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In 1972 the Sydney based impro/noise group Teletopa toured the world. In Tokyo NHK recorded them and 36 years later the tapes have been digitized and we will release them as a 2 Cd set. The group for the recording was David Ahern, Roger Frampton, Peter Evans and Geoffrey Collins. Ahern had studied with Stockhausen in 1968 and then travelled to the UK where he attended sessions with Cornelius Cardew's experimental music class at Morley College. While he was there he improvised with AMM and MEV and was a founding member of the Scratch Orchestra.

In 1971 Teletopa wrote in a leaflet,

"Improvisation, is in it's purest form, unpremeditated; structured only in the moment of its occurrence in the instant of 'now'. Just because it only exists in a performing present, improvisation has no history other than that which exists on a recording at a later date... Records and tape recordings become, in the case of improvisation, a score or record of past achievement. Keeping a comprehensive tape library means giving Teletopa improvisation a history. The improvisation totality is then like a living organism, with a history and past of it's own".