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Phillip Morton
Liverpool:UK Website curator
Site created in 2014 approx.
This has been a solitary enterprise.
He would welcome help!
A Listener's Guide To Free Improvisation
booksA Listener's Guide To Free Improvisation
Tŷ Sain - Concert two Accretion Entropy
Tŷ Sain Concert Two
The second concert in a new series for North Wales featuring free improvisation
Changing the setting of the clock
Changing the time settings for the `chess clocks` a demonstration
Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music
Derek Bailey's Improvisation,
Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance-band and record-session guitarist when, in the early 1960s, he began playing an uncompromisingly abstract music.
Submit, suggest a book about the nature and practice of free ensemble improvisation
Submit, suggest a book, or upload an artcile, MA thesis etc, for inclusion in the `books` section of the website via the form below
Workshops - the mind map
A series of mind maps exploring the nature and practice of delivering a workshop on the subject of free improvisation
Click the image or this link to find the start page for a series of mind maps: URL LINK
This presentation is in the incubation phase so please cut the author, Mr. Morton some slack, feedback and engagement in the process are desirable.
Future developments
- The option to edit and change the content in the mind map series
- To suggest external links
- The option to add content
- A video presentation on what Mr. Morton calls the `three-dimensional mindmap` and how we can use this tool
- Access to the source online mind map or a copy
- The availability of downloading the mindmaps as a file, in a range of different file formats.
- To be linked the networks discussion board
- To be linked to the networks `wiki` - or wiki-dictionary
End - to be continued
Framework radio feed
framework radio
11 October 2026
phonography ::: field recording ::: the art of sound-hunting ::: open your ears and listen
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#986: 2026.10.04 [stephen shiell]
this edition of framework:afield, entitled channel, has been produced in the uk by stephen shiell. producer's notes: These soundscapes are shaped by an acoustic ecology approach, where listening functions as an ecological and relational practice rather than documentation. Developed through extended, site-responsive engagement with the Channelsea Basin, the recordings emerge […]
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#985: 2026.09.27
we haven't known karen power's work all that long - she first appeared on the show in late 2023 - but every new release we hear blows us away. this one is no different. "celebrating the power, wonderment and abundance of sonic beauty still present within two of our worlds most extraordinary […]
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#984: 2026.09.20 [francisco lópez]
this edition of framework:afield has been produced by francisco lópez, and is entitled tokoloshe, environmental sound matter from southern africa. it is composed from original environmental sound material recorded at multiple wilderness locations across southern africa (namibia, south africa, botswana, lesotho, and eswatini) between 2005 and 2013. for more information […]
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#983: 2026.09.13
hey folks - summer's over, and we are back! we all have to take the good with the bad; up to you to decide which is which. we had a nice break, but we love autumn, and we missed the sounds, so we're really happy to be making shows again (and […]
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#982: 2026.07.26
well, here we are folks, our last show before our annual summer break. what's more, we're just back from travels in the united states and extremely jet lagged, so we apologize if we seem a little hazy. we were definitely a bit hazy when we made this show, and have […]