Editing Free improvisation (section)

{{short description|Genre of music}}
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{{Infobox music genre
| name              = Free improvisation
| stylistic_origins = *[[Free jazz]]
* [[avant-garde jazz]]
* [[20th-century classical music|20th-century classical]]
* [[serialism]]
* [[Indeterminacy (music)|indeterminacy]]
| cultural_origins  = Mid-1960s [[United Kingdom]], [[United States]], and [[Europe]]
| derivatives       = *[[Electroacoustic improvisation]]
| subgenrelist      =
| subgenres         =
| fusiongenres      =
| regional_scenes   =
| local_scenes      =
| other_topics      = *[[Aleatoric music]]
* [[ambient music]]
* [[noise music]]
* [[Psychedelic music|psychedelia]]
* [[progressive music]]
}}

'''Free improvisation''' or '''free music''' is [[Musical improvisation|improvised music]] without any general rules, instead following the intuition of its performers. The term can refer to both a technique—employed by any musician in any genre—and as a recognizable genre of [[experimental music]] in its own right.

Free improvisation, as a genre of music, developed primarily in the U.K. as well as the U.S. and Europe in the mid to late 1960s, largely as an outgrowth of [[free jazz]] and [[contemporary classical music]]. Exponents of free improvised music include saxophonists [[Evan Parker]], [[Anthony Braxton]], [[Peter Brötzmann]], and [[John Zorn]], composer [[Pauline Oliveros]], trombonist [[George E. Lewis]], guitarists [[Derek Bailey (guitarist)|Derek Bailey]], [[Henry Kaiser (musician)|Henry Kaiser]] and [[Fred Frith]], bassists [[Damon Smith]] and [[Jair-Rohm Parker Wells]] and the improvising groups [[Spontaneous Music Ensemble]] and [[AMM (group)|AMM]].