Why Is Improvising Important? - 6th December 2018 (Philipp Wachsmann)

The London Improvisers Orchestra is now 20 years old. LIO member and conductor Caroline Kraabel speaks to people who improvise in music, visual art, dance, politics and religion, as well as in life. This week’s guest is Philipp Wachsmann, improviser on violin, viola and electronics; composer, creator, conductor, thinker and quiet musical maverick, discussing the history of freely improvised music and of the London Improvisers Orchestra.