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Daniel Craig & Matto Zoppi – Dec. 7th, 8pm sharp!
Matto and Daniel have been making music together just long enough to pass through the four seasons.
Across this time, they have worked to create a highly interactive and elastic musical language.
And indeed it is these seasons that they hope to traverse in their performance.
Is it neo-romanticism for our age of entanglement?
Or do their concrete sounds and voice simply suggest the inconcrete and intangible?
Daniel Craig – laptop
Matto Zoppi – voice, death whistle
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Mathieu Sylvestre – Nov. 23rd.
Music : mathieusylvestre.bandcamp.com
Video : youtube.com
Field Recordings and analog synthesizers are the main sources of the sound processed by Mathieu
Sylvestre. Noises and natural sounds are interwoven and articulated in electrified sound narratives between aural synaesthesia and spatial vibrations. Autodidact musician based in Berlin, Germany since 2010, he came from France to Noise Music after 10 years as vocalist and guitarist in rock music field. With guitars, cello, effect pedals and contact microphones, he first experimented on sounds and noises to work on origin of vibrations by straight analog means. After guitar noise experiments he developed sound pieces from field recordings and Moog analog synthesizers sound sources. After hundreds of shows since 2010 in Europe and worldwide this work is constantly enriched by different contexts and places. Mathieu Sylvestre performed in several performance festivals and art events, in art galleries as music performer or as performance artist. The live electronic sound performances based on improvised patterns have been evolving show after show and highlight boundaries between analog sound textures and the core of electronic vibrations that focuses on bringing noise music a plastic and physical approach. On the other hand, Mathieu Sylvestre composed sound tracks for visual artists as Wolfgang Petrick (D) or Saskia Edens (CH) and work to provide sound design on live shows in collaboration with Performance artists Frédéric Krauke (D), NoMass -contemporary dance- (GR), Physical Poets -Butoh- (JP), Non Grata (Est) Diverse Universe Tours from 2012 to 2019 and music/sound design of the movie Symbiosis (2024) He was assistant of visual artist Till Velten between 2015 and 2019 in Basel (CH) Several collaborating side projects are on the track since 2018 with Sonus Eorum (Drone/Noise) Reichenhall (Ambient Noise) and UncoppenSaw (Spoken world Tribal Noise)
And as claimed the Beat Poet Ron Whitehead : „Listen listen listen to the droning mesmerizing exploding noise of Mathieu Sylvestre as he creates and performs the soundtrack for the performance art underworld .“
Stephen Flinn, Jung-Jae Kim, and Sylvain Monchoce
Nov. 1st
Stephen Flinn, Jung-Jae Kim, and Sylvain Monchoce create a spatial fullness of acoustic resonance with small, delicate, and exquisite sound sources. Their music walks cautiously deep into silence, meditative waves, and tranquil moments. The three musicians interact with each other, with the space and the instant, with the energy of amplitude and sketch the soundscape of a minuscule universe.
VINYL -TERROR & -HORROR Live at Orange ’Ear
October 11th
Orange ‘Ear is back from the summer break and started the new season with a very special concert!
Adrián de Alfonso, Sept. 20
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Eric Wong and Carina Khorkhordina, June 8th
we were pleased to host the concert with Eric Wong featuring spatialized bluetooth speakers and the site-specific trumpet player Carina Khorkhordina.
The duo contrast their ways of using the space to shape the sound they make. Carina Khorkhordina incorporates her movements with the sound she produces and utilizes the acoustics of different corners of the space for her sonic palette. Eric Wong diffuses his sound through a collection of Bluetooth speakers that are placed among the audience.
mixed by Eric Wong
additional mastering by Axel Dörner & Carina Khorkhordina
FULL SIXTY CIRCLES May 25th
Frank completed his 60th orbit around the sun. In this full swing, he was ready for his stage debut. To mark the occasion, we celebrated a very special evening of improvised music at Orange ’Ear.
FRANK:
Last autumn Frank started to develop his set-up for improvised music. Starting with the old familiar guitar, he quickly added a no-input mixer. To dive even deeper into noise music he started to shape the sounds digitally. A multitude of analogue sound samples expanded the spectrum and opened up a wide range of options for his hints of melodies, sporadic rhythms and sonic structures. After some private sessions with the „Päfgens“, „Dizzy Moon“, „beltership“ and Marina Cyrino / Matthias Koole (ICNISP) it was now time to go on stage.
ICNISP:
Institute for Certified Nomadic Illicit Sonic Practices is the Berlin-based duo of Brazilian musicians Marina Cyrino (flute) and Matthias Koole (el. guitar), formed in 2018. With a mixture of electronic and acoustic sound sources, objects and preparations, internal amplification and no-input mixing, the duo presents a lively and highly imaginative approach to their instruments. The amplified piccolo can function as a noise generator and a percussion instrument; the alto flute can be played by an external balloon that moans; the guitar quickly switches between sound worlds in chaotic mutations of instrumental techniques and no-input mixing. The duo works across improvisation and multidisciplinary projects. In 2023 they released their first album Calisthenics on the Brazilian label Seminal Records.
JD ZAZIE:
JD Zazie is an experimental DJ, avant-turntablist, sound artist and curator.
Coming from a DJ and a radiophonic background JD Zazie has explored different approaches to real-time manipulation of fixed recorded sound. In her work she redefines DJ and electroacoustic activities. As a solo performer, in small groups, and in large ensembles, she works in an area which is constantly stretching the borders of what could be defined as DJ mixing, free improvisation and composed music.
In the final session, all the musicians played together.
Augustė Vickunaitė – May 11th
DuChamp – April 27th
Set One
Set Two
(Drone – Germany/Italy)
She released albums for Boring Machines (“Nar”), Idiosyncratics (“Sculpture”), Full Body Massage (“A Blazing World”).
Since 2017, aside baritone guitar and keys, DuChamp incorporate real field recordings in her music, related to her personal memory, into her drone compositions, by adding layers of sounds and noise in attempt to recreate some kind of apophonias.
Antti Virtaranta – April 19th
Antti Virtaranta presents his new solo bass project Live at Orange ’Ear.
Antti’s music is a quest of colors and gracefully appearing textures within a marathon of fierce, dense repeating swells of sound. His exploration is focused on minimalism and microscopic details, but turned up (volume-wise [acoustically ]).
The textures, which range from beautiful floating harmonies to harsh beating and scratching noises, are full of subtle details that are tangled and manipulated into some construct of composition.
Omen – March 23rd
The sounds of Omen wave you into her psyche, her fiction and obsession, her gloomy realm of sound in space. Omen is the solo project of Berlin based artist Hannah Schiefelbein. Her latest album entitled Wild Sleep was released on cassette by local label Kashual Plastik and touches base in manifold stylistic subdivisions – drone zones, dragging industrial, pop miniatures and field recordings.
For this performance at Orange Ear Omen’s minimal electronic hardware set up — a soap bar sized synth, cassette deck and effect pedals, is accompanied by live vocals and a visual concept conceived in collaboration with artist Jill Kiddon.
Congee Rats Live at Orange ’Ear, Feb. 24th.
Congee Rats is a project of Dong Zhou’s, which explores all genres of electronic pop music and reflects the life situation of marginalised people.
Congee Rats, aka Dong Zhou, is a composer-performer based in Hamburg. In 2023, Dong Zhou started this solo project as a performing producer. Fanfiction is a collaboration with Daria Geske, which brought life to four songs in today’s set. The other songs were Zhou’s sound diary during the last Christmas holiday.
Andreas Voccia Live at Orange ’Ear, Jan. 27th.
Andreas Voccia is a musician and video artist based in Berlin. Originally a trained jazz guitar player, he now works with a modular synthesizer to implement compositional practices from contemporary classical music in an improvisational and responsive environment. Besides his solo work, he is currently involved in several projects with musicians from the experimental and free jazz scenes.
In his music he looks into abstract principles like movement, pattern, space, time, and how everything is interwoven with each other through resonance processes, in order to approach the fundamental question of the nature/essence of Reality. His main interest is to find in all the complex systems a poetic view which aims to draw out the tension betweeen the inside and the outside.
Tintin Patrone Live at Orange ’Ear, Jan. 6th 2024
