FRIM:s internationella länkar av improviserat intresse

Frim's international links of improvised interest

Scandinavian Performance Spaces etc.

Annan Musik, Norrköping
AV-ART, Copenhagen
BLÅ Jazzclub, Oslo
Brötz, Göteborg, concert series and occasional festivals.
Copenhagen Jazz House
Dølajazz, Lillehammer, Norway
Ekeby Qvarn Artspace, Uppsala, Sweden
EXIT, International Festival for Unusual Live Performances, Helsinki
Fasching Jazzclub, Stockholm
Fritz's Corner, Stockholm
Fylkingen, New Music and Intermedia Art, Stockholm
Färgfabriken Art Gallery, Stockholm
Galleri Astley, Skinnskatteberg, Sverige, musikprogram
Gerlesborgsskolan
Gerlesborgsskolan's concerts, Bohuslän, Sweden
Jazz Evidence, club in Kongsberg, Norway
Jazid Drazztic Acoustic Live Jazz'n jazz, concerts and records, Oslo
Jazid, concert calendar
Jazz i Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
Kiasma, Modern Art Museum, concert calendar, Helsinki
Kongsberg jazzfestival, Norway
Konsertguiden, information om konsertutbudet i Sverige. Här kan man söka på orter och genre. Man kan även abonnera på information till sin e-mailadress.
Kulturverket, Halmstad, Sweden
Lava, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
MEETING, Stockholm
http://www.klubbmemento.com">Memento, concert series in Eskilstuna, Sweden
Molde jazzfestival, Norway
Momentum Art Festival, Moss, Norway
Mosebacke Etablissemang, Stockholm
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
Musikmuseet, Stockholm
Nefertiti Jazzclub, Göteborg, Sweden
Norbergfestival
Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden
The Nursery, organization for experimental music etc, Stockholm
Nya Perspektiv, Västerås, Sweden
Re:Orient
SEAMS, Stockholm
Sekt, Stockholm
SKEPPSHOLMSFESTEN, gammalt och nytt inom både musik, konst, film, teater och poesi, Stockholm.
Stallet, Stockholm
Jazz i Studion, Umeå Folkets Hus, Sweden
Södra Teatern
Tampere Jazz Happening, Tampere / Tammerfors, Finland
Telakka Theatre, Tampere / Tammerfors, Finland
Tellus Biograf & café, Midsommarkransen, Stockholm
Ultima Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo
Volapük, Oslo, Norway
Vossa Jazz Festival, Norway

International Performance Spaces etc.

Bang on a Can, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York.
Bayimproviser.com: Bay Area Improviser's Network created to provide a forum for Creative Musicians in the San Francisco Bay area.
Beanbenders, the "best web-site for improvised music venue in the San Francisco bay area"
Big Sur Experimental Music Festival: Experimental, Improvisational, or Avant-garde in nature (held every third weekend in May) in Big Sur, California USA or here.
Bonobo's Ark, Primate Management, London
CEDI, Centro de Encuentro para el Desarollo de la Improvisación, Centre of Encounter for the Development of Improvisation, Madrid
Colourscape events in London, York and Bedford
Cyberslag Foundation/Open Electronic Festival, Groningen, The Netherlands
Dodorama, Rotterdam
Empty Bottle, concerts in Chicago
Electronicage, concert series in London
Experimenta Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Extrapool, Nijmegen, NL
Fortalicje Festival, 10 th International Festival of Improvisation Art in Zamosc, Poland 27-30th July 2000: music, theatre, painting, performance, butoh.... art director of festival: Pawel Dudzinski
Frakture Music Club & The Listening Room, Liverpool. Frakture website promotes Frakture Music club and improvised music on merseyside and contains a events calendar for the north west. Frakture also operate a email mailshot service updating subscribers about events in the North west that may be of interest.
Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France
Jazzatelier, Ullrichsberg, Austria
The Klinker, concert series, London
Knitting Factory, concerts and records, New York
Kraakgeluiden in de BinnenstadOvertoom in Amsterdam, in a squat. improv every Monday
Ladronka, Prague
Logos Foundation, Gent, Belgium
Manchester
Musée Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg
Music Unlimited, Wels, Austria
NEXT, Bratislava, Slovakia
nickelsdorf "konfrontationen"
No Music Festival, London, Ontario, Canada
Podewil, Berlin
Progetto Musica, Cooperativa La Musica, cooperation of a large number of new music associations, Rome, Italy
Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Sound Symposium, St John's, Newfoundland
Stadtgarten, Köln, Germany
Termite Club, Leeds, England
Victoriaville Music Festival, Canada
VII. PAUSE SIGN INTERNATIONAL IMPROVISED AND EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL, Budapest
Vilnius Jazz Festival - Discography of Lithuanian jazz (incl. Vyacheslav Ganelin, Vladimir Chekasin, Vladimir Tarasov, Petras Vysniauskas and many others), new albums, history of Vilnius Jazz Festival and press, photogallery.
WIM, Workshop Improvisierende Musici, Antwerpen, Belgium

Magazines etc.

Ballongmagasinet - streaming audio from sound artists both historical and living, e.g. Liv Strand, Staffan Mossenmark, Öyvind Fahlström, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Walter Ruttmann, Antonin Artaud.
bara ALLT, Swedish fanzine
Benno
bonita - new webzine on experimental music. Reviews, interviews & live reports.
Crouton Music, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Experimental Musical Instruments, international journal made in California
Fat Bankroll
Gränslöst, (nedlagt) magasin för samtida musik, Sverige
heterogenesis, Swedish and Spanish
hurly burly, Madrid, Free Improvisation Magazine, Spanish / English. Also with cd and cdrom releases.
Jazznytt, tidskrift for jazz, Norge
Musicworks, international journal from Canada
P-ART Paradise Journal
Parergon, tidskrift for samtidsmusikk, Oslo
Rubberneck, England
Storno, fanzine, Sverige
The Improvisor, the International English-speaking journal on Free Improvisation, made in Alabama
NÄTMAGASINET TRITONUS, om modern konstmusik
Vital Weekly

Articles etc.

Christian Munthe's essay on free improvisation
The Absurdity of Copyright by Godfried Willem Raes
En artikel Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen skrev under sit nylige besøg i Belgien om Godfried Willem Raes' improvisationsundervisning. Spændende - læs begyndelsen og se, hvordan hans karriere er gået! en fantastisk ting han og hans kone har været med til var en frit improviseret koncert i Rwanda, hvor man ikke kendte den slags - gode reaktioner fra publikum.
En artikel af Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen om "New Music and Improvisation". Om den frie improvisation... denneher er præget af, at den er skrevet til programbogen i en koncertforening og henvender sig til folk der kender komponeret ny musik.
Fat Bankroll, intervju med Zbigniew Karkowski. Han berättar om livet som noise-musiker, dömer ut bl.a. The Wire och Oval, relaterar till sin historia med Phauss och Hafler Trio samt sin nutid med samarbeten med alla som räknas, till exempel Aube, Merzbow och Sensorband. Han berömmer dessutom Ronnie Sundin.
Hasse Poulsen og Carl Bergstroem-Nielsen (DK), en diskussion om gamle og nye elementer i improviseret musik.
European Free Improvisation pages, Sheffield, England
Free Play - Improvisation in Life and Art, a book by Stephen Nachmanovitch
Fri improvisation - hur tänker musikern?, Mikael Tuominen, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för musikvetenskap, 1998. Eller här ...kan beställas från: Carina.Adler@musik.uu.se
This is a very good article on experimental music and noise. It mentions Merzbow Hijokaidan and the No Music Festival Plus Cage, Varese, Stockhausen, Glass and everyone else you ever heard of. Well worth a look. Art Pratten (Nihilist Spasm Band, London, Ontario, Canada)
heterogenesis, articles about performance and butoh etc.
Johannes Bergmark's essays, Stockholm
Karl-Erik Tallmo:s articles
Marie Selander-intervju
Neworb, articles, music and art
The Nursery, organization for experimental music etc, Stockholm
Crouton Music interview with improviser and instrument builder Hal Rammel.
Sounds-99 FRIM-festivalen - omtale, Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen
Spräcklig FRIM-festival med många goda, recension av Per-Åke Holmander i Orkesterjournalen, januari 1983
Thomas Mera Gartz: Ord om Musik

Record Labels etc.

Alice Records, Stockholm
Amigo, jazz and folk, Sweden
Angels, a company in Denmark selling mainly jazz and improvised music
Annette Works, Kaffe Matthews, London
Anomalous Records, Seattle
Av-Art Records, Danmark. Improviseret og beslægtet musik.
Ayler Records, Sweden
Babel cds, UK.
Beatservice Record Co., Norway
Benno
Blue Tower Records, Stockholm
Charhizma
Cuneiform Records, Silver Spring, MD, USA
Curling Legs Records, Norway
Deep Listening Catalog, distributor, New York
Disturbance, - den lille nye labelen for elektronisk musikk, Norge
Dragon Records, Sweden
Eerie Sweden/USA
Elektron, Swedish Electroacoustic Music
Electronic Music Foundation - distributer for many labels, etc
Emanem Records, London
Emanuele Pinotti, used records on mail order from Italy
Entropy and Uprising
Firework Edition Records, Stockholm
Forced Exposure, American distributor
FreeJazz.cc, USA
Fylkingen Records, Stockholm
Häpna, Stockholm
Illusion of safety
Independent Improvisation labels (European Free Improvisation pages)
Intuitive Records, Denmark, releasing improvised music and related.
Knitting Factory, concerts and records, New York
Los Angeles free music association, a website devoted to artists like Derek Bailey, the AMM, Terry Riley, LaMonte Young and their own LAFMS. Among other things they deal with sound restoration of archive radio tapes and the like by the above artists, plus CDs by the LAFMS.
Leo Records, London
LJ Records Contemporary jazz from Sweden
Lovely Music, New York
MEGO, Austria. Also distribution of other companies.
Metamkine, a mail order catalogue specialised into electroacoustic and free improvised musics, Rives, France.
http://www.mitek-web.net/ nice design by andreas berthling ... mitek: mitek, is a new label runned by mikael stavöstrand, the aim and policy for the label is to produce, release and promote new scandinavian artists within the field of experimental electronica.
Monroe Street Music, USA
multikulti, worldwide music worldwide / record store in Stockholm
National Sound Archive, the web site of the National Sound Archive of the British Library, includes links to an on-line catalogue that lists details of over 2.5 million sound recordings, including 65,000 recordings of wildlife sounds, about half of the total number of wildlife sounds holdings.
nerve technology, Liverpool
Nor-cd, jazz and folk music from Norway
Nursery Mailorder, Stockholm
Ny Musikk, Norway
Odin Records, Norwegian Jazz
O.O. Discs
Pax Recordings, A small, San Francisco-based independent label dedicated to creative-improvised and experimental music.
Penumbra Records, Wisconsin
Potlatch, France
Rastascan Records, California
Recommended Records, UK
Rune Grammofon, Norway
SaxofonisMusic.com, USA
Silenzio experimental music records, Italy
Slask Records (Some Pearls, Voodoo, Gospel!, Mjall, Soft Ice Music Publ.)
Smalltownsupersound, Norway
SOFA, Norwegian label for improvised music
Soulworm Editions, CD-R label dedicated to underground experimental music, art and culture. Obscure industrial, power-electronics, ambient and noise.
SPOR, Denmark
Staalplaat records, Holland
whi music, Liverpool

Mixed Links

Ambisonic, sound diffusion system
Avantart, the place for Jazz, Theatre, Russia, China and more
Cheap vinyl record making in Czech.
CRAC (Creative Room for Art & Computing), Stockholm.
Earwaves Network
EMS, Electroacoustic Music in Sweden
Experimenta, radio program every Friday night 20.00 to 21.00 on Radio NOVA, FM 99.3, Oslo
Folkhälsoinstitutet with tinnitus hearing damage information
Franklin Furnace, Rapid Fire, Intuitive Ocusonics, a process in which voluntary and involuntary eye movements create a visual and aural landscape by Andrea Polli
Galleri Enkehuset, Stockholm
Improvisationskursen vid Uppsala Universitet, med bl.a. Tuomo Haapala och Jörgen Adolfsson som lärare.
International Bureau of Recordist Investigation - Communications Division. I.B.R.I. is an organization dedicated to the expansion and development of Recordism, a contemporary form of poetic/magick automatism in art, literature, and other creative fields.
Intuitive Music Homepage: Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen's mixed site with Quotation of the Month about improvised music, with links of current interest and archive of earlier ones; Denmark's Intuitive Music Conference (a yearly meeting for improvisors); a hyper-list of improvised music CD companies and distributors, Carl's own texts (many full-text articles) and list of works with graphic compositions illustrated.
Kultiversitetet, Stockholm
The Life Gallery, Stockholm
LiSa, Live Sampling tool designed by Michel Waisvisz and Frank Balde at STEIM, Amsterdam. Used by Kaffe Matthews a.o.
Loesje
Moderna dansteatern, Stockholm
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Musical Saw. Anything you would ever want to know about the saw, in English, German and French! A beautiful page!
Musikmuseet, Stockholm
Neworb, articles, music and art
0-budgetfilmfestivalens kortfilmssite för svensk underjordisk film, recensioner, köpfilm, forum, länkar mm
Nätverket E Burman, network for radical culture in Sweden
Oljud and Oljud , Scandinavian Noise Homepage - now in English, with the Noise Egroup
Pauline Oliveros Foundation, New York
RealAudio download of the free G2 player.
Ringve Museum, Musical Instrument Museum in Trondheim, Norway.
Rytmobile by Jan Cardell, a sound sculpture that will invite composers to write for it over the web.
Sverigefinska Folkhögskolan
Smufsa, lista med information om svensk samtidskonst
Sonoloco Record Reviews
the soundpoetry mailinglist: international discussion about soundpoetry/lautdichtung/lautpoesie/poesie-sonore/language related soundart/samplepoetry/lettrism/poesie action/polipoesia/text-sound-composition and other related genres. announcement of performances/exhibitions/cds/books/websites that feature soundpoetry etc. networking, collaboration, exchange. the main languages of discussion are english and sound.
STEIM, Amsterdam, centre for electroacoustic music specialized on live electronics
Stella Polaris, Stokke, Norway, theatre group
The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland
The Surrealist Group in Stockholm
Theremin
Tinnitus hearing damage information, with artists talking about it.
Trotbo, Nova Scotia, Canada
V2, experimental sound art, Holland
What In The World, Sweden/Australia
Zu Casa, a laboratory for online exhibition and performance of improvised and experimental music, artist, film, video and netart.
Åsa Harvard, Swedish artist that writes about non-linear form; writing and interactivity.


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