Africa Open Improvising

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:

PHW - 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)

Africa Open Improvising’s tracks

• Live Hybrid Play 6 2020 - 11 - 16 CS, EMP, GE, VL, CV, PH by Africa Open Improvising
• Live Play 5.3_2020 - 10 - 27 GE, PH, EMP by Africa Open Improvising
• Live Hybrid Play 20_2020-11-03 SV, EMP, PH by Africa Open Improvising
• Live Play 5.2_2020-10-27 PH, GE, EMP, VL by Africa Open Improvising
• Live Play 5.1_2020-09-27 PH, GE, EMP, VL by Africa Open Improvising
• Online Play 9_2020-07-22 PH, MP, VL, JR by Africa Open Improvising
• Live Play 4.2_2020-10-26 GE, MP, CvdM, TvdM by Africa Open Improvising
• Live Play 4.1_2020-10-26 GE, MP, CvdM, TvdM by Africa Open Improvising
• Live Play 2_ 2020-03-04 PH, GE, MP, VL, SV by Africa Open Improvising
• Live Play 3_2020-03-11 PH, GE, MP by Africa Open Improvising