LINEUP 6:45   Brett Bottomley  Chapman Stick 7:15   Carl Testa / Anne Rhodes  Electronics & Voice 7:30   Light Upon Blight  Uncompromising Volcano 8:00   Guitar Trio E  Electric Guitar Trio 8:30   Daniel Levin and Juan Pablo Carletti   Cello / Percussion Wonders 9:00   The Sawtelles  Nerve Rock 9:30   Mayhem Circus Electric  Avant Funkified Filth 10:00   The Après-Garde Ensemble   Trier/Babb et al 10:30   ELECTRONHIC  Evanescent Power 11:00   Fuchsprellen  Tossing Foxy Sounds 11:30   Numbers Station Number Seven  Large Ensemble & Conduction

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NHIC HISTORY

On Monday, January 31^st, 2005 the New Haven Improvisers Collective came into being with the first open workshop.  Several musicians, many meeting for the first time, got together and started experimenting.  Ten years later, the collective is still going strong with more than 50 musicians having taken part at one time or another in workshops and performances.    There has been a workshop on the last Monday of every month at Never Ending Books at 810 State Street in New Haven for the last decade (with very rare exceptions),   Many workshops welcome new members.

 

There have been workshops with 15 musicians jammed into any spot they could find.  There have been workshops with 2 musicians on a snowy winter night braving the elements to keep the music going.  There have been special workshops focusing on composing for improv, on graphic scores, on the language music of Anthony Braxton, the game pieces of John Zorn, Stockhausen’s improv experiments, John Stevens rhythm exercises and the conduction work of Butch Morris.  Most workshops feature home grown exercises and free improvisation, welcoming to anyone who can play.  Reading music is not required (although it sometime helps) but a sense of adventure and generosity is.   Local composers including Nate Trier, Carl Testa, Adam Matlock, Jeff Cedrone and many others have tried out their music here and honed their skills with feedback that only live musicians can give.

 

A feature in the New York Times described one workshop in 2009. NY TIMES NHIC 
The daily nutmeg also featured NHIC recently.  DAILY NUTMEG NHIC

  

NHIC got off to a great start in the Fall of 2005 with a concert featuring the Conduction of Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris.  An eleven-piece NHIC ensemble worked with Mr. Morris over a few weeks, learned his conduction language and presented Conduction No153, New Haven, in the inaugural year of Firehouse12.  A recording of this and all of Mr. Morris’s conductions is in the Library of Congress.  Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris died in January of 2013 and is fondly remembered by a grateful group of musicians in New Haven. NHIC CONDUCTION