Impro Festival celebrates new music and will feature this year's IMPRO CAMP participants and exciting bands from the national and international scene.

!FRIDAY!
14:00 DOORS
15:00 FREDAGSJAM - DAMA DAMA (FREE ENTRANCE)
19:00 LARS BECH PILGAARD GROUP
20:00 KAKAO INTENS
21:00 CAROLYN GOODWIN GROUP
22:00 EAT THE FROG x MNEME KOLLEKTIV

!SATURDAY!
14:00 DOORS
15:00 CHRISTIAN WINDFELD GROUP
16:00 STRØMMEN
17:00 SUSANA SANTOS SILVA GROUP
19:00 INGEBRIGT HÅKER FLATEN GROUP
20:00 JUST ANOTHER FOUNDRY
21:30 EXTEMPORIZE

ENTRANCE:
1 day ticket - 60 kr.
2 days ticket - 100 kr.

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15:00 CHRISTIAN WINDFELD GROUP

!Framed Improvisation, Reductionism and the sound of Silence!

This group has been working with the spectacular Danish drummer Christian Windfeld for a week during Impro Camp under the theme "Framed Improvisation, Reductionism and the sound of Silence".

Christian Windfeld is featured on more than 40 records, including five solo albums, and has toured extensively in Australia, North America and Europe. As a composer and sound artist he has created works for various installations and interdisciplinary performances and publications with writers, dancers and visual artists.

He has a minimalist but highly expressive approach to the percussive instruments often reducing his set-up to focus on just one instrument e.g. the snare drum to explore its full potential aiming to transcend the general perception of its capabilities.

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16:00 STRØMMEN

They move between the chaotic and the calm, and try to hit an energy where the melodies flow through them.
They have a musical space that is fundamentally safe so that they can both be brave and explore and feel each other.
They create a setting where they and the audience can have a moment of coexistence.

Line-up:
Bo Stief - electric bass, double bass & effects
Rasmus Mikkelsen - trumpet, flugelhorn, vocal & effects

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17:00 SUSANA SANTOS SILVA GROUP

!Flowing as water and moving as clouds!

This group has been working with the marvelous Portuguese trumpet player Susana Santos Silva for a week during Impro Camp under the theme "Flowing as water and moving as clouds".

Susana Santos Silva is a Portuguese trumpeter, improviser and composer based in Stockholm, Sweden.

"One of the most exciting improvisers in the world" - Downbeat

Susana has a singular artistic approach that comes out of a comprehensive spectrum of influences, from classical, improvised and contemporary music to jazz and textural sound art. She is interested in expanding the sonic possibilities of her instrument and creatively exploring the dissolution of boundaries of perception, genre and media. Much in demand, she has been working with an array of different projects and with musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, Joëlle Léandre, Mat Maneri, Paul Lovens, Hamid Drake, Catherine Christer Hennix and Ictus Ensemble, just to name a few.

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19:00 INGEBRIGT HÅKER FLATEN GROUP

!Improvisation?!

This group has been working with the incredible Norwegian bass player Ingebrigt Håker Flaten for a week during Impro Camp under the theme "Improvisation?".

The award winning Norwegian bassist, improviser, composer and bandleader Ingebrigt Håker Flaten has been at the forefront of modern creative music both in his native country Norway and internationally since the early 1990s. Perhaps best known as a founding member of the Scandinavian super groups Atomic and The Thing, Håker Flaten has merged post-free jazz explorations and experimentation with skillful use of attributes from many other idioms in countless collaborations, bands and projects.

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20:00 JUST ANOTHER FOUNDRY

Just three individuals, just a trio, just another jazz band which surprises constantly.

Their songlike originals provide the fundamentals from which they create. But this trio does not simply sound like drums, double bass and saxophone. They’re willed to demolish their elegant construct at any time and rebuild it abruptly in a manner which is fed by Hip-Hop, Pop, Free Jazz and Improv.

There are moments in which the typical rules of the instruments hardly apply or get altered heavily by swapping roles and using extended playing techniques. All this creates an authentic statement that goes beyond Just Another Foundry’s music. This is the music of the big cities and yet of their roots: a music that mirrors the fire of a new generation.

Press Quotes:
“This is what the future of German Jazz looks like.” - Oliver Hochkeppel, South German public newspaper (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

“Their effortless play with melodic finesse and rustic brutality already won the band some prices”- Uli Lemke, JazzThing

“Courage to go over the edge, to be not-sweet in the intense performance of this excellently interplaying trio”- Roland Spiegel, Bavarian public radio (Bayrischer Rundfunk)

Line-up:
Jonas Engel - saxophone
Florian Herzog - double bass
Anthony Greminger - drums

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21:30 EXTEMPORIZE

On this evening you can experience a concert of pure instant composing with the musicians particpating at IMPRO CAMP.
They will be conducted by Nana Pi Aabo-Kim with the music sign language Extemporize - a sign language system developed by Nana Pi. The signs consist of music elements like loop, register, dynamics, multiphonics, etc. and are going to be given by the conductor. The musical interaction is based on the structure of the conductor and the intuition of the respective musicians.

Links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtYDK_x_qWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaYw1Z4OP2M&t=420s

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Impro Festival is organized by The Community and supported by Musikaftenskolen Lillebælt, Tøjhuset, Den Kreative Skole, Pakhuset, Statens Kunstfond, Koda Kultur, EWII, Fredericia Kommune, William Demant Fonden, DMF Trekanten and Jazzpuljen.