Fight For Your Freedom 2 (Feat.Ben 🎸)

A Qwalia live show is a jump into the unknown - for the band and the audience. The quartet arrive with no prepared material and they don't play anything from their albums. They sit down, they begin to play and what comes next is as much a surprise to them as the people audience. 

That's how their albums were written and that's how this live session at London's much loved 91 Living Room on Brick Lane happened. Band leader Yusuf Ahmed selected 4 sections from their two, continuous 45 minute, improvised sets to share here in the first of a series of live EPs. 

Bricklane III

1146 — Piano

1147 — Piano

Wrapped in a Blanket
Music and poem written by Jennifer L. Jones

Music… woven into my skin
I live for the seventh chord,
And all its forms
Wrapping me in a blanket of luxury, 
Touching the softness,
Breathing in 
The insatiable joy of each inversion
Holding me still, 
Capturing my being in the moment
Letting me drift, dream, desire… and fall
Down a single thread of consciousness into
A world of me, addicted to tension and in love with release!

July 2025

Wrapped in a Blanket

This one is a Re- Master of a 2016 Piano Improvisation i performed Live on Saturna Island, Canada.

It turned out to be one of my most Listened to Piano pieces 

Now... all of you New 2025 Listeners can also enJoy it.

© Gary Courtland-Miles 2016                                                                                 ℗  Gary Courtland-Miles 2016

Pause n Flow *

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton & Boyd Nutting, recorded July 21, 2025, PLATO’s Studio, Michiana. David: Kybd+PUSH—›Synths; TRbT Sample 216-1; Voice+Bell; PLATO, No. 0485, “Specters Come in Amity, part 1” (David, & Marian Stetler-Emery 2-4-94) 29:12-42:08. Boyd: Loops+Electronics.

PLATO No. 10548 Heart's Affections

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton & Boyd Nutting, with Ashley Sanders & Eric Lester, recorded July 21, 2025, PLATO’s Studio, Michiana. David: PLATO, No. 0495, “Morphic Dreams, part 1” (David, & Boyd 3-19-94) 00:01-12:57. Boyd: Loops+Electronics.Ashley:Whistling+Per-cussion. Eric: Cello.

PLATO No. 10549 Tender Ferment

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton & Boyd Nutting, with Ashley Sanders & Eric Lester, recorded July 21, 2025, PLATO’s Studio, Michiana. David: Voice+M3 Drum-Set; PLATO, No. 0505, “Seeing in Darkness” (David, & Marian Stetler-Emery 4-15-94) 31:56-44:52. Boyd: Loops+Electronics; PLATO, No. 0105, “Over Midnight” (David, Boyd & Phil Ray 12/31/88-1/1/89) 00:00-13:00, 22:00-35:00. Ashley: Conga Drums+Percussion. Eric: Frame Drum+Percussion+Voice.

PLATO No. 10550 Eloquent Feelings

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton & Boyd Nutting, with Julie Soales, Ashley Sanders & Eric Lester, recorded July 21, 2025, PLATO’s Studio, Michiana. David: Kybd—›Synths+GRII; PLATO, No. 0515, “Vaudeville’s at the Flynn, part 3” (David, Boyd, Evie Barton & Phil Ray 6-14-94) 00:02-12:58. Boyd: Loops+Electronics; PLATO, No. 0511, “The Fires of Memory, part 1” (David & Boyd 5-1-94) 13:00-26:00, 32:00-45:00. Ashley: Crystal Bowls+Percussion. Eric: Drumming. Julie: Didgeridoo+Percussion.

PLATO No. 10551 Clashing Silences

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton & Boyd Nutting, with Ashley Sanders & Eric Lester, recorded July 21, 2025, PLATO’s Studio, Michiana. David: Kybd—›GRII+ Melodeon; PLATO, No. 0525, “Strange Devices” (David, & Walter Wright, MIMF IV, No. 6, 6-18-94) 32:00-44:56. Boyd: Loops+Electronics; PLATO, No. 0255, “Buffalodreamfish, part 1” (David & Boyd 1-6-91) 13:00-26:00, 28:00-41:00. Ashley: Mouth Music+Percussion. Eric: Cello+Voice+Drumming.

Real-Time Improvisation by David K. Barton & Boyd Nutting, with Ashley Sanders, recorded July 21, 2025, PLATO’s Studio, Michiana. David: PLATO, No. 0535, “Graceful Instability” (David & Boyd, 7-15-94) 00:02-12:58. Boyd: Loops; PLATO, No. 1535, “Manifesto 1” (David & Boyd 3-16-07) 13:00-26:00, 49:00-62:00. Ashley: Percussion+Voice.

PLATO No. 10553 Restored Breath

En direct du festival Passeurs d'Humanité, coup de bambou c'est le moment de la sieste satirique entre 13h et 14h. Coup de soleil et d'auto-dérision garantis, les radicools n'ont qu'à bien se tenir.

enregistré le vendredi 18 juillet
réalisation : Kostia et Nali, de radio mouillée

Coup de bambou sous le cagnard, l'intermède digestive satirique 2/3

The Halls of The Mystics

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Improvisation_039g

This ones for dreaming away. I have combined my piano with a lush but complex electronic sphere. It starts very quiet. You can sure relax to it. As always, this piece of music is fully improvised. Please enjoy. 

Improvisation_220725_For Dreaming Away

New Music by David K. Barton, recorded July 22, 2025, PLATO’s Studio, Michiana. PLATO, No. 0545, “Empty Rooms in the Palace of Memory, part 2” (David, & Marian Stetler-Emery 8-19-94) 00:01-13:01, 31:18-44:18.

PLATO No. 10554 Mystery Outside Structure

Tryfon Typou - Piano

recorded with a Zoom H4n Pro

mixed by Minas Vakaloudis

Improvisation 1

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Radio Tout Terrain est une webradio qui diffuse depuis la Vallée de la Roya. C'est un média de proximité convivial et participatif.
Elle a pour vocation de créer de l'échange et de la réflexion autour de thématiques qui concernent la vie sociale, l'actualité, les cultures, l'Histoire et les histoires de la vallée. 
Elle transmet les témoignages, les pensées et les récits de personnes trop rarement entendues à la radio. Loin des voix d'experts et de professionnels des médias, c'est un outil de lien social, qui contribue à la circulation des idées, à petite échelle.

Collecting, reparing and  making all kinds of instruments.
Then make music with them.

Solo piano improvisation, music for media, sound finder, photographer, sounddesigner, father and family man
Traveling between classical and contemporary music, Jazz and filmscore. Loving electronic music, too. Real music has no boundaries. Please follow and feel free to comment.
Profile photo by (c) Anatol Kotte, 2024
Design by JDS  Joniel da Silva

PLATO & the Western Tradition is a Postmodern Improvisation Ensemble that has been recording real-time improvisations using electronic and acoustic instruments since 1988. The founders and core members are David K. Barton of South Bend, Indiana, and Boyd Nutting of Niles, Michigan. As of December 4, 2016, we have recorded 4,054 improvisations, and would like to share our music.

PLATO & The Western Tradition invites others in the Electronic Music Community to participate in the creation of an on-line compilation called “Weaving Indra’s Net”. Here are the “rules”:
1. Download from http://www.soundcloud.com/plato-3 any of the improvisations by PLATO & The Western Tradition that capture your attention.
2. Use some or all of what you download as a part of your own music making.
3. Post your piece to SoundCloud, and post the SoundCloud link on Plato’s FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/PLATOandTheWesternTradition
4. Please comply with our Creative Commons attribution requirement (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) by including in your description of your piece this language: “Includes material from PLATO & The Western Tradition, No. 2811, ‘Limitless Geometries’”. (You should substitute the number and title of the piece that you are using.)
5. PLATO will organize and maintain the compilation as a playlist titled ‘Weaving Indra’s Net’ on the PLATO SoundCloud site.

Please post any questions or comments on the FaceBook page listed above.

- www.artificialis.nl - [statement]

Robbie's first encounter with music was at the age of 6 when one of his aunts gave him a bugle to play on. Few months after Robbie was alowed to rehearse with the local fanfare and kept playing the bugle for 1 year and the baritone 1 year after that. After getting his 'A' diploma, Robbie then returned the lent baritone and said: "Now I have enough" and stopped playing a brass instrument. Yet, a few years later, when he was 11, he found a keyboard on the attic and played it fondly. When his parents could not hold out much longer to hear the same tune over and over (pippy longstockings), his mother then decided Robbie needed 
piano lessons and brought him to a teacher in Groningen: 'Jan Meiborg'.

Quickly became clear that Robbie enjoyed this much and took lessons for 7 years. Here he learned much about improvisation in blues and learned to get more in touch with the piano in general. The last study was on a piece of Franz Liszt: 'Liebestraum no.3'. Jan dared a bet: "If you can play this piece well within 4 weeks, I'll buy you a chocolate cake." So the challenge was accepted. Yet... Robbie was young and became more busy with other things than the piano and Robbie knew he was going to fail.

Thus, with a loss, yet with no side of the bargain, Robbie bought a chocolate cake himself for Jan, and without any words, the both of us knew that this would be the last time of the study. 

Which became more clear the coming year. Robbie did not even touch a piano for over a year and was hanging around with his friends more often. Yet after that specific year, he came home to his parents house... Looked at the piano... Thought to himself: "Could I?... then... Should I?" and began improvising with no one else in the room. Finally he accepted that this had to be his main course. 

** Read the full story on artificialis.nl ** (available in lots of languages but dutch is the main language and the rest is probably pretty poorly translated by machine translation)

I play the piano. Unless otherwise noted, everything is played and recorded on a Kawai ca99.


Once upon a time I programed, people called it hacking, I called it learning, I can still do it, but I prefer music, etc., 

The profile picture was taken when I was a teenager in the 1990s. I just liked the old washed out look of it. They were actual physical things back in the day. And phones had cords.

I started playing around age ~8-10 (who remembers, I know i started with the violin but moved on). Over the years I've had to re-teach myself the piano many times due to life getting in the way and not allowing me the time to work on it. The repetition of re-learning has helped with the style and technique I used to play here.

It's sort of like what happens when you learn multiple programming languages.. the syntax, etc., stop mattering as much and you just think about what you need.. works in music too I guess. :)

I have visual snow 🌨️🌨️🌨️ 



Welcome friends and to my profile! I hope to celebrate 300 original tracks on Soundcloud this year!  Thank you for listening and helping me in my musical journey. It has been a difficult year for me personally. Yet, musically, I believe I am writing some of my best music.  I am infinitely inspired and humbled by the extraordinary creativity I hear from your music each day and the wonderful friends I have encountered from every part of the world! THANK YOU! I am so very grateful for your support and the gift of music in my life!
 
What Inspires Me...I am inspired each day to compose music that touches and connects the listener in meaningful ways that are personal to their own experiences and feelings.  I believe what the world needs is more songs about love for all living things and the earthly treasures around us. The power of love is magical, mysterious, and miraculous!  And, it is essential to our survival like water and the air we breathe.  I believe that through the universal language of music, love can heal, bring joy, and create an invisible chain that pulls all of us together, not apart.  

A Little About Me...I started composing in 2016  after not touching the piano for many years. A career, raising a family and just every day life got in the way of making music. After retiring as a music teacher in the public schools, I started dreaming of playing the piano again and my years of classical training slowly came back to me. I love every genre of music, and the talent and creativity on SoundCloud has inspired me at every level!

For those of you who follow me on Soundcloud, I have been experimenting with adding tracks to my piano compositions.  I create and record everything myself using a Yamaha 660DGX, including the instrumental tracks built into the keyboard. Then, I edit on my laptop using Sony Sound Forge Music Pro.  It's a simple set up, and I have lots to learn.  I am not afraid of receiving feedback if you have any to give.  Sometimes, it's the most simple thing I may be doing wrong that changes everything!

If you have time, check out my first music book called Music Dreams: Six Original Pieces for Solo Piano through Barnes & Noble.  I welcome your feedback.  Here is a link in case you are interested. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/music-dreams-jennifer-l-jones/1143986955?ean=9798891455641

There's no doubt about it, Music animates my Soul, and as an enthusiastic student of Life as well as a passionate Improvisational Pianist &  Composer, as far as I'm concerned, our lives would be impoverished without it ! :)  Composing is all about 'Sharing the Joy, Passion and Angst' we experience in Life, as well as connecting with Musicians and 'Creatives' worldwide. This makes it even more wonderful!  That willingness to engage in whatever way makes SC an ever-expanding Movable Feast that nourishes and inspires on so many levels. 

Music Communicates the Emotional and Informational Content and Context of Heart, Mind, Spirit, and Soul. And 'Letting it Flow' is 'Where Its At' as I hear it!  

Over the past few years since becoming part of the SoundCloud Family, my 'Joy in and Passion for' Creative Musical Expression has increased exponentially as has my appreciation of all the wonderfully passionate Musicians and Creatives worldwide who have devoted themselves to Letting It Take Form! 

Here's a bit of a bio, if anyone is interested.  

Somehow, my MUSE got my attention at a tender age. About the time I was completing my Royal Conservatory training. 

My memory being poorer than most, I began improvising in the passages I had forgotten. And while the audience seemed unaware, my teacher chastised me indulgently, saying, "it appears I have a budding composer on my hands"!  And thus began my Odyssey into the wonderful Vibrational world of Sound!:-) In-deed, I have been an ardent, attentive and appreciative acolyte of my Muse ever since. 

During the early 1970s I had the pleasure and honour of a three year friendship and Master Class with the then Octogenarian Composer Manoah Leide-Tedesco , one of Tone Poem giant Richard Strauss` favorite pupils and friend of Maurice Ravel and other 20th century composers such as Stravinsky (whose music he helped popularize). Since then, whether Improvising, listening, studying composition or devoting myself wholly to the visual arts for years at a time, I have been deeply aware that sharing my musical insights , teaching, and or mentoring young aficionados came with the territory!   I love it, although I am afraid that as my consciousness expands...that I know less and less each year! :-)  

The Tonal Oasis called SoundCloud is a fine and wondrous place in oh so many ways.  And with your support and appreciation, I de-Light to share my music with an ever widening audience. I call what i upload ' Sound-Seeds'.  Most of these 'bed tracks' call out to be fleshed out by passionate soloists who somehow Resonate with my Soundz and Ideas.  So please drop me a line, as i am most interested in letting them bear more fruit through collaboration, interpretation, re-mixing or use in other media.    

And on a personal Note, a Huge Thank-You to each and all who listen, inJoy, and Re-Post onwards what finds it's way thru me! :) Bless y'all.  It's my Joy to simply 'Let' the Creative Spirit find expression through this instrument of Body, Mind, and Heart!  I hope you will find some peace, joy, and rest, in at least some of my improvisations, compositions, or soundz. 

Insofar as playing, and composing  ... as you continue on in Your journey into  the infinite 'Cave of Wonders' we call Music, I wish you all the very best in all Your creative endeavours. 

So Be Kind to yourSelves and one another. Be Audacious, Ready to Play, and above all, share the Joy of being able to express whatever you're feeling. 

In-deed, may The Muse continue to 'Sing on and Play on' through each of us !   For this is one way this 'ol world is lifted up, and Changed for the better - note by note, and smile by smile .  

 Yes, may we simply Let our Creativity flow forth without concern for results.
                                   Peace

                                    Gary *+*

Banner Pic- BLUE SKIES ON PLUTO
                       Pluto's atmosphere as seen recently by Horizon Spacecraft

All of the Tracks are created, played, mixed and recorded Live with No Plan, No Computer, No Arrangement, No Mastering, No Talking ...

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Only LIVE Freestyle sessions, influenced by a lot of styles and genres (Jazz, Rock, Reggae, Acoustic, World, Fusion, Oriental, Psychedelic, Ambient, House, Techno, Tekno, Acid, Trance, Break, Electronics ....) 

Music changes all the time, depending where am I (home, street, forest, concert, party, festival) with who am I (alone, with friends or with random persons) and it especially depends on "Setup-Gear"; what I am using for playing and recording :

Guitar - Vocals - Melodica -Korg Electribe (Since 2019) - Loop Station Boss RC 500 (Since 2020) - Zoom H5 (2020 - April 2023) - Roland TR-8 (Since 2022) - Roland GR-K 55 ( since April 2023)  - Zoom L8 (since April 2023- Decembre 2024) -Boss RC 600 (Since Septembre 2023) -  Roland TR-8S (Since April 2024) - Allen And Heat CQ-18T (Since Septembre 2024) 
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Welcome to NoPlanNoComputer's Dawless Libratory of Full Improvised Live Music, Enjoyyy the music that life express Through Me, Through You, Through Us  <3

The following artists met, interacted and participated  either planned or completely by chance several times in the Full improvised intuitive music of No Plan No Computer :
- BBeng : Guitar/Bass
- Alex : Saxophone
- Dowan : Piano
- Romain - 1/2 Volvax : Keyboard/Trumpet
- Priska : Trombone/Vocals/Guitar
- Chai : Accordion 
- Antoine : Guitar/Bass/Vocals/Machines/FX/Saz
- Ammar: Live Visuals/Guitar/Bass
- Joseph : Trumpet
- Guillaume : Didgeridoo/mouth harp/Handpan/N'goni/Morin khuur
- Thomas : Human Coordination/Logistics
- Me : Guitar/Vocals/Machines/Looper/FX/Live Sound/Sound Recording/ Human & Music Coordination/Logistics


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Be inspired and feel free to download, use, copy, sample whatever you want. But, Please stay always humble to life and don't forget to mention us & those who inspired you <3

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