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2022 DEC 15 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:00 CONCERT

Sound Portraits Artist Sessions 

Sound Portraits features live listening sessions, artist discussions, performances, and demonstrations. The last of five sessions this year features electronic musician and sound artist Hanna Hartman with host Doron Sadja. 

2022 DEC 14 WED  19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Labor Neunzehn's Cluster #22

Angélica Castelló, Wind Diaries for Paetzold recorder, tapes, radios, and objects.

Valerio Tricoli & Werner Dafeldecker, Der Krater for Revox tape machine, sampler, and double bass. 

2022 DEC 10 SAT  Festival Sacred Realism 2022

17:00-18:00 Clara de Asís & Rebecca Lane, Distances Bending (Day III); 18:00-20:30  reception hosted by Peter Cusack; 20:30 Catherine Lamb, Prisma Interius IV (2016/22)

Clara de Asís (synthesizer) & Rebecca Lane (flute, organ pipes, 'silent' whistle) 

Catherine Lamb (viola, voice), Rebecca Lane (quarter-tone bass flute, voice), Bryan Eubanks (voice), Andrew Lafkas (double bass), Xavier Lopez (secondary rainbow synthesizer)

2022 DEC 9 FRI  Festival Sacred Realism 2022

17:00-18:00 Clara de Asís & Rebecca Lane, Distances Bending (Day II); 18:00-20:30  reception hosted by Judith Hamann; 20:30 Andrew Lafkas, An Old Drawing of a Room with Two Doors and a Pyramid (Squared Hoop) [UA] (2022); Andrew Lafkas & Bryan Eubanks, duo for double bass and saxophone electronics

Clara de Asís (synthesizer) & Rebecca Lane (flute, quarter-tone bass flute)

Andrew Lafkas (double bass), Clara de Asís (cymbals), Catherine Lamb (gong), Rebecca Lane (quarter-tone bass flute), Bryan Eubanks & Xavier Lopez (synthesizers) 

2022 DEC 8 THU  Festival Sacred Realism 2022

17:00-18:00 Clara de Asís & Rebecca Lane, Distances Bending (Day I); 18:00-20:30  reception hosted by lousy cappuccino; 20:30 Peter Ablinger, The Real as Imaginary (2012) for voice and noise; Morton Feldman, Triadic Memories (1981) for solo piano

Clara de Asís (synthesizer) & Rebecca Lane (quarter-tone bass flute); Peter Ablinger (voice); Xavier Lopez (piano)

2022 DEC 5 MON  19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Lucie Vítková & Xiaoer Liu, OPAQUE, a piece for two performers on the endlessness and infinity of the mirror gaze and the impossibility of seeing through it at the same time.

2022 DEC 2 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Catherine Lamb & Saviet/Houston Duo present new works for violin and piano in Lamb's Violin Harmonic Space Tuning, including miniatures by Lamb, Debussy, Froberger, Couperin, and J.S. Bach.

Sarah Saviet (violin) and Joe Houston (piano)

2022 NOV 30 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Oker, the acoustic quartet of Fredrik Rasten (guitar), Torstein Lavik Larsen (trumpet), Adrian Fiskum Myhr (double bass), and Jan Martin Gismervik (drums)

2022 NOV 28 MON 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Duo set by ICP bandmates Ab Baars (tenor sax, clarinet, shakuhachi) & Tobias Delius (tenor sax, clarinet)  

Duo set by Splitter Orchester bandmates Kai Fagaschinksi (clarinet) & Mike Majkowski (double bass)  

2022 NOV 26 SAT 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Enxin/Onyx, electronics duo by Hiro Kone and Tot Onyx (of Group A)

Solo electronics set by Nick Klein of Psychic Liberation

2022 NOV 25 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Nowhere Street #11

Mike Reed Quartet, featuring Håvard Wiik (piano), Silke Eberhard (alto saxophone), Joel Grip (double bass), and Mike Reed (drums) 

2022 NOV 24 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:00 CONCERT  

Sound Portraits Artist Sessions 

Sound Portraits features live listening sessions, artist discussions, performances, and demonstrations. The fourth of five sessions features electronic musician and sound artist Jessica Ekomane with host Doron Sadja. 

2022 NOV 23 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Aviva Endean (bass clarinet and electronics) performs music from Moths & Stars, her new solo release on Room40.

Rebecca Lane performs her recent composition for 9 voices for quarter-tone bass flute and playback.

2022 NOV 19 SAT 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Solo sets by André  Damião (viola caipira), Chico Mello (voice, guitar), and Manuel Pessôa de Lima (piano, voice & electronics) and a trio performance of Lecture on Bossa

2022 NOV 18 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Anzû Quartet performs new and recent works by Cassie Wieland, Josué Collado Fregoso, Ken Thomson, Jonathan Bailey Holland, and Anna Webber. 

Ken Thomson (clarinet), Olivia De Prato (violin), Ashley Bathgate (cello), Karl Larson (piano)

2022 NOV 17 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Labor Neunzehn's Cluster #22 

Neo Hülcker performs Breaking of the voice (post voice break version) featuring paranormal φeer group's staying broken, Neo Hülcker's NN, Andy Ingamells' stand facing an audience, and Henry Wilde (Antonia Baehr)'s, Komposition für Stimmbruchvirtuose, Op. 3 

2022 NOV 15 TUE 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Quentin Tolimieri performs solo piano works from his triple-album release Monochromes (Elsewhere Music 2022).

2022 NOV 10 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Merche Blasco,  Mario de Vega, and Viola Yip present Subjective Currents, featuring solo sets and a trio for self-built instruments and electronics.

2022 NOV 9 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Michiko Ogawa, Junkan (2020) performed by Sam Dunscombe (bass clarinet),  Rebecca Lane (flute), Cat Lamb (viola), Fredrik Rasten (guitar), Jonathan Heilbron (bass), Sarah Saviet (violin), Judith Hamann (cello), Michiko Ogawa (clarinet)

Mary Jane Leach, 4BC (1984), performed by Sam Dunscombe (bass clarinet) and Michiko Ogawa (bass clarinet) 

2022 NOV 8 TUE 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Nowhere Street #10

Rempis–Harnik–Zerang, the decade-long partnership of Dave Rempis (saxophone), Elisabeth Harnik (piano), and Michael Zerang (percussion), tour their third release Astragaloi (Aerophonic Records 2022).

2022 NOV 4 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

MAM test kitchen #0:  Michelle Lou 

Michelle Lou performs solo and in quartet with MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik (Marie Schmit, cello; Alexander Hadjiev, bassoon; Paul Hübner, brass) and presents her untitled three-part construction (2022), performed by MAM.

2022 NOV 2 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:00 CONCERT [EARLY START TIME]

Sound Portraits Artist Sessions 

Sound Portraits features live listening sessions, artist discussions, performances, and demonstrations. The third of five sessions features noted synthesizer and instrument builder Peter Blasser (Ciat-Lonbarde) with host Doron Sadja. 

2022 NOV 1 TUE 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT  

Bonnie Jones (electronics) performs a trio with Birgit Ulher (trumpet, radio, speaker) and Biliana Voutchkova (violin, voice) followed by a duo with Magda Mayas (piano).

2022 OCT 28 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT  

Rubén Patiño, solo computer and electronics

Michael Winter with Bastien Pouillès, dawning redux for accordion and electronics (2022), performed by Bastien Pouillès

2022 OCT 27 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:00 CONCERT   

REFLUX: Festival for Contemporary Electroacoustic Music 

Live performances by Martina Claussen, plait (2022), and Annette Vande Gorne, Various Works (2022), and Wolfgang Musil's diffusion of Luc Ferrari, Éphémère I (1974) 

2022 OCT 25 TUE 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Solo sets by Julia Reidy (electric guitar & electronics) and Marcus Pal (sound synthesis)

2022 OCT 20 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Ute Wassermann & Joke Lanz perform their composition Kryptozoo (2022) for voice, objects, bird whistles, and turntables.

2022 OCT 19 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:00 CONCERT [EARLY START TIME]

Christine Abdelnour (alto saxophone) performs extended duo sets with two of her closest collaborators, Magda Mayas (piano) and Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet).

2022 OCT 18 TUE 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Eric Wubbels & Elias Stemeseder perform duos for piano, harpsichord, and synthesizers.

2022 OCT 15 SAT 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Nowhere Street #9

Emmeluth's Amoeba with Signe Emmeluth (alto sax, compositions), Karl Bjorå (guitar), Christian Balvig (piano), and Ole Mofjell (drums)

2022 OCT 14 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Labor Neunzehn's Cluster #21

Marta Forsberg, All Sounds from Above and Underneath for voice, violin, and field recordings

Alessandro Massobrio, Five Phenomenological Studies (2004–08), performed by Alessandro Massobrio (electric guitar, electronics, typing), Matthias Koole (electric guitars, electronics), and Valentina Besegher (live visuals)

2022 OCT 13 THU  19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Graphème Vol. 2 release concert

smallest functional unit (Tony Buck, Mazen Kerbaj, Magda Mayas, and Ute Wassermann) perform works from the second volume of Graphème, a book series for unconventional, hybrid notational formats and graphic scores.

2022 OCT 7 FRI  19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Ernstalbrecht Stiebler premieres four new compositions: Solo piece for quarter-tone bass flute and delay, Monodie (für Eric) for solo flute, 1/4-tone piece for solo cello, and Monodies for solo piano.

Ernstalbrecht Stiebler & Tilman Kanitz, duo for cello and piano, marking the release of The Pankow-Park Sessions Vol. 1 (Another Timbre 2022)

Rebecca Lane (quarter-tone bass flute), Tilman Kanitz (cello), Ernstalbrecht Stiebler (piano)

2022 OCT 6 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:00 CONCERT 

Sound Portraits Artist Sessions 

Sound Portraits features live listening sessions, artist discussions, performances, and demonstrations. The second of five sessions features Frank Bretschneider with host Doron Sadja. 

2022 OCT 4 TUE 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Sholto Dobie, solo for home-made organs

Nina Guo & Augustė Vickunaitė, duo for voice and reel-to-reel tapes

2022 SEP 30 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Well Tuned Brass: 2022

Zinc & Copper perform Morton Feldman's A Very Short Trumpet Piece (1984) and premiere Hilary Jeffery's Long Forest (2022, UA) and Zinc & Copper's Well Tuned Brass (2022, UA)

Elena Kakaliagou (horn), Hilary Jeffery (trombone, trumpet), and Robin Hayward (tuba)

2022 SEP 29 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Well Tuned Brass: Gedämpft

The low brass ensemble Zinc & Copper present a concert on the theme of mutes, performing Juan Felipe Waller's Die sprechende Stummen (2022, UA) and Robin Hayward's Gruntled (2021)

Elena Kakaliagou (horn), Hilary Jeffery (trombone), and Robin Hayward (tuba)

2022 SEP 28 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:00 CONCERT   

Neti-Neti, the lo-fi ritual music duo of Matt Evans (drums/electronics) and Amirtha Kidambi (vocals/electronics) 

Patrick Shiroishi, alto saxophone solo 

Ernesto Cárcamo Cavazos, Deslizando aires for voice and synthesizer 

2022 SEP 24 SAT 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

The Hollows is the Appalachian-infused electroacoustic trio of Nick Dunston (banjo), Ettiene Nillesen (snare drum), and Weston Olencki (banjo).

Sofia Borges performs a solo set for percussion.

2022 SEP 22 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Otomo Yoshihide (turntables and guitar) is joined by Tizia Zimmermann (accordion), Emilio Gordoa (vibraphone and percussion) and Chris Pitsiokos (alto saxophone) in this forward-looking quartet.

2022 SEP 21 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Otomo Yoshihide, solo for turntables and guitar, and a duo with Chris Pitsiokos (alto saxophone), marking the release of their recent recording Live in Florence (Astral Spirits 2020).

2022 SEP 16 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Callahan & Witscher is the computer music duo of Jack Callahan and Jeff Witscher, co-founders of the Flea label and composers of Stockhausen Syndrome; The Past, Present And Future Of Experimental Music; and What Happens on Earth Stays on Earth.

Stellan Veloce and Claire Vivianne Sobottke perform Veloce's Everyone can play harmonica (umland editions/Q-O2, 2021) for cus­tom-tuned dia­ton­ic harmonicas.

2022 SEP 15 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:00 CONCERT 

Brass Abacus is the duo of Robin Hayward (microtonal tuba & tuning vine) and M. O. Abbott (bass trombone & tuning vine). In their lecture-performance Memory Chords, they perform newly composed pieces enabling a "poetry of remembering" and discuss different ways to explore multidimensional harmonic space.

2022 SEP 10 SAT and SEP 11 SUN 18:30 DOORS 19:00 CONCERT 

The fourth edition of DARA String Festival, curated by Biliana Voutchkova, features compositions, improvisations, and works by György Kurtág, Heather Frasch (WP), Georges Aperghis, Malika Kishino, Rainer Rubbert, Gabriel Iranyi, Salvador Torré (WP) and Norbert Fröhlich.

Anna Lindal (violin), Katt Hernandez (violin), Biliana Voutchkova (violin), Megumi Kasakawa (viola), Enikö Ginzery (cimbalom), Nick Dunston (double bass), and special guest Lisskulla Moltke-Hoff (visuals)

2022 SEP 8 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Nowhere Street #8

John McCowen presents his latest solo release Models of Duration (Astral Spirits & Dinzu Artefacts 2022) for contrabass clarinet, followed by a trio set with Weston Olencki (trombone) & Lucy Railton (cello).

2022 SEP 7 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Julia Reidy (adjustable fret guitar) & Morten Joh (retuned vibraphone, gran cassa, Korg Polysix, double cassette tape delay) present Tape Shadow (Futura Resistanza 2022), their first release as a duo.

Michiko Ogawa (Hammond organ) presents her recent release Solo/May 2020 (ftarri 2020).

2022 SEP 6 TUE 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Nina Guo (soprano) and Edward Kass (contrabass) are the inimitable Departure Duo, performing recently commissioned works for soprano and contrabass by Emily Koh, Mikhail Johnson, Sarah Gibson, and Emily Praetorius.

2022 SEP 2 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Composer Max Murray presents recent compositions for voice, violin, piano, and electronics, alongside works by Bach, Schubert, Liszt, and Rădulescu.

Peyee Chen (voice), Sarah Saviet (violin), and Joe Houston (piano)

2022 SEP 1 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:00 CONCERT 

Sound Portraits Artist Sessions 

Sound Portraits returns for a second season of live listening sessions, artist discussions, performances, and demonstrations. The first of five sessions features Felicity Mangan with host Doron Sadja. 

2022 JUN 29 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

A new quartet featuring Ayse Cansu Tanrıkulu (voice, electronics), Simon Jermyn (electric guitar), Nick Dunston (double bass, electronics) & Maria Portugal (percussion)

2022 JUN 21 TUE 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Chris Corsano (drums) caps his European solo tour with a trio performance featuring Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet) & Magda Mayas (piano)

2022 JUN 17 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Intakt Records release concert

Elias Stemeseder presents his latest release Piano Solo (2022).

2022 JUN 10 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

dBUT interambience release concert

O, the acoustic free folk trio of Helen Louise Solberg (acoustic guitar, voice) & Inga Margrete Aas (viola da gamba) present their debut album Firstness, with guests Jan Martin Gismervik (drums)  Fredrik Rasten (guitar).

2022 JUN 9 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Hyperdelia release concert

Laurie Tompkins, Sharp Love Slow Faint for voice, karaoke & samples (Hyperdelia HEX 007)

Neil Luck, solo for voice, laptop & video

2022 JUN 8 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Morton Feldman, Patterns in a Chromatic Field (1981) performed by Lucy Railton (cello) & Joe Houston (piano)

2022 JUN 7 TUE 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Nowhere Street #7

CLCJ Quartet  Chris Pitsiokos (alto saxophone), Chris Williams (trumpet), Luke Stewart (double bass), and Jason Nazary (drums)

2022 JUN 4 SAT 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Power Loom #10

Camilla Barratt-Due and Popon perform solo electronics sets.

2022 JUN 3 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

The Paranormal Clarinet Society premieres Kai Fagaschinski's Welcome to the 20th Century and Sam Dunscombe's new work for 8 clarinets.

Lucio Capece (bass clarinet), Anat Cohavi (clarinets), Sam Dunscombe (clarinets), Kai Fagaschinski (clarinet), Chris Heenan (contrabass clarinet), Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson (clarinets), Michiko Ogawa (clarinets), Michael Thieke (clarinet)

2022 JUN 1 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

NOR, the duo of Luc Döbereiner (guitar & electronics) and Martin Lorenz (percussion & electronics) perform Clara de Asís, Sleepless night (2022); Lula Romero, borrowing / borrowed walks (2022); and NOR, Rekurrenz II (2022), Rekurrenz III (2022); and MIT II (2021) 

2022 MAY 28 SAT 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Horse Lords  Owen Gardner (electric guitar), Andrew Bernstein (sax & percussion), Max Eilbacher (bass), and Booker Stardrum (drums)

2022 MAY 27 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Sequence presents

Riot Ensemble performing Bryn Harrison, Quietly Rising for solo piano, Enno Poppe, Trauben for piano trio, and Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor

Sarah Saviet (violin), Louise McMonagle (cello), and Joe Houston (piano)

2022 MAY 25 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Marcin Masecki (piano) plays Thelonious Monk.

2022 MAY 24 TUE 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Yan Jun & Eric Wong, duo for voice, sine waves, white noise, and speakers

Seth Josel performs Jürg Frey, guitarist alone (2016).

2022 MAY 21 SAT 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Léo Dupleix's Poème d’air (2022) and Fredrik Rasten's Fuse modulations (2020) performed by Léo Dupleix  (synthesizer), Fredrik Rasten (guitars), Rebecca Lane (flutes), and Jon Heilbron (double bass)

2022 MAY 20 FRI 19:30 20:30 CONCERT 

Concrete Sun is the trio of Myra Melford (amplified inside piano, objects), Evelyn Ficarra (laptop, found sounds) & Heather Frasch (amplified objects and electronics). 

2022 MAY 19 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT

Bettina Junge (flutes) & Ernst Surberg (synthesizers) of ensemble mosaik perform works by Kirsten Reese, Sarah Nemtsov, Oliver Schneller, and Georgia Koumará.

2022 MAY 18 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT 

DDK  Axel Dörner (trumpet), Jacques Demierre (piano), and Jonas Kocher (accordion)

2022 MAY 15 SUN 19:30 DOORS 20:00 CONCERT

Pony Says performs Steven Takasugi's Die Klavierübung (2007-09/2022) for guitar, piano, xylophone and electronics and Jessie Marino's The Ideal Hour/Collages with Tom (2021/22) for voice and ensemble (with Jessie Marino)

2022 MAY 14 SAT 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT 

Power Loom #9

Sydney Spann and Avel Mismo perform solo electronics sets.

2022 MAY 13 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT 

Release concert for Andrew Bernstein's  a presentation, featuring In Flux with Owen Gardner (guitar), Philipp Gerschlauer (alto sax), Judith Hamann (cello), Julia Reidy (guitar), and Deborah Walker (cello)

2022 MAY 11 WED 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT 

Post music (Joanna Bailie, Lucio Capece, Heather Frasch, Joseph Kudirka, Koen Nutters) and Maya Verlaak perform new works composed by Verlaak for the ensemble.

2022 MAY 6 FRI 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT 

Max Eilbacher, Imitating a Particular Word for digital synthesis and four speakers, from his Rough Music series

Sam Dunscombe, solo set for field recordings, clarinet, and digital synthesis

2022 MAY 4 WED and MAY 5 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT 

Ken Vandermark (reeds), István Grencsó (reeds), Elisabeth Harnik (piano), and Paul Lytton (drums) tour as a new quartet featuring compositions by Vandermark, Harnik, and Grencsó.

2022 MAY 3 TUE 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT 

Nowhere Street 

Quartabê  Mariá Portugal (drums), Joana Queiroz (clarinet, bass clarinet), Maria Beraldo (clarinet, bass clarinet) and Chicão (keyboards) 

2022 APR 28 THU 19:30 DOORS 20:30 CONCERT 

Series :: presents

Bryan Eubanks, Transparent Grid (2014-21), performed by Rebecca Lane (flute), Sam Dunscombe (clarinet), Eric Bauer (feedback), Bryan Eubanks (clave, sine tones), Lucy Railton (cello), Derek Shirley (cello), Catherine Lamb (viola), Sarah Saviet (violin), Morten Joh (percussion), Xavier Lopez (piano), all performers (seeds in jars)