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Prepared Guitar Ensemble, a collaboration founded by San Francisco based composer Matt Robidoux in 2019 with Creativity Explored, a SF studio-based collective that partners with people with developmental disabilities to nurture and celebrate creative potential in all of us, is a space where artists meet to make sound inclusively with instruments of their own design. Our instruments were designed by CE artists remotely in a series of Zoom workshops from 2020-2021 and realized by instrument builder and multi-instrumentalist Sudhu Tewari. Prepared Guitar Ensemble is a group dedicated to expanding the improvising community. The social functions of ‘Prepared Guitar Ensemble’ are similarly characteristic of more well-known free improvisation musical structures: to actively engage/reveal dynamic modes of being, reform exclusionary practices, and provide opportunities for individual and collective human flourishing. The work we do intends to engage members of the group in a manner that does not privilege formal musical training. In this music the only constant is the individual’s idiosyncratic approach to the instrument, and a collective attempt at improvisational unity. These proceedings will be co-facilitated by pioneering electric guitarist and improviser, song-writer, and composer for film, dance and theater Fred Frith. Presented by The Lab. This is an all ages event.