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AMM (group)

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AMM is a British free improvisation group that was founded in London, England, in 1965. [1]

43 relations: Albert Ayler, AllMusic, Alvin Curran, Christian Wolff (composer), Christopher Hobbs, Cornelius Cardew, David Jackman, Eddie Prévost, Elektra Records, Erstwhile Records, Evan Parker, Experimental music, Extended technique, Frederic Rzewski, Free improvisation, Free jazz, Hard bop, Harmony, Jazz, John Butcher (musician), John Gilmore (musician), John Tilbury, Keith Rowe, Live electronic music, Lou Gare, Maoism, Melody, Michael Nyman, Mike Westbrook, Minimalism, Morton Feldman, Musica Elettronica Viva, Musical instrument, Ornette Coleman, Paul McCartney, Quintet, Richard Teitelbaum, Rohan de Saram, Royal College of Art, Sachiko M, Steve Lacy, Stylus Magazine, The Beatles.

Albert Ayler

Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alvin Curran

Alvin Curran (born December 13, 1938) is an American composer.

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Christian Wolff (composer)

Christian G. Wolff (born March 8, 1934) is an American composer of experimental classical music.

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Christopher Hobbs

Christopher Hobbs (born 9 September 1950) is an English experimental composer, best known as a pioneer of British Systems music.

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Cornelius Cardew

Cornelius Cardew (7 May 193613 December 1981) was an English experimental music composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble.

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David Jackman

David Jackman is a British musician and visual artist with an extensive catalogue of drone works, mostly as the principal — and often sole — member of Organum.

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Eddie Prévost

Eddie Prévost (Edwin John) (born Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, 22 June 1942) is an English percussionist noted for founding and participating in the AMM free improvisation group.

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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Erstwhile Records

Erstwhile Records is an independent record label devoted to free improvisation, particularly the electroacoustic variety, and contemporary, experimental composed music, and combinations of both.

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Evan Parker

Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British saxophone player who plays free jazz.

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Experimental music

Experimental music is a general label for any music that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.

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Extended technique

In music, extended technique is unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.

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Frederic Rzewski

Frederic Anthony Rzewski (born April 13, 1938 in Westfield, Massachusetts) is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.

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Free improvisation

Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician(s) involved.

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Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 60s as musicians attempted to alter, extend, or break down jazz convention, often by discarding fixed chord changes or tempos.

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Hard bop

Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music.

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Harmony

In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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John Butcher (musician)

John Butcher (born 1954 in Brighton, England) is an English tenor and soprano saxophone player who has lived in London since the late 1970s.

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John Gilmore (musician)

John Gilmore (September 28, 1931 – August 20, 1995) was an avant-garde jazz saxophonist known for his tenure with keyboardist/bandleader Sun Ra from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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John Tilbury

John Tilbury (born 1 February 1936) is a British pianist.

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Keith Rowe

Keith Rowe (born 16 March 1940 in Plymouth, England) is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter.

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Live electronic music

Live electronic music (also known as live electronics) is a form of music that can include traditional electronic sound-generating devices, modified electric musical instruments, hacked sound generating technologies, and computers.

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Lou Gare

Lou Gare, born Leslie Arthur Gare (16 June 1939 – 6 October 2017) was an English free-jazz saxophonist born in Rugby, Warwickshire, perhaps best known for his works with the improvised music ensemble AMM and playing with musicians such as Eddie Prévost, Mike Westbrook, Cornelius Cardew, Keith Rowe and Sam Richards.

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Maoism

Maoism, known in China as Mao Zedong Thought, is a political theory derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong, whose followers are known as Maoists.

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Melody

A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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Michael Nyman

Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for numerous film scores (many written during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway), and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano.

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Mike Westbrook

Michael John David Westbrook (born 21 March 1936) is an English jazz pianist, composer, and writer of orchestrated jazz pieces.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music, and other mediums, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer.

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Musica Elettronica Viva

Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) is a live acoustic/electronic improvisational group formed in Rome, Italy, in 1966.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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Ornette Coleman

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Quintet

A quintet is a group containing five members.

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Richard Teitelbaum

Richard Lowe Teitelbaum (born May 19, 1939) is an American composer, keyboardist, and improvisor.

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Rohan de Saram

Deshamanya Rohan de Saram (born 9 March 1939) is a British-born Sri Lankan cellist.

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Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, in the United Kingdom.

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Sachiko M

Sachiko Matsubara (Japanese: 松原 幸子; born 1973), better known by her stage name Sachiko M, is a Japanese musician.

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Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy (July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004), born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone.

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Stylus Magazine

Stylus Magazine was an online music and film magazine launched in 2002.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMM_(group)

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