This year's Freedom of the City begins with a discussion at Cafe Oto, where we'll ask the seemingly simple question 'what do you think you're doing?' to four of the performers at this year's festival: Caroline Kraabel, Ross Lambert, Okkyung Lee and Steve Noble.

London's improvised and experimental music community has been revolutionising music for over forty years, refusing pre-determined structures and inherited hierarchies in favour of the spontaneous, the collective and the emergent.

Convened by hugely influential musicians Evan Parker and Eddie Prévost, FREEDOM OF THE CITY celebrates and continues that radical tradition of dissent and creativity, providing a vital annual forum for new musical explorations.

Featuring an international selection of performers, the festival covers the whole spectrum of current activity, from the patiently exploratory to the restlessly expressive, all linked by a shared appetite for the unknown and a common delight in discovery.

Freedom of The City website