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| | FREE IMPROVISATION |
 | | Free improvised music, variously called 'total improvisation, 'open improvisation', 'free music', or perhaps most often simply, 'improvised music', suffers from -- and enjoys -- the confused identity which its resistance to labelling indicates. | | | Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone -- beginners, children and non-musicians. | | | But these documents also indicate that for musicians of integrity, in either field, wishing for a direct, unadulterated involvement in music, the way to free improvisation was the obvious escape from the rigidity and formalism of their respective musical backgrounds. |
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http://www.cortical.org/dbfree.html
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| | Improvisation |
| | A: Free Improvisation is a form of music that is entirely improvised. | | | Free Improvisers take the most basic elements of music and sound as their starting point, and build up their music from there. | | | A: As long as they are improvising a complete musical performance, and not including improvisation as part of a pre-rehearsed "song", then they are. |
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http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/staff/martinelli/FreeImprov.htm
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| | Free Improvisation |
| | Harriott is one of the neglected pioneers of free improvisation. | | | Recorded in 1949, “Intuition” and “Digression” are the first recorded examples of free improvisation. | | | Although released on the German label FMP, this trio with William Parker and Rashied Ali was proof that free improvisation was thriving in the USA. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=18638
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| | NewMusicBox |
| | The phenomenon of improvisation in new music thwarts the dichotomy composition-performance or composition-interpretation. | | | Every free and "non-idiomatic" improvisation is based on somewhat familiar material since the improviser cannot ignore his musical background, his musical baggage. | | | At some improvisation concerts, due to their workshop character, the listener was not charged an admission fee. |
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http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=1672
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| | part2outro |
| | Free improvisation in music is that state; it has given birth to other states, and they in turn to it. | | | marries improvisation with composition as both are defined by the prebop/postbop/neobop lineage of the jazz tradition (in other words, a musical definition fixed in the diatonically hierarchical framework of pre-twentieth-century Western popular and concert music, complete with their associated hierarchies of "high" and "low" classes and art forms, and in correspondingly diatonic pre-1950s jazz-improvisational practices). | | | Stravinsky's composerly use of improvisation is described in Asaf'yev (1982: 226). |
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http://mheffley.web.wesleyan.edu/almatexts/almamusicology/part2outro.htm
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| | Elsdon, Peter S. (2001) |
| | Free improvisation emerges as music all about improvisation, its expressive qualities predicated on the contingency involved in performance. | | | The solo concerts draw on a new conception of form suggested by free jazz, one which posited a new kind of relationship between a performer and the musical constraints suggested by a composition. | | | Free improvisation is not just about conformity however, but also transgression. |
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http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Archive/Disserts/elsdon.html
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| | Marc Sabatella's Jazz Improvisation Primer: Free Improvisation |
| | There is no definable head to the one performance that comprises this album, and the improvisations are less melodic than on the quartet albums. | | | When playing free music in a solo setting, you have complete freedom to change the directions of the music at any time, and are accountable only to yourself. | | | The challenge of the communication and the excitement of the free exchange of ideas are things that some listeners are unable to appreciate. |
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http://www.outsideshore.com/primer/primer/ms-primer-5-6.html
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| | Habits of Waste - On the Other Hand: Derek Bailey |
| | Conventional wisdom has it that free improvisation music is resolutely unpopular, the ultimate cult item that can't be "nailed." It's generally seen as having emerged out of the later efforts of John Coltrane, taking up his impassioned, energetic approach to improvisation and completely severing any lingering connection to chord structures and song forms. | | | There Bailey's range of interest is reflected in his interviews with musicians about the role of improvisation not only in free improvisation, but in straight jazz, Indian classical music, rock, flamenco, baroque and classical church organ music. | | | Free improvisation readily adapts to new influences, such as more recently incorporating the latest digital technology like samplers and rhythm machines. |
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http://www.habitsofwaste.wwu.edu/issues/1/iss1art5.shtml
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| | Jazz Guitar Improvisation in ONE Lesson |
| | The chordal style described is free improvisation in nature, like many instrumental breaks in modern jazz or in free form acoustic jazz. | | | Knowledge of music theory or the ability to read music are UNNECESSARY to improvise with this system. | | | For those who have no improvisation or jamming experience of any kind or who may be intimidated by a lack of knowledge of what constitutes improvisation. |
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http://www.jazzmaster.com
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| | FREE COLLECTIVE IMPROVISATION |
| | However good or bad an improviser is, their contribution comes not so much from being in control of their instrument, as from their determination to make, with maximum precision, the sound that the music requires at any one time, and the more skilled they are, the more precise that contribution will be. | | | Free collective improvisation sanctions styles, not because of their rigidity, but because of their exclusivity - the fact that they inevitably alienate: 'Leave your past outside the door; listen as if your life depended on it'. | | | Free improvisation, especially with mixed ability groups, poses a problem for assessment, since it is virtually impossible to establish criteria for performances. |
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http://hjem.get2net.dk/intuitive/fci.htm
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| | Free Jazz and Free Improvisation — www.greenwood.com |
| | [F]ree Jazz and Free Improvisation is not only seminal, but verges on completist. | | | In parallel with the American civil rights movement, free jazz exemplified an escape from the restrictive rules of musical performance with an emphasis on individual expression and musical democracy. | | | Free Jazz and Free Improvisation An Encyclopedia [Two Volumes] |
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http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?sku=GR9881
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| | Free music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Free music can also mean free improvisation: improvised music without any rules, and not in any particular style. | | | Free music, like free software, is music that can freely be copied, distributed and modified for any purpose. | | | But there are also licenses especially for music and other works of art, such as EFF's Open Audio License, the Ethymonics free music license ([1]), LinuxTag's OpenMusic License ([2]), the Free Art license and the Creative Commons Licences. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_music
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| | Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia |
| | Free improvisation may represent only a minute fraction of music sales, to the extent jazz has much of a market share in the first place. | | | The mainstream press might relegate free improvisation to its back pages, but the genre certainly has its share of supporters, who more than make up for their minority status by virtue of raw enthusiasm. | | | The first essay attempts (successfully) to clarify what defines jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation, providing some relatively direct discussion about the nature of free music, though it's inevitably impossible to classify any of this stuff in unambiguous terms. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=17438
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| | Amazon.com: Free Play: Books: Stephen Nachmanovitch |
| | When we think improvisation, we tend to think first of improvised music or theater or dance; but beyond their own delights, such art forms are doors into an experience that constitutes the whole of everyday life. | | | Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music by Derek Bailey | | | Although Nachmanovitch is a musician, he beautifully expands the idea of Improvisation to include any medium through which we express ourselves, and live. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0874776317?v=glance
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| | Free Jazz And Free Improvisation : Features : One Final Note |
| | Emphasis is put on certain trends, musicians, and record labels at the expense of others that in the future could prove to be as momentous. | | | That said, Free Jazz and Free Improvisation also encompasses several egregious flaws that compromise the volumes’ status as a reference source. | | | OFN > Features > Free Jazz And Free Improvisation |
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http://www.onefinalnote.com/features/2005/encyclopedia
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| | Nunn-rtc.html |
| | I also made an extensive review of the literature on improvisation throughout the history of western music, and in some traditional non- western practices, to gain a better understanding of the many diverse forms and styles of improvisation, and a historical perspective about what I, and others, are doing. | | | In group improvisation, the other musicians exert perhaps the most acute and dynamic influence on an improvisor. | | | So I use the term 'real time' composition to describe my musical practice, a term which acknowledges the compositional aspect of free improvisation. |
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http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~tebo/history/Improv/TomNunn/Nunn-rtc.html
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| | Music Improvisation Company - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
| | The resulting music was dissonant, discontinuous, and ultimately in the vanguard of improvised music. | | | The label documented MIC's music on the album Music Improvisation Company 1968-1971; the title reflects the group's brief lifespan. | | | In 1968 they combined with percussionist Jamie Muir and keyboardist Hugh Davies to form the Music Improvisation Company, one of England's seminal free improvisation units. |
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http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/bio/0,,471639,00.html
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| | Homespun Tapes - A Pianist's Guide to Free Improvisation |
| | Whether you are new to this technique or an accomplished improviser, this lesson will bring new joys to your piano playing and help you unlock the secrets of creating free music on the piano. | | | She teaches several tunes by talented friends and colleagues, exploring ways that you can move beyond the melodies and into the world of free improvisation. | | | She digs into her long experience with the music of Cecil Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Gary Peacock and other jazz improvisers, breaking down the finer points of creating sounds and developing new playing concepts. |
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http://www.homespuntapes.com/prodpg/prodpg.asp?prodID=795
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| | Free Play Productions |
| | Free Play, Stephen Nachmanovitch, Improvisation, String Improvisation, Violin Improvisation, Improvisational Violin, Creativity, World Music Menu, Just Intonation, Visual Music, Computer Music, Electric Violin, Visual Music, Synesthesia, Dharma Violin, Dharmaviolin, Dharma Viola, Mezzo Violin, Nachmanovich, Gregory Bateson |
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http://www.freeplay.com
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| | Wally Shoup Biography |
| | After a period of intense study and obsessive listening, he became active in 1975 as an organizer, D.J., and player of free music ; merging free jazz, free improvisation and noise into a highly personal and idiosyncratic style. | | | After moving to Colorado in 1970, and hearing Britain's groundbreaking Music Improvisation Company, he simultaneously discovered free improvisation and his calling as a musician. | | | He released his first LP Scree-Run Waltz in 1981, making it one of the first independently produced documents of American free improvisation. |
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http://www.speakeasy.org/wshoup/bio.html
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| | tsuge's Free Improvisation E |
| | HAIKU about Free Improvisation This HAIKU was written by an old womem. | | | She listened to Evan Parker's Soprano Sax Solo play on 11/4/mon/1985 in Okayama.Then it was sent to E.Parker. | | | "We are a small cultur-institution in austria, making concerts in the area of jazz, improvised music, art-rock and contemporary music. |
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http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~tsuge/indexE.html
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| | Bruce Arnold - Free Improvisation |
| | Each month there will be an audio sample that was recorded at one of the many jam sessions I host at my studio in New York. | | | Bruce also has a free improv quartet with Herb Robertson, trumpet, Tomas Ulrich, cello, and Jay Rosen, percussion, and you can check for their concert dates on the upcoming performance page of this site. | | | " Bruce notes, "Even in free improvisation there are clichs. |
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http://www.arnoldjazz.com/improv
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| | A Jazz Improvisation Primer |
| | A Jazz Improvisation Primer is brought to you by the Outside Shore Online Music School, providers of educational products and services for jazz musicians. | | | Here you can find information on almost every topic relating to jazz improvisation, from jazz history to music theory to practical advice on playing in a group. | | | If you would like a printed copy, you can order it as A Whole Approach To Jazz Improvisation. |
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http://outsideshore.com/primer/primer
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| | Cecil Taylor Panel Discussion |
| | It simply means that these people who choose to improvise utilize certain physical things in their characteristics and and transpose them to the instruments and, after a certain amount of years, these things take shape in a form
Like the Charlie Parker expression. | | | Taylor: Now, the only difference is that certain people wish to notate their improvisations. | | | Overton: Well, Hadyn used to improvise every morning, I read in a book someplace. |
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http://www.the-spa.com/mw
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| | The People Behind the improvisor |
| | From a photocopied newsletter, to printed journal, to our current web presence, we have covered the world of improvised music and philosophy for the past twenty five years. | | | active reviewer, lsimprov@aol.com, contemporary, free jazz, new age, toning, free improv | | | To see our products, or to order back issues of |
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http://www.the-improvisor.com/aboutus.html
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| | Free Improvisation |
| | My music is vocal experimentation and free improvisation. | | | I hope you like it, and please let me know what you think either by rating my songs or leaving a message. | | | I now have my music up on the UBW and would really appreciate feedback. |
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http://www.unsignedbandweb.com/ftopicp-17847.html
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| | Music of India --Part Five |
| | There is still no rhythmic accompaniment but there are rhythmic cadences used in the improvisation. | | | They are set to definite Ragas and Talas and have two sections like the Khyalviz. | | | Alap is a free improvisation based on the chosen Raga. |
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http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M345/Music_of_India5.html
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| | Jazz Improvisation |
| | The series of articles below is part of the syllabus for Jazz Improvisation courses MUS 331,332 and 530 at the University of Wisconsin Madison. | | | A Jazz Improvisation Primer by Marc Sabatella, an excellent improvisation overview | | | From the class gig during spring semester, 2001, you can listen to two recorded excerpts set with my animations. |
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http://hum.lss.wisc.edu/jazz
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| | Styles: European Free Improvisation |
| | While influenced by contemporary American Free Jazz, European Free Improvisation is also rooted firmly in European Classical Music, particularly twentieth-century classical music. | | | I couldn't write very eloquently about this music, but if you can, please get in touch with me, and we can flesh out this page some more. | | | In terms of the box on the style map, this style of jazz began in about 1970. |
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http://www.wnur.org/jazz/styles/efi.html
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