The Hamburg Free-Improv Community is a monthly series where musicians, listeners, and open-minded people meet to share the experience of free improvisation. We view improvisation not only as an artistic method, but also as a way of learning, exchanging, and connecting with one another across boundaries.
By bringing together different practices and traditions, we aim to build bridges between genres, generations, and aesthetic approaches, fostering interaction and discourse while opening doors to fresh perspectives.
In this ongoing “laboratory,” we aim to create a respectful and inspiring environment where musicians and audiences can share the joy of collective creativity. Listeners are invited to witness moments of discovery and experience music as it is created in real time.
Community was founded by Tam Thi Pham in 2025. This idea was inspired by the Neu Berlin Institute of Improvised Music, founded in 2023, and the Neu New York/Vienna Institute of Improvised Music, founded in Vienna in 2005 by Marco Eneidi.
The idea of forming different, randomly grouped artists and ensembles of varying sizes at each gathering—including the most recent session featuring a tutti, helps keep the events dynamic, fresh and engaging. The gatherings take place regularly at Hoerbar, and they have recently become an integral part of Hoerbar’s ongoing activities. 

The first event of Hamburg Free-Improv Community will feature the musicians Jan Wegmann, Jana De Troyer, John Hughes, Chad Popple, Tam Thi Pham, Dong Zhou, Robert Klammer, Gregory Büttner, Birgit Ulher, Gunnar Lettow, and Moxi Beidenegl. It was a part of 51. Festival NEUE MUSIK Lüneburg and Hamburg, which is supported by HOOU and HfMT.

The Seventh event is a part of blurred edges festival – a month-long series of 96 performances, sound art, lectures, experimental music, compositions and improvisations at 50 venues all over the city! 

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