SOUND WINDOW 2024/25
Concert series at hase29 curated by Shabnam Parvaresh
October 2024 – February 2025
Improvised dialogues between art and music
“Sound window in the hase29” is continued – concert series for improvised and experimental music
For the third time, the art space hase29 is inviting visitors to the concert series "Klangfenster". From October 2024 to February 2025, exceptional international musicians will meet to play improvised music. In the field of tension between jazz, experimental music and the avant-garde, the boundaries between emotions and sound experiences become blurred.
The concert series was curated by clarinetist Shabnam Parvaresh
Contact: klangfenster@hase29.de
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During this period, the hase29 art space will once again become one of the most exciting centers for music that challenges, surprises and moves. The "Neue Musikzeitung" recently wrote about improvised music that it is "that delicate segment in which an idealistic audience adventurously explores the musical present." And it is precisely this adventure that makes the "Klangfenster" concert series so special. Without fixed structures, the music is created in the moment - a unique experience that unfolds from the encounter between the artists and their inspiration from the exhibited works of art. In improvisation, personal stories and sounds come together to create something completely new. The range of concerts will be wide this time too: the music will be expressive and explosive, at other times reserved and delicate. Music becomes a medium through which feelings can be expressed and experienced - and vice versa.
The minimalist setting of the events reinforces these impressions: without large stages or elaborate lighting installations, the focus is on what is essential - the immediate musical experience. The proximity between the audience and the artists creates an intimate atmosphere that makes every concert an unforgettable experience and resonates for a long time. The sound window not only offers music, but - we hope - also inspiration that goes far beyond the moment.
About the venue: The Kunstraum hase29 - Society for Contemporary Art Osnabrück eV is a young art association at Hasestraße 29/30 in the city center of Osnabrück. Founded in early 2016 in a former shop by around 40 active artists and art enthusiasts, the association regularly presents exhibitions and projects on contemporary art in its exhibition space and in public urban spaces.
EVENTS
10.10.2024 a.m. - 19:30 p.m. Tradingket karun
Etienne Nillesen
Shabnam Parvaresh
14.11.2024 - 19:30 p.m. Buy a Ticket
Elena Kakaliagou
Gunda Gottschalk
15.01.2025 - 19:30 p.m. Buy a Ticket
Sebi Tramontana
Nick Dunston
Kazuhisa Uchihashi
13.02.2025 - 19:30 p.m. Buy a Ticket
Achim Kaufmann
John Butcher
NEW DATE
05.03.2025 - 19:30 p.m. Buy a Ticket
Kathrin Pechlof Trio
Kathrin Pechlof
Robert Landfermann
Christian Weidner
The musicians
Etienne Nillesen
10.10.2024
Silence is more than emptiness; it is alive, breathing and unimaginable. In his concerts, Etienne uses this silence to reveal the diverse sounds of the snare drum. Through repetition and extended time spans, changes in texture and overtone complexity as well as psychoacoustic phenomena are emphasized.
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With a mixture of traditional and new playing techniques, he reveals surprising tonal dimensions hidden in the snare drum. The result is a fusion of rhythm and tone, rich in harmonic and noisy resonances that have a life of their own. Despite his minimalist approach, Etienne achieves an impressive depth of sound that demands the undivided attention of musicians and audience.
Etienne is currently working at the ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem (NL), where he teaches improvisation and percussion.
etiennenillesen.com
SHABNAM PARVARESH
10.10.2024
Shabnam Parvaresh is a clarinetist, visual artist and curator from Tehran, Iran. She studied fine arts in Tehran and then began her musical career after private clarinet studies in the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. In 2013, she left Iran and studied jazz clarinet at the Osnabrück Institute of Music.
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In her musical work, she pursues an exploratory approach that combines elements from Persian music with electronic sounds, improvised music and jazz. In 2020 she founded her "Sheen Trio", whose debut album "Gozar" was released in spring 2023 by Berthold Records. In addition to reviews in specialist magazines such as "Jazzthing", pieces by the Sheen Trio have already been played on WDR and SWR, and they have performed at national and international festivals. In addition, she is involved as an instrumentalist in numerous other projects and has played at the Cologne Jazzweek, the Moers Festival, the Tehran Contemporary Music Festival and the Multiphonics Festival. In addition to her musical work, she is the curator of the concert series for improvised and experimental music "Klangfenster in der hase29". From 2026 she will take over the artistic direction of the Morgenland Festival Osnabrück. As a visual artist, she has realized solo exhibitions of her works in Tehran, Osnabrück and the United Arab Emirates. In 2022 she was nominated for the Osnabrück Art Prize.
shabnamparvaresh.com
Gunda Gottschalk
14.11.2024
Gunda Gottschalk plays improvised and contemporary music and combines her sound work with dance, theatre, film, composition, visual arts and literature. From 1994 to 2002 she played in various ensembles with Peter Kowald, including during his project 365 Tage vor ORT and in Peter Kowald's global village formation.
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With her ensembles and as a soloist, she is represented at festivals for contemporary and improvised music throughout Europe and has already performed in the USA, Canada, Russia, Mongolia, China, Myanmar and Cameroon. She is the initiator of various major projects: sounds of shanghai orchestra exchange China-Germany 2013, music theater the 10 commandments of the clown for string ensemble trombone, percussion, dancers, clowns and actors 2018, 2 large participatory operas with the Wuppertaler Bühnen and 140 children and young people from Wuppertal (2017 and 2020). Her staged concert Post Babel with 9 actors was broadcast on Deutschlandfunk in June 2021. In 2023 she realized the Live sound recording of the radio play "The Cicadas" 2023 by Ingeborg Bachmann with mandolin orchestra actors and improvisation ensemble. Her latest project "Freedom Dreams" in cooperation with musicians from Germany and Cameroon is now in preparation. In NRW she is revitalizing the scene through various activities: concerts with Partita Radicale, the inclusive theater company Pour-Ensemble, the soundtrips NRW series and the program design in the "ORT" of the Peter Kowald Society.
www.gunda-gottschalk.de/bio.html
Elena Kakaliagou
14.11.2024
Elena Kakaliagou has developed her own language on the horn: lyrical and melancholic, angry like a stormy sea or calm like a breath of wind. Kakaliagou gives acoustic and amplified solo concerts, with or without singing depending on the location. The trained horn player offers a new approach to her instrument - melodic, microtonal, quiet, singing and always open to spontaneity.
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Kakaliagou studied horn in Athens (GR) and Graz (AT). She completed her master's degree at the Finnish Sibelius Academy. In 2010 she decided to base her freelance artistic activity in Berlin. She is a member of the ensembles Zinc & Copper and zeitkratzer, as well as
Co-founder of the Rank Ensemble, the Trio Para and the Duo Nabelóse. Elena Kakaliagou's playing is as sound-oriented as possible, her music always organic. She oscillates between tonality and noisy, percussive sounds. The expert in microtonality impresses with her strong stage presence and her own lightness in playing. Kakaliagou's particular interest lies in contemporary music and free improvisation; she has no reservations about other artistic disciplines. Folk, jazz, classical and other musical genres are sources of inspiration for her. She sees boundaries between genres as non-existent.
elenakakaliagou.com
Kathrin Pechlof Trio
04.12.2024
“The music of Kathrin Pechlof moves in an airy intermediate realm between heaven and earth…”
TAGESSPIEGEL, Gregor Dotzauer
Kathrin Pechlof, Christian Weidner and Robert Landfermann have been playing together in this unique line-up since 2011 and have consistently developed their collective trio concept over the years.
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This leads to a uniquely homogeneous playing culture that is characterized by blind trust and deep understanding. Composition and improvisation blur, traditional role models are dissolved, everyone is a soloist, accompanist, source of inspiration and pioneer, the trio becomes a "meta-instrument" - a kind of collective unit. Kathrin says of the composition of the trio: "This trio only works in this constellation. The instrumentation, with its chamber music transparency, is a perfect environment for the fragile sound of the harp. A very important aspect of our work is friendship and a shared idea of musical freedom and what can grow under the terms "jazz and improvised music". In order to develop further as people, we cannot help but repeatedly face the unknown and open ourselves up to the unfamiliar. We want to invite the listeners to walk a path with us at the concert that is not predetermined. Invite them to get involved in the unknown, to surrender themselves to us and the course of the music. If something happens inside while listening to our music and someone changes from the
concert, then we have achieved something.”
kathrinpechlof.com
Sebi Tramontana
15.01.2025
The Italian trombonist Sebi Tramontana is one of the most innovative musicians who has significantly changed the role and sound possibilities of the trombone – in the tradition of Albert Mangelsdorff, later followed by Paul Rutherford, Connie Bauer and Giancarlo Schiaffini.
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He has worked with major improvisation artists such as Barry Guy, Evan Parker, Joëlle Léandre, Mats Gustafsson and Ken Vandermark and was a member of the renowned Italian Instabile Orchestra.Tramontana gives the trombone a lively versatility: it speaks, sings, laughs, sighs and cries and sometimes seems to forget that it is just a trombone. He highlights its witty and humorous side, so typical of the early days of jazz, while at the same time exploring its sonic possibilities in a highly innovative way as an imaginative instrument that transforms the flow of air into pure sound art and creates spontaneous, moving melodies. This fascinating journey includes quotes from the trombone masters of Duke Ellington, but also Tramontana's extended breathing techniques and his unmistakable musical signature. He and the trombone form an inseparable unit.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebi_Tramontana
Nick Duston
15.01.2025
Nick Dunston is a composer, improviser and sound artist. Described as “an indispensable player in the New York avant-garde” (New York Times), he performs in venues and festivals across North America, Europe and the Middle East.
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As a collaborator, he has worked with artists such as Marc Ribot, Ches Smith, Vijay Iyer, Mary Halvorson, Tyshawn Sorey and Moor Mother. In addition to seven albums released under his name, Dunston has been commissioned as a composer by artists and organizations such as the Wet Ink Ensemble, Bang on a Can, and the JACK Quartet. In 2019, he was awarded Roulette's Van Lier Fellowship, which supported the creation of his first studio album, Atlantic Extraction, which was called "the debut of 2019" (JazzTimes Magazine). In 2022, he released his improvisational trio album Spider Season, about which Pitchfork Magazine noted, "Even in trio, Dunston's curiosity creates a wealth of possibilities. No two of his songs ever sound the same." Nominated for the German Jazz Prize in 2023 and 2024, he currently lives and works in Berlin and New York.
nickdunston.info
Kazuhisa Uchihashi
15.01.2025
Kazuhisa Uchihashi is a Japanese guitarist who plays free improvisational music. Born in Osaka in 1959, Uchihashi began playing the guitar at the age of 12 and played in various rock bands, but later studied jazz music.
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In 1988 he joined the band First Edition and in 1990 he founded the band Altered States. From 1994 to 1997 he was also a member of Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zeros. Uchihashi also plays the daxophone. In addition to his role as a freelance improviser, Uchihashi has been the musical director of the Osaka theatre group Ishinha and has held improvisation workshops (a project called New Music Action) in various cities in Japan as well as in London, Oslo and currently Vienna. Uchihashi has founded his own record label, Innocent Records aka Zenbei Records, and has hosted the annual BEYOND INNOCENCE festival since 1996.
innocentrecord.com
Achim Kaufmann
13.02.2025
Achim Kaufmann has been active as a pianist and composer since the early 80s. His longest-running projects include the improvising trio Kaufmann/Gratkowski/de Joode, a duo with the Amsterdam-based clarinetist and saxophonist Michael Moore, and the piano trio Grünen with Christian Lillinger and Robert Landfermann.
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He worked with the poet and visual artist Gabriele Guenther, among others, in the multidisciplinary Trokaan Project, in which aspects of improvised chamber music, poetry texts and fragments and electro-acoustic textures come together. Achim can also be heard in duos with Ignaz Schick, Yorgos Dimitriadis and Kalle Kalima, with Harri Sjöström (Sestetto Internazionale and M0VE) and in a newly formed trio with Nick Dunston and Mariá Portugal.
He has also collaborated with Han Bennink, George Lewis, Jim Black, Paul Lovens, Mark Dresser, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Shelley Hirsch, Okkyung Lee, Axel Dörner, Thomas Lehn, Steve Swallow, Al Foster and many others. He received the SWR Jazz Prize in 2001 and the Albert Mangelsdorff Prize in 2015. Since 2018 he has held a professorship for piano and ensemble at the HfM Weimar.
achimkaufmann.com
John Butcher
13.02.2025
Born in Brighton in 1954 and living in London, saxophonist John Butcher works on improvisations, original compositions, multitrack pieces and explorations of feedback, unusual acoustics and performance venues away from classical concert stages.
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He is particularly well known as a solo artist who is deeply interested in the specific character of the places in which he plays. This led to the creation of "Resonant Spaces", a collection of performances recorded during a tour in unusual locations in Scotland and the Orkney Islands.
Butcher originally studied physics and earned his PhD in 1982 with a thesis on quantum chromodynamics. Shortly thereafter, he turned his back on science and devoted himself entirely to music. Since then, he has worked with hundreds of well-known artists - many of them for decades. Perhaps it is also due to his scientific training that he experiments with his instrument like few others, trying to find new, innovative ways to create sounds. Butcher's approach is always based on techniques that aim to overcome more than a century of musical and cultural baggage. In doing so, he uses a range of invasive and exploratory processes - from boosted amplification to close miking and overdubbing - to redefine the saxophone.
johnbutcher.org.uk
