Free Improvisation (Free Improv) – Drift Etiquette Sessions | Studying Jazz

Описание: Free improvisation / free improv for studying, focus and deep work — non-idiomatic jazz-adjacent sessions built from real-time listening, timbre, texture and risk. No chord chart, no head, no fixed meter: the form emerges from micro-gestures, silence, density shifts and collective decision-making (extended techniques, breath tones, friction, harmonics, prepared sounds, room tone).

This is Studying Jazz #037 – Free Improvisation (Free Improv): a disciplined study of “music without a preset grammar,” shaped by the 1960s–70s European/British lineage (AMM / SME), the “instant composition” attitude (ICP), graphic-score thinking (Cardew / Earle Brown), and later ultra-quiet reductionist currents (Onkyō / Off Site). Everything here is original music — the references are style anchors, not quotations.

Production (process-coded)
Close-mic detail, audible room, wide dynamic range, minimal processing, no beat grids, no pop mastering. The last two tracks are presented as live captures: hotter peaks, more spill, and the human noise of a real room.

Tracklist (Click to Jump)
0:00 Drift Etiquette: The First Silence
2:50 Non-Idiomatic Entry Signal
5:26 Tabletop Guitar Workshop
12:08 Treatise Lines in the Dark
17:38 December 1952, Reheard
25:39 Rubber Stamp Arcs
33:14 Topography of the Lungs (Study Take)
38:48 Little Theatre Rules
46:50 Cut-Up Instant Composition
49:52 Misregistered Ink Storm
53:43 Contact Mic Constellations
58:20 Pointillist Decisions
1:06:22 Lowercase Room Temperature
1:11:14 Off Site: Almost Nothing
1:13:15 Systems Diagram of Listening
1:18:03 Tape-Splice Afterimage
1:22:25 Live at the Quiet Room: Applause Delayed (LIVE)
1:26:58 Live Archive Finale: The Silence Returns (LIVE)

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Drift Archives Note
A silent space raccoon archivist recovered a holo-tube labeled “#037 – Free Improvisation”, cleaned the signal, and filed it at the Intergalactic Jazz Academy as required listening. What you hear is that restored transmission.

Quick references (style anchors)
– Derek Bailey: non-idiomatic improvisation as method, not genre
– AMM / SME: collective listening, texture-first interaction
– ICP: “instant composition” cuts and scene changes
– Cardew / Earle Brown: graphic-score imagination and open form
– Onkyō / Off Site: reductionism, micro-sound, disciplined quiet

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Contact & Collaboration
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