2 of the 3 recent anthologies of location recordings by post-orientalism music, based in washington dc and curated by iranian-born composer and theorist ehsan saboohi. also the latest batch of soundwalkscapes by viv corringham, who describes the process thusly: take a walk each month, make recordings en route […]
  • #937: 2025.06.29 [das]
    this edition of framework:afield has been produced in the united states by dAs, purveyor of fine sounds via UBUIBI and big city orchestra for over 30 years. this piece is entitled alameda ether walk. producer's notes: A lot of my source material comes from chance or transitory events. - piezo's & hydrophones […]