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Free Improvisation

Free Improvisation is a genre. Free Improvisation grew out of Avant-garde, Free jazz and Avant-garde Jazz. Its influence carried into Free jazz, Noise Music, Experimental Music, Avant-garde Jazz and Contemporary Classical Music, which took the template somewhere else. The chart currently maps 8 connections around Free Improvisation. Open any neighbouring band or genre to trace where Free Improvisation came from and where it led.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Free ImprovisationAvant-gardeFree jazzAvant-garde JazzFree jazzNoise MusicExperimental MusicAvant-garde JazzContemporary Classic…

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Free Improvisation connections

Free Improvisation grew out of Avant-garde, Free jazz and Avant-garde Jazz, went on to shape Free jazz, Noise Music, Experimental Music and Avant-garde Jazz. 8 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

What influenced Free Improvisation

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Sounds and acts that shaped Free Improvisation.

What Free Improvisation shaped

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