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The Bureau of Unexpected Musical Encounters
The free improvisation music jam, The Bureau of Unexpected Musical Encounters is back
Centrifuge 41 Sheffield Feb 2017
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.
Ensemble 50:50 The Octet at The Noise Upstairs Manchester
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.
Liverpool: Contact Improvisation Sundays, the dates 2020
Contact improvisation sessions in Liverpool
The Gathering - Liverpool update
The Gathering Liverpool - an update, news item
Liverpool Concurrent
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 Liverpool
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 8 - Bangor
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.
Llanfiarfechan OscilloScope 28.01.2020
OscilloScope: experimental electronic music : Bangor
Framework radio feed
framework radio
14 September 2025
phonography ::: field recording ::: the art of sound-hunting ::: open your ears and listen
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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. […]
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#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 […]
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#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 [...]
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#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 […]
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#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 […]