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This is a list of musicians and groups who compose and play free music, or free improvisation. In alphabetical order: In alphabetical order: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. [1]
Hymns and Variations, for twelve amplified voices (January 1979) Roaratorio, an Irish circus on Finnegans Wake, tape (April – September 1979; a realization of ____,____ ____ circus on ____, a set of instructions on transcribing any book for any ensemble) Improvisation III, for four or more cassette players (February 1980)
Printable version; In other projects ... Free improvisation (4 C, 106 P) J. Jam bands (5 C, 171 P) O. Organ improvisers (90 P) Pages in category "Musical improvisation"
The term can refer to both a technique—employed by any musician in any genre—and as a recognizable genre of experimental music in its own right. Free improvisation, as a genre of music, developed primarily in the U.K. as well as the U.S. and Europe in the mid to late 1960s, largely as an outgrowth of free jazz and contemporary classical music.
Free and improvised dance ... Musical improvisation (5 C, 32 P) Improvised musical instruments (14 P) T. ... Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art;
The term side-slipping or side-stepping has been used to describe several similar yet distinct methods of playing outside. In one version, one plays only the five "'wrong'" non-scale notes for the given chord and none of the seven scale or three to four chord tones, given that there are twelve notes in the equal tempered scale and heptatonic scales are generally used. [3]
Cobra is an unpublished [1] but recorded and frequently performed musical composition by John Zorn. Cobra was conceived as a system with very detailed rules but with no pre-conceived sequence of events (a "game piece") for a group of musical improvisors and a prompter. [2] [3] [4] Zorn completed Cobra on October 9, 1984. The composition ...