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momentum of experimental composers and performers
Improvised and Otherwise: A Festival of Sound and Form is an annual event established to encourage and support the momentum of experimental composers and performers. In an effort to represent a diverse group of artists, Improvised and Otherwise strives to cross generational and geographic boundaries. The driving force behind this event is to foster a new opportunity for a broad range of media and performance aesthetics.
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CARRIE SHULL/TARA FLANDREAU/REUBEN RADDING: The Branch Will Not Break
Improvised chamber music, microtonal and evocative, with viola, oboe, and double bass.
CD price: $14.00
DAN DECHELLIS: Shapes
A Collection of Solo Improvisations and Compositions
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
DAN DECHELLIS: Chamber Music
Improvised / New Music for piano / violin / percussion / theremin / voice
Recommended if you like Cecil Taylor, Matt.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
THE DECHELLIS CHAMBER QUARTET: Making The Argument For The Line
Improvised New Music falling between Modern Classical Music and Free Improvised Jazz. All of this music was created in the moment, no scores or written music was used.
Recommended if you like Cecil Taylor, Anton Webern.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE & CHRIS FORSYTH: Wires and Wooden Boxes
Their 2nd studio release recorded in NY 2001 of improvised duets for acoustic & electric guitars, & piano. jagged Bailey-esque, percussive, free jazz inspired & meditative post-Feldman piano. "Recommended." --François Couture, All Music Guide
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
ERNESTO DIAZ INFANTE & CHRIS FORSYTH: march
2002 release recorded in NY following their 3 week European tour. A varied sonic guitar terrain of sparse, gestural, electronic static, ringing open strings. "This CD stands in a class of its own and it's recommended" --Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes
CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
ERNESTO DIAZ-INFANTE & CHRIS FORSYTH: (as is stated...before known)
From their 2004 CD release, a kaleidoscopic range of post-Bailey approaches, quiet Fahey-esque folk-influenced fingerpicking. "I highly recommend this disc for a taste of some other aspects of what guitars can do." --Steve Koenig, Jump Arts Journal.
Recommended if you like John Fahey, Taku Sugimoto, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Frissell, Chadbourne, Bailey, Loren Connors, Alan Licht, Thurston Moore, Burkhard Stangl.CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
THE FOCUS QUINTET: 1-8 in 1
The Focus Quintet works in the undefined area between free jazz and art song. Brought together at the 2001 Big Sur Experimental Music Festival. "Highly disciplined improvising produces a richly rewarding; gentle evocations of a world apart." --The Wire
Recommended if you like Iancu Dumitrescu, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Bjork, Luigi Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, Paul Bley, Cathy Berberian.CD price: $8.97
JEFF ARNAL AND GORDON BEEFERMAN: Bodies of Water
New improvised music - integrates ideas and structures of 20th century music and avant-garde jazz
CD price: $12.00
RARA AVIS (JEFF ARNAL, GORDON BEEFERMAN, SETH MISTERKA): Rara Avis
A highly structured but entirely improvised tour de force for electric piano, percussion, and saxophones, the recording traverses a rich musical territory from fierce and highly rhythmic complexity to evocative long-lined lyricism.
CD price: $14.00
DECHELLIS / TOMASIC / NAKATANI TRIO: Real Time
Improvised / New Music
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
REV.99: Everything Changed After 7-11
a multimedia collective led by legendary NYC underground artist 99Hooker. a chaotic reaction to pre-apocalyptic consumer culture. "Take the time to investigate; it's well worth it." -- François Couture, All Music Guide
Recommended if you like Eugene Chadbourne, Henry Rollins, Rexroth, Ferlinghetti, Kerouac, John Giorno's GPS label, Beefheart, Sun City Girls, Ives, Sun Ra, Mayo Thompson, Mr Bungle.CD price: $8.97 / MP3 price: $8.97