IMPROVISATIONS

This page features some of the live improvisations I’ve been involved with over the years.

Eventually it will include some solo improvisations and informal sketches – and anything else along those lines that I feel like sharing.

WILDBEAST IMPROVISATIONS 2012

Performers:

James Gardner: laptop and objects

Vinny Golia: assorted woodwinds

Glenda Keam: piano

Richard Nunns: taonga pūoro

Chris O'Connor: drums and percussion

recorded at Wild Beast, CalArts, Los Angeles, April 21 2012 as part of the 'NZ in LA' Festival.

1. Gardner/Nunns/O’Connor

2. Gardner/Golia/Nunns

3. Gardner/Golia/Keam/Nunns/O’Connor

L:R Richard Nunns, James Gardner, Vinny Golia

GARDNER AND HAYNES, HUDDERSFIELD 2006

Performers:

James Gardner: laptop
Richard Haynes: clarinet and bass clarinet

recorded at the University of Huddersfield, November 2006.

1. First cut

2. Second cut

3. Third cut

4. Fourth cut

Richard Haynes improvising. Image: Uli Templin

RICHARD BARRETT: CODEX I (2001)

for 6–12 improvising musicians

175 East with Richard Haynes

Performers:
Richard Haynes: clarinet and soprano saxophone
Andrew Uren: bass clarinet
Carl Wells: horn 
Tim Sutton: bass trombone 
James Gardner: laptop
Lachlan Radford: double bass

Performance 1: The Basement, Auckland, 13 August 2009

Performance 2: St Andrew’s on The Terrace, Wellington, 15 August 2009
recorded by RNZ Concert