Bonnie Barnett is an improviser of unusual clarity. A cornerstone of the Los Angeles New Music scene, and the composer of the TUNNEL HUMs, Barnett has mightily contributed to the worlds of contemporary classical music and improvisation and is one of Los Angeles’ hidden treasures. Barnett’s impressive array of vocal extensions creates a personal world [...]

Anduin Jonathan Lee is a musician and artist living in Richmond VA. As Anduin, he creates dark, pulsating electronics soaked in layers of synths, samples, and field recordings. His live performances and gallery installations include a variety of self-made sets, sculptures, and props. In the dark, people create their own mythos out of these fragments [...]

Strange Frequencies Channel Live Transmission by Murmurists (Anthony Donovan) & Ian Linter Wednesday: 19th : October : 12h00 (gmt+1) Paris time A Live Transmission with Anthony Donovan and Ian Linter applying abstractions from different locations: United Kingdom and France. An absolute act of improvisation after the render Myth & recording passion for Lodovico Series 9. [...]

Rogelio Sosa (MEX. Guitar / Electronics) Rogelio Sosa was born in Mexico City in 1977. His work explores a wide range of aspects that deal with sound morphology, structures of auditory reference, intensification of the acoustic space and performativity. His projects include solo and collective improvisations, music compositions, sound actions and sound installations. All of [...]

His interventions, sound sculptures, documents and projects are framed in the context of the accident and distortion between a thin line of simulation and reality. Rules in which previous negotiations and agreements where solved. His projects are not strictlly legal or ilegal and some and sometimes are just produced for sound or photo documentation. As [...]

Marianne Schuppe is a singer, improviser, writer and teacher focusing on voice and flexibility between words and music. Besides her interpreting works of Giacinto Scelsi and Morton Feldman, she performs solo and in various ensembles, and has been involved in radioplays, life-performance and music-theatre. Her voice and performance style have inspired composers to write solo [...]

Korhan Erel (http://korhanerel.com) is a Turkish improviser, sound designer and composer based in Istanbul, Turkey. He plays a self-designed computer instrument called Omnibus. He also uses analog and digital electronics. He is a founding member of Islak Kopek (www.soundcloud.com/islak-kopek), Turkey’s pioneer free improvisation group, which is regarded as the band that started the free improvisation [...]

The second movement (Cuckoo-borough) of Dale’s Voice Without Words will be performed at the ICMC on August 4th at Huddersfield University, UK. The piece will be presented in 5.1 surround sound. You can hear a stereo version in this post.

“Late Winter/ Early Spring” were created at the same time as the tsunami and the earthquake hit the shores of Japan. It was the late winter and early spring. It was initially an idea in mind: two semi composed, half improvised pieces for four players: clarinet, flute, piano, bass. Something ‘airy’, close to contemporary music. [...]

Two very different versions of Weston’s compositional framework based on a cycle of pentatonic scales. Tessellations I explores the possibilities of improvising with a pre-established form as a soloist and was conceived for acoustic piano. (The composer recorded a version in 2003 on a Luthéal piano in Brussels released as Emanem 4095). Only the first [...]

INTERPRETATIONS: Sylvia Smith / Pauline Oliveros Thu Feb 24 – 8:00 PM Dynamic and highly intimate visions of sonic meta-resonance. Percussionist Sylvia Smith and flutist Carrie Rose perform musical theatre works from composer Stuart Saunders Smith, including his “spoken opera” By Language Embellished: I. Composer and improviser Pauline Oliveros has been an important pioneer in American music [...]

O’tANZZ AAIRBUS est un collectif d’improvisation libre electro-acoustique. Chacun dispose d’un panel d’instruments variés et étranges. L’émission consiste à improviser pendant une heure en direct des studios de Radio Panik. L’émission de janvier est disponible en podcast et sera rediffusée le dimanche 6 février à 22h00 sur le 105,4. Download http://www.radiopanik.org/