Abstract
This performance took place as part of a tour by 'Sensaround' in Japan in 2016. Spence/MacDonald and Ahmad are committed to exploring how contingency acts on collective improvisation and real-time composition to produce surprising, unpremeditated and effective results. This includes new as well as established and intercultural collaborations, as occurred at Pepperland with well known Japanese improviser, Yasuko Kaneko.The research area matches with Spence's investigation of the Experimental Composition Improvisation Continuum which explores contemporary extensions of the historical Experimental Music Movement and reconciled with Jazz through the writings of Nyman, Lewis, Bailey, Morris etc.