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©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
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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
Person
Profile picture for user Luis Guerreiro
Trumpet
Analog Synthesizer

Luis Guerreiro

Faro - Portugal
Collective(s)
Zpoluras
N.E.M.
Organization(s)
A.R.C.M.
4 5 3
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
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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
Person
Profile picture for user Edward Williams
Guitars
Keyboards / Pianos
Organ
Dance

Edward Williams

Basel - Switzerland
Organization(s)
France Impro
6 6 4
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
Person
Profile picture for user sébastien bouhana
Drums
Percussions
Performance

sébastien bouhana

Soyans - France
Collective(s)
Grand8
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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
Person
Profile picture for user François Wong
Baritone saxophone
Electronics

François Wong

Marseille - France
Collective(s)
Grand8
2 2 2
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. ​
1
Collective & Group
Association à la Recherche d'un Folklore Imaginaire

Collectif ARFI

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…
2
Collective & Group

murmur

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…
1
Venue & Festival

Instants chavirés

Montreuil - France
Concert hall
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…
1
Venue & Festival

Forum d'Improvisation "Espace Emilie"

Paris - France
Jam session
Rendez-vous régulier d’échanges et de partages autour de la musique improvisée et de projets expérimentaux pour les improvisateurs. "Cette réunion est une…
4 2 6
Venue & Festival
Broken impro

broken impro

Paris - France
Jam session
Sessions de musiques improvisées, un à deux mercredi par mois, de 19h à 21h au Chair de Poule, rue Saint Maur à PARIS. Inscriptions sur la page FaceBook.
1
Collective & Group

Pégazz et l'Hélicon

Paris - France
With the benefit of its many years of experience with a richly diverse creative lab — the “big band” known as Ping Machine — Pégazz & L’Hélicon is today furthering its groundbreaking role in…
2
Organization
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el NEGOCITO Records

Gand - Belgium
Label
Record store
el NEGOCITO Records a Ghent based, Belgian label for alternative and improvised music, artist-oriented, with innovation and self-expression through sound…
5
Collective & Group

LiSi*A – Liberating Structures for Improvised Art

Vienna - Austria
*We understand improvisation as a research and development process of decentralized composition systems. It is the possibility for a collective composition that…
2
Organization
Souffle Continu

Souffle Continu

Paris - France
Record store
Disquaire-Libraire spécialisé. La boutique propose : CDs, vinyles, livres et magazines spécialisés ayant trait à la musique, DVDs musicaux, merchandising (t-shirts, posters...) …
2 1
Person
Profile picture for user Nuno Morão
Drums
Percussions
Keyboards / Pianos
Electronics
Performance

Nuno Morão

Oeiras - Portugal
Sound engineer
Collective(s)
OSSO colectivo
9 1 3
Collective & Group
Associazione Culturale "MUZIC PLUS"

MUZIC PLUS

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…
1
Venue & Festival

Free Flow Fest

Altamura - Italy
Festival
The Free Flow Fest is an international traveling festival of improvised music in Puglia and Basilicata (Italia)
1
Collective & Group

Naïnô, compagnie musicale

Apt - France
Créée en 2011 par Pascal Charrier, guitariste et compositeur, Naïnô, compagnie musicale, soutient des musiques de création inscrites dans le champ du Jazz et des musiques…
1
Venue & Festival

AJMI

Avignon - France
Jazz club
L'AJMi, Association pour le Jazz et la Musique Improvisée, est une association qui existe depuis plus de 30 ans à Avignon, ayant pour but de défendre et promouvoir la musique jazz, par des…
5 2
Person
Profile picture for user Fabrizio Bozzi Fenu
Electric guitar

Fabrizio Bozzi Fenu

Marseille - France
Communication, Support
Producer
5 2
Collective & Group
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Dooom Orchestra

Padua - Italy
Dooom is both an orchestra and a workshop, founded and directed by Francesco Cigana. By focusing on improvisation, Dooom mixes, merges and reworks different styles, aiming…
1
Collective & Group

Minsk Improvisers Orchestra

Minsk - Belarus
Minsk Improvisers Orchestra (МІО) is an open community, where we create music spontaneously, here and now, basing on free improvisation. The project was…
3
Collective & Group

IN A SNAP Collective

London - United Kingdom
About IN A SNAP Collective:   in a snap: 
Venue & Festival

La Guillotine / Les Pianos

Montreuil - France
Bar ou restaurantr
Concert hall
Cultural Center
Le lieu culturel et bistrot Les Pianos accueille toutes les semaines des spectacles, concerts et événements. Le projet artistique de la Guillotine : – Pourquoi “La…
3 1
Venue & Festival

Salão Brazil

Coimbra - Portugal
Jazz club
Salão Brazil is a venue that occupies the 1st floor of an old and gracious building in Coimbra's historic city center. It is managed by the Non For Profit Association Jazz ao Centro…
2 6
Collective & Group
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Gummi

Le pré-saint-gervais - France
Gummi pétrit la matière sonore avec entrain pour jouer avec son l’élasticité, dans l'étirement à la limite de la cassure ou dans la contraction vive nourrie de fantaisie et de jubilation. Au fil d…
2 1
Collective & Group
collectif Musique en Friche

Musique en Friche

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.  
Person
Profile picture for user Nicolas Souchal
Trumpet
Performance

Nicolas Souchal

Saint-denis - France
Collective(s)
Musique en Friche
Gummi
Organization(s)
LFDS Records
2 1
Person
Profile picture for user Elena Waclawiczek
Dance
Performance

Elena Waclawiczek

Vienna - Austria
Collective(s)
LiSi*A – Liberating Structures for Improvised Art
3 5
Collective & Group

Zpoluras

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…
3
Organization

The Bridge

Paris - France
Network
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…
4
Collective & Group

XoNdZf

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.
3
Venue & Festival

Festival Densités

Fresnes-en-woëvre - France
Festival
Densités : un festival unique depuis 1994 
7 10
Collective & Group

ensemble PTYX

Continvoir - France
L'ensemble PTYX — des musiciens, des techniciens, des artisans même — s'appuie sur le levier des musiques contemporaines pour aller vers l'autre et questionner…
6 1
Collective & Group
Onze Heures Onze

Onze Heures Onze

Tournan-en-brie - France
Onze Heures Onze est un collectif de musiciens basé en Ile de France, œuvrant dans le domaine du jazz et des musiques improvisées, inspiré par les musiques contemporaines,…
5 4 10
Person
Profile picture for user David Karla
Alto saxophone
Bass clarinet
Other clarinets
Other saxophones
Electronics

David Karla

Budapest - Hungary
Collective(s)
Gentle Enquiry
Collective & Group
Occam Ocean, Eliane Radigue & Onceim @ Fondation Cartier

ONCEIM

Paris - France
Orchestra of New Musical Creation, Experimentation and Improvisation Founded in 2011 at the instigation of Frédéric Blondy, ONCEIM
4 5
Venue & Festival

Skaiv Stockholm

Stockholm - Sweden
Concert hall
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…
1 1
Venue & Festival
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Officine Culturali "Peppino Impastato"

Gravina in puglia - Italy
Cultural Center
Officine Culturali is a cultural centre located in Gravina in Puglia, in the south of Italy. 
3 1
Collective & Group

Istanti Sonori association

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…
1 1 1
Organization

Improstor

Novi sad - Serbia
Network
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…
2
Venue & Festival

SPIME

Arcueil - France
Festival
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…
3 4 9
Person
Profile picture for user Uygur Vural
Cello (violoncello)
Lute
Performance
Video

Uygur Vural

Berlin - Germany
Academic, researcher
6 9
Organization

Phonogram Unit

Lisbonne - Portugal
Label
Phonogram Unit is an artist-operated label from Lisbon dedicated to the so called experimental, improvised and electro-acoustic music.
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Collective & Group

OSSO colectivo

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,…
5 10
Venue & Festival

Neue Musik St.Ruprecht

Vienna - Austria
Concert hall
http://nmr.klingt.org
1
Person
Profile picture for user Carlo Mascolo
Trombone

Carlo Mascolo

Altamura - Italy
Teacher
Collective(s)
MUZIC PLUS
3 2
Venue & Festival
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ARTist Wiesbaden

Wiesbaden - Germany
Other places
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 -…
2
Collective & Group

Muzzix

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…
4
Organization

Les Allumés Du Jazz

Le mans - France
Network
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…
1
Person
Profile picture for user Claude Parle
Accordion
Dance

Claude Parle

Nanterre - France
3 1
Person
Profile picture for user Vincent Roussel
Drums
Traditional percussions
Percussions

Vincent Roussel

Marseille - France
Collective(s)
Grand8
3 2
Venue & Festival

Klub Primi

Copenhagen - Denmark
Jazz club
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…
2 4
Person
Profile picture for user simonetta parisi
Piano
Graphic arts
Performance

simonetta francesca parisi

Paris - France
Teacher
1 7
Person
Profile picture for user Maria Dybbroe
Alto saxophone
Bb clarinet
Baritone saxophone
Bass clarinet
Soprano saxophone

Maria Dybbroe

København n - Denmark
Teacher
Collective(s)
The Community
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