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Collective & Group

London Improvisers Orchestra

Londres - United Kingdom
The London Improvisers Orchestra is dedicated to free and conducted improvisation. It draws on a large and shifting pool of improvising musicians from London and…
4 3
Organization

Plus Timbre Netlabel

- Greece
Label
Plus Timbre is a netlabel dedicated to experimental and improvisational music,aiming to foster and promote material in the widest possible variety of relevant musical styles.
7 1
Collective & Group

Impakt e.V. (Improvisation & aktuelle Musik Köln)

Cologne - Germany
Impakt e.V. (Improvisation & aktuelle Musik Köln) is a collective made up of young musicians in Köln whose musical activities intersect via improvisation. Music which grows out of contemporary…
2
Person
Profile picture for user Nasim López-Palacios Navarro
Drums
Electronics

Nasim L-P Navarro

Amsterdam - Netherlands
Producer
5 3
Collective & Group
Bluering Improvisers' logo

Bluering-Improvisers

Bologna - Italy
Now Music (/naʊ//ˈmjuːzɪk/) s.f. [engl. Now -adverb- + Music – noun] Caratt. del suono: 1. S. prodotto e organizzato al momento attuale, non nel passato o nel futuro- 2…
4 7
Person
Profile picture for user Talía Falconi
Dance
Performance

Talía Falconi

Pantin - France
4 1
Person
Profile picture for user Casey OBrien
Basses

Casey OBrien

Pontwelly - United Kingdom
3
Person
Profile picture for user Lisa Dowler
Dance
Performance

Lisa Dowler

Mézos - France
1
Organization

APNÉES - Association pour la PerformaNce, l'Électroacoustique et les Expérimentations…

Grenoble - France
APNÉES (Association pour la PerformaNce, l’Électroacoustique et les Expérimentations Sonores) is a cultural association based in Grenoble (France), having among its main goals the development, the…
5
Person
Profile picture for user Clément PUTEGNAT
Bass clarinet
Bb clarinet
Graphic arts

Clément PUTEGNAT

Grenoble - France
Organization(s)
APNÉES - Association pour la PerformaNce, l'Électroacoustique et les Expérimentations Sonores
Organization

F.I.M. - Forum Improvisierter Musik - Frankfurt

Francfort-sur-le-main - Germany
The  - Forum Improvisierter Musik - F.I.M. organizes interactive concerts of improvised music in Frankfurt am Main. The F.I.M. founded in the tradition of free jazz, today…
4 4
Collective & Group

airkeychains

Vilnius - Lithuania
airkeychains: air vs metal, lightness vs gravity, freedom vs chains; contrasting paradigms and many solution keys. airkeychains was…
2 4 3
Person
Profile picture for user Yeji Kim
Performance

Yeji Kim

Seoul - South Korea
3 2 2
Collective & Group

TIAMOproject

Ferno - Italy
TIAMO TransInternationalArtistMovementOrganization è un collettivo internazionale di professionisti attivi in ​​tutte le arti performative che utilizzano l'improvvisazione come fonte di ricerca…
2
Person
Profile picture for user Teo Olter Olter
Drums
Graphic arts
Theatre

Teo Olter Olter

Warsaw - Poland
1 2 1
Person
Profile picture for user Jean Tinnirello
Alto saxophone
Baritone saxophone
Performance
Poetry, Rap, Speaking

Jean Tinnirello

Lyon - France
Teacher
Organization(s)
APNÉES - Association pour la PerformaNce, l'Électroacoustique et les Expérimentations Sonores
5 1
Person
Profile picture for user Frederic PERROUX
Percussions
Drums
Digital Synthesizer
Performance
Theatre

Frederic PERROUX

Guérande - France
Producer
3 4 3
Person
Profile picture for user Catarina Silva
French horn

Catarina C. Silva

Torres vedras - Portugal
5 5 2
Person
Profile picture for user Lionel Hubert
Electric guitar
Cello (violoncello)
Electric bass guitar
Electronics

Lionel Hubert

Montreuil - France
Producer
Teacher
3 1
Person
Profile picture for user Wojciech Kwapisiński
Soprano saxophone
Guitars
Percussions

Wojciech Kwapisiński

Błonie - Poland
1
Person
Profile picture for user Stephan Rogall

Stephan Rogall

Boppard - Germany
2
Collective & Group
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Collectif Coax

Montreuil - France
Collectif créé en 2008, Coax réunit une vingtaine d’artistes autour d’un axe commun : la création, la diffusion, l’organisation et la production de projets/objets protéiformes (performances,…
6 1
Collective & Group
logo Cie Anqa - Danse avec les Roues

Anqa - Danse avec les Roues

Paris - France
La compagnie Anqa - Danse avec les Roues, compagnie de danse contemporaine à Paris, mène des projets artistiques avec des danseurs en situation de handicap ou non.
2 4
Person
Profile picture for user Federico Rodriguez Jimenez
Trumpet
Guitars
Electronics
Voice
Performance
Poetry, Rap, Speaking

Federico Rodriguez-Jimenez

Paris - France
Sound engineer
Teacher
4 2 3
Collective & Group
violoncelle, violon, clarinette contrebasse. Aurélie Brager. Ugo Boscain

trio Anisotropie

Paris - France
Les musiciens ont de grandes possibilités rythmiques, une extension extraordinaire et un potentiel timbrique exceptionnel. Ils peuvent produire des sons qui sont perçus plus par…
1 1
Person
Profile picture for user Udo Matthias
Drums

Udo Matthias

Binzen - Germany
Sound engineer
2 2
Person
Profile picture for user Stefan Gisler
Keyboards / Pianos
Guitars
Percussions
Voice
Recorder
Performance

Stefan Gisler

Dallenwil - Switzerland
Producer
7 4
Collective & Group

AdhocArts

Athens - Greece
AdhocArts is a Non-Profit organisation/collective based in Athens. Founded by improvisers Marina Tantantonzi, Giannis Arapis and Dimos Vryzas, the collective aims to create a network of…
Person
Profile picture for user Terry Owen
Trombone
Vibraphone, Marimba, Xylophone
Electronics

Terry Owen

Chamboulive - France
4
Collective & Group
Ensemble 50:50 image, taken at the Hundred Years Gallery

Ensemble 50:50 London

London - United Kingdom
The aim is to to create something new in a musical sense owned by those present to explore the possibilities and limitations of freedom and improvisation in music.
2
Person
Profile picture for user Christoph Götzen
Guitars
Performance

Christoph Götzen

Düsseldorf - Germany
2
Person
Profile picture for user Jiří Pokorný
Piano

Jiří Pokorný

Prague - Czechia
3 4 1
Person
Profile picture for user Jeroen Visser
Analog Synthesizer
Organ
Baritone saxophone

Jeroen Visser

Stadtkreis 4 aussersihl - Switzerland
2
Organization

Association Vu D'un Oeuf

Fresnes-en-woëvre - France
Depuis 1990, l’association Vu d’un Œuf partage avec le public un ensemble d’actions artistiques engagées et axées autour de la musique et de ses relations avec d’autres arts tels…
7 10
Collective & Group

C-IME. (Canopee Improvisation Music Ensemble)

Forest - Belgium
Canopée Improvisation Music Ensemble: ramifications d’un écosystème rêvé un laboratoire de recherche inclusif autour de l'improvisation libre Avec: Pom Bouvier-B,…
1 2 8
Collective & Group
Duo "Carol's dream" Barre Phillips et Emmanuelle Pépin - cie 7pépinière

Compagnie 7pépinière

Nice - France
La Compagnie 7Pépinière est une compagnie de spectacle vivant, tournée principalement sur l'art de la composition instantanée et de la performance. Elle développe sa démarche…
2 10
Collective & Group

Capsul Collectif

Tours - France
Capsul Collectif est une coopérative de musiciens implantée sur Tours et en région Centre. Aider, soutenir, promouvoir et diffuser une culture libre, exigeante et engagée.
5
Venue & Festival

Granada Improfest

Frederiksberg - Denmark
Festival
FULL PROGRAM: www.granadaimprofest.com Granada ImproFest "GIF", recognised with the EFFE label, is an improvised arts festival celebrated in Copenhagen…
6 1
Collective & Group
FRIM logo

FRIM

Stockholm - Sweden
FRIM (The Association for Free Improvised Music) was founded in 1976 to create a platform for free improvised music in Sweden and to promote the ongoing discussion about improvised…
5
Organization
Fylkingen logo

Fylkingen

Stockholm - Sweden
Network
Fylkingen - New Music and Intermedia Art is an artist-run, non-profit association for experimental music and art. The association was founded in 1933 and currently consists of approximately 300…
5
Collective & Group
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Kunst Kacke Sound System

Berlin - Germany
Kunst Kacke Soundsystem (auch: Kunstkacke Soundsystem oder KKSS) wurde im September 2009 von Gary Flanell und Niki Matita in Berlin gegründet. Die Gruppe umfaßt eine wechselnde Anzahl von…
1 1
Venue & Festival
NNOI

NNOI

Großwoltersdorf - Germany
Festival
camp for 12,756 tone music, obscure teaching & organ of the world-ventriloquist-lodge according to the theses of ignaz senger "the dismemberment of the dismemberment"
1
Collective & Group
PSOAS bassless jazz fusion trio under 30.

PSOAS

Milan - Italy
We craft our music out of necessity: from our peculiar life path originate shapes and melodies that we chase and explore in the daily reharsal/composition process and through live performance…
3 2 3
Collective & Group
Raymond Boni guitar harmonica & Gilles Dalbis drums

DUO Raymond BONI & Gilles DALBIS

Mèze - France
Raymond Boni guitar harmonica & Gilles Dalbis drums Album CD  Improvisations et Album CD Selenites One Kenichi Dream
1 2 2
Collective & Group

Marc Alvarado & Gilles Dalbis

Mèze - France
Duo Guitar & Drums
1 1
Venue & Festival
Logo for zaratan with black background and 3 triangles

Zaratan Arte Contemporânea

Misericórdia - Portugal
Cultural Center
Museum, Exhibition place, Gallery
Other places
Zaratan – Arte Contemporânea is a not-for-profit space and an organization founded by artists in Lisbon city center in November 2014. Zaratan is a creation, production and promotion structure for…
2 6
Collective & Group

Doek

Amsterdam - Netherlands
Doek is a collective of improvisers creating opportunities for experimentation, research and performance. Doek musicians share attitudes toward tactics, references, ancestors and…
6 5
Collective & Group
Kalas - improvisation collective

KALAS

Aarhus - Denmark
KALAS is an art platform of improvised music created in hope that musicians can more easily find each other, gather together, create, think, and share — for thought and art are collective…
2
Collective & Group

ImprovFreedom

Vienna - Austria
Join the revolution of multidisciplinary arts performance with ImprovFreedom. Based in Vienna and connected globally, this concept blends the expertise and experience of Elisabeth with your…
2
Organization
WIM-Bern

WIM-Bern Werkstatt für Improvisierte Musik Bern

Innere stadt - Switzerland
WIM-Bern… …die Bühne für zeitgenössiches Musikschaffen, seit 1982 Konzertreihe mit jährlich rund 20 Konzerten Festival mit Themenschwerpunkt alle 2 Jahre
2
Organization
JACC Logo

Jazz ao Centro Clube

Coimbra - Portugal
Label
Media / Press
Foundation, Institute
JACC - Jazz ao Centro Clube is a portuguese Non for Profit Cultural Association. It was officially constituted on April 30 th 2003, in the city of Coimbra (Portugal's “third” city). Altough…
4
Venue & Festival
Kulturkotter logo

Kulturkotter

Graz - Austria
Jazz club
A small music club in Graz, holding about ten concerts a year with a focus on improvised music and jazz.
3 1
Collective & Group

L'Impolie

Paris - France
L'Impolie brings together an accordionist, a saxophonist and a guitarist. Passionate about contemporary music and improvisation, the three decided to combine written and improvised music and began…
2 3
Collective & Group
©Clara Lafuente

Grand8

Marseille - France
Grand8 is a large ensemble for improvised music based in Marseille, France. It brings together 20 musicians around the crucial idea of…
5 2
Collective & Group

Pluvia Collective

La haye - Netherlands
Pluvia Collective is a collaborative music group, working with free improvisation and experimental electronics. The collective was established in 2023 as an…
3 1
Collective & Group
N.E.M.

N.E.M.

São pedro - Portugal
N.E.M - Núcleo de Experimentação em Música, is a collective of musicians and other artists built to explore improvisation. An experimental approach to collective music.
1
Collective & Group
Musique de l'Instant

Cosm'impro

Centrès - France
"Si on sait ce que l'on va faire, à quoi bon le faire ?" Cette citation de Pablo Picasso pourrait bien être la devise du Cosm'Impro, collectif de musicien…
3 5 1
Venue & Festival

Jazz à Poitiers

Poitiers - France
Concert hall
Jazz donc, mais pas que. Ou en tout cas dans ses formes les plus contemporaines. Ce qui s’invente aujourd’hui dans le champ jazzistique et ses nombreux affluents. Mais aussi, et surtout, musiques…
4
Collective & Group

Collectif 2035, 2035 records

Montreuil - France
Collectif 2035 & 2035 records
1
Organization

DOXA ESTA

Paris - France
Network
SUPPORTING LOCAL & ELSEWHERE BANDS - GANGS - PROJECTS - NIGHTS DOXA ESTA est depuis 2017 une plateforme de programmation de concerts et soirées gravitant entre bars kabyles,…
3
Collective & Group
logo Gamut

Gamut Kollektiv

Stadtkreis 5 industriequartier - Switzerland
Experiments in Sound and Space. Breading Ground for Ideas, collaborations and creative processes. Since 2021 performing together in these working groups: …
6
Collective & Group
Atelier Impro/Électro de Lorient

Atelier Impro/Électro de Lorient

Quéven - France
L'Atelier d'Improvisation Électronique (AÏE) est un rendez-vous régulier entre beatmakers et musiciens improvisateurs (ensembles non disjoints) de la région de Lorient. Il s'agit de créer…
1
Collective & Group

Schuman Lab

Bari - Italy
Permanent Artistic Laboratory. Practice instant creation by working on texts, sounds, images, movements.
2 1 1
Venue & Festival
Rencontre Improvisateurs Duos Captations

Lâchons Le Son (Les Compagnons de)

Mèze - France
Other places
Il s'agit de Rencontres sans public présent, pour le moment échanges bénévoles, pour Improvisateurs sous la forme de Duos, pour des captations, enregistrements, vidéos...
1
Collective & Group

OktoSounds

Copenhagen - Denmark
OKTOsounds is a music collective and record label with artists based in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Malmö, Oslo, Berlin and Trondheim. Music will be played, music will be released, music will…
2 10
Collective & Group
KOOP Logo

KOOPERATIVE new jazz Wiesbaden e.V.

Wiesbaden - Germany
The KOOPERATIVE NEW JAZZ, founded in 1979 as a non-profit association for the promotion of modern jazz in Wiesbaden, grew out of a lively musicians' initiative…
1
Collective & Group

The Community

Copenhaguen - Denmark
The Community is an international collective of improvisers which tries to create and expand relationships between musicians worldwide through organizing interactive musical events. We believe in…
3
Organization
Collaborative.Action

Co.Ac Cultural Organisation

Lisbon - Portugal
Network
Co.Ac is a non-profit cultural organisation supporting performing arts with a focus on jazz and improvised music.​ Our main goal is to promote cultural exchange between…
2
Organization
A.R.C.M

A.R.C.M.

São pedro - Portugal
Foundation, Institute
A.R.C.M - Stands for Associação Recreativa e Cultural de Músicos. This association is based in Faro, Portugal, was created in 1990 with the objective of supporting the cultural scene in…
2 5
Collective & Group

Gentle Enquiry

Vienne - Austria
Michael Franz Woels (Berimbau/kleine Perkussion), David Karla (Blasinstrumente), Elisabeth Kelvin (Blasinstrumente). Gentle Enquiry (AT…
2 2
Collective & Group
pitchshifting_logo

Pitch Shifting

Berlin - Germany
Pitch Shifting is an experimental audio-visual collaboration established in 2019 between musician Grgur Savic and multimedia artist Sanja Star. Continuous journey of wave motion…
7 5 3
Venue & Festival

JAZZ IM GREESBERGER

Cologne - Germany
Bar ou restaurantr
JAZZ IM GREESBERGER is a concert series in Cologne, Germany. We present young, experimental and beautiful music. Open for Jazz, Improvised and Experimental - related Musics and more…
2 2
Collective & Group
REIO

Rotterdam Electronic Improv Orchestra

Rotterdam - Netherlands
, REIO founder drummer Elvis Homan REIO started in October 2020, including 8 Rotterdam based musicians: Elvis Homan (Drums & modular synths, drone synths, Max/MSP, Ableton)
6 1 5
Collective & Group

Zseitenspringer

Markt rettenbach - Germany
Zseitenspringer make open music. That stands for free improvisation, spontaneous interaction, as subtle and energetic sound, which always creates new structures, with an arsenal of acoustic…
1 1 1
Collective & Group

Nice Guys Without Borders

Markt rettenbach - Germany
Constance Cooper (USA) - piano, keyboard, Paul Eiser (A) - saxophones, percussion, Pit Kinzer (D) - EWI, Boštjan Perovšek (SLO) - live electronics, soundscapes.
1 1 1
Collective & Group
logo of vocal improvisation ensemble Genetic Choir

Genetic Choir

Amsterdam - Netherlands
The Genetic Choir is a utopian idea and an ensemble of contemporary vocal improvisers that creates their own artistic projects and can be approached for (interdisciplinary) collaborations,…
5 2 2
Collective & Group
Kajgūn Logo

Kajgūn

Budapest - Hungary
Kajgūn is a psychedelic jazz metal band with a mission to reformulate jazz using the elements of metal and world music, putting the emphasis on beauty and riffs, embracing total improvisation…
6 5 2
Collective & Group
Torun Improvisers Orchestra

Toruńska Orkiestra Improwizowana

Toruń - Poland
Toruń Improvisers Orchestra (Toruńska Orkiestra Improwizowana) is a band started in January of 2019 by a musician Maciej Karmiński (who's associated with such groups as Jesień, Drogi Krajowe or…
2 4 3
Venue & Festival
Le Bruit de la Musique

Le Bruit de la Musique

Jarnages - France
Festival
English version below. Le Bruit de la Musique se déroule sur trois jours en août dans les villages de Domeyrot, Clugnat, Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx, La Celle-sous-Gouzon, Toulx-Sainte…
1
Organization
A database share Organization

France Impro

Lorient - France
Network
France Impro propose des ressources (hébergement, mail...) à un collectif d'improvisateurs.
3
Organization

LFDS Records

Arcueil - France
Label
LFDS Records is a music label founded by the collective Le Fondeur de Son in 2016 to promote widely the creative music that the collective…
4 8
Collective & Group
produções Ganza

produções Ganza

Marseille - France
Produções autónomas sob o signo do imediato. Posicionamento Extra-Arte: a Arte não nos interessa. Os seres humanos, esses sim, nos interessam. A Existência, esta sim, nos interessa…
4 3 4
Venue & Festival
Le Périscope - Lyon

Périscope

Lyon - France
Jazz club
The Périscope is a place dedicated to innovative music. As a concert hall, club, residence and rehearsal space
4 1
Collective & Group
© Roswitha Bechtel

Tuning Collective

Cologne - Germany
As a collective we are inspired to engage in group processes that allow an open hearted and constructive way of working together. Dance and music improvisation…
2 5
Collective & Group

Oxford Improvisers

Headington - United Kingdom
We perform and promote improvised music in the Oxford area, primarily by musicians living, studying and working in the locality.
1 10
Organization
Events, listings, newsfeeds and articles related to activities in Wales featuring free ensemble improvisation

Improvisers Networks Wales

Wales - United Kingdom
Network
Events, listings, newsfeeds and articles related to activities in Wales featuring free improvisation and associated activities. All platforms & practices The `Links wales` section below tales…
6
Collective & Group

Suoni Visionari

Bari - Italy
Suoni Visionari is a project born from the idea of the saxophonist Felice Mezzina who assembled a collective, which includes the great trombonist Michele Lomuto, to…
5 3 7
Collective & Group

En Busca Del Pasto

Madrid - Spain
En Busca Del Pasto (EBDP) was born in 2003 as a project of strict musical improvisation and sound research, which has increasingly emphasized the scenic and performative dimension of music as …
3 5
Organization
Zitti Zitti Sound Club

ZITTIZITTI

Taviano - Italy
Network
Cultural association for the promotion and dissemination of free improvisation and impromptu art.  OSIMO (Open Sound International Meeting Up) is the most important event that this…
1 1 6
Venue & Festival
Open Sound International Meeting Up

OSIMU

Taviano - Italy
Festival
OSIMU (Open Sound International Meeting Up) is a meeting between various musicians and artists dedicated to free improvisation, instant composition and all forms of impromptu art.
1
Venue & Festival

Bab-Ilo

Paris - France
Jazz club
Jazz Club depuis 1984, le Bab-Ilo propose des événements culturels du mercredi au dimanche. jazz, musiques du monde, théâtre, expos, humour & stand-up, projections de films et documentaires…
4
Collective & Group
(diy) flutes ensemble

slowCore

Montpellier - France
Slowcore is a way of the bamboo from the south of france based in montpellier we explore through workshops and installments the ecology of bamboo crafts and especially its sound orientation…
1 3
Collective & Group
Conserere - Laboratorio di Improvvisazione Estemporanea aperto alla città

Conserere

Milan - Italy
Laboratorio di Improvvisazione Estemporanea aperto alla città Conserere is a self-organised collective based in Milan, run by musicians whose aristic research is focused on…
Collective & Group

Le UN

Bordeaux - France
Le UN est une société d'improvisation. Chacun d'entre nous est engagé dans la réalisation artistique autant que dans l'organisation sociale, non hiérarchique, de l'ensemble. Le UN regroupe selon…
2
Venue & Festival

Anis Gras - Le lieu de l'Autre

Arcueil - France
Cultural Center
Housed in a former 19th century distillery, Anis Gras - Le lieu de l'Autre is a plural space of contemporary and multidisciplinary creation located in Arcueil, nearby 
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Organization

Laboratorio Suono & Ritmo

Messina - Italy
Il Laboratorio Suono & Ritmo è stato fondato a Messina da Angelo Tripodo, jazzista batterista e da Giovanna La Maestra, docente di Italiano e Storia negli Istituti Superiori di II…
1 4 2
Collective & Group

Hi.O.Bla

Bourges - France
If you want to imagine the sound world of Hi.O.Bla you must first take account of its instruments: bird calls, ping-pong balls, drums, bendir, musical box, darbouka, sink plunger, hubcaps, airpump…
2 1 2
Collective & Group

Dreieck Interférences

Strasbourg - France
a cooperative of sonic thoughts. Dreieck Interferences is an association which supports artistic initiatives and gathers artist-musicians having a particular taste to experiment and…
3 3
Collective & Group

BANDERUMOROSE ORCHESTRA

Bari - Italy
BANDERUMOROSE ORCHESTRA is a collective of musicians, artists, people, in continuous growth and expansion, dedicated to the practice and dissemination of improvisation and what is related…
2
Collective & Group

les arts de l'attention association

Bethmale - France
Association dédiée à la recherche et à la création par les pratiques improvisées, à la transmission par les pratiques contemplatives, somatiques et de dialogue. ​
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