In the beginning there was Frakture, then The Frakture Big Band, and then The Frakture Festival...

Now there is,

Management Team

Adam Webster & Phil Morton: Simon Jones :

Neil Murphy is a sleeping partner, who has now been a sleep a long time.

Administration

Currently: @ May 2010 Frakture is currently managed on a voluntary basis.

Moving on: The short answer is that Frakture is currently administered by Adam Webster & Phil Morton

The Office

Frakture has a virtual office, everything is gradually being converted to .pdf files and we meet weekly via Skype, and monthly in a more social setting

Frakture Concerts,

A series of monthly concerts of Free Improvised Music, usually featuring "out of town" visiting or touring artists, with local support. Managed by the Frakture Concerts Team

Frakture Annual Festival

Frakture Festivals have been dropped.

Splash Gigs

A series of concerts featuring 2 or more sessions per night by different groups mainly drawn from the Frakture network of musicians playing free improvised music in the northwest, and providing an opportunity for public performances for musicians who attend the workshops; to try out new idea s.
Managed by the Frakture Concerts Team
[ web-link]

Ensembles

Frakture Big Band [ see link] A large format band that reinvents itself every time it happens! has a different history.
Currently managed by Adam Webster, Phil Morton.

SWIM:
Sound workshops in music.

Swim is the education and participation department of Frakture. It runs workshops for the Frakture Network of musicians and reaches out to third parties. It operates both as a funded organisation and as a business that seeks to receive earned income from third parties:

SWIM currently operates: SNAP: out of it, Vocal Play, i:Object and hopes to launch the R & D sessions in 2007 (research and development).
SWIM is managed by Phil Morton.

Frakture Records CD Label

The Frakture CD label [ temp name] has two issues featuring The Frakture Big Band and Carlos Zingaro.
[ Web Link]

It has no current activity

Listening Room

The Listening Room is strictly speaking Phil Morton's private project. It has received support from Roger Parry from the beginning and to quote Phil Hargreaves " is a unique club". It is also perceived by all as part of Frakture. Main features are:
Soundwalks: led by Phil Morton
CD shows, the nature and practice of Free Improvisation delivered by Roger Parry.

The Web site

Http://www.frakture.org :
this is it, the burden of Phil Morton;

updated: June 10, 2011