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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
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
Collective & Group

YA

Paris - France
YA est un duo à choix multiples. Nous sommes également toutes deux compositrices de musiques électroacoustiques, instrumentales et mixtes. Nous voulons explorer le sonore sous…
4
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Venue & Festival

Granada Improfest

Granada - Spain
Festival
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…
2
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
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
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
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

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
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
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

Le Fondeur de Son

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…
5
Document
A database share Document

SHARE: Global Presentation (english)

SHARE _ global presentation (EN) .pdf
Sun, 26/09/2021 - 23:56
The SHARE project aims to create the conditions for the circulation of European Free Improvised Music artists and their creations. To this end, the project proposes to experiment with a…
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
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 
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
Venue & Festival
A database share Venue & Festival

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

Collectif 2035, 2035 records

Montreuil - France
Collectif 2035 & 2035 records
1
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
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
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
Nicolas Desmarchelier et Nusch Werchowska

Zero Stock

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…
1 1
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

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
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
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
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

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…
Collective & Group
A database share Collective & Group

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
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
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

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

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
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
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
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
Organization
logo el NEGOCITO

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

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
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
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

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
Person
Profile picture for user Jonathan Aardestrup
Double bass
Electric bass guitar

Jonathan Aardestrup

Vanløse - Denmark
Collective(s)
The Community
4 2 2
Person
Profile picture for user Piliv Bòdzin
Bass clarinet
Soprano saxophone
Digital Synthesizer

Piliv Bòdzin

Vitry-sur-seine - France
Collective(s)
Le Fondeur de Son
Organization(s)
LFDS Records
3
Person
Profile picture for user Nicolas Souchal
Trumpet
Performance

Nicolas Souchal

Saint-denis - France
Collective(s)
Le Fondeur de Son
Musique en Friche
Gummi
Organization(s)
LFDS Records
2 1
Person
Profile picture for user Carlo Mascolo
Trombone

Carlo Mascolo

Altamura - Italy
Teacher
Collective(s)
MUZIC PLUS
3 2
Person
Member of the database share improvisors

pierfrancesco ditaranto

Gravina in puglia - Italy
Person
Profile picture for user Paulo Chagas
Flute
Bass clarinet
Alto saxophone
Oboe

Paulo Chagas

Peniche - Portugal
Collective(s)
Zpoluras
5 1 3
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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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
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

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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
Organization

WHAT IIIF?

Amsterdam - Netherlands
Network
WHAT IIIF? is a research festival, an international interdisciplinary improvisation research festival, that asks the absurd question " Can improvisation be documented? "  WHAT IIIF? was…
1
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
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

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
Person
Profile picture for user Corinne Skaff
Performance

Corine Skaf

Montreal - Canada
Collective(s)
BANDERUMOROSE ORCHESTRA
1
Person
Profile picture for user Kamnoush Khosrovani
Drums
Performance
Video

Kamnoush Khosrovani

Châtillon - France
Academic, researcher
Teacher
3
Person
Profile picture for user Klaus Wilmanns
Double bass

Klaus Wilmanns

Ottrau - Germany
1
Person
Profile picture for user Annabelle Pirlot
Dance
Performance

Annabelle Pirlot

Paris - France
2
Person
Profile picture for user Guillaume Gargaud
Acoustic guitar
Electric guitar

Guillaume Gargaud

Le havre - France
3 3
Person
Member of the database share improvisors
Dance

Angela Calia

Altamura - Italy
3
Person
Profile picture for user Valerie VIVANCOS
Electronics
Voice
Other instruments...
Performance

Valerie VIVANCOS aka Ocean Viva Silver

Paris - France
8 1 5
Person
Profile picture for user Klara Łucznik
Dance
Performance

Klara Lucznik

Warsaw - Poland
Academic, researcher
1
Person
Profile picture for user Alexandre Herer
Keyboards / Pianos
Analog Synthesizer
Digital Synthesizer
Electronics

Alexandre Herer

Paris - France
Producer
Collective(s)
Onze Heures Onze
5 4 6
Person
Profile picture for user Emmanuelle Pellegrini
Performance
Poetry, Rap, Speaking

Emmanuelle Pellegrini

Fresnes-en-woëvre - France
Diffusion
Manager
Organization(s)
Association Vu D'un Oeuf
1
Person
Profile picture for user Olivier Laisney
Trumpet

Olivier Laisney

Paris - France
Collective(s)
Onze Heures Onze
5 3 5
Person
Member of the database share improvisors

Jean-Baptiste Apéré

Continvoir - France
Collective(s)
ensemble PTYX
Person
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Olive Bieringa

Oslo - Norway
Person
Member of the database share improvisors
Performance

Agnes Distelberger

Salzburg - Austria
Collective(s)
LiSi*A – Liberating Structures for Improvised Art
3 1 4
Person
Member of the database share improvisors

Juergen Werner

Frankfurt - Germany
Organization(s)
F.I.M. - Forum Improvisierter Musik - Frankfurt
Person
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Anne Germanique

Cressat - France
Person
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Violin
Electronics

Dimos Vryzas

Athens - Greece
Collective(s)
AdhocArts
7 3 1
Person
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Alessandro De Cecco

Grenoble - France
Organization(s)
APNÉES - Association pour la PerformaNce, l'Électroacoustique et les Expérimentations Sonores
2
Person
Profile picture for user Michael Hoffmann
Drums
Percussions
Electronics

Michael Hoffmann

Hanau - Germany
6 3
Person
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Graphic arts
Video

Tomás Almeida

Odivelas - Portugal
Communication, Support
Collective(s)
Zpoluras
5
Person
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Voice
Performance
Poetry, Rap, Speaking

Nathalie MILON

Paris - France
2
Person
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David Dubuis

Montreuil - France
Communication, Support
1
Person
Profile picture for user Filippo Gillono
Electric guitar
Acoustic guitar

Filippo Gillono

Turin - Italy
5 1
Person
Profile picture for user Maria do Mar Lopes
Violin
Viola
Performance

Maria do Mar de Brito Lopes

Cascais - Portugal
3
Person
Profile picture for user Vitus Denifl
Alto saxophone
Tenor saxophone
Baritone saxophone
Percussions
Dance

Vitus Denifl

Salzburg - Austria
Teacher
Collective(s)
LiSi*A – Liberating Structures for Improvised Art
Person
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Bb clarinet
Bass clarinet

Sashko Temelkoski

Tsentar - North Macedonia
Person
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Guitars

Andreas Purkhart

Munich - Germany
1 3
Person
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Michel Doneda

Pont-de-barret - France
Collective(s)
Le UN
1
Person
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Electronics

André Xina

Lisbon - Portugal
Producer
1
Person
Profile picture for user Gianni Gebbia
Soprano saxophone
Baritone saxophone
Flute
Alto saxophone
Performance

Gianni Gebbia

Palermo - Italy
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