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Below is a collection of links to other resources on the web which deal specifically with experimental music, free jazz and related stuff. If you have a site which contains relevant information, let us know. We don't carry links to artists' or labels' homepages here, mostly because the sites listed under meta-resources below already do an excellent job in that area. An exception is organisations which run labels but also provide other useful information or services online.
This page is divided up into broad types of resource:
Meta-Resources [being compilations of links, specialist search engines or other sites-about-sites]
Publications [being sites which carry journalistic content (like this one)]
Internet Radio [being places to hear, as well as read about, creative music of all kinds]
Shops [being a motley collection of shops which specialise in the strange, rare and exotic]
Regional Organisations [being musicians' co-opperatives or other sites of national/local interest]
Organisations [being sites carrying info like gig calendars, studies, essays etc]
Mailing Lists [being email-based resources for more advanced users]If you need to translate pages on the web between English and French, German, Italian or Portuguese (in either direction), try Babel Fish at AltaVista.
Meta-resources
Ari's simple list of record labels....[frighteningly large no-frills resource]
Johannes Bergmark.....[Scandinavian free improv links]
Chicago Jazz Archive.....[encyclopoaedic reference site]
Contemporary Jazz Links.....[just what it sounds like]
Darmstadt Jazz Institute.....[another uber-resource]
Electronica resources.....[nice selective list of links]
European Free Improvisation....[label and artist info]
Japanese Free Improvisors....[artist, label and gig info]
JazzLinks.....[mostly not very experimental, but some stuff here]
Jazz Musicians' Web Pages.....[handy way to find musicians]
JazzNet.....[another selective jazz link site]
Jazz World Society Database.....[jazz search-engine; pretty useful]
Just Intonation Network.....[web sites about just intonation]
LSD@.....[oddly bitty but intriguing music-related links page]
New Music Links.....[selective contemporary classical links]
New Music Site Seeing Tour.....[ditto]
Nubian Roots.....["new thing"-based site]
PK Artists Index.....[another way to find musicians' sites]
WNUR.....[style-specific site -- masses of jazz links] E-zines and paper publications
[descriptions are intended to just give a flavour; most of these sites are pretty eclectic]
Absolute Jazz....[whole range of jazz]
All That Noise....[industrial]
Alternate Music Press....[whole range of experimental, esp. industrial/noise]
Browbeat....[industrial/noise]
Cadence....[jazz, free improv]
Centre Culturel André Malraux in Nancy....[French magazine/club etc]
Electro-Shock Therapy....[whole range of experimental, esp. industrial/noise]
Fennec....[French zine; a variety of leftfield musics here]
Free Jazz Forum....[email discussion forum]
Halana....[ambient/noise]
Hollow Ear....[extremely eclectic experimental music site]
The Improvisor....[free improvisation]
Improjazz....[free improvisation (in French)]
Jazz Improvisation Almanac....[a sort of tutorial about listening to (straight-ish) jazz]
Jazz Improv....[instructional magazine for jazz musicians]
Jazzine....[whole range of jazz]
Jazzlife....[free jazz info]
Jazzopen Online....[German jazz e-zine]
Jazz Review....[whole range of jazz]
Juxtaposition....[variety of experimental musics]
Laudanum....[Australian zine with Real Audio]
Le Jazz....[French-language jazz site]
Mastock....[new, very grungy experimental electronics zine]
Musicworks....[Canadian bilingual print magazine]
ND....[ambient/minimal]
New Art Music....[contemporary classical]
Night Owl....[whole range of jazz]
NMA....[Australian new music/composition magazine]
NoiseGate....[whole range of experimental, esp. industrial/noise]
Obsolete....[a very nice e-zine]
Opprorium....[New Zealand avant garde mag]
Paris Transatlantic....[International avant garde review]
Redazione Musiche....[eclectic experimental music mag, in Italian] Tentacle....[focussed mainly on the Pacific Northwestern US scene]
Urban Sounds....[electronic music; mostly straight-ish, but it sure is purty lookin']
The Wire....[leftfield electronics and "out-rock"]
The Whole Shebang....[US free jazz discographies plus some legendary net literature] Internet Radio
[...places to listen to creative music on the net]
Antenna Radio....[free jazz and related stuff]
EarLabs....[not really a radio station so much as a forum for exchange of experimental MP3s; recommended]
The Kraft-o-Matic Bed o' Nails....[weekly netcast]
New American Radio....[radio art site]
Radio Beethoven....[includes some avant garde programming]
Roulette....[covering the NY creative music scenes]
WFMU....["freeform" radio station; anything can happen]
Zu Casa....[free improv, noise and other extremities]
Shops and distributors
[(musings) can't accept any liability, etc, etc, etc... you know the drill]
33 Degrees....[US shop]
Ambient Soho....[UK shop -- no online ordering]
A-Musik....[German shop]
Aquarius....[US shop]
Cadence....[US distributor]
Cheap Thrills....[Canadian shop with online ordering]
Depth Charge....[UK shop and distributor]
Dorobo....[Australian shop]
Forced Exposure....[US shop with online ordering]
Frontlist....[online academic bookshop, many avant garde music titles]
Le Fennec....[French distributor]
M-Dos....[Austrian shop]
Mole Jazz....[UK shop]
Motion State....[eclectic avant garde US shop]
Open Door....[German shop -- email only]
Other Music....[US no-wave/out-rock/free jazz shop]
Rough Trade....[UK shop and distributor]
RRRecords....[US records]
ShopFinder....[can find record shops in any city, allegedly]
Staalplaat....[German shop]
Twisted Village....[US shop]
Verge....[Canadian distributor]
Regional Organisations
[Mostly musicians' collectives or other promotional/self-help groups, also a handful of very regional information resources.]
AACM....[official site]
Alliance for Improvised Music....[North Carolina Co-operative]
American Musicians' Group....[non-profit musicians' organisation]
American Music Centre....[US composed music organisation]
Av-Art....[Danish musicians' collective and label]
CEDI....[Spanish musicians' organisation]
European Jazz Network....[EU jazz site]
Filibuste....[French all-media arts group based around Toulouse and Albi]
FRIM....[Swedish free improv association]
History of Experimental music in North Carolina....[Large text-based archive]
Improvised Music in Argentina....[Not much here yet, but it's a new site so keep an eye on it]
Japanese Free Improvisors....[artist info etc]
Logos Foundation....[Flanders non-profit new music org]
London Musicians' Collective....[Southern English musicians' organisation]
Nerve Technologies....[Northern English musicians' group, lots of content already]
Pro.Avantgarde....[German artists' and musicians' collective]
SPNM....[English new classical gigs, recordings etc -- email only]
Tsuge's Free Improvisation 99....[Japanese information]
V2....[US artists' collective]
Werkgroep Improviserende Musici....[Flemish Association of Improvising Musicians]
Organisations, Academic Institutions and General Sites
Joining mailing lists is an important way to find out information and make contact with other enthusiasts all over the world. All you need is an email account.
23five....[US sound art org]
AUMFidelity....[label site with useful artist info]
Centre for New Music and Audio Technologies....[Berklee-based experiments]
Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music....[does exactly what it says on the tin]
European Conference of Promoters of New Music....[useful starting-point for contacting promoters]
IRCAM....[all-powerful centre for academic electroacoustics]
Harmolodic....[Ornette's site, with info on harmolodic and related artists]
Knitting Factory....[gig schedules, CD releases, artist site links and the rest]
New Music Bazaar....[eccentric composed music site]
NewMusNet....[new composed music site]
Other Minds....[San Francisco experimental music site]
One Final Note....[very varied info on free jazz and related]
Saudades....[good place to find out about US artists touring Europe]
Sonic Arts Network....[academic electro-acoustic site]
S'Press Pavillion....[German experimental music/arts org]
Termite Club....[Sheffield (UK) experimental music club]
The 60s, Chicago and AACM....[with pictures and audio]
Unsound Automatic....[iconoclastic UK arts org with pictures, sounds etc]
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