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Collective & Group
N.E.M.

N.E.M.

São pedro - Portugal
N.E.M - Núcleo de Experimentação em Música, its a collective of musicians and other artists built to explore improvisation. An experimental approach to collective music.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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

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

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
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
Collective & Group
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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

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

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
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
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

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
Collective & Group
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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
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
(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

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
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
Collective & Group
Members of KunstbeTriebs Company

KunstbeTriebs Company

Vienna - Austria
KunstbeTriebs Company ist eine Kollaboration von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern aus allen Bereichen der Kunst – Sprache, Musik, Tanz und Bildende Kunst. Sie arbeiten an…
2 1 3
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
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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

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
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
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
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

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
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
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

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
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: 
Collective & Group
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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
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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.  
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,…
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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.
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Schuman Lab

Bari - Italy
Permanent Artistic Laboratory. Practice instant creation by working on texts, sounds, images, movements.
2 1 1
Collective & Group

Collectif 2035, 2035 records

Montreuil - France
Collectif 2035 & 2035 records
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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…
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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…
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