
Improvising | Testing
Here we're grouping documentation of the many performances of improvised music that have taken place at our festivals over the years but also work that tests out a hypothesis in real time. Current highlights from this collection include William Parker and Daniel Carter's freewheeling duo exploration, John Tilbury and Wadada Leo Smith's meeting across traditions and Howard Slater's talk about individual and collective practices in free jazz.
The paired theme ‘terms’ offered here are not synonyms nor are they binary oppositions but words that combine to (hopefully) produce un-rational anti-categories. The aim is to allow (encourage) the archive to be read in ways counter to normative or reductive categories. To allow things in the archive to appear in sometimes unlikely groupings and to resist essentialism.
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Wormit ReservoirResonant Spaces
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TEST featuring Fred MotenA survey is a process of listening
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INSTAL 08
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Energy Births FormINSTAL 08
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Inhuman Grand-Guignol TheatreEpisode 2: A Special Form of Darkness
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WordMusicEpisode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
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A survey is a process of listening
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Shadowed Spaces DundeeShadowed Spaces
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Unfree Improvisation / Compulsive FreedomEpisode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
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INSTAL 09
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INSTAL 06
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The Experiment: Pt. 1Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
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Shadowed Spaces AberdeenShadowed Spaces
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Tugnet Ice HouseResonant Spaces
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Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
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Self Cancellation - Asymptotic Freedom / Feedback Wire DrawingINSTAL 08
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Concert 1: Organ SoloInvestigation: Jean-Luc Guionnet
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TranslationINSTAL 08
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Kill Your Timid Notion 07
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INSTAL 08
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Concert 2Investigation: Jean-Luc Guionnet
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Music Lover's Field Companion 07
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Blood StereoINSTAL 08
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Music Lover's Field Companion 07
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INSTAL 08
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Music Lover's Field Companion 07
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Music Lover's Field Companion 07
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INSTAL 06
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Why improvised music is so boringINSTAL 10
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Los GlissandinosMusic Lover's Field Companion 07
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Personal SpaceINSTAL 08
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Episode 4: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
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LEVOXKill Your Timid Notion 07
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Free-form hook upINSTAL 09
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INSTAL 08
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Kill Your Timid Notion 10
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