| ImprovFriday is an ongoing web-based music-sharing event, started this past spring by J.C.Combs. For about 48 hours beginning Friday mornings (whether that's Hungary, the U.S.A. or Australia, we're not too picky), musicians of any and all stripes gather on the web and share newly created work. The idea is to make improvisations, but the idea of improvisation is interpreted much more loosely than is used by more traditional jazz and pop styles (though it can perfectly accomodate these, too).
The pieces here are all mash-ups I made during the sessions, using that week's contributions from the other IF players around the world. Each musician's contribution for that week was a self-contained track, played completely separately from all the others. I did the arranging (the "ikebana", I like to call it), but none of this wonderful sound would exist without the creativity and generosity of these musicians. |
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| 01--> | Gyászének (Ildiko) | Shane W. Cadman, Jeff Duke, Benjamin Smith, Bruce Hamilton | |
| 02--> | Badlands | Bruce Hamilton, Jeff Duke, Steve Moyes | |
| 03--> | All through the night | Jeff Harrington, Steve Moshier, Token Wonder, Build, Roman Opalka | |
| 04--> | Steamroller mantra | Adam Kondor, Shane W. Cadman, Steve Moyes, Richard Lainhart | |
| 05--> | Kind of brew | Chris Becker, Benjamin Smith, J.C. Combs | |
| 06--> | Lux aeterna | Joseph Benzola, Paul Muller, Benjamin Smith, Shane W. Cadman | |
| 07--> | Chorale ("The Mighty") | Shane W. Cadman, Paul Bailey | |
| 08--> | Music Box | Shane W. Cadman, Paul Muller, Adam Kondor, Steve Layton | |
| 09--> | Ascent | Shane W. Cadman, Paul Muller, Benjamin Smith | |
| 10--> | Empire | Shane W. Cadman, Paul Muller, Bruce Hamilton, Benjamin Smith | |
| 11--> | Overland | Shane W. Cadman, Lee Noyes, Steve Moyes, Jeff Duke | |
| 12--> | Sidetracked | Bruce Hamilton, Shane W. Cadman, Steve Moyes, J.C. Combs, Paul Muller | |
| 13--> | One November to another | Bruce Hamilton, Steve Moyes, Charles Turner, Adam Kondor | |
| 14--> | Hope | Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Joseph Benzola, J.C. Combs, Adam Kondor, Bruce Hamilton | |
| 15--> | Babel | Jane Martin, Shane W. Cadman, Bruce Hamilton, Adam Kondor | |
| 16--> | Piano Variations variation | Steve Moyes, Paul Muller, Bruce Hamilton, Aaron Copland | |
| 17--> | Ophelia | Paul Muller, Lee Noyes, Steve Moyes, J.C. Combs | |
| 18--> | Five voices | Thomas Bjřrnseth, Bruce Hamilton, Lee Noyes, Adam Kondor, Steve Layton | |
| 19--> | Up the river | Benjamin Smith, Shane W. Cadman, Bruce Hamilton, Joseph Benzola, Lee Noyes | |
| 20--> | Slaybells | Benjamin Smith, J.C. Combs, Bruce Hamilton, Paul Muller | |
| 21--> | Funhouse | Benjamin Smith, Jeff Duke, Johnny Porto, Joseph Benzola | |
| 22--> | The uncontrollable mystery | Benjamin Smith, Canary Burton, Bruce Hamilton, W.B. Yeats | |
| 23--> | Morning sidewalk | Benjamin Smith, Paul Muller, Jane Martin | |
| 24--> | Come together | Paul Muller, Benjamin Smith, Ken Palmer, Shane W. Cadman, Adam Kondor | |
| 25--> | Argo Navis | Lee Noyes, Greg Hooper | |
| 26--> | The library of Babel | Adam Kondor, Benjamin Smith, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Shane W. Cadman | |
| 27--> | Spaceship | Benjamin Smith, Lee Noyes, Steve Moshier, Token Wonder | |
| 28--> | Catherine wheels | Shane W. Cadman, Steve Moyes, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Paul Muller | |
| 29--> | Fever dream | Paul Muller, Johnny & Faith, Adam Kondor | |
| 30--> | Sense darkly urge forward | Lee Noyes (digital treatment by Steve Layton) | |
| 31--> | Bethlehem 2009 | Shane W. Cadman, Bruce Hamilton, Jane Martin | |
| 32--> | Tampered evidence | Ted Serios, Paulo Chagas, Lee Noyes, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz |