Butch Morris, created conduction: the use of hand signals & gestures to direct free improvisation. Maybe contradictory and at times controversial.

SWIM: Sound Workshops in Music propose to introduce its methods and practice into sessions during 2009 either in workshops or special sessions with the Frakture Big Band.

Frakture "conduction" series is being developed by Matt Hamlett and Phil Morton, we welcome support from another musicians or session leader.

See the Frakture/Workshops Forum for more info go to "workshops" section, if you wish to attend the next session contact Phil Morton on 07999518582 / email office@frakture.org.

Here is the manual link, in PDF Format [ link to manual ]
The "conduction" bit kicks in: in and around page four.

Here is link to Butch Morris on film with examples of "conduction". He is featured in Derek Baileys exception series " On the edge" in part three [ link to On the Edge ]

You will have to find his section: which looks like section two of the Part 3 ...if you get my drift

Part 3 : A liberating thing
Broadcast 16 February 1992, concentrating on jazz based and free improvisation. With Max Roach at the Harlam School of the Arts; Butch Morris conducting (with, among others, Shelley Hirsch); Sang-Won Park and Korean music; Max Eastley's sound sculptures; Derek Bailey (solo and fleetingly with Phil Wachsmann, Steve Noble and Alex Ward); Steve Noble and Alex Ward duo; Nashville musicians including Buddy Emmons; Eugene Chadbourne.