Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Festival IV

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra host their fourth annual festival at the CCA this November offering three days of performances, workshops and discussions that open up or re-frame improvisation in different contexts. Performances range from small and intimate to large scale vistas for orchestra and feature improvised encounters with films, video score, live remix and composition.

Full program here

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Jan Bang

Satoko Fujii

Renee' Baker

Andreas Gogol

Gliondar Ensemble

Rope and Duck Company,

Muris With Lumps & and Peter Nicholson

Miguel Carvalhais/Bill Wells/George Burt/Raymond MacDonald

Stuart Brown/Tom Bancroft/Chris Wallace/Fritz Welch Drum Quartet

We'll also be performing three new compositions written for the orchestra by Liene Rozite, George Burt and Emma Roche. And there will be a discussion chaired by the Dancehall Journal. Full program details to follow.

GIO Festival IV, 25th, 26th and 27th of November, CCA Glasgow, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow ( £6 per day £10 for 2 days)

GIO at the Sound Festival Aberdeen

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra are performing a new work at the Sound festival, Aberdeen in October.

With nearly ten years of concentrated listening and myriad collaborations under their belt Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra have collectively produced a large ensemble with a singular record in contemporary music. The performance at Sound will explore the ambiguities and contrasts in how improvisation and composition are conventionally viewed. The piece will focus on social relations as organising structures and, above all, listening.

Saturday 22nd October 20:30
Woodend Barn, Banchory

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