The Improvisor 30th Anniversary

Improv Roulette, live from the Improvisor Festival in Birmingham, Alabama. Featuring Si Reasoning, Deborah Mauldin, Ashley Andrew, Jennifer Caputo, Celeste LaBorde, Rhea Speights, Stella Nystrom, Juliet Eastlick, LaDonna Smith, Alice Faye Love, Claire Barratt, Stephen McClurg, Davey Williams, Johnny Coley, Jimmy Griffin, Cliff McPeek and Misha Feigin.

Live free improvisation direct from Alabama. Rich Curtis performs vocal sound poetics, ambient noisescapes, recitations and improvisations. He will be accompanied by his students and friends. (Note: There is a 45 second silence at about 16:30 where we temporarily lost the phone connection. That's improv!)

Maria Mykolenko, structured improvisation solo for piano and violin. (Yes, a solo player playing two instruments at the same time!) Live from New York City.

Robyn Siwula, live solo improvisation from New York City

Humbucket: Live solo electronics improvisation from Los Angeles.

Children's Improv Orchestra, live from Pepper Place in Birmingham, Alabama. Conducted by SI Reasoning. (Note: We had a subtle technical problem at the very beginning of the show -- the sound recording improves after about the first four minutes.)

Jill Burton & “The Sisters”: vocal workshop. Live from the 2010 Improvisor Festival at Pepper Place in Birmingham, Alabama.

Piano Ann, live from Seattle (solo improvisation). (There is a one minute pause at about 4 minutes where we temporarily lost our phone connection. We were able to quickly reconnect. Of course, that's improv!)

Licia Sky, live solo improvisation from Massachusetts

Live music and sound improvisations. Features eight anonymous callers. (Though we did figure out who a few of them were.)

Live, from London, it's The Special Gusts! Paul Seacroft - Lapsteel guitar, bass guitar and sundry aleatory equipments; Josis Ayres - Symbols, cymbals, lampshades & Estuary RADA; Roger Barham - Gastric juices, flu, Coventry via Austin Morris Motors - think Big Ends, String Assemblage; Paul Hill - Gobwork. Gusts. The Book Mountain. R.d Laing's leftover primal orgasm. The Kurdish Revolutionary Chorus With East German Armpit Cheerleader are in the vicinity pending the Arrival of Really Existing Socialism and a Mythical Imagined Community.

SI Reasoning, solo improvisation. SI Reasoning's live solo improv was created by simultaneously playing a Yamaha WX5 wind synth and a Korg Wavedrum. Link to the high quality edition of this improv: http://tinyurl.com/3y2vrz8

From Michigan, it’s “The Bee”! (solo improvisation). (Show starts after 2 minute delay due to technical difficulties.)

Live broadcast from the improvisor parade in Birmingham, Alabama. Part 1 is from :00 to approximately :20 from the Forrest Park Shopping District. Then there is a gap of about 25 min of "silence" while the parade relocated. This is followed by live broadcast from Five Points South (starting at appx :45).

Live from NYC and elsewhere. Chris Kelsey, Robyn Siwula, LaDonna Smith, Chris Cochrane, Reuben Radding, Andrea Parkins, Blaise Siwula, Sean Meehan, Judy Dunaway, Matt Ostrowski and David First.

Live from NYC, Hawaii, New Zealand and elsewhere. Kiku Wada, David Watson, LaDonna Smith, Chris Cochrane, Reuben Radding, Andrea Parkins, Blaise Siwula, Sean Meehan, Matt Ostrowski and David First.

testing the system. lots of dead air, but some nice sax improvs by Chris Kelsey in between!

Chris Kelsey and Gene Ric getting ready for the start of the festival broadcasts.

Rick (trombone) and LaDonna (viola). Getting ready for the festival.