Expanded Improvisation Workshop:

What does improvisation mean today, in a time of shrinking freedoms and growing censorship?

We invite you to join us for a session shaped by this question.

Drawing on the format of Eddie Prévost’s London Improvisation Workshop, we will begin by sitting in a circle and rotating in duos. Most of the time will be spent listening rather than playing. When we do play, we explore new ways of making sound—thinking through and practicing improvisation in an expanded sense, where anything can become material: sound, language, gesture, subjectivity—even our lack of freedom.

This lack feels especially acute in today’s political climate, where the rise of authoritarianism and fascism advances through the distortion of language and the erosion of attention and sociability. In this workshop, we attempt to reconsider improvisation in light of these urgent changes in society today.

Anyone is welcome to bring something to the circle. It doesn’t need to be musical—it could be a problem, a suggestion, a political concern, something practical, or anything else you’d like to bring from the outside in.

No prior musicianship is required.

—David Grundy & Mattin




Monday 23th June 2025, 6pm to 9pm



vorbereitungen
Artiach/Rosendahl Lindenstrasse 91, 10969

We are in the big building in front of the Jewish Museum. On the east side of the building, facing the museum, there is a bicycle shop. If you are standing in front of it, go to your right (north), and you will find a Korean restaurant called NaNum, continue on the alley; we are on the 7th studio to your left.


Previous workshops:
Monday 6th January 2025
Monday 15th July 2024
Monday 27th May 2024