A compilation always looks nice as project, to join together people around one idea or thematic, it has also this obvious promotionnal aspect and purpose. In the present case, starting from the will to establish a collaboration between and “improv” label (Insubordinations) and an “electronic” one (Tsuku Tsuku Grammofon) we agreed on the concept of [...]

The Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany is broadcasting a radio feature on Ethernet Orchestra through their DEGEM web radio from today through till the end of January. The two hour program documents our performances over the last two years and contains interviews with the musicians speaking about their experiences of working [...]

at the opportunity of Berlin-based Tisha Mukarji’s visit to London, a trio performance featuring Mukarji (inside piano), Angharad Davies (prepared violin), and Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (zither) – a meeting of three sensitive musicians in music of delicate poise and warm elegance. Bookending the programme, the legendary sound of John Butcher, and the spoken word of Carol [...]

This album is a live, unedited recording of an improvised session at the Deep Listening Institute in Kingston, NY on September 21, 2011. For this duo project, the musicians utilize acoustic materials and capture/transform one another’s sound in an endless loop. Both use digital means; Van Nort tends to favor sculpting/stretching from small sound fragments, [...]

Last 21st October 2011, radio meet cars meet musicians in the garage bellow Maus Habitos, Future Places Festival HQ in Porto, Portugal. Two radio stations, Radio Futura 102.1 MHz and Radio Manobras 91.5MHz provided their frequencies to carry music and chaos into six audio tuned automobiles from the Portuguese xtremetuning.org community. Peter Principle composed a [...]

With this, their 10th release, The Remote Viewers continue to confound expectations. Nerve Cure trumpets a worldly perspective on the band’s core make-up. Not as aggressive or percussion-centric as the manifold and at times, rockified Sinister Heights (2009) or To The North (2010)…….the musicians bridge an avant relationship with an initiative that incorporates investigational-like chamber, [...]

Improvised guitar duets recorded at two dates by two very different musicians from two countries. In spite (or perhaps, because) of their differences, the French nylon-strung and the English steel-strung guitarists fit together hand-in-glove. Once again the world of free improvisation encompasses and fuses musicians from very different backgrounds to create a unified whole. 73 [...]

Created in 1993, Chamæleo Vulgaris is a band having oscillated between two and ten musicians, before being resolved, as initially, as a duet : Frederick Galiay plays the bass and Jean-Sébastien Mariage the guitar (few members were B. Denzler et G. Roggi, F. Vaillant, H. Koch, H. Poulsen, M. Collignon, O. Benoit, D. Ashour…). Both [...]

SONIC FABRIC is a textile woven from cassette tape recorded with intricate collages of sound. From now until August 30, 2011 sound/conceptual artist Alyce Santoro is accepting commissions to produce small editions of SONIC FABRIC recorded with custom collages, music, or sounds made by fellow artists, musicians, and designers. Please see her project page at [...]

A meeting of temperaments, approaches and histories in a merge of musical of breadths that both unites and confronts two sides of Sweden and Swedish improvised music into a quite foreign object. Jormin has been a prominent drummer in Swedish modern jazz and improvised music since the 1980′s, and since several years also leads his [...]

“Close to the sound – Behind the melody – Near the Inaudible” An open call for artists, composers and musicians to send a short audio work that responds in some way to the above title. The work can be a sound piece, a music composition, a field recording, an excerpt from a larger work etc. [...]

The ensemble 4+1 was created in 2007 from musicians who have coexisted in several bands in the past, through improvisation and various musical influences, The group tries a range of sound associations, using natural instrument sound or transformed electronic sound, playing with the alternation of melody, rhythmical motives and timbre, 4+1 ‘s effort is making [...]