Programme – Project DIVFUSE

Acoustic Improvisations + Recording :

Day One – Formats [Sue Lynch & Douglas Benford]
Session One 29 November 2025 Saturday 4:30pm
Session Two 29 November Saturday 6:30pm

Day Two – Informals [Sue Lynch & Douglas Benford & Iris Colomb]
Session Three 30 November Sunday 3:30pm
Session Four 30 November Sunday 5:30pm

£8 | 6 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets

Running Time : 45 minutes approx.

Acoustic improvisations and explorations flowing from artwork and experimental poetry.

Over two days this Sue Lynch and Douglas Benford collaboration is based around performances, incorporating Lynch’s own projected visual art and Colomb’s found text improvisations.

Lynch employs saxophone and flute, whilst Benford uses tenor recorder, accordian, objects and melodica. Performances would encompass accidents and expressions with a multi media slant, as both musicians react to the visual aspects and surreal poetic excursions by Iris Colomb on Day Two.

Stewart Morgan will be recording the performances on Sunday. The concept of Project DIVFUSE curatorial line DIVFUSE Recording Room is to provide an intimate space for live recordings to be carried out, where sound from the outside working yard and the audience might come into the mix.

Session One Friday 19 December 2025 6:30pm
Session Two Saturday 20 December 2025 4:30pm

£8 | 8 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets

Lecture with demonstrations. Duration : approximately one hour

“What we know is constrained by interpretive frameworks, which, of course, limit our thinking: what we can know will be determined by the kinds of questions we learn to ask.”

Michelle Z. Rosaldo^[1]

Improvising is something we all do in life, to a greater or lesser extent, and also in art and music… but wittingly or not we may fall into unhelpful or limiting patterns in our improvising – what are they and how could we avoid them?

Some creators adopt improvisation as one strategy among many; for others it becomes the primary focus of their practice. What is the relationship between improvisation and control? Which comes first, awareness or improvisation?

What does it mean to give oneself over completely to improvisation? Is it even possible to do so? What does it require of us, and where does it get us? How may we use it to extend our selves and break open our assumptions around what we think we know about art, about our own identities and those of others, and about how we relate to each other?

If we don’t continually attempt this, what happens to our improvising?

This talk draws on Kraabel’s work-in-progress, ‘If it works, stop. If it doesn’t work, do it again’, a long text on improvisation.

Category: Programme

Informal Formats : Sue Lynch & Douglas Benford (& Iris Colomb) [Upcoming]

Why is Improvising Important : Caroline Kraabel [Upcoming]