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Free Improvisation By James Ilgenfritz, Lucie Vítková, Katie Porter, Teerapt Parnmongkol

Free Improvisation

'How to be a forest' (2024) is for improviser (with tactile sound-boards), electronics, field recordings, and film. Part of a developing series of performances and audiovisual compositions called 'Ecollages', each of which which explores listening- and sounding-with the more-than-human world. 'How to be a forest' focuses on regenerative cycles of listening, playing, and looping alongside asynchronous collage of sound and visuals. 

Recently I've been thinking (and wondering) about how ecological listening/performance practices can sensitively hold human and more-than-human sounding in the same space, through strategies of gentle shifts in attention, without substantial manipulation and avoiding biodata-sonification. This score is an exploration in refracting forested landscapes. 

Short version premiered at Bonjour Claude's Scratch Night, Levenshulme Old Library, Manchester, September 2024.

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How To Be A Forest (2024; 22 Minute Version)

This exquisite album from Bali, released on the legendary first Ocora series, featuring gamelan ensembles accompanying shadow puppet theater, dances and theater, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2025/01/indonesia-indonesie-bali-musique-et.html

Bali Gamelan Mix

Hadley Ruby

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Free improvisation by sax, electronics and piano from the program of "IMPROVISATION SEPT 26,2019 "
Project Director & DJ: TAKAHIRO URUSHIDATE (漆舘登洋)
 at UrBANGUILD in Kyoto City
Players: 
HOMEI YANAGAWA(柳川芳命):sax
 KOJI KAWAI(河合孝治):electronics & piano

free improvisation by HOMEI YANAGAWA(柳川芳命)  KOJI KAWAI(河合孝治):electronics & piano

And/Or (2019) - 14 musicians and electronics - Turning Point Ensemble - live-recording

This work explores the micro-synchronicity within a pulsation to create timbral and musical situations that are:
organic and/or synthetic,
mechanical and/or lyrical,
symmetrical and/or asymmetrical,
integrated and/or separated,
on-the-beat and/or off-the-beat,



Performers: Turning Point Ensemble
Conductor: Owen Underhill
Electronics: Anthony Tan

And/Or (2019) - 14 musicians and electronics - Turning Point Ensemble

Free improvisation

This second piece from my Masters course is composed entirely around a single rhythmic fragment. It was recorded at Manchester University by the fantastic Richard Casey.

Joshua Brown - Etude 2 for solo piano - Richard Casey

www.henrymcpherson.org.uk
Composer • Improviser • Artist • Researcher 
🌿 plant-based music 🎻dance + instruments 🎵  improvisation + ecology 🏳️‍🌈
🎓 Postdoc @ Creative Manchester, University of Manchester

How To Be A Forest (2024; 22 Minute Version)

Henry McPherson

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