Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any general rules, instead following the intuition of its performers. The term can refer to...
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musical text." Improvisation is often done within (or based on) a pre-existing harmonic framework or chord progression. Improvisation is a major part...
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Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in...
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un-foreseen. Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance without specific or scripted preparation. The skills of improvisation can apply...
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Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is an album by the jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman. It was released through Atlantic Records in September...
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including body mapping through levels, shape and dynamics schema. Improvisation is a free, seemingly unstructured, less technically strict and impulsive...
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free improvisation by the Lennie Tristano quintet. It was recorded on May 16, 1949, and is credited as being one of the first two freely improvised jazz...
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Experimental music (section Free improvisation)
utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste or inclination...
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This is a list of musicians and groups who compose and play free music, or free improvisation. In alphabetical order: Susan Alcorn – pedal steel guitar...
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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art is a book written by Stephen Nachmanovitch and originally published in 1990 by Jeremy Tarcher of the Penguin Group...
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Jamie Muir, an experimental free-improvising percussionist who had previously been performing in the Music Improvisation Company with Derek Bailey and...
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statements and chorus structure improvisation, or the abandonment entirely of underlying chorus structure beneath improvisation. Miles Davis was particularly...
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King Crimson (category English free improvisation ensembles)
David Cross on the mid-1970s band's approach to improvisation. King Crimson incorporated improvisation into their performances and studio recordings from...
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work ever since. In 2004 Dunietz began a new musical practice of free improvisation, deeply influenced by the values of this musical practice. She approached...
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Machine Gun (band) (category Free improvisation ensembles)
Machine Gun is an improvising band formed in New York City in 1986. Its members were Robert Musso: guitars, Thomas Chapin: reeds and flute, John Lunar...
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Contact improvisation is a practice of movement research, where improvisation and momentum, relation with gravity and with others are the main focus....
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Creativity techniques (section Improvisation)
creative process. Improvisation is a creative process which can be spoken, written, or composed without prior preparation. Improvisation, also called extemporization...
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free improvisation, free jazz and noise music. Cadenzas are most often in unmeasured rhythm, and so is recitative. Examples of music written in free time...
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Derek Bailey (guitarist) (category Free improvisation)
was an English avant-garde guitarist and an important figure in the free improvisation movement. Bailey abandoned conventional performance techniques found...
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Ground Zero (band) (category Free improvising musicians)
kits. They were one of the first free improvising musicians using turntables. Their music mixed free jazz, improvisation, rock and experimental noise. Their...
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Evan Parker (category Free improvisation)
plays free improvisation. Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz...
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elements with other musical styles, such as funk, electronic music, and free improvisation. Nu jazz typically ventures further into the electronic territory...
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Miles Davis, jazz improvisation has come to include modal harmony and improvisation over static key centers, while the emergence of free jazz has led to...
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improv company Improvisation, Inc. was the only company in America continuing to perform the group's "original" Harold: a 45-minute free-form piece that...
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incorporating the sounds of diverse genres, including punk rock, free jazz, and free improvisation. About his tendencies as a composer, Keszler has stated "Oftentimes...
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Company was a collection of free improvising musicians. The concept was devised by guitarist Derek Bailey, in order to create challenging and artistically...
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guitarist and composer whose work combines elements of blues, punk, and free improvisation. Inspired by seeing Muddy Waters in The Last Waltz, Orcutt began playing...
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recent compositions have drawn increasingly on musical minimalism and free improvisation. David Sylvian was born David Alan Batt in Beckenham, Kent, England...
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Keith Jarrett (category Free improvisation pianists)
musical and personal influence on his own thinking about music and improvisation. Jarrett performs on several Davis albums, including Miles Davis at...
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Peter Evans (musician) (category Free jazz trumpeters)
Peter Evans is an improvising trumpeter who specializes in free improvisation and avant-garde music. Evans graduated from The Oberlin Conservatory of...
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