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Improv.hu

Dissonance of today is the consonance of tomorrow - Wassily Kandinsky

About Me


Improv.hu is a regularly updated on-line magazine - founded in 2002 - devoted to present, support and popularize the finest cuts in creative jazz, electro-acoustic improvised music and experimental electronica. There are news, recording and gig reviews, interviews and articles in Hungarian. Some of the latest album reviews:
- Werchowska | Pontévia | Boubaker - Décalage Vers Le Rouge
- Masayoshi Urabe - Ware Wa Seidai No Kyojyo Zo
- Pierre Bastien - Les Premiéres Machines 1968-1988
- Albrecht Maurer Trio Works - Movietalks
- Agustí Martínez - Are Spirits What I Hear?
- Mike Hansen - At Every Point
- Gilbert Isbin | Jeff Gauthier | Scott Walton - Venice Suite
- eRikm - Variations Opportunistes
- Herman Müntzing - DeConstruCt: 10 Solo Pieces
- Erdem Helvacioglu - Altered Realities
- Norbert Stein Pata Music played by NDR Bigband - Graffiti Suite
- Rovo - Condor
- Carnival Skin - Carnival Skin
- Gary Hassay | Paul Rogers - To Be Free
- Jeff Arnal | Gordon Beeferman - Rogue States
- Trafo - Relais
- Lilliput Orkestra - La Méduse
- Laurent Rochelle - Conversations á Voix Basse
- Fathmount - 6-String Renderings (Two)
- Kontext - Rückblende
- Georgian Contemporary Unit - The View You Never Get
- Tog - An Unacceptable Color
- [guÿôm] - Cacelorazo
- Tutu Combo | Heddy Boubaker - Le Grain De L'avoine
- Klaus Janek - Caspar
- SS Puft Quartet With Dave Rempis - Live At Earthshaking Music
- Mary Halvorson | Jessica Pavone - Prairies
- Ernesto Rodrigues | C. Sehnaoui | S. Sehnaoui - Sable
- Ernesto Rodrigues | Hans W. Koch - Nostalgia
- Günter Müller | Jason Kahn | Christian Wolfarth - Drumming
- John Zorn - Book Of Angels Volume 2: Azazel
- John Zorn - Book Of Angels Volume 1: Astaroth
- Jeff Platz's Bright Light Group
- Jeff Platz's Skull Session - Rise Above
- Sébastien Cirotteau | Heddy Boubaker - Vortex
- John Zorn - Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass
- Mitchell Akiyama - Small Explosions That Are Yours To Keep
- Los Glissandinos - Stand Clear
- Franz Hautzinger | Mazen Kerbaj - Abu Tarek
- Ferran Fages | Alfredo Costa Monteiro | Ruth Barberán - Istmo
Improv.hu also organizes small, no-budget gigs for musicians and media artists involved in improvised art. The performances are staged in Szeged at the cinema hall of Grand Café. Some shots on the latest concerts:
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Improv.hu also runs an hour long radio show at Szeged's Radio MI on every Thursday from 10 to 11 PM (GMT + 1 hour) entitled "Musique Grotesque" presenting and promoting the freshest and most exciting tunes in improvised music. Some of the latest shows:
Musique Grotesque | 2008. June 19.
- Gravitones & Strings - Gasaku
- Tony Coe / Tony Oxley & Co. - Bub Or Run
- Hal Rammel / John Corbett / Terri Kapsalis - Tae Kwon Do
- Toshinori Kondo - Fumu
- Jim O'Rourke - Mere: Part 3
- Supersilent - 4.7
- Urs Leimgruber / Jacques Demierre / Barre Phillips - Forwaard
- Trio-X (J. McPhee / D. Duval / J. Rosen) - Little Sunflower
- Sean Bergin's Quintet - Wish You Sunshine
Musique Grotesque | 2008. June 12.
- Evan Parker / Eddie Prévost - Rejecting Simple Enumeration
- Anthony Pateras / Robin Fox - Aphasia
- Ute Wassermann / Birgit Ulher - Stoff 6
- Elpa - Moleaulostitchism 3
- Anthony Braxton / Derek Bailey - The Second Set, Area 8
- Steve Lacy's Saxophone Special + - Revolutionary Suicide
- Edward Artemiev - Mosaic
- Ignaz Schick / Andrea Neumann - Petit IV
- Omnid - Cermic Nikra
- Keith Rowe / Oren Ambarchi - Flypaper III
Musique Grotesque | 2008. June 05.
- eRikm / Akosh S. - Zufall, Part 3
- Kolkhöze Printanium - Fsy Tokyo
- Roberto Fega - Rifaccio Il Bucato
- Lee Ranaldo - Time Stands Still
- Georg Gräwe / Marcio Mattos / Michael Vatcher - Stream
- Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg / K. Vanderstaeten / J. Demey - Ni
- Ryonkt - Colored Leaf
- Lasse Marhaug - Visible Only Through The Keyholes
- Wood Made Sounds - Dry Leafs Began To Fall
- eRikm / Akosh S. - Zufall, Part 4
Musique Grotesque | 2008. May 29.
- Masashi Harada Trio - Implosion Vortex
- Erik Friedlander - The Palace Of Pleasures
- Trio Braam de Joode Vatcher - Snitch An Egg, Soh
- Kato Hideki / Ikue Mori / Fred Frith - Prophecy
- Olivia Block - Mobius Fuse, Pt. 2
- Steve Beresford - Those Oldies But Goodies Remind Me Of You
- Joao Pedro Oliveira - Silence To Light
- Dekoboko Hajime & Eye - Bad Hawkwind
- Trio Braam de Joode Vatcher - Angsts, Once High
- Masada String Trio - Malkhut (live at Warsaw Summer Jazz Days)
- Blaise Siwula Trio - Circle Down
Listen to the last 10 shows: http://www.improv.hu/downloads

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


Derek Bailey, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Tom Cora, Hugh Davies, Luc Ferrari, Király Ernö, Peter Kowald, Steve Lacy, Paul Rutherford and all the dead heroes...

Music:

Tetuzi Akiyama, Jeff Arnal, Alexandre Babel, Derek Bailey, Ruth Barberán, Tim Barnes, Claus van Bebber, Gordon Beeferman, Han Bennink, Hervé Birolini, Olivia Block, Alessandro Bosetti, Heddy Boubaker, Anthony Braxton, Peter Brötzmann, Kyle Bruckmann, César Burago, John Butcher, Kent Carter, Joseph Celli, Pedro Chambel, David Chiesa, Marilyn Crispell, Chris Cutler, Werner Dafeldecker, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Sascha Demand, Axel Dörner, Mark Dresser, Keiji Haino, Hamid Drake, Benjamin Duboc, Phil Durrant, Masafumi Ezaki, Kai Fagaschinski, Ferran Fages, Christian Fennesz, Nicolas Field, Klaus Filip, Chris Forsyth, Fred Frith, Wolfgang Fuchs, Cor Fuhler, Gianni Gebbia, Milford Graves, Georg Gräwe, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Mats Gustafsson, Mary Halvorson, Franz Hautzinger, Gerry Hemingway, Erik Hinds, Helge Hinteregger, John Hughes, Fred van Hove, Giuseppe Ielasi, Christoph Irmer, Jason Kahn, Henry Kaiser, Toshio Kajiwara, Zbigniew Karkowski, Grundik Kasyansky, Greg Kelley, Mazen Kerbaj, Jin Hi Kim, Harald Kimmig, Mari Kimura, Kovács Zsolt, Peter Kowald, Éric La Casa, Steve Lacy, Okkyung Lee, Thomas Lehn, Urs Leimgruber, Joëlle Léandre, George Lewis, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Michael Maierhof, Lou Mallozzi, Mat Maneri, Fala Mariam, Denman Maroney, Bob Marsh, Oren Marshall, Miya Masaoka, Wade Matthews, Misha Mengelberg, Raz Mesinai, Sei Miguel, Matthew Mitchell, Ikue Mori, Günter Müller, Herman Müntzing, Toshimaru Nakamura, Andrea Neumann, Mark O'Leary, Aki Onda, Jim O'Rourke, Bob Ostertag, Agnès Palier, Evan Parker, William Parker, Jessica Pavone, Edward Perraud, Emmanuel Petit, Jeff Platz, Steve Potts, Eddie Prévost, Gert-Jan Prins, Bhob Rainey, Lee Ranaldo, Peter Rehberg, Ernst Reijseger, Renato Rinaldi, Marc Ribot, Gino Robair, Laurent Rochelle, Ernesto Rodrigues, Marina Rosenfeld, Keith Rowe, Paul Rutherford, Carlos Santos, Lars Scherzberg, Ignaz Schick, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Marcus Schmickler, Damon Smith, Matthew Shipp, Sorés Zsolt, John Stevens, Hans Tammen, John Tchicai, Michael Thieke, John Tilbury, Rafael Toral, Olivier Toulemonde, Tóth Pál, Birgit Ulher, Ken Vandermark, Michael Vatcher, Nikos Veliotis, Michael Vorfeld, Michel Waisvisz, Weasel Walter, Ute Wassermann, Trewor Watts, Barry Weisblat, Nusch Werchowska, Christian Wolfarth, Nate Wooley, Jack Wright, Otomo Yoshihide, Ingar Zach, Michael Zerang, John Zorn etc.