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Antti Virtaranta – April 19th, Doors 7:30pm, Concert 8pm
Antti Virtaranta presents his new solo bass project.
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 <but not only>]).
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.
DuChamp – April 27th, Doors 7:30pm, Concert 8pm
(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.
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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
Jo’s new album Empty Salt
Released, Nov.17.2023
Video – The Tangible Tryst
Once, when Jo worked in a salt mine, she switched off the headlight in a deep mining tunnel and found herself in the greatest silence and darkness. Apart from the taste of salt, the only thing that was present was absence. For decades she kept this feeling of emptiness.
On this album Jo opened up some dots of this empty token and a 10-kg sack of Asian flour burst onto a humdrum leeway. On this own run a grained crow flew untamed into a tangible tryst and leaving nothing but blunt salt.
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Maximilian Glass (electronics) & Michael Thieke (clarinet)
September 15th, 2023
Set 1 (für Rosi) – Maximilian Glass & Michael Thieke
Set 2 (für Marcus) – Maximilian Glass & Michael Thieke
Maximilian Glass is a Berlin based sound artist, improviser and composer with a focus on resonating frequencies and the complementary relationship between acoustic, electro-acoustic and electronic sounds. He interprets playback devices as musical instruments, creates feedback systems, manipulates motors and plays objects. His work takes place in the form of concerts, installations, compositions, (radio)performances and mostly in scenarios of site-specific interactions.
Michael Thieke – clarinetist/composer/performer – is equally at home across a broad range of musical environments, such as experimental song forms, collectively composing projects, improvising collectives, and music on the fringes of jazz. He is exploring the minutiae of sound, timbre and noise, with a particular interest in microtonality and related sound phenomena. The qualities of slowness are another.
João Orecchia & Sicker Man – „Parallax“ – Release Concert
August 12th, 2023
Sicker Man: electric cello, effects
Agente Costura & Beltership Live at Orange ’Ear
July 29th, 2023
#encore – Agente Costura & Beltership
We look back at this unique duo, together with them we are immersed in a very special sound world. Agente Costura + Beltership played their second concert together and Orange ’Ear had the honor of presenting this improvised set. The two combined their ingenuity in constructing sonic devices with their extraordinary sense for arrangements and interwoven soundscapes.