TonArt Ensemble

TonArt Ensemble is a Hamburg-based collective founded in 1989 and devoted to free and structured improvisation. Its changing instrumentations bring together strings, winds and electronics, and the ensemble approaches music-making as a democratic process of listening and shared decisions.

Its concerts have used graphic notation, visual cues, spatial arrangements, toy instruments, improvised opera and encounters with composed music. Over the years the group has worked with musicians including Anthony Braxton, Vinko Globokar, Fred Frith, Keith Rowe and Evan Parker. The Creative Sources album Murmúrios (CS170), made with Ernesto Rodrigues, documents one of its international collaborations.