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News & Future's

December 2007:

• As we head towards Xmas we still have several sessions to come: Snap, vocal play and an opportunity for new-comers @ the Splash Gig at mello mello on Thursday 20th December [ splash link ] . This may also become a season party with drinks and pies! see you there.
• "The Commons" : Frakture's open sessions in Free Improvisation have been dropped due to lack of up-take and deferred to another time and place. A good idea that awaits its time...

Workshops

SNAP: out of it. the nature and practice of free improvisation

Next session is Monday Dec 3rd @ the Cornerstone, 7.30 - 9.30 pm
Also at The Zion Centre Manchester: Dec 1st [ more info here ]

This session will investigate playing and not playing: interventions and the discussion phase will explore different styles of playing with. I have acquired some very sophisticated instruments to enable musicians to only play for 50% of the duration of each improvisation and exercise! we will explore this experience.

Reviews of previous sessions can be found on the frakture.org blog/forum, try here ; or here .

We can't solve your transport problems but if you find the Cornerstone difficult to travel too: contact swim@frakture.org and we may be able to car-share.

After several hints: I will finally record this session and make the recordings available to the [and only to] participants via web as mp3 or .flac files. I believe this will be great aid in personal development for newcomers and participants in the sessions: i.e. listening back to the recording of the sessions you participated in.

Hope to see you all there, again: if you can't attend it is always appreciated to let us know: email swim@frakture.org etc.

Please arrive on time: if required bring extension cables : also bottled water helps!

Web Links
Snap out of it home page: http://www.frakture.org/hope1/snap.htm
Snap: session brief / outline, [ go here]
Snap: schedule 07/08 including download[ go here]
Snap: out of it! What happens next [ go here ]

Vocal Play : creative voice workshops

Next session : mello mello jazz bar, slater street, liverpool L1
£2.00 Time: 1.00pm -3.00pm

Vocal Play invites you to celebrate the voice in a session driven by free improvisation and a sense of play, no singing experience is necessary, just PLAY. All welcome

To play might mean: to do it now, as you are; to improvise, to use what is at hand; to enter into a game, not just to act according to someone else's set of rules, but to invent processes, ways of doing things, protocols; to imagine new ways of being together, of proceeding.

Please arrive 10 minutes before the session in order to start on time. It is advisable to bring a drink of water with you.

Web - link:
Vocal Play Homepage [ go here]

People with Instruments:
Delivered by: Everyday Music (Manchester) & Frakture Liverpool

Maybe the first of many collaborations by SWIM/Frakture outside the boundaries of Liverpool? This is an exciting collaboration with Martin Milner of everyday music and is aimed a both "workshop trainers" and practioners. Hope to see there, phil morton
More info & programme [here]

Location: Zion Arts Centre, Manchester, M15 5ZA
Saturday December 1 st 2007. 10.00 am – 16.30 pm

Arrive at 10.00 am for registration.
The first session starts at 10.30am. The day ends at 4.30 pm
Full day: £15 (£10 concessions (Includes lunch)
Half day: £10 (£7.50 concessions)
Concessions include: MU, Sound Sense, Music Leader members; students and unemployed

To book please call Andrea Ahimie-Carthy at Music Leader North West on 0161 236 0364 :
To book via email: north-west@musicleader.net

Ensembles

The Frakture Big Band
The SWIM/Frakture package offers a range of exciting opportunities for musicians interested in a creative music practice involving a range of styles; free improvisation, "risks", graphic scores and experimental notations. The Frakture Big Band recently returned to form with a successful performance with former Can-man Damo Suzuki at The Magenet: Hardman Street.

The Frakture Big Band's next outing will be in March 2008: two rehearsals + performance + recording. The process of recruiting personnel and participation will depend upon the concert programme selected.
Interested in creative music making in a large ensemble format?
Send an email to swim @ frakture.org: call 0151 709 6123
Web Links: http://www.frakture.org/ensembles/fbb.htm

Publicity

Web Site(s) News

Myspace.com

Vocal Play @ http://www.myspace.com/vocalplay

Vocal play myspace sites up-dated with sound-files from Frakture & Vocal Play sessions. Two tracks feature Maggie Nicols with the Frakture Big Band: one track "sustain" is a workshop favourite from the John Stevens workshop book "Search and Reflect". Whilst our new "newspaper group" delivers part one of many renditions of maybe called: Here it is in writing! have a look, maybe become a friend...

Frakture Forums
2B found within frakture.org site [here] contain reviews of past workshops, still in their "beta" development phase some forum topics allow anyone to contribute..

Feral Choir Video
short clip from the Feral Choir @ Frakture to be found here

 

Support

SWIM: is a new subset of Frakture exploring the area of Free Improvisation within workshops, in a variety of settings ;formal; non-formal, and informal. SWIM's main current activity is the delivery of workshops for Frakture, we are now looking to expand delivery to third parties and build upon the successes we have already have.

SWIM is operated by Phil Morton, following Anne Marie Howard departure from SWIM is now recruiting other team members to co-run SWIM and its activities. If interested contact him of swim @ frakture.org or 0151 709 6123. Or just pass it on..

WEB presence: http://www.frakture.org/swim.htm

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