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	Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Music is a natural intuitive phenomenon operating in the three worlds of time, pitch, energy, and under the three distinct and interrelated organization structures of rhythm, harmony, and melody.
		The definition of music as sound with particular characteristics is taken as a given by psychoacoustics, and is a common one in musicology and performance.
		Music history itself is the (distinct) subfield of musicology and history, which studies the history of music theory.
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	Music \| Topic Definition \| Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Music
		Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves organized and audible sound, though definitions may vary.
		Music which contains elements selected by chance is called Aleatoric music, and is most famously associated with John Cage and Witold Lutoslawski.
		The term world music has been applied to a wide range of music made outside of Europe and European influence, although its initial application, in the context of the World Music Program at Wesleyan University, was as a term including all possible music genres, and not excluding European traditions.
	www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=Music (2744 words)

	Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Coming Together
		The improvisational element reaches its logical conclusion in music that is freely improvised, that is to say music that is free of all predetermined elements and the structure of which is of the moment.
		The Spontaneous Music Ensemble was the brainchild of the pioneering British drummer John Stevens and, in a way both in common with and dissimilar to guitarist Derek Bailey's group Company, the SME championed fee improvisation as a form of musical expression.
		Rhythm and tempo are both irrelevant to music of this kind, and such is the alertness and responsiveness of the musicians involved that the music frequently takes on a contemplative air in a way not far removed from chamber music for all of the idiomatic differences and the antithetical approach.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=1789 (584 words)

	Spontaneous Music Ensemble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It would seem that this early work with the SME was very inspirational for him.
		The group is heard here in an early incarnation (their first recording was in 1966), and at a time when the SME represented some of the most advanced free jazz of the time.
		There is a feeling of the Cagean "kitchen sink, bedpan and bicycle wheel" approach which was the M.O. of Parker, Braxton, and the AACM at the time, but they manage to pull it off without the kitchen sink.
	www.birdhouse.org /words/scot/sme.html (527 words)

	Withdrawal by David Chapman - A review
		George turned to the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, a group of young radical jazz musicians of the late 60s.
		He believed that music in film should be as much a contribution to the overall work as the words and the pictures, and was inspired by their integrity and innovation.
		Film music, on the other hand is obviously imposed on the visual and anchors our response to the narrative.
	www.fantompowa.net /Flame/somerset_withdrawal.htm (966 words)

	Free improvisation
		Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the taste of the musicians involved, and not in any particular style.
		Free music is a relatively little known, and somewhat loosely-defined genre, and none of its exponents can be said to be "famous" amongst the general public.
		Free music performers come from a variety of backgrounds, and there is often considerable crossover with other genress.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/free_improvisation.html (356 words)

	John Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Yet he was largely responsible for devising the generally quiet and largely ego-less music that came to be associated with the Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME) and numerous other groups that involved musicians who passed through that band or were influenced by it.
		The SME at that time comprised Wheeler, Rutherford, Watts, Parker, Derek Bailey, Barry Guy and Stevens - a veritable Who s Who of the London free improvisation scene that was to follow.
		I recently heard a tape of an SME concert on which he says to someone just before the music starts: "I will say goodbye now, just in case you are not here when we finish." Unfortunately it was he who left before he had finished.
	www.shef.ac.uk /~ps/efi/mstevens.html (3194 words)

	STEVENS, John : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Studied in RAF School of Music; began in skiffle and trad bands, gigged with Tubby Hayes, Joe Harriott, Ronnie Scott; played in group with John McLaughlin and Ian Carr; from '65 led a septet incl.
		Kenny Wheeler and also his Spontaneous Music Ensemble, at the centre of free music in UK.
		He also had the larger Spontaneous Music Orchestra, the John Stevens Dance Orchestra, a jazz-rock group called Away, a partnership with bassist Johnny Dyani called Detail Plus and workshop activities around London.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/s/S202.HTM (328 words)

	EMANEM 4008: SPONTANEOUS MUSIC ENSEMBLE
		This was the only non-ephemeral SME not to include a saxophonist, which must have been particularly disturbing for those who still considered it to be a jazz group, since the number of musicians to use the violin successfully in jazz can be counted on the fingers of an obscene gesture.
		All of these musicians were incorporated into the Spontaneous Music Orchestra which improvised on concepts by Stevens, and some of the more talented were incorporated into an extended SME called Free Space.
		The SME heard on HOT AND COLD HEROES played together somewhat irregularly from 1976 to 1992, during which time they constructed for themselves a tremendously beautiful and complex musical dialect that is distinct enough from the de rigueur improv vernacular to almost qualify as its own language.
	www.emanemdisc.com /E4008.html (1510 words)

	Trevor Watts and Moire Music and Jazzcds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the spring of 1968 Trevor Watts re-joined the SME and he and John Stevens became the mainstay of the group until 1976 playing, as before, with a wide membership varying from the ad hoc to the more permanent.
		The original 10-piece Moiré Music was formed in 1982, primarily to work through compositional ideas, in contrast to the already extant Drum Orchestra for improvisational musics, in particular using free improvisation with rhythm.
		This is music that has been worked on, Trevor Watts' name is out front for sure, but it has also been through the democratic mincer, to the point where it now stacks up big time.
	www.jazzcds.co.uk /trevorwatts/wattspage.htm (2913 words)

	www.jazzweekly.com \| Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Improvised music continues to develop stateside with a new generation, but ask around and most in the know are devotees of Parker (unedited and in his own words) and other Euros.
		In fact, the earliest form of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble was not really playing what we now think of as classic SME music, which was then derived from that second phase of working without themes.
		At that point, the SME in a live situation was a duo between John and myself.
	www.jazzweekly.com /interviews/eparker.htm (2899 words)

	Spontaneous Music Ensemble - John Stevens / Roger Smith /John Butcher
		The subsequent history of the group, and some of its many formations are illuminated in Martin Davidson's essay at the EFIP.
		The Spontaneous Music Ensemble was John Stevens' name for particular groups ranging from duo to at least 20 people; although the more long-lived tended to be small and were intimately connected with Trevor Watts, Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford, Derek Bailey, Maggie Nicols (to name just a few) and, later, Roger Smith and Nigel Coombes.
		A new direction for the music that was sadly terminated later that year (1994) by Stevens' untimely death.
	www.johnbutcher.org.uk /Sme.html (261 words)

	WATTS, Trevor : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Played rock and blues early '60s, then became a free improviser with a penchant for linear melodicism and a leaning towards a folkish sound, the most effective British disciple of Ornette Coleman.
		Watts returned to the Spontaneous Music Ensemble replacing Evan Parker, and Face To Face '73, reissued on an Emanem CD, was a duo with Stevens, Watts's work more raw and abstract than the lyricism he soon turned to.
		Paapa J. Mensah; the Moir Music Trio '95 on Intakt with McKenzie and Mensah was stripped-down freshness and sparkling fun.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/w/W36.HTM (192 words)

	stevens2.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It is one of the seminal recordings of freely improvised music, made in 1968 by British pioneers Spontaneous Music Ensemble.
		Spontaneous Music Ensemble's Summer 1967 provides a crucial document of the early days of this seminal British improvising group, here featuring the duo of John Stevens and Evan Parker, and for two pieces (recorded in a less than attentive London coffee bar) augmented by German bassist Peter Kowald.
		Butcher's marvellous sensitivity to microtonal timbral detail is ideally suited to SME's egoless ethos; the trio's close-knit cohesion is exemplified on 'Stig' - a breathtaking masterwork of subtle, non-idiomatic invention which maintains its intricate, textural focus for 26 minutes.
	www.btinternet.com /~rubberneck/stevens2.html (2563 words)

	Music Now Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Music Now Ensembles of up to seventy members directed by Cornelius Cardew, Eddie Prevost, John White and others were a precursor to the formation of the Scratch Orchestra.
		One of the last concerts was Music of Resistance with Frederic Rzewski and Cornelius Cardew at St Pancras Assembly Rooms in 1976.
		It was an organisation entirely devoted to new music with a continuous campaign of publicity which fulfilled a unique function.
	www.musicnow.co.uk /m-html/history.htm (207 words)

	EMANEM 4031: SPONTANEOUS MUSIC ENSEMBLE
		For a period in 1975-6 the Spontaneous Music Ensemble comprised John Stevens, Trevor Watts and Roger Smith.
		This was music that refused to hang about or to make the obvious moves, a febrile cluster of flurries, stop motion rhythms, blunted and truncated snaps, drones that lost the will to drone, pitches too brittle or transient to accommodate melody, larks that promised ascent then dropped dead out of the sky.
		To listen closely to their music can be exhausting like tuning in to the central nervous system of an ant colony; like hydrotherapy with tintacks.
	www.emanemdisc.com /E4031.html (1906 words)

	CDeMUSIC
		Here's the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, which is John Stevens (percussion, cornet, voice) and Trevor Watts (soprano saxophone), at the legendary Little Theatre Club.
		Their 1979 duo debut was considered by many to be the most significant advance in violin and piano music for 200 years.
		Spontaneous Music Ensemble, which consists of John Stevens (percussion), Trevor Watts (winds, percussion), Derek Bailey (guitar), Barry Guy (bass), Evan Parker (saxophone), Paul Rutherford (trombone), and Kenny Wheeler (trumpet, percussion), plays 'Withdrawl', a set of improvisations from 1966 - 1967.
	www.cdemusic.org /store/cde_search.cfm?keywords=ee1 (667 words)

	Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Mouthpiece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The former is beautifully restful and surprisingly consonant, its presumed aim of keeping the music (and the musicians) under tight control wonderfully realised.
		It's only a small shame we don't know the names of the participants, since this is really Stevens's music and it would sound broadly the same whoever they were.
		Emanem are to be congratulated for this continuing commitment to putting and keeping John Stevens's music on the record.
	www.rambles.net /sme_mouthpiece.html (534 words)

	Browse by Label: EMANEM (UK)
		A unique piece in the SME discography which will appeal to those interested in spacious minimalist drones, etc. "Concert and studio recordings of peace music organized by John Stevens for himself and Trevor Watts with numerous workshop musicians and audience people on saxophones, percussion and voices mostly contributing a flexible drone.
		The exact personnels of this ensemble music are not known (apart from the leader on cornet), so they are not given.
		Most of the music is three-way improvisation, but there are also three short duos, and three pieces with restricting rules.
	www.forcedexposure.com /Labels/emanem.uk.html (4016 words)

	John Butcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Spontaneous Music Ensemble with John Stevens and Roger Smith.
		Electronic music was an early influence on Butcher's approach to saxophone playing, and has become explicit in his electromanipulation duo with Phil Durrant.
		As is the case for most improvisers, a lot of music has been made in occasional, sometimes once-only groupings.
	www.shef.ac.uk /~ps/efi/mbutcher.html (1450 words)

	Spontaneous Music Ensemble \| A New Distance
		The archive of SME recordings on the label now numbers twelve, ranging from Challenge, recorded in 1966-7, when free improvisation was in its infancy, through to these recordings from 1993-4, not long before John Stevensâ premature death in September 1994.
		In the intervening years, SME personnel changed many times, with Stevens being the only constant member, but its working methods and ideology remained focussed, thanks to Stevens clarity of purpose.
		The influence of SME, via players who passed through its ranks or were inspired by seeing them perform, is incalculable but vast.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=18204 (421 words)

	EMANEM 4053: SPONTANEOUS MUSIC ENSEMBLE
		The music evolved rapidly over next couple of years, thanks to the nightly explorations that were occurring at the Little Theatre Club.
		"The Spontaneous Music Ensemble began in the mid-'60s exploring free improvisation, and over three decades, with varying personnel but under the leadership of the late drummer John Stevens, became one of the pivotal ensembles in all of contemporary jazz.
		This is music with clear ties to the free jazz developments of the mid-'60s.
	www.emanemdisc.com /E4053.html (2862 words)

	Monastery Bulletin - Links
		Music Universe, Music Mind - "Dedicated to the Legacy of the Creative Music Studio" in Woodstock, NY.
		Rubberneck - "The longest-running experimental music magazine in Britain, specialising in improvised musics (improv to its friends), free jazz, avant-garde rock, electroacoustic and contemporary composition; film music is also an interest".
		Improvised music and modern composition, filling in the infinity of blanks from John Cage to Albert Ayler.
	www.monastery.nl /bulletin/links/index.html (2293 words)

	CMT.com : John Stevens : Biography
		Stevens' father was a tap dancer, a factor in his decision to become a musician.
		The band's music became more avant-garde than was welcome in regular jazz clubs, so from 1966 they played their free jazz in the Little Theatre Club, a small theater in the West End of London.
		While SME was probably his most important association, Stevens never stopped playing in other contexts, from rock to bop.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/stevens_john/bio.jhtml (444 words)

	Spontaneous Music Ensemble \| Challenge (1966-7)
		They are the earliest available recordings of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, dating from March 1966 and (one track, previously unissued) April 1967.
		In 1966, SME were still playing compositions credited to individual members, rather than free improvisations credited to all those involved.
		Over the next quarter of a century, SME would radically alter the face of improvised music, making it into something distinct from jazz and into a recognisably European form.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /reviews/r0901_135.htm (394 words)

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		Spontaneous Music Ensemble (SME) was the brainchild of drummer John Stevens and over the course of its almost 30 year history he was its one constant.
		In addition to American musicians pioneering the movement, Stevens had heard and been inspired by the non-idiomatic improvising ensemble AMM and forged a concept midway between the two: music that was freely improvised...
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