No music quite has the excitement of improvised music. Of course it can sound fractious and chaotic, but performed by players with a deep feel for music and a deep understanding of each other it can open up exhilarating new realms. Such was certainly the case this evening, when Fractofusus perfomed at Williams Art (one half of the excellent Hot Numbers, a cafe with a jazz theme and coffee for connoisseurs), adapting their current show Making Sound Sense of Trees to accompany the exhibtion Silver Silvium: Prints, Paintings and Drawings Celebrating Trees by Cambridgeshire visual artists John Preston and Neil Warmsley.

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