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Vitamin S is a community of musicians engaged in the dialogue of creative improvised music based in Auckland.

The Vitamin-S pool night was devised as a place where those interested in ‘improvised music’ could meet, perform, listen to and discuss, and generally interact with all aspects of this complex and largely misunderstood art form. As improvisation is the most widely practised of genres, it may be necessary to define two main forms:

1. Idiomatic improvisation: much the most widely used and concerned with the expression of an idiom – jazz or flamenco for example, and taking its identity and motivation from that idiom. 2. Non-idiomatic improvisation: here other concerns are fundamental. It is usually found in so-called ‘free’ improvisation.

It is the second of these two forms that Vitamin-S is concerned to promote. You can experience Vitamin S every Monday at the Wine Cellar, St Kevin’s Arcade, Auckland, NZ.

“Our music is about the inadequacy of traditional imagery and symbols to convey meaning in today’s world. By abandoning representationalism we are free to express ourselves with pure form. Specific interpretation gives way to a more visceral response.”: Calvin and Hobbes

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