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The Forum for Improvised Music is an initiative promoting improvised music in Frankfurt.
Open stage for free improvisation
Following the performance by the ‘opener group’, the second part of the evening allows interested musicians to improvise and interact in various combinations.
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F.I.M. engages established musicians to improvise in various combinations (5 groups). These groups are supported by additional (+) guest musicians.
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To encourage networking F.I.M. invites national/international initiatives for improvised music once a year for a collective musical exchange.
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"Raumbespielungen"
Free interaction between musicians and dancers and improvisations open air and in public locations.
Female Duo
In an intimate concert setting, two protagonists of the national improvisation scene improvise in a duo format.
Monday, May 12, 2025: Open stage for free improvisation
Opener:
- Jo Jena - guitar,
- Bertram Ritter - drums
After a presentation by the opener, the stage is open to improv session musicians, who we put together in various formations.
To be able to play this demanding musical form at an appropriate level, we expect very good technical skills on the instrument.
Admission €7/€5, Kulturpass €1, session musicians free
About the opener:
Jo Jena (g) & Burtis Knight (a/k/a Bertram Ritter (dr) founded the duo “Schney” in 2016 at the Franken-Akademie Schloß Schney during a party in the basement of a Bundeswehr simulation room. They initially tried to get highly talented people dancing with loops, breakbeats and dub versions of children's songs (which succeeded in some cases).
During the pandemic, while the two musicians were unable to play together directly, they returned to free jazz and avant-garde, each in isolation. Ritter remembered his teacher Wolfgang Schliemann, Milford Graves and Rashied Ali as exemplary drummers. With the help of his teacher Elliott Sharp in NYC, Jena emancipated himself (once again) from neo-romantic modern jazz and Munich reverb flags. He also recorded Schoenberg's Six Little Piano Pieces op. 19 in a version for electric guitar.
The duo then released their debut album as Jo Jena & Burtis Knight on their own label imm records in 2023. Dedicated to the memory of Peter Brötzmann, it will be realized for the first time in free jazz concert form at FiM at Club Voltaire. Burtis Knight plays drums; Jo Jena plays guitar, effects and hook synthesizer.
Bertram Ritter has been playing drums since the age of 15. Member of FiM during its instantiation as frankfurts indeterminables musiqwesen (from 1995). Collaborations with Alfred 23 Harth, Tom Heurich, Daniel Franqe, Heinz Sauer, Jürgen Wuchner (United Colors of Bessungen). Founding member of the bands Q, Perfumed Chambers, Nachttierhaus and Das Grüne Hemd.
Jo Jena has been playing guitar since the age of 10. He has played jazz and funk guitar in various Frankfurt formations such as Nachttierhaus, Shaba and Flowarea. In Berlin, he was previously one of 100 electric guitarists with Rhys Chatham or made street music with Philipp Gropper.As a composer and studio tinkerer, he established imm records in 2003 as an independent platform for experimental music (Musik | jo jena/imm).
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