Ensemble MIA

Ensemble MIA is the changing large ensemble assembled around the MIA — Encontro de Música Improvisada de Atouguia da Baleia. Its concerts bring together many of the festival's participating improvisers.

Live 2016 documents orchestral improvisation at the 2016 edition, with different musicians taking responsibility for conducting the ensemble in real time, including Mia Zabelka, Mark Alban Lotz, François Choiselat, Noel Taylor, Silvia Corda and Fernando Simões.

The project explores a collective alternative to conventional orchestral hierarchy, in which gesture, listening and changing groups of players become compositional resources.