Julia Eckhardt Linda Catlin Smith considerations regarding the size of

considerations regarding the size of the ensembles in improvised and other non-institutionalised forms of contemporary music are to a large extent also a question of funding

counting and generally thinking at a much slower pace

I saw this poverty first hand

Nancy Ruffer (flutes)

a relationship that began with ‘Ist gefallen in den Schnee’ back in 2012

Julia Eckhardt Linda Catlin Smith considerations regarding the size ofNOTES ON BLANCA BY JULIA ECKHARDT In November 2022, I spent a month as an artist in residency at Centro Negra in the small town of Blanca in the South East of Spain. I undertook a daily protocol of walking without plan or destination which took me into the wide, majestic, and slightly intimidating hills outside the town. Each day, after a set amount of time I stopped to make a field recording and a detail photo, and upon my return to Centro Negra,