Friday Night Music

Friday Night Music was one of the longest free improv arts/music collective/groups in the San Francisco Bay Area (1979-94, 2000-06), focused on live audio and video collaboration.
-FNM Archive Project
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Coming soon...
• Audio
• Video
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ON FNM

FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC is like a social institution. A group of people - some fairly constantly and some only occasionally or only once - get together to create and record an improvisational musical and video event. Historically, the event has been structured physically as a studio recording session. Organisationally it has been structured as a series of "cuts" with participants determined randomly as they arrive and choose to participate or selected by the producer/conductor for the cut on any basis that person wants. Musically the structure has varied from jazz to symphonic with a heavy emphasis on improvisation, innovation, and the unexpected. Philosophically the structure has been the infinity of...

H. Lane Colman (co-founder)
Palo Alto, 1983