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
Copenhagen Jazz House
Dølajazz, Lillehammer, Norway
Ekeby Qvarn Artspace, Uppsala, Sweden
Fasching Jazzclub, Stockholm
Fritz's Corner, Stockholm
Fylkingen, New Music and Intermedia Art, Stockholm
Färgfabriken Art Gallery, Stockholm
Fritz Corner, 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
Kulturverket, Halmstad, Sweden
Lava, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
MEETING, Stockholm
Molde jazzfestival, Norway
Momentum Art Festival, Moss, Norway
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
Musikmuseet, Stockholm
Nefertiti Jazzclub, Göteborg, Sweden
Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden
Nya Perspektiv, Västerås, Sweden
SEAMS, Stockholm
Sekt, Stockholm
Jazz i Studion, Umeå Folkets Hus, Sweden
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.

BEANBENDERS, the "best web-site for improvised music venue in the San Francisco bay area"
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, pefrormance, 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
The Klinker, concert series, London
Knitting Factory, concerts and records, New York
Logos Foundation, Gent, Belgium
Musée Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg
Music Unlimited, Wels, Austria
nickelsdorf "konfrontationen"
No Music Festival, London, Ontario, Canada
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
Termite Club, Leeds, England
Victoriaville Music Festival, Canada
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 - look out for sounds by Liv Strand!
bara ALLT, Swedish fanzine
bonita - new webzine on experimental music. Reviews, interviews & live reports.
Experimental Musical Instruments, international journal made in California
Gränslöst, 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

Articles etc.

Christian Munthe's essay on free improvisation
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.
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
Spräcklig FRIM-festival med många goda, recension av Per-Åke Holmander i Orkesterjournalen, januari 1983

Record Labels etc.

Alice Records, Stockholm
Amiga, Sweden
Angels, a company 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
Blue Tower Records, Stockholm
Cuneiform Records, Silver Spring, MD, USA
Curling Legs Records, Norway
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, 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
Independent Improvisation labels (European Free Improvisation pages)
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
Metamkine, a mail order catalogue specialised into electroacoustic and free improvised musics, Rives, France.
Monroe Street Music, USA
multikulti, worldwide music worldwide / record store in Stockholm
nerve technology, Liverpool
Nor-cd, jazz and folk music from Norway
Ny Musikk, Norway
Odin Records, Norwegian Jazz
O.O. Discs
Penumbra Records, Wisconsin
Potlatch, France
Rastascan Records, California
Recommended Records, UK
Rune Grammofon, Norway
SaxofonisMusic.com, USA
Silenzio experimental music records, Italy
Soulworm Editions, CD-R label dedicated to underground experimental music, art and culture. Obscure industrial, power-electronics, ambient and noise.
Staalplaat records, Holland
whi music, Liverpool

Mixed Links

Ambisonic, sound diffusion system
Avantart, the place for Jazz, Theatre, Russia, China and more
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.
Intuitiv Musik Stævne, Intuitive homepage about improvised music and related topics...including Denmark's Intuitive Music Conference - Year 2000 Experimental Notations - Quotation of the Month and more...
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
Nätverket E Burman, network for radical culture in Sweden
Oljud and Oljud , Scandinavian Noise Homepage - now in English, with the Noise Egroup
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
STEIM, Amsterdam, centre for electroacoustic music specialized on live electronics
Stella Polaris, Stokke, Norway, theatre group
Every Wednesday at 21.00 - 22.00, the Radio Program Tandem Modern is transmitting live with Real audio here.
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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