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.
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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:
…
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…
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…
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.
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…
Granada Improfest is an interdisciplinary encounteer counting with 20 local and internationals artists, who gather in Granada for 4 days in which daily public shows based on improvisation…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)
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…
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...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Arcueil - France
Le Fondeur de Son is a musicians collective dedicated to the advancement and production of creative, innovative, and non-commercial music.
Created in the…
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…
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
Peniche - Portugal
ZPOLURAS is a cultural platform oriented to the creation, development and promotion of contemporary art in the fields of music, poetry, visual and performing arts. ZPOLURAS 'aesthetic options move…
Vienna - Austria
*We understand improvisation as a research and development process of decentralized composition systems. It is the possibility for a collective composition that…
Lille - France
Muzzix is a collective of around thirty musicians based in Lille, active since the late 1990’s. Its musical universe spans from jazz to experimental and improvised…
Marseille - France
Grand8 is a large ensemble for improvised music based in Marseille, France. It brings together 20 musicians around the crucial idea of…
Rennes - France
Cette association a pour but le développement et la diffusion des arts et des performances improvisées au niveau local et international.
Les moyens d'action…
Casal da boavista de são gregório - Portugal
OSSO Associação Cultural is a collective that includes artists and researchers from different areas (music and sound art, visual arts, photography, dance, performance, design,…
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…
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,…
Rendez-vous régulier d’échanges et de partages autour de la musique improvisée et de projets expérimentaux pour les improvisateurs.
"Cette réunion est une…
WHAT IIIF? is a research festival, an international interdisciplinary improvisation research festival, that asks the absurd question " Can improvisation be documented? " WHAT IIIF? was…
Infinite space is the final boundary in which acts SPIME, a device that aims to connect free homes of free music surviving in each corner of the intergalactic multiverse. This approach works…
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…
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.
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…
Ferno - Italy
TIAMO TransInternationalArtistMovementOrganization è un collettivo internazionale di professionisti attivi in tutte le arti performative che utilizzano l'improvvisazione come fonte di ricerca…
The Bridge forme un réseau d’échanges, de production et de diffusion, recréant les conditions de ce partage pérenne: un pont transatlantique que traversent régulièrement musiciens français…
Vienne - Austria
Michael Franz Woels (Berimbau/kleine Perkussion), David Karla (Blasinstrumente), Elisabeth Kelvin (Blasinstrumente).
Gentle Enquiry (AT…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Lyon - France
L'ARFI est un collectif de musiciens fondé à Lyon en 1977.
Il comporte actuellement (2021) 19 membres. Les formations vont du solo au grand orchestre.
Les…
Amsterdam - Netherlands
Doek is a collective of improvisers creating opportunities for experimentation, research and performance. Doek musicians share attitudes toward tactics, references, ancestors and…
Sajeta Art&Music Festival is a place of encounter for various artistic practices and experiences with music as its central component. When preparing the festival programme, we take the less…
Wie alles begann...
"Come Together" - der Titel des Beatles Songs,
"Wie Es Euch Gefällt" - ein Werk von W. Shakespeare oder schlicht "Kunst&Kulinarisches" sind die ideellen…
MIA - Encontro de Música Improvisada de Atouguia da Baleia is an event that began in 2010 and is held annually in this historical village on the west coast of Portugal.
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Montreuil - France
XoNdZf est un collectif de musiciens à géométrie variable : du duo au trio, acoustique ou éléctro-acoustique, ayant en commun le désir de produire une musique libre et créative.
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…
Jazzword.com is a Toronto-based magazine-Web page that reports on an extensive range of improvised and other closely-related music created throughout the world, including North…
Les Instants Chavirés sont depuis 1991 un lieu de diffusion pensé comme un laboratoire des musiques improvisées, expérimentales, bruitistes. Son annexe, l’ancienne brasserie Bouchoule, propose…
1995 voit la création d’une association de producteurs de disques aux ardentes volontés appréciables dès le choix de leur appellation : Les Allumés du Jazz.
L’objectif…
Headington - United Kingdom
We perform and promote improvised music in the Oxford area, primarily by musicians living, studying and working in the locality.
Clermont-ferrand - France
Créé en 1997 à Clermont-Ferrand, autour du groupe La Rue Râle, Musique en friche est la structure d’appui et le label de groupes de jazz contemporain et musique improvisée.
Klub Primi is an artist run weekly event, with residence in H15 Scene in the centre of Copenhagen Denmark. The club focuses on diversity and seek to book a wide range of experimental and…
Graz - Austria
murmur is a very informal network of musicians and improvisers located in the region in and around Graz (Austria) and its neighbouring countries Slovenia, Hungary and Italy. we run a website to…
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…
ARTist is the concert / performance program oft he musicians collective „KOOPERATIVE new jazz Wiesbaden. It started in 1983 – in an own venue from 1984 – 1987 -…
Held almost annually since 1986, HumaNoise congress gathers musicians for three days of intensive musical encounters. On three evenings, a concert program can be heard that…
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…
Altamura - Italy
MUZIC PLUS is a cultural association made up of musicians that move it in a united direction of arts, supporting the creativity in all forms, mainly through the music and continuos research of new…
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.
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…
Pisa - Italy
Istanti Sonori association was born in Pisa (Italy) from an initial nucleus of musicians who gathered around the works already carried out by the three years of the musical festival of the…
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…
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…
Concert series of improvised and experimental music in Novi Sad.
Improstor, a space both cultural and virtual, is a created to represent music makers whose work leap out…
Innere stadt - Switzerland
WIM-Bern…
…die Bühne für zeitgenössiches Musikschaffen, seit 1982
Konzertreihe mit jährlich rund 20 Konzerten
Festival mit Themenschwerpunkt alle 2 Jahre
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…
Skaiv is a venue in Stockholm for artists within the realms of experimental, modern composition and electronic music. We arrange concerts in four churches in central Stockholm. Sofia kyrka…
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…