An MP3 blog of free improvisation / free noise, mainly saxophones and computer but with a few extras thrown in. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/ Two more tracks from the 2010 session, this time with saw and computer processing. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#fritz2 No deposit, No Return: Duo release of a 33' tenor sax and percussion piece from the same sauna recording as Doghouse Reilly. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#fritz Documentation recording of the concert we did at Reid Concert Hall in Edinburgh. We're a very mixed ensemble, with a constantly changing lineup; we've been playing together for a year at this point. Everyone played really well here, which was very gratifying. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#edimpro1 Fritz is the first person other than myself to record in my sauna / home studio. Doghouse Reilly has formal discipline; it was recorded in one take and displays both snare and vocal inventiveness of impressive variety. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#fritz Here's a more gentle one from the Christophe Fellay session. Mixed and mastered March 2010. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#flutter From an electronics trio we did as a side session during lapslap's Zuppa Inglese recordings. This is what happens when Karin can't make it (pretty noisy stuff). Thanks to John Irvine for provoking us and waiting patiently for this mix. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#smut Marcus returned to Edinburgh to give an amazing concert and workshop. He premiered a new piece of mine for tenor sax and computer processed sound. We also did a short improv. There's no way I was going to play sax next to this maestro so I had to pull out the the old fisher price clarinet and stick it into the laptop...Marcus does a startling glissando in here; I almost forgot that I was supposed to be playing when I heard it. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#way-off-limits Bit of fire music here. An impromptu session recorded when Christophe was visiting Edinburgh. Not the best room acoustic/recording but I'm doing my best to get something out of these as there's some good music I think. More to come. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#cheap space: beast's polar opposite: tenor breath and resonance http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#beast beast: tenor with a bad throat http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#beast Selmer Mk6 alto, 1958, no.3: jordan's summer http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#jordan creepy uncle: close-miked lip-smacking soprano http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#creepy slippage: sweet little soprano, hardly ever gets nasty. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#slippage Selmer Mk6 alto, 1958, no.2: pace http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#pace Selmer Mk6 alto, 1958....nice.... http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#yellow High squeeky soprano legging it all over the place and nowhere. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#legging Bit of tenor, lexicon, and subharmonic synth...no editing...no laptop...just hardware. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#stutter Electric Cowboy Cacophony live at Nuits d'hiver, Marseille, 19.12.08 http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#ecc-nuits Electric Cowboy Cacophony live at the Dialogues Festival, Edinburgh, 15.11.08 http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#ecc-dialogues Electric Cowboy Cacophony have released their first album on DVD-Audio and CD. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#ecc lapslap played a set in the Atrium of Alison House, Edinburgh, on October 1st 2008. Listen here. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#atrium YouTube videos of the performance with Sarah Nicolls, piano, and Chiristophe Fellay, drums http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#fellay La Leque, Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#leque Marcus Weiss and Michael Edwards in duo, Gare du Nord: Bahnhof fuer Neue Musik, Basel, Switzerland http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#off-limits Manon Liu Winter, amplified clavichord; Michael Edwards, computer. Final Concert of the 10th Mittersill Composers' Forum, 2005. http://www.michael-edwards.org/improv/index.html#mm