29 OCT 2022

4fakultät #21
October 29th 2022
Neues Amt Altona

This is good bye …

We think our 21st edition will be unlike anything we heard or saw in the past 20 shows and 7 years of our existance. Our last and final 4fakultät will find friends and family reunited, music celebrated and new doors opened. Please come, be our guest, celebrate the past and join the future with us. This is good bye!

Robyn Schulkowsky
(Timpani, Tamtams, Congas)

Ka Baird
(Voice, Flute, Effects)

Roman Hiele
Hanne De Backer
Ben Bertrand

(Electronics, Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet)

Cam Deas
Julian Sartorius

(Modular Synthesizer, E-Guitar, Drums)

Co-curated with NINA

Live Visuals
Alexander Trattler, Artur Musalimov / elektropastete

Graphic Design
Christopher Ernst, Alexander Trattler

GOODBYE PARTY after the concert organised in close collaboration with friends and family of HALLO: Radio, Elazer, RIAA Bar, Nika Son and many more …

Born and raised in South Dakota, Robyn Schulkowsky has been an innovator and collaborator throughout her life. She has dedicated herself to revealing the wonders of percussion to people around the world. Robyn’s continuous exploration of new sound dimensions has led to the development of new and unusual musical instruments. She has collaborated with legendary African drummer Kofi Ghanaba, visual artist Guenther Uecker, actress Edith Clever, social scientist Nilam Ram, and choreographers Merce Cunningham and Sasha Waltz. But in the end Robyn’s adventerous aproach to drumming and rhythm is best experienced in one of her highly engaged and focused life performances.

NYC based performer, composer and sound designer Ka Baird are infamous for their unmistakable live solo performances which include extended voice and microphone techniques combined with electronics and psychoacoustic interplay of flutes and other woodwinds. On stage the ritualistic aspect of Baird’s music is unmistakable. Spitting into the microphone, pouring rapid-fire flute riffs into her sampler, it seems less like Baird is performing songs than channeling spirits. They create a present tense sound with a vigorous delivery that seeks extreme release through physical exertion and psychic extension. If the voice is the original instrument, Ka Baird’s performance retreats into breath itself.

Working as a composer and performer of electronic music Roman Hiele has collaborated with numerous other musicians, as well as undertaking music and sound design work for film, theatre and art projects, more recently with the artist Laure Prouvost. Hiele’s music surfaces in the form of hard to pin point electronica, built on a long time obsession for synthetic sound creation and jazz studies. On stage, Hiele plays with expectation, going past what is considered conventional, blending improvisational and classical elements into a no-nonsense personal idiom.

Hanne De Backer is an Antwerp based saxophone player and performer. De Backer’s sound palette is exceptionally broad – from silent to crackling, from fierce drones to whispers between saxophone valves, bold screaming, lyrical phrases and everything in between – but always crushingly intimate, as if you were right in the middle of it all. As a performer and composer De Backer has been active in theater as well with KVS Brussels, ’t Arsenaal Mechelen, Bookers & Hookers and Zonzo Compagnie.

With his instrument and countless machines, Ben Bertrand creates his live sets with a hypnotic web of sounds. He embodies the singular motion of these melodic and harmonic forms in order to draft new sonic possibilities freed from the laws of the physical plane. Pulsating at the kernel of Ben Bertrand’s musical universe are vivid dreams generating the fabric of these tapestries. It gently drifts into perception, “glistening like the sun sparkling off a glacier gliding along the edge of your vision”, as Bertrand describes it himself.

Julian Sartorius’ precise and multi-layered rhythmical patterns are keen excursions into the hidden tones of found objects and prepared instruments, bridging the gap between organic timbres and the vocabulary of electronic music. Trained at the Jazz schools in Berne and Lucerne by instrumentalists like Fabian Kuratli, Pierre Favre and Norbert Pfammatter, Julian Sartorius soon deve- loped a singular musical approach. Being interested in fine-scaled variations, tension and release, mass and vibrancy.

Working as a musician and sound artist based in London Cam Deas practice concerns abstract sound, polytempos, irregular tuning systems and stochastic and computer generative systems. His work is not subject to straightforward categorisation, with output ranging from solo acoustic guitar exploration through live electro-acoustic performance, to pure synthesis and computer generative music. In his live performances Deas explores polytempos and relative ratios between pitch and rhythm in a dense electronic space, described as “disembodied music playing out a thrilling dramaturgy and syntax of alien dissonance and disorienting rhythmic resolution”.

4fakultät works in close cooperation with visual artists Alexander Trattler and Artur Musalimov alias elektropastete. For each edition they create live-generated projections which make 4fakultät an audiovisual experience beyond stylistic definitions.

Funded by Musikfonds as part of NEUSTART KULTUR, initiated by the Federal Government Commissioner, Behörde für Kultur und Medien of Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung and Susanne & Michael Liebelt Stiftungsfonds under the roof of Hamburgische Kulturstiftung. In media partnership with ByteFM, URSSS, Das Filter, Vision Tools, Each Film, KaputMag, HALLO:Radio

6 AUG 2022

#20
August 6th 2022 / 8pm

KUNSTHAUS EDITION II

Co-CURATED WITH TINTIN PATRONE

Summer is setting the tone for our 20th edition. We created a hot-cold mix of slowly-melting Ambient, driving drums, shadow-throwing vinyl, spicy-sweetened Cocktail-Jazz and finly glistening melodies. As usual in a cross-style, 4fakultät-like improvisation setting. And in a special cooperation with Kunsthaus Hamburg and our co-curator Tintin Patrone.

Valentina Magaletti
Laila Sakini
(Drums, Voice, Piano, Vibraphone, Electronics)

Audrey Chen
(Cello, Voice, Electronics)

Vinyl -terror & -horror
(Vinyl, Turntables)

Moneyfriends
Brad Henkel (Trumpet)
Dan Peter Sundland (Bass, Voice)
Fabian Jung (Toys, Drums, Electronics, Voice)

Live visuals
Alexander Trattler, Artur Musalimov / elektropastete

Graphic design
Raphael Zöschinger

For drummer, percussionist and composer Valentina Magaletti, careful listening is just as important as an uncompromisingly open approach to tradition. She plays with folk and jazz as well as with contemporary electronic music. Magaletti not only achieved international recognition with her avant-garde duo Tomaga, she also showed her innovative playing skills with her diverse collaborations, for example with Nicolas Jaar, Jandek, Helm, Raime and Thurston Moore. At 4fakultät, Magaletti forms a special duo with singer and multi-instrumentalist Laila Sakini. Sakini, who lives in London and grew up in Melbourne, works with a wide variety of instruments and vocal techniques and thus produces an idiosyncratic contemporary sound between Classical, Jazz and Ambient. Or, as it is hard to fully grasp her musical image: “An enigma with a purpose”, The Wire Magazine

Vinyl-Jenga: Greta Christensen and Camilla Sørensen aka Vinyl -terror & -horror explore the record player and the vinyl material in its rawest and purest form. The visuality and physicality of the vinyl grooves allows them to transform the playback medium into sculptural objects while using the turntable as an instrument. The whole thing is best seen live: a bizarre, meditative performance forming strangely communicative towers of moving turntables. And the whole thing sounds like: pure vinyl punk.

Chinese/Taiwanese-American musician Audrey Chen was born in 1976 to a family of materials scientists, physicians and engineers outside of Chicago. She broke from the family convention and turned to the cello at the age of eight and to singing by the age of eleven. After years of classical and conservation training in both instruments – early and new music – she also left these conventions behind and discovered, as she says, “an individually more honest aesthetic”. For her, too, it is best summed up in superlatives: “Singing with Audrey is like working with all the possible noises of the universe and beyond, earthquakes, colliding galaxies and slugs sliding down a wet window, very quiet.” The Wire Magazine

Moneyfriends? Stands for an anti-classical Jazz trio, formed by Brad Henkel (trumpet), Dan Peter Sundland (bass and vocals) and Fabian Jung (toys, drums, electronics and vocals). The three play a performance-oriented, high-energy noise-rock-free-jazz. At the highest musical level, they dissect the idea of ​​what jazz is. Or what an instrument is? A stage? What is play and what is serious in jazz — this definitely.

4fakultät works in close cooperation with visual artists Alexander Trattler and Artur Musalimov alias elektropastete. For each edition they create live-generated projections which make 4fakultät an audiovisual experience beyond stylistic definitions.

Funded by Musikfonds as part of NEUSTART KULTUR, initiated by the Federal Government Commissioner, Behörde für Kultur und Medien of Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung and Susanne & Michael Liebelt Stiftungsfonds under the roof of Hamburgische Kulturstiftung. In media partnership with ByteFM, URSSS, Das Filter, Vision Tools, Each Film, KaputMag, HALLO:Radio

Photos Franziska Holz

15 Jan 2022

#19
January 15th 2022

Coming fresh into the new year! With a full bodied jazz experience, vividly strung instruments, attentive drumming, and playful modular electronics. Happy to be back in resonanzraum Hamburg! In this special edition co-curated with Cologne’s DJ-legend and music journalist Waltraud Blischke.

Milan W. & Elko B.
(Electronics, Electric Guitar)

Alma Miranda
(Voice, Flute, Cuatro, Trombone, Keys)

Elisabeth CoudouxPablo Gīw
(Cello, Trumpet)

hÄK / Danzeisen
(Drums, Modular Synth)

Live Visuals
Alexander Trattler, Artur Musalimov / elektropastete

Graphic Design
Fenna Fiction

Milan Warmoeskerken alias Milan W. skirts the edges of dance music while never allowing his listeners to get totally comfortable. The Antwerp-based artist’s early work often veered towards ambient – however, his new work spins in a more rhythmic and dynamic direction. His latest LP on Ekster is a metallic yet fluid melange, with piecey textures and gentle, often skittering rhythms. Elko Blijweert alias Elko B. studied at the Jazz studio of the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp. The Antwerp based multi instrumentalist has played since an early age in countless recording projects. But Blijweert’s guitar techniques are best experienced live – with his nuanced melodic approach he playfully blends the spaces between Instrumental Ambient and Contemporary Jazz.

What happens when two bright voices can sound like one and the same? When a few tones become wide spaces? The Cologne based duo Alma Miranda of the two twin sisters Pía and Paz Miranda plays with floating melody lines and freely modulated Chilean folk traditions – using a vast variety of instruments and sound techniques like singing voice, transverse flute, cuatro, trombone and piano. An enigmatic performance duo with a highly individual approach to Jazz, Neue Musik and folkloric compositions.

The search for new sounds and playing techniques led the cellist Elisabeth Coudoux from studying classical instruments to jazz and Neue Musik and further to free improvisation. Besides her own projects she plays cello in interdisciplinary projects with dancers, visual artists, poets and performers.  Cologne based trumpeter and performer Pablo Gīw utilizes experimental trumpet playing with extended playing techniques, he works with elements from various genres, combining minimalist structures with noise & neo soul. With his instrument he creates dense sound walls and hissing beats made of air sounding to his vocals.

One must imagine hÄK / Danzeisen as a man-machine apparatus. A collection of cables, resonating bodies and restless limbs. Bernd Norbert Würtz alias hÄK operates modular synthesizers, self-soldered circuits and control knobs. Philipp Danzeisen plays a drum kit enhanced with triggers and sensors. The dependencies within this system have been meticulously defined: Drum rolls and sound modulations are interconnected in such a way that there is no contradiction between the strict technological structure and the creative outburst that is possible at any time.

4fakultät works in close cooperation with visual artists Alexander Trattler and Artur Musalimov alias elektropastete. For each edition they create live-generated projections which make 4fakultät an audiovisual experience beyond stylistic definitions.

Photos Jann Wilken

10 JUL 2021

#18
July 10th 2021

KUNSTHAUS EDITION

Following up on our internationally acclaimed streaming show with a special collaboration between 4fakultät and Kunsthaus Hamburg. A spectrally diverse line up of interactive light installation, performative sound art, experimental instrument building, and of course ‒ multi genre live improvisation.

Michela Pelusio
(Light/Sound Object; IT)

Hacklander / Hatam
(Drums, Light Installation; GER)

Ioana Vreme Moser
(DIY Modular Synth, Objects, Performance; GER)

Pierre Bastien
(Perpetual Sound Machines, Electronics, Trumpet; FR)

Live Visuals
Alexander Trattler, Artur Musalimov / elektropastete

Graphic Design
Bureau Est

Michela Pelusio‘s sculptural works are audiovisual experiences of space, light, material and sound. Using seemingly minimal effort, she creates impressive, expansive sculptures based on psychoacoustic research. Her work literally moves between performance and installation, merging art and science into one large Gesamtkunstwerk. A bit like mixing sound, art and quantum physics.

Avant-garde in concept and highly impulsive in performance. The drumming duo Hacklander / Hatam explores the interface between electronic sound art and conceptual drumming. In doing so, sound becomes the medium where the duo explores the space and includes the people present herein. Farahnaz Hatam and Colin Hacklander live and work as part of Berlin’s avant-garde music scene and have presented their work at international festivals and renowned institutions such as the Gropius Bau and the Berlin Atonal Festival.

Berlin-based musician Ioana Vreme Moser sees herself as a sound artist and transmedia storyteller. From electromechanical instruments to sound sculptures to graphic recordings, Moser performatively uses and explores the variety of materials that weave together into an overall narrative in her stories. In doing so, she draws on organic material, found objects, or even trash to realize her audiovisual ideas – which often engage in a contemporary feminist discourse.

To call Pierre Bastien a tinkerer falls far too short. However, it describes well the unique approach of the Netherlands-based musician, in whose works self-built instruments play a central role. Bastian’s fascination with the mechanical is vividly apparent to listeners: The shadow play of the musical apparatuses is projected into the room via video projections that show in detail the finely tuned construction of the machines. The impression of this enigmatic music cinema is reinforced and complemented by Bastian’s playing on conventional instruments, such as the trumpet.

Funded by Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung; In media partnership with ByteFM, URSSS, Das Filter, Vision Tools, Each Film, KaputMag

Photo: Maik Gräf

 

14 MAR 2021

#17
March 14th 2021 / LIVE 7pm ?

We are back with a new edition this year! Experimental Jazz, Ambient Electronics and explosive Guitar-Noise once again in the sonic chambers of resonanzraum Hamburg.

LIVE STREAM

Sky Walking
(Dial, Bureau B, Mule Electronic)

Ale Hop
(Buh Records)

Spill
(Magda Mayas, Tony Buck / Creative Sources, Fish Of Milk)

Jasmine Guffond
(Editions Mego)

Live Visuals
Alexander Trattler, Artur Musalimov / elektropastete

Graphic Design
Lynn Lehmann, Dennis Gärtner / ZEBU

LINE UP

Berlin-residing artist and musician Alejandra Luciana Cardenas is most prolific under her Ale Hop alias. On distorted guitars and real-time sampling she creates a dense sound between noise, pop, avantgarde and ambient. Ale Hop has presented her work at festivals such as MUTEK in Montreal or CTM in Berlin and took New York with an electrifying live-set at Boiler Room. Alejandra will add a playfully rough edge to this 4fakultät edition that we are most eager to hear and see for ourselves.

A long awaited visit: Christian Naujoks, Peter M. Kersten and Richard Von Der Schulenburg will join as Sky Walking. As a trio these three key figures of electronic underground in Hamburg play for a musical way into the open. Their sound blends instrumental jazz with carefully modulated electronics. On synthesizer, organ, vibes and percussions they interweave filigrane patterns with hypnotic echoes and thereby open up room for multi-layered improvisations.

A unique approach of course is most welcomed at 4fakultät: Jasmine Guffond uses electronic textures and harsh beats to sonify inaudible processes. The artist born in Sydney creates sound from the data traces each and everyone of us leaves by using technologies such as internet cookies and facial recognition algorithms. The resulting soundscape is at the same time abstractual abyssal and energetic.

Immensly excited to welcome this special duo with us. Spill ist the joint project of pianist Magda Mayas and „The Necks“-drummer Tony Buck. Since almost 20 years they are exploring the interplay of rhythm and melody with a highly individual approach. Mayas utilises a prepared grand piano as a percussion instrument and sound laboratory, as Buck focuses on his own melodic-lyrical way of drumming.

Photo: Maik Gräf

26 Sep 2020

#15
September 26th 2020

We are back!

On September 26th, we call 4fakultät back to life, together with resonanzraum Hamburg. A best-of underground jazz, ambient electronics, noise pop and electroacoustic experiment. Of course as usual in a unique setup of cross genre improvisation.

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Selvhenter
(Eget Værelse / Kopenhagen, DK)

Jan Jelinek
(faitiche / Berlin, GER)

Rieko Okuda
(Creative Sources / Berlin, GER)

Fågelle
(Bengans / Göteborg, SWE)

Live Visuals
Alexander TrattlerArtur Musalimov / elektropastete

poster design
Studio Laurens Bauer & David Benski

LINE UP

The Danish all-female quartet Selvhenter mixes free jazz and noise, minimalist compositions and extensive improvisations. The hardness and rawness of rock can be heard clearly heard in their music. In the foreground is a drifting, enigmatic play with atmosphere and rhythm. With their playfulness and uncompromising desire for new sound routes the four women loudly reject the genre clichés. The quartet definitely belongs to the most exciting experimental bands of jazz. “Inyourface and without compromises!” – Mats Gustafsson

Rieko Okuda began her musical career as a classical pianist and found her way to improvisation and jazz through her university studies. In the USA Okuda played with greats like Marshall Allen and Elliott Levine. Her work combines electronic and electroacoustic approaches and is characterized by concentrated repetition, a straightforward minimalism and a wide emotional landscape. At 4fakultät, Okuda will show the impressive range of her work with two contrasting sets.

The Berlin-based musician, producer and label owner Jan Jelinek has been working on various areas of electronic music for decades. His releases under the names Farben, or Gramm are based on electronic dance music, while as Jan Jelinek he takes a more experimental approach. The central elementfor Jelinek is sampling. While avoiding traditional musical instruments, Jelinek constructs collages with tiny sound fragments from a variety of recording devices: tape recorders, digital samplers and various media players. The recordings are processed into loops that reduce the original to its essentials. His work shaped and defined electronic minimalism to a great extent. “Jelinek’s lustrously bare tracks helped define nineties-into-two-thousands minimal techno. – The New Yorker

“I work with a pop mind in the noise” says Klara Andersson, the Swedish mastermind behind the noise pop project Fågelle where layers of noise and fragile constructions of concrete sounds meet pop melodies, exploration of rhythms and the subject of power. With her elaborate array of pedals, synthesizers and samplers, she dives into the sounds and textures, experimenting and tinkering until she finds what will come together with poetry to create a compelling song. She is a producer who sees herself in the middle ground between sound art and pop, which leads to wonderful creative latitude while also generating the conundrum of not fitting in with one particular scene – again being a perfect fit for 4fakultät’s idea of cross genre improvisation instead.

Photo: Maik Gräf

29 NOV 2019

#14
November 29th 2019

Closing the season with a special collaboration between 4fakultät and resonanzraum Hamburg we are nothing short of exhilaration, about this best-of-lineup combining Neue Musik, Experimental Jazz, Voice and Avantgarde Electronics.

Robert Lippok
(Raster / Berlin)

Tomat Petrella
(!K7 / Turin)

Martin Brandlmayr
Maja Osojnik
John Eckhardt
(Thrill Jockey / Vienna, Hamburg)

Sylvia Hinz
Justin Caulley
(XelmYa / Berlin, Hamburg)

DJ
Perila and mxdr
(radio.syg.ma / Berlin, Russia)

Live Visuals
Alexander TrattlerArtur Musalimov / elektropastete

Born in 1966, Robert Lippok studied stage design at Kunsthochschule Weißensee Berlin, before forming legendary To Rococo Rot with his brother Ronald Lippok and Stefan Schneider in 1995. After two decades performing with this genre defining trio, Lippoks’s work now centres around creating installations, stage design for interdisciplinary performances, as well as a steady output of ambient techno experimentations. Since 2001 Lippok’s solo work has been published on Raster.

Vienna based Martin Brandlmayr is considered one of the „most distinctive-sounding drummers on the planet.” With his unique style Brandlmayr creates a beautifully complex auditory texture, craftfully combining manual repetition and sampling his own sounds. For 4fakultät Brandlmayr forms a special trio with Slovenian singer, flutist and composer Maja Osojnik and Hamburg based double bass experimentalist John Eckhardt. Osojnik made a name for herself in different musical fields, such as experimental Jazz, free improvisation and sound art, mostly using her own voice, together with field recordings, and other lo-fi electronic devices such as toys, trash and found objects. The duo will be joined by the double bass player John Eckhardt. Driven by curiosity and passion for different styles, Eckhardt keeps drawing new connections and expands a bass cosmos of unusual dimensions.

Davide Tomat and Gianluca Petrella form a duo of Jazz and electronics which is quite of it’s own kind. Tomat is a producer, musician and sound designer from Turin focused on space drone ambient sounds and psychedelic electronic music. He produces music for art performances and installations, theatre, contemporary dance acts and soundtracks for films and documentary. His tracks has been remixed by International artists such as Animal Collective, Liars, Fennesz, Acid Pauli and Gonjasufi. Petrella on the other hand is a renown trombonist, with releases on genre defining labels like ECM Records. Melding these two spheres Tomat Petrella create a captivating sound, blasting with the energy of a Stanley Kubrick movie. The duo’s latest release ‚Kepler‘ has been published by Berlin based !K7 label.

Praised for her equally fierce and bold dramatic performance style, Sylvia Hinz is one of the leading recorder players worldwide, specialised in contemporary music and improvisation. For 4fakultät Hinz forms a duo with Justin Caulley on the viola, who is part of the ensemble resonanz. Based on their extensive experience in interpreting they will combine contemporary compositions with their individual approach of improvisation.

DJ Perila and mxdr are prolific members of (now discontinued) Berlin Community Radio and Russia based radio.syg.ma. The duo will provide a lucid and emoitively engaging sound / atmosphere mix before and after the concert. Expanding in a collaborative feature between 4fakultät and radio.syg.ma the concert will also be broadcasted live on the website of the radio.syg.ma platform on the day of the event.

Photo: Maik Gräf

14 SEP 2019

#13
September 14th 2019

Mike Cooper
(Room40 / Rome)

FOQL
(Oramics / Warsaw)

Yves de Mey
(Entr’acte / Antwerp)

Eva Zöllner & Goran Lazarević
(Wergo / Hamburg, Serbia)

Live Visuals
Alexander TrattlerArtur Musalimov / elektropastete

DJ
Paulina Allamah

Classic in his own genre of Hawaiian Futurism, Mike Cooper masters a most unique and intoxicating take on lap-steel guitar exotica. Expect a hat-shadowed face, a well worn Hawaiian shirt and a steel guitar wired into a table of electronic business … and you are only half way there. Cooper’s rich and evocative music is best experienced in his utterly flawless live performance.

Over the last few years Justyna Banaszczyk aka FOQL has released an impressive amount of music on different types of media, and on various labels such as New York Haunted and Pointless Geometry. Her hypnotic and unconventional style stems from her industrial and dark roots, and thanks to her soft spot for experiments, heaviness and the most innovative corners of dance music, she avoids the obvious, especially when playing live.

Antwerp-based producer Yves De Mey has his roots in sound design and scoring for performing arts, film and installations. His main tools are an ever-growing modular analog rig and some vintage synths, combined with an avid interest in audio manipulation. In his enigmatic live concerts De Mey alludes to a rave past, a history of repetitive and nervous patterns, all melded together in an increidibly versatile live performance technique.

Eva Zöllner was educated as classical accordionist at the Academy of Music in Cologne and at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. She is considered as one of the most active accordionists of her generation. For 4fakultät Eva will perform in a duo with Hamburg based accordionist Goran Lazarević. Goran‘s main spheres of music practice lay in live-electronics, microtonal and computer music, and free improvisation Eva’s and Goran’s exploration of the accordion will be paying attention to the offshore sound potential of their instrument.

Photo: Philipp Schewe

22 JUN 2019

#12
June 22nd 2019

Jimi Tenor
(Warp / Helsinki)

Méryll Ampe
(Audiotalaia / Paris)

Alireza Mehdizadeh
Pejram Tahmasbi
(Berlin, Iran)

Acre
(Creative Sources / Rome)

Light Design / Projections
Alexander Trattler, Artur Musalimov & Maximilian Mittermeier / elektropastete

Easily transcending all current trends and hypes. The work of Finnish musician and composer Jimi Tenor combines the finest elements of afro-american music, spontaneous silliness and shameless glamour in a style all his own. “Jimi Tenor’s mind will travel where his body can’t go. Living in isolation in east-Helsinki suburb he picks mushrooms and has exotic musical fantasiesin the calmness of the endless.“ Releases on Philophon, Herakles Records, Kindred Spirits and Warp speak a clear and distinct language of stylistic diversity. What instruments will Jimi play this time? Flute? Saxophone? Drummachines? His own voice? Just about any sound source is possible with this man and some of them might get wrecked in the act.

In herwork composer and sound designer Méryll Ampe establishes a fine link between two performative practices, the visual and the auditive: “I develop my sound through electronic field recordings and experimental music. I establish links between my musical practice and my visual practice, using techniques directly linked to sculpture – to cut in to mass, to model, and to chisel using acoustic sound, digital sound processing and analogue tools. These allow me to generate echo, tensions, breaks and punctuation. I conceive of improvisation as an uninterrupted sequence, revealing the immersive composition of space.”

Alireza Mehdizadeh plays the Kamancheh, a classical persian string instrument with a delicate and expressive sound. His meticulously modulated melodies and movements contains microtonal scales from the Dastgah tonal system, the improvisational elements of persian music and Sufism’s insight and meditativeness. Alirezah is a member of the renowned Mastan Ensemble and toured Europa, the U.S and Canada. He will be accompanied by the classical Setar player Pejram Tahmasbi.

The Rome based improvisation trio Acre is working on diverse forms of images and places of music and listening. The group’s sound is made up of some recognizable music influences, and focuses on the way these influences are dealt with, letting them interfere: The trio combines the free subchambers of instrumental jazz with the unpredictability of digital instruments, thus creating an exciting unitarian sound with detailed, fragile struktures, contrary timbres and surprising experiments.

Photo: Philipp Schewe

16 MAR 2019

#11
March 16th 2019

 
(Sub Rosa, Tzadik / France)
 
(Marsken Records / Denmark, Berlin)
 
 
DJ
 
Light Design / Projections
Alexander Trattler & Artur Musalimov
 
Bérangère Maximin creates multi-layered electro-acoustical music that lets the origins of her sound sources blur out with astonishing effects. Live practice first came to Berangere through John Zorn and his Tzadik label (USA) who gave her acousmatic work a warm welcome. The french composer has since released several albums on labels like Sub Rosa and Crammed Discs’ Made To Measure. In 2018 Bérangère Maximin performed a solo concert at Hamburg Elbphilharmonie’s ePhil series in February, and has been playing live from London up to Tokyo.
 
Using analoge synthesizers and instruments like guitars together with found sound material Andrew Pekler collages vivid spectral tableaus, both melodic and obscure. His live performance examines the peculiar tension between the organic and the synthetic. In this sense his recent work “Phantom Islands – A Sonic Atlas” is an interactive online map that takes listeners on an imaginary acoustic journey into now lost islands. He has released several albums on labels like Kranky, Entr’acte or Jan Jelinek’s Faitiche output,
 
The Jazz trio The Home of Easy Credit is led by Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen, a Danish-American saxophonist, vocalist and composer, who describes herself to be „thriving simultaneously in the dense and claustrophobic environment of New York City and the idyll of the southern Danish countryside.“ Complemented by bassist Tom Blancarte and drummer Jim Black the trio explores a dystopic, post-apocalyptic Free Jazz approach, where melodic fragments and soloistic moments are counterbalanced with rhythmic noises from Metal and Drone.
 
Felix Kubin and Mark Boombastik should be no strangers to you due to their many collaborative works, both in Hamburg’s local underground music scene as well as in a national and international experimental and academic music discourse. Felix Kubin, a true virtuoso on keys, keeps his setup in constant change around his centerpiece, the Korg MS20 synthesizer. Mark Boombastik, putting beat-boxing under eperimental tension, uses filters together with analogue effects and synthesizers to form a thunderstorm of speech chaos. The duo’s performance combines disharmonic pop, industrial noise and 20th century avantgarde music.
 
Part of Trans-European SHAPE network, composer and journalist Lucia Udvardyova curates workshops, soundwalks and radio art on topics of regional and outer-national music, electronics and gender. At 4fakultät #11 she will contribute a muically most diverse DJ set.
 
 
 
 
 

Photo: Philipp Schewe