Improvisation Workshop with Caroline Kraabel
Presented by: The Horse Hospital| 0 | LONDON: The Horse Hospital (info) |
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| P | Wednesday 2nd April, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 7:00pm Start time: 7:30pm |
| . | All ages |
| C | Music - General |
Event information
Improvisation workshop, led by practitioner Caroline Kraabel. This workshop is open to all abilities, levels of experience, and instruments. The workshop will focus on group improvisation, drawing from Kraabel's work with groups including ONe_Orchestra New and London Improvisers Orchestra.
Advance booking strongly advised as there are limited places. Whilst spaces are limited, no one is turned away for lack of funds, so please get in touch if you cannot afford a ticket via The Horse Hospital email: popculture@thehorsehopsital.com
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Caroline Kraabel is a London-based improviser.
In 2022 Kraabel brought together a large improvising group made up of all sorts of women, non-binary, and transgender improvisers: ONe_Orchestra New.
https://oneorchestranew.com/
Other active groups include:
Transitions Trio (with Charlotte Hug and Maggie Nicols); Fit To Burst, a song-based trio with Sarah Washington and John Edwards (https://carolinekraabel.bandcamp.com/album/fit-to-burst); a duo with Pat Thomas (on piano); the Poetry Quintet with Rowland Sutherland, John Edwards and Sofia Vaisman-Maturana, which incorporates live poetry from guest poets, including Moor Mother.
Kraabel has performed and recorded with many other excellent improvisers, including Robert Wyatt, Louis Moholo, Cleveland Watkiss, Hyelim Kim, Susan Alcorn, Veryan Weston, Mariá Portugal, Neil Metcalfe, Mark Sanders, Shima Kobayashi, and Chris Corsano.
Kraabel’s solo saxophone improvisations while walking in London and elsewhere with her infant child/ren in their pushcair were broadcast weekly 2002-2006 on Resonance 104.4 FM as Taking a Life for a Walk and more recently (without children) as Going Outside. Other radio work includes a series of interviews with improvisers in many media (music, dance, visual art, politics, activism), Why is Improvising Important.
Improvisers and Improvisation, made with John Edwards, is a 22-hour radio piece including music, noise, electronics, live performance and new interviews with improvisers; broadcast as part of 2022’s Radio Art Zone.
Kraabel conducted, devised pieces for, and played with the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO) from 1998-2022, and organised their 20th anniversary celebrations, which featured celebrated LIO members from throughout the group’s history.
