In the beginning there was Frakture, then The Frakture Big Band, and then The Frakture Festival...

Now there is,

Management Team

or is it a Board of Directors. Adam Webster & Phil Morton: Neil Murphy is a sleeping partner, who has now been a sleep a long time.

Steering Group

Garfield Southall, Phil Morton, Adam Webster, Phil Lucking.

Administration

Currently: @ May 2007 Frakture is currently managed on a voluntary basis. There is funding for days finance work per month! The "work" that is involved, from developing key relationships with our partners through to "who washes the dishes" is currently the subject of an organisational review and recruitment campaign. The later being difficult when you have so little funding.

Moving on: The short answer is that Frakture is currently administered by Adam Webster & Phil Morton

The Office

The arrival of the Frakture Office: a temp. office in Falkner Street during 2005 transformed the organisation and enabled ideas to develop and unfinished business to be attended to. This was the idea of Pat Nicholl. The move to a funded proper office in June 2006 has further moved the organisation on significantly. The ability to finance the office and part time staff is a major objective for Frakture.org

Frakture Concerts,

A series of monthly concerts of Free Improvised Music, usually featuring "out of town" visiting or touring artists, with local support. Managed by the Frakture Concerts Team

Frakture Annual Festival

Currently a series of concerts close together: usually three. Currently the scheduled for the first weekend in October [link] Managed by the Frakture Concerts Team

Splash Gigs

A series of concerts featuring 2 or more sessions per night by different groups mainly drawn from the Frakture network of musicians playing free improvised music in the northwest, and providing an opportunity for public performances for musicians who attend the workshops; to try out new ideas..
Managed by the Frakture Concerts Team
[ web-link]

Ensembles

Half the sky: a group consisting 50/50 gender split. Ranging in size from 2 upwards with an even number, currently managed by Phil Morton [ web-link]
Frakture Big Band [ see link] A large format band that reinvents itself every time it happens! has a different history.
Currently managed by Adam Webster, Phil Morton.

SWIM:
Sound workshops in music.

Swim is the education and participation department of Frakture. It runs workshops for the Frakture Network of musicians and reaches out to third parties. It operates both as a funded organisation and as a business that seeks to receive earned income from third parties:

SWIM currently operates: SNAP: out of it, Vocal Play, i:Object and hopes to launch the R & D sessions in 2007 (research and development).
SWIM is managed by Phil Morton.

Frakture Records CD Label

The Frakture CD label [ temp name] has two issues featuring The Frakture Big Band and Carlos Zingaro. Currently negotiating two releases by Noise Club & Bonehouse; plus devising a range of packages aimed at musicians. Currently Managed by Ray Dickaty & Phil Morton & Garfield Southall.
[ Web Link]

Listening Room

The Listening Room is strictly speaking Phil Morton's private project. It has received support from Roger Parry from the beginning and to quote Phil Hargreaves " is a unique club". It is also perceived by all as part of Frakture. Main features are:
Soundwalks: led by Phil Morton
CD shows, the nature and practice of Free Improvisation delivered by Roger Parry.

The Web site

Http://www.frakture.org : this is it, the burden of Phil Morton;

Frakture.org Development Team

This development team is grappling with the dynamics of the Future of Frakture.

• Where do we want to go?
• How do we want to get there?
• Who is going to do the work?

This is a tough agenda: the following remain in the dialogue. Adam Webster, Garfield Southall, Phil Lucking, Phil Morton, 

updated: October 30, 2007