Improvising on Uranus arose from a shared and deep-felt urge to bring a new sense to free improvisation: we want to make explicit the existential questions and poetic images that drive our music and that prompt us to improvise and play. 

This project offers a joyful and chaotic weaving of poems, cracks and squeaks, chopped up essays and broken melodies. Jumping from one perspective to the other, we test and taste and explore the different ideas, images, arguments and questions that have inspired us and help us forward in our work as we navigate our ways in jazz and philosophy – as women, as humans, as friends. 
We do not want to keep philosophy to the philosophers, poetry to the poets or experimental music to musicians only: we want to share, cross-pollinate, explore the one through the other. While the texts shed new light on the music, the music brings life to the text by translating it into sensations, sounds, rhythms, spheres that can be experienced directly by ourselves and the audience.
 
Performing texts by a.o. Paul B. Preciado, Gertrude Stein, Federico Garcia Lorca, Christian Bobin and Donna Haraway, we play with feminism, tulips, trans-humanism, cyborgs, vulnerability, the aliens within ourselves.

The group consists of:
Franka Bauwens (NL) on words; 
Amsterdam based performer, hugely interested in everything involving language, currently finishing a master in philosophy at the UvA.  

Georgia Wartel Collins (SE) on double bass;
Amsterdam based jazz musician who studied at the Conservatory of Trondheim (Norway) and now does a master at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

Mona Creisson (FR) on violin 
Studied jazz violin at the AMR jazz club of Geneva and the Conservatory of Amsterdam, currently based in Geneva.