Overview of occations with the The experimental scene from Japan and Korea (see the complete festival programme here)

The Solos and Duos - intense, concentrated and intimate

Being there alone on the stage is powerful...

Selected Stages: Art Museum (for acoustical precision) and Box 2 (for up in the face confrontation!)

Funkadelic: Free your mind and your ass will follow!

Overview of occations with Solos and Duos from the programme (see the complete festival programme here)
////////////////////////////////////////////// THURSDAY March 5
Box 2

17:00
Martin Herterich & Tobias Åström Duo
Martin Herterich-live electronics (SWE), Tobias Åström-live electronics (SWE)

With the raw punk as a starting point for scenic ecstasy this audiovisual experiment balances with influences from dronemusik and Musique Concrete to a highly caracteristic blend. Odd tonal colors and interesting structures creates a strong personal mix.

www.myspace.com/militantfields
www.herterich.se

21:00 - Clayton Thomas  solo
Clayton Thomas - contrabass (AUS)

Spectacular bass player from Australia who nowadays is raging in Berlin with surroundings. With an enormous responsivity and curiosity on creative music in all its forms, he has created a complete own tonality on the double-bass. He has with this extreme musicality, really extended the possibilities to improvise freely on his instrument!
Makes great music including together with Johannes Bauer, Tony Buck and Peter Brötzmann, but he will be appearing in the festival in solo with his fullrange "woodtool".

www.myspace.com/doubleclayton

23:00 - Cor Fuhler solo
Cor Fuhler - piano and prepared piano (NLD)

Very unique and dedicated pianist who refuses to use the piano keys only in his improvised soundscapes. Cor is like no other in building sound constructions of unprecedented magnitude and beauty. A totally unique musician unlike any other when he ultimately turn, break o deconstruct sound and timbres with his preparations and digitally processings. (including i.e. super magnets, milk skimming apparatus and other creative objects and machines!).

cor-fuhler.blogspot.com

Box 1
22:00 - Hankil Ryu & DIEB 13 duo
Hankil Ryu - prepared watches, electronics (KOR), Dieb13 - turntables (AUT)

A remarkable duo where the unpredictable is the foundation of the musical communication. Two strongly personal new voices on the international scene, both working with entirely own tonality and approaches.
Hankil Ryu is one of the most important musicians in the extremely interesting experimental scene in Korea! A scene characterized by a wild experimentation especially in its timbre. Many musicians use machines and objects that are picked apart and then micked or transformed into something new and radical. CD players, hard drives and in Hankils case: hacked old clock works! It sounds like no other ...
Interesting, well that's only the first name!
Dieb 13 is an unparalleled vinyl-demagogue! From a most lively and creative scene in Vienna, he works with completely unique vinyles, which he presses himself in his apartment in a machine that look like taken out from bad SF-Movie. With an incredible sensitivity to timbre and form, he is one of the most exciting new voices on the stage today!

www.themanual.co.kr
dieb13.klingt.org

////////////////////////////////////////////// FRIDAY, March 6
Art museum
12:30 - Peter Brötzmann solo
Peter Brötzmann - tenor and altsax, tarogato, clarinet (GER)

Taking part of a Peter Brötzmann solo concert is to be thrown into a universe where references to early jazz and indigenous music coexist with a strong, very strong personal approach to music and art. An approach where curiosity on new forms, melodies and energy-clusters creates a music that is never afraid to take a step forward to strongly mark its own expression, and with a dynamical spectrum few could to master. There is no other improviser in the contemporary music as Brötzmann is able to tell a story with his music. Who is able to overpower the moment! In the solo situation, this becomes most apparent, an old-fashioned (?) storyteller who brought the improvised music forward for decades, with a never flirting with trends or looking too much backwards.
The dedicated Present is whats counts. The burning Now!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Br%C3%B6tzmann
"Brötzmann is among the most important European free jazz musicians. His rough, lyrical timbre is easily recognized on his many recordings."

Box 2
21:00 - Xavier Charles solo
Xavier Charles - clarinet (FRA)

Xavier is one of the most innovative soloists in improvised music. With a klarinetton who sometimes caresses, sometimes kicking, he puts the first massive bricks of free improvisation in which development in timbre and melodic sensitivity meets energetic waves and feelings for the small details and the changes! With a humble attitude and a strong dedication to the music he creates beautifully improvised landscapes one can walk into ... razor sharp and very precise music where improvisation is always in the center.

www.vudunoeuf.asso.fr/xavier

23:00 - Peter Evans solo
Peter Evans - trumpet (USA)

As a bomb he hit into the improvisation music a few years ago. With a solo CD on Evan Parker's label "psi" he marked his incredible virtuosity. After Axel Dörner has not much happened until Peter Evans showed how the use of valves can be developed and renewed!
With a strong carved-out tonality and an attacking bit, he gets into the present and will not let go. Not since the be-bop's Clifford Brown and Fats Navarro, we have heard anything like it!
The articulated phrases, the fourth tone rich timbral passages, the rapid movements, all aims to the present of which everything is born and re-transformed!

www.myspace.com/peterevanstrumpet

////////////////////////////////////////////// SATURDAY March 7
Art Museum
13:00 - Barry Guy (GRB) & Maya Homburger (GBR) duo
Barry Guy - double bass (GRB), Maya Homburg - baroque violin (CHE)

Barry Guy and Maya Homburg belong both to the absolute creative now living musicians (big words ... but also true!). They are simply playing in an entirely separate division ... No other musicians have they managed to the highest level of playing both improvised music, baroque music and contemporary music with the razor-sharp focus and the deep commitment they have!
Biber and J.S. Bach coexist with compositions by Xenakis and especially by Guy himself.
Solos and duos in alternate programs that always carves firmly into the mind of the listener!
It is only to open up and take in! Heavenly beauty, freely expressed!

www.mayarecordings.com/biographies/maya/index.html
www.barryguy.com/biographies/barryhome.html

Box 2
19:00 - Hild Sofie Tafjord solo
Hild Sofie Tafjord - French horn and electronics (NOR)

Hild Sofie is one of the strongest and most interesting voices in improvised music and noise in recent explosive years! With a strong sense of form and timbral awareness, she has blown away many jazz beards from chairs and armchairs with her high-energy-music delivering great beauty in the lyrical qualities. Hild has worked with many of the top names in noise music, but we think in her solo performances, she really comes to her strengths. Her solo record "KAMA" is one of the strongest solodebuts ever! Stone Hard! Rock Hard!

www.myspace.com/hildsofie

21:00 - Grenager & Jernberg duo
Lene Grenager - cello (NOR), Sofia Jernberg - voice (SWE)

This is the SHIT! A really fantastic improvisation duo where the search and the investigations for the micro sounds and the bigger causes drives these equilibristic musicians forward!
Improvisation music on this level is a pleasure to take part of.
Lene and Sofia are improvised music in its TRUE sense. Ear sight Art!
The Duo will during 2009 début with an album on Olof Bright Editions.

www.grenager.no
www.myspace.com/sofiajernberg

23:00 - Taku Unami solo
TAKU Unami - "objects vibrated by inaudible frequencies made with computer."  (JPN)

TAKU Unami is another absolutely enchanting, interesting musicians from the Japanese experimental scene. Fully unpredictable and with a constant smile, he put musical expectations out of order. Authorization of a permit ... questioning of questioning ...
Unami concerns and adds relish to things. This we need to be further able to fight stupidity!

hibarimusic.com