FATTNESS: low register

Fattness is a big band made up of all low instruments. 3 baritone saxophones, 2 trombones, tuba, 2 bassists (upright and electric) and 2 percussionists.

Leonie Freudenberger (Bariton-Saxophon)
Jeremy Woodruff (Bariton-Saxofon )
Tobias Schirmer (Bariton-Saxofon)
Nils Marquart (Posaune)
Stefan Pahlke (Tuba)
Peter Nitsch (E-Bass und Kontrabass)
Ranjit Prasad (E-Bass und Kontrabass)
Liliana Zieniawa (Drum Set und Vibraphon )
Martin Krause (Drum Set, Marimbaphon und
Orchester Schlagzeug)

Bookings

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• Performance

6. September 2022 - 6. December 2022

Sonic Borderlines Festival: Trans-traditional Musicking

Bei den transkulturellen Ensemble-Konzerten unter dem Titel Sonic Borderlines wird nach einer internationalen und dekolonisierten historischen Aufführungspraxis gesucht. Die radikal kuratierten Abende bringen Musiker:innen mit den unterschiedlichsten Backgrounds zusammen, wie arabische und aserbaidschanische Klassik und Musik aus dem europäischen Mittelalter und der Renaissance.

• Course

15. November 2022 - 29. January 2023

Performing with Modular Synths and Circuitry Building

In this hands-on course the participants learn fundamental theory and approaches to modular synthesis while also learning the basics of electronics for building circuitry and synth modules. Assignments help the participants learn strategies for better achieving their artistic goals and structuring work. In the last two weeks of the course, approaches to composition, improvisation and performance with modular synthesis and built interfaces are workshopped and performed

• Performance

5. December 2022, 19:30

Katie Porter & Lucio Capece, Andrea Parkins & Eliad Wagner, Angeles Rojas and Open Ensemble and Jeremy Woodruff

Phase to Phase, Electronics and Synthesizers, Open Ensemble and composition based on field recordings of anti-war protest in St. Petersburg, March 2022

• Workshop

14. December 2022, 17:00

Ken Ueno: Person Specificity and Physiovalence: A Personal Performance Practice

Noting how Western European classical music values are entrenched exnominatively in music pedagogy in the United States, composer, vocalist, and artist Ken Ueno moves toward creating a personal practice that seeks to “uncorset” musical practice and, by extension, claim artistic agency for those who do not belong to the dominant culture.

• Performance

14. December 2022, 20:00

Ken Ueno, Audrey Chen, Nicola Hein and Viola Yip

On the occasion of Ken Ueno's return to Berlin, Audrey Chen, Nicola Hein and Viola Yip will join Ueno to present an evening of improvised music with voice and electronics of various kinds. All of them share a performing practice of foregrounding simultaneous intensities and subtleties out of their complex construction of sounds

• Workshop

30. December 2022, 19:00

Ari Benjamin Meyers: On the Kunsthalle for Music/Recent Works