This is the support and research section for the website Improvisers Networks online
launched Feb 2020 by Phil Morton, and then on 13.09.2024!
It is currently a mess and dysfunctional, this should change on or before 01.11.2024
A selection of books featured on this site
One piece of advice I find myself frequently giving to musicians in group improvising situations is not to focus on what they can do at any given moment — either with their personal musical technique or beholden to their personal ego — but instead to focus on what the music needs,
A selection of documentaries featured on this site
More infor to follow during 2024
This is an interview conducted in 2016 in Madrid, Spain
A portrait of Bermondsey born percussionist and improviser Eddie Prevost
Pianist Connie Crothers offers insight on why she plays improvised music, her teaching philosophy, and more for Arts for Art’s interview series, Artist Talks.
John Russell Visiting Professor Lecture, Musashino Art University, June 10, 2019
A selection of workshop exercises posted to this site
The video presented demonstrates `step in step out`for musicians only, you are asked to extend this to include dancers/movers etc. The offer will have its own video in due course.
details to follow refer to .pdf document available as a downloadable attachement at the foot of this document