LIMA Improvised Music Festival 2026Friday November 6 - Sunday 8Performances and workshops, Science+Music,Jazz at The Royal Oak
Previous Festivals | 2024, 2022, 2021
The (3rd) World’s Smallest Improvised Music Festival
November 1st - 3rd 2024 | Launceston, Tasmania
The festival will feature the original Free for All musicians from Sydney, some of Launceston’s most creative pianists, composer and jazz pianist extraordinaire Louise Denson, performer and composer Karlin Love, Yyan Ng, Tim Jones, Leo Dale and will connect art spaces and exhibitions with music and sound.
2024 Festival Collaborators
Madeline Gordon Gallery,
Brisbane Street Art School,
FRIDAY 1st November
WSIMF Opening Night | Sawtooth ARI 7pm | Door and Bar 6pm
SEPARATE JOURNEYS
Performance and Free for All
ADJECTIVE NOUN is an improvising music ensemble created by three of the founders of FREE FOR ALL in Sydney - an all inclusive improvised music event.
Spike Mason, Barney Wakeford and Andrew Lorien formed the group in 2001 and released their album 'separate journeys' in 2014 https://spikemason.bandcamp.com/album/separate-journeys
They will be performing a set at the 3rd World's Smallest Improvised Music Festival, and the music will, of course, sound nothing at all like the album.
Saturday 2nd November
CONNECTED THROUGH SOUND | Celebrating the piano | Take a journey, explore art spaces in Launceston and hear improvised performances and new works for piano by local composers at each. The journey begins and ends with our 2024 Festival Collaborator QVMAG.
11am - 12pm Queen Victoria Art Gallery, Royal Park | Connected Through Sound | Frances Cameron, Ian Chia and Melissa Rogers | FREE
CONTINUE THE JOURNEY | FREE
New works for piano and improvised sound, created in the moment.
1pm - 1.30pm Brisbane Street Art School, 1st Floor 70 Brisbane St | Pianist Melissa Rogers
2 - 2.30pm Wildly Abigail, 144 York St | Pianist Frances Cameron
3 - 3.30pm Madeline Gordon Gallery, 57 George St |Pianist Ian Chia
Saturday afternoon at Sawtooth | 1.00pm - 3.15pm Sawtooth ARI Gallery, 58 Lindsay St | Pianist Tara Falconer | music + Sawtooth artists panel discussion at 2pm