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Offene Ohren e.V. presents Improvised Music in Munich

In October 2023 Offene Ohren e.V. was awarded the Federal APPLAUS Prize in the category “Best Small Venue or Concert Series”. We are very happy, because – thanks to the associated bonus – we can offer additional concert highlights for you in our anniversary year 2024.

Wednesday, 20 March 2024, 8 p.m.

MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur

Pink Forest

Pink Forest

Franz Hautzinger, quarter tone trumpet [A]
Benjamin Duboc, bass [F]
Guylaine Cosseron, voice [F]
Photo: Excerpt from Pink Forest CD cover

We know and love Franz Hautzinger as a restless explorer between cultures and musical styles. His archaic quartet Uruk, his crossover long-term project Regenorchester, but also his deeply moving solo concerts remain unforgettable. As one of the most prominent experimental musicians in the Austrian improvisation and jazz scene, he has worked with big names in the international avant-garde, from Elliott Sharp and John Cale to Christian Fennesz and Keiji Haino.

Franz Hautzinger has developed his quarter-tone trumpet into a completely new form of expression, from which he elicits bizarre tones and noises.
Most recently, Hautzinger was a guest of the Offene Ohren e.V. at the end of 2021, in a trio with Éric Normand and Tom Malmendier.

In the ensemble Icosikaihenagone of the busy French double bass player Benjamin Duboc, Franz Hautzinger also got to know and appreciate the outstanding vocal acrobat Guylaine Cosseron, who comes from Normandy. Her astonishing virtuosity allows her to undertake vocal explorations that are reminiscent of Sainkho Namtchylak or Phil Minton, with whom she has also already worked. She has also performed with Joëlle Léandre, Xavier Charles, John Russell, Michel Doneda and Sophie Agnel. In 2014 she was a guest at the MUG in the trio RHRR with Xavier Charles and Frédéric Blondy.

Benjamin Duboc is one of the most active artists in the Parisian scene of improvised music and the jazz avant-garde. He creates projects for small and large ensembles in which he crosses the boundaries of music and art in a very individual way. We will always have fond memories of him in the duo Le Funambule together with Sylvain Kassap in 2021 at the MUG.

Location: MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur
Entrance fee: 15 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 12 Euro

This concert is made possible also by the Federal Culture Prize Applaus, which Offene Ohren e.V. was awarded in autumn 2023.

Site Applaus-Award

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Friday, 05 April 2024, 8 p.m.

MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur

Milla - Cajado - Takara

Milla-Cajado-Takara

Jordina Millà, piano [E]
Vinicius Cajado, bass [Brasilien]
Mauricio Takara, percussion [Brasilien]
Photo (von left to right): © Aida Lesan, Luke Marantz, Carla Boregas

This trio, which the Catalan pianist Jordina Millà founded together with the Brazilian bassist Vinicius Cajado and the Brazilian drummer/percussionist Mauricio Takara in 2023, defies simple genre categorizations.
Improvisational art and contemporary music flirt with South American rhythms and post-rock beats, elegantly provokes the listener and lets them immerse themselves in a very unique sound.

Jordina Millà thrilled the audience at the MUG in 2019 with her solo performance and in a duo with Andreas Willers. After her classical pianist training in Rotterdam and Paris, today - thanks to Agustí Fernández - her main interests are free improvised and contemporary music. She also works in interdisciplinary projects with dancers such as Teresa Santos, Sónia Sànchez, Iris Heitzinger, Robie Legros and Julyen Hailton. Jordina Millà is a member of Improject, Col·lectiu Free't and Trio Stalzim.

The bassist Vinicius Cajado grew up in São Paulo and currently lives in Berlin. His debut solo album Monu was named “Best of the Year 2021” by The New York City Jazz Record.
He performs at many festivals and renowned venues worldwide, including the Saalfelden Jazz Festival, ArtActs St.Johann, Lincoln Center NYC, Musikverein Wien, The Kitchen NYC, Budapest House of Music and Via Funchal Sao Paulo. Jazz and the Salzburg City Festival, 20 years of Curva Minore Palermo, Vienna Art Week and also Porgy & Bess Vienna Theater Week, was artist in residence at the Leopold Museum Vienna and part of the exhibition “Seven Rounds with Warhol/Basquiat” at the Kunstforum.
The artists he performs with are equally international, such as Joelle Leandre, Barre Phillips, Mark Dresser, Nicole Glover, Lukas Koenig, Kenji Herbert, Susanna Gartmayr and Maria Portugal, John Edwards, Golnar Shahyar and Mahan Mirarab, Lucio Balduini, Kenneth Ishak.

Mauricio Takara is one of the key figures in the experimental and underground music scene in São Paulo. Today he lives in Berlin and enriches the Berlin music scene. He took part in the last three editions of the Jazzfest Berlin, in 2023 in a trio with Vinicius Cajado and Zoh Amba.

He has released several records with the bands Hurtmold and São Paulo Underground (with trumpeter Rob Mazurek from Chicago) and has performed internationally, including at festivals such as Sonar, SXSW, Saalfelden Jazz, Belgrade Jazz Festival, Club Transmediale/Berlin.
Mauricio Takara has worked with musicians of different styles such as Pharoah Sanders, Damo Suzuki, Yusef Lateef, Joe Lally (Fugazi), Naná Vasconcelos, Prefuse 73, Makoto Kawabata.

An interview with Mark Lomax entitled A different drummer appeared in 2021 on www.allaboutjazz.com. [ Karl Ackermann, February 25, 2021, Under The Radar series]

Location: MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur
Entrance fee: 15 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 12 Euro

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Thursday, 25 April 2024, 8 p.m.

MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur

Zimmermann - Pitsiokos Duo

Pitsiokos-Zimmermann_YouTubevideo

Tizia Zimmermann, accordion (CH)
Chris Pitsiokos, alto saxophone (USA)
Photo: YouTube video (see below) © DonMount, (RedHook New York City June 22, 2023)

Chris Pitsiokos (*1990) is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser. His music combines the intensity and immediacy of extreme rock forms and noise with the lyricism and forward propulsion of jazz and the abstract detail of contemporary classical composers Iannis Xenakis and Helmut Lachenmann.

Tizia Zimmermann (*1995) has been playing the accordion since she was eight years old. She studied classical music with Teodoro Anzellotti at the Bern University of the Arts, where she completed her master's degree in performance with honors in 2020. Tizia Zimmermann plays in a variety of formations with a focus on contemporary and improvised music as well as experimental noise and was active on the board of WIM Zurich (Workshop for Improvised Music).

In their duo, the two musicians explore the details of this unusual
combination of instruments, between minimalism, melodies and brutal
Outbursts of violence in seamless transitions. And sometimes all of that
happens at the same time.

Get a listening impression from June 2023 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50dQPby1SAA

Location: MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur
Entrance fee: 15 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 12 Euro

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Saturday, 15 June 2024, 8 p.m.

MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur

TIAN

TIAN

Photo © top left to right:
Ulrich Phillipp (bass) © Erika Enders
Angelika Sheridan (flutes) © Niclas Weber
Julien Pontvianne (saxophone) © Michel Jublou

Photo © below left to right:
Judith Wegmann (piano) © Pierre Pallez
Burkhard Schlothauer (violin) © Gino Dambrowski

The Tian project brings together five musicians from Germany, France and Switzerland who share an affinity for silence, slowness and intensive listening to sounds:

Ulrich Phillipp (Bass / D), Julien Pontvianne (Saxofon / F), Burkhard Schlothauer (Violine / D), Angelika Sheridan (Flöten / D), Judith Wegmann (Piano / CH)

They use traditional and experimental instrumental playing styles and forego solo gestures in favor of a communal sound. A collective music of ascetic sensuality emerges.

Location: MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur
Entrance fee: 15 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 12 Euro

This concert is made possible also by the Federal Culture Prize Applaus, which Offene Ohren e.V. was awarded in autumn 2023.

Site Applaus-Award

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Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 8 p.m.

MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur

Eli Wallace Piano Solo    Pieces and Interludes

Eli Wallace Piano Solo

Elija Creighton Wallace, piano (USA)

Eli Wallace is a pianist, improviser, and composer who resides in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to his own projects, he works with other like-minded artists; together with Drew Wesely he curates the interdisciplinary performance series Invocation.

His work as a pianist displays his vast milieu of experiences from classical, jazz, free improvisation studies, and extensive piano preparation, while his compositions employ notational strategies to broaden the manner in which sounds are created and the ways in which musicians interact.

Over the past decade he has appeared on dozens of albums and has performed at such esteemed venues as The Stone, New York, NY, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL, and the Outsound New Music Summit, San Francisco, CA.

Location: MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur
Entrance fee: 15 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 12 Euro

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The friends of improvised music of the Offene Ohren e.V. would like to thank the Kulturreferat München for its continuous help allowing to present improvised music in Munich.

 

 

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