When you IMPROVe your mobile phone, it turns into a music making device. Capture sonic material from the ether that surrounds you. Play it back in an improvisation session with your friends. Share your everyday soundscape and create new forms of music.

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By Erik Wistrand
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During spring 2008 we will run workshops with the music organization Musik i Väst in Göteborg. We will work with schools and museums in the Göteborg region.

The IMPROVe premier in Göteborg happens on Monday evening, 24 sep, at club Koloni. Koloni is this time at Restaurang Jord. Starts at 18.00.

Bring your punk attitude to Full Pull 07 this fall. The IMPROVe installation runs on the night of September 7th at Bergsgatan 29, Malmö. Tel: +46 40 306593.

Demo video of IMPROVe’s international exploits up for show at the Helsinki Festival. Walk in to the Sanoma-talo anyday between August 31st and September 11th 2007.

‘An inspirational gathering focusing on future sound’ is how the Sound Days event introduces itself. Thats where IMPROVe will be on June 7th and 8th 2007.

The singing voices of the ÄÄnenkannattajat choir will be performed by the choir members themselves through IMPROVed phones at the nature reserve of the Vanhakaupungin Lahti (Old City Bay) on Sunday, 20th May, between 1400 and 1500. The event is arranged by the Masters of Arts organisers.

Richard Widerberg and Zeenath Hasan, initiators of the IMPROVe project, celebrate their MA New Media status with their close friends and family at the turn to a cheerful Baltic summer. Their work is exhibited in the Masters of Arts exhibition at the Lume gallery in Helsinki from the 7th to the 27th of May 2007. More about their works here: R, Z.

Izmir Bazaar

Recently IMPROVe were part of a workshop at K2 art center in Izmir, Turkey. We had a performance at K2 where we used recordings of the bazaar in Izmir.

Listen to the performance:

Art’s Birthday Party 2007 broadcast live on Swedish Radio from Moderna Museet, Stockholm. IMPROVe compiles the Best of Europe from their ‘06 travels for Art, the gleefullest person on air tonight!

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