Africa Open Improvising creates sound pieces on music instruments and playing human bodies, improvising 'as loose as this'. The collective plays live, but since successive waves of 2020 pandemic lockdowns they have improvised in online sessions, as well as in hybrid sessions. These explorations in technological meeting spaces have opened a wide number of options for social, geographical and geopolitical connectivity. Players are:
PH - Pierre-Henri Wicomb, prepared piano, prepared banjo, blocks, bells, etc.
NM - Neo Muyanga, korg trident synthesizer, sruti box
GE - Garth Erasmus, Khoi bows, bliknsnaar, kriollophone, zahn, pannerak, bass flute, mcinci, saxophone, etc.
EMP - Esther Marié Pauw, C-flute, G-flute, piccolo, Theo-fluit, rainstick, prepared angel's harp, etc.
VL - Visser Liebenberg, clarinet
SV - Stephanie Vos, voice
CV - Carina Venter, cello
CS - Cara Stacey, Swazi bows, mbira, flutes, etc.
CvdM - Cristelle van der Merwe, Djembe, Wilde Als (duo)
TvdM - Tertius van der Merwe, Acoustic guitar, Wilde Als (duo)
ML - Mo Laudi. Korg, synthesizer, etc.
LT - Likhona Tokota, tuba
JvZ - Jacques van Zyl (hashtag blacknoise), self built electronics
JP - John Pringle, percussion
BJ - Brent January - acoustic guitar
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