Educational resources
Videos and documentaries
- Pass the Sound: shared learning resource, offering free warm-up, skills, creative, and workshop exercises for musicians to use whilst facilitating group music-making contexts.
- On the Edge: Improvisation in Music: BBC documentary films on improvisation by Derek Bailey.
- Exploring through improvisation the harmonic structure of Bach 3rd cello suite prelude: David Dolan's 60th Birthday Concert Celebrating the revival of Classical Improvisation.
- Improvising Medicine: a lecture with live demonstrations about links between improvisational attitude in medical practice and music performance (Professor Roger Kneebone for Gresham College).
Blogs and articles
- Ed Sarath: blog on Improvisation, Creativity and Consciousness
- METRIC Improvisation Glossary: a detailed guide on the improvisation terminology used in the METRIC Project.
Books
- Music Theory Through Improvisation - A New Approach to Musicianship Training, by Ed Sarath. The book is complemented by a website with additional media material.
- Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music, by Derek Bailey
- Fantasies of Improvisation - Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music by Dana Gooley.
- Musical Improvisation and Open Forms in the Age of Beethoven byGianmario Borio, Angela Carone.
Events
- Future Workshop 2017 Improvisation by KUG Graz - Documents and film material from the event
- Improvisation in the Exploratorium Berlin: concerts, workshops & courses, ensembles, open sessions, discussions and a library.