Free Music Production

German edition

The book is dedicated to the history of the music label Free Music Production (FMP), which from 1968 to 2010 achieved unparalleled things as a Berlin platform for the production, presentation and documentation of music. Based on many conversations from over thirty years with key protagonists such as Peter Brötzmann and Jost Gebers, Markus Müller tells the success story of a musicians' initiative that emerged in the context of the 1968 ideas of self-organization and self-determination and worked successfully in an international network for over 40 years. The book focuses on formats developed by the FMP such as the Total Music Meeting and the Free Music Workshop, the production of recordings, relationships with GDR musicians, the FMP and women, the internationally groundbreaking collaboration with Cecil Taylor (which is also the subject of a text by Diedrich Diederichsen) as well as the FMP and its interdisciplinary border crossings. The book builds on the major FMP exhibitions curated by Müller in Munich and Berlin, but goes far beyond them in many aspects. Thanks to unrestricted access to the FMP Publishing Archive in Borken, there are countless first-published documents and photos from the history of FMP. The 400-page, large-format book, designed by Double Standards, has more than 300 illustrations and presents FMP as West Berlin's most important cultural and cultural-political contribution to the 20th century.

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