[atlantaprog] Eyedrum's improv night

I just came back from sitting in at my first Eyedrum open improv night, and I must tell all of you folks looking for musicians to play with, this is a potential goldmine! Twenty or so musicians of all types all take turns going up onstage and improvising in twos and threes for about 5 minutes each. Other musicians come on from time to time, and others go off, and in the end everyone is up there and the organizer of the event, Robert Cheatham, stands out front and conducts everyone into an amazingly coherent soundscape. There were two electric bassists and one acoustic bassist, a theremin player, four or five guitarists, two sax players, a couple of trumpets, three or more vocalists (strangely no drummer tonight), and though there were moments it approached dissonant chaos, more times than not it was sublime. They do this every month and they say it's different every time. Sometimes there are more jazzers, other times the rockers dominate, sometimes it's noisemongers and techno heads, but Robert keeps everything balanced and in perspective.

One thing that surprised me was that many of these people weren't in regular groups. So any of you looking for interesting players to work with, this might be a good resource. Visit the Eyedrum (eyedrum.org) website and you can find out when the next one is happening.


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