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

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 performing with ELISION, Huddersfield, November 2006.

Richard Haynes performing with ELISION, Huddersfield, November 2006.