improvised_music (Curator)

Tne International Society for Improvised Music promotes performance, education, and research in improvised music, and illuminates connections between musical improvisation and creativity across fields.
 Melding diverse cultures, ethnicities, disciplines, and ideas that shape society at large, today’s musical world is increasingly characterized by creative expressions that transcend conventional style categories. Initially used to describe jazz and its offshoots, improvised music now encompasses a broad spectrum of formats-from computer music and multi-media collaborations to string quartets, bebop bands and multiethnic fusion.

ISIM is proud to join the FMA community. ISIM's first post on the FMA features a variety of live recordings from ISIM members, from Kevin Norton’s band at the 2012 ISIM Conference at William Patterson University to Jon Rose’s field recording bowing the wire fences of the Australian outback, from the unlikely sonic song forms of Theresa Wong's solo work to the robust large ensemble music of Oliver Lake, with University of Michigan's Creative Arts Orchestra, recorded live at ISIM's second annual conference at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.

The International Society for Improvised Music is excited to be joining the Free Music Archive community as a curator. Our work promotes performance, education, and research in improvised music, and illuminates connections between musical improvisation and creativity across fields.
 

For this first post, we're sharing a variety of live recordings from ISIM members, from Kevin Norton’s band at the 2012 ISIM Conference at William Patterson University to Jon Rose’s field recording bowing the wire fences of the Australian outback, from the unlikely sonic song forms of Theresa Wong's solo work to the robust large ensemble music of Oliver Lake, with University of Michigan's Creative Arts Orchestra, recorded live at ISIM's second annual conference at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.