Can group energy birth new musical forms? Some of the greatest (improvised) music we’ve ever heard was born of collective sweat, in that space half-way between individual expression and a group mind, moving collectively. So we wanted to ask a bunch of the best high-energy-improvisers around; can musical form really taking shape via a group energy? Can individual concentration lead to a group consciousness? And if so, what form might that take if you put a celestial orchestra of some of the best underground players about together and make them play for 3 hours straight; what will happen after the point of exhaustion?

Photo: Bryony McIntyre
Alan Silva, Ben Hall, David Keenan, Donald Dietrich, Incapacitants, Kazuo Imai, Michiyo Yagi & Sabu Toyozumi
Energy Births Form
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Energy Births Form Intro - David Keenan
Is it possible to play flat out for even one hour? How long until the forms take over? And what kind of forms are given birth to when you are absolutely shattered, completely disorientated, thinking in terms of nothing but primitive shapes and caveman ugh, your brain most vulnerable to divine invasion?
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