Audrey Lauro, alto saxophone [B]
Éric Normand, e-bass [CND]
Xavier Charles, clarinet [F]
Photo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4iar6Sec2s [Concert Les Bourd'off/51, April 2024, aboard L'Armande ASBL, Liège (Belgium)]
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Peter Orins, drums [F]
Photo: © Michel Laborde
Limules, or horseshoe crabs, have lived almost unchanged on Earth since the Mesozoic era – for approximately 250 million years – likely thanks to their already highly optimised morphology. Their blue blood coagulates immediately upon contact with harmful bacteria.
Éric Normand, a chamber-punk-jazz musician from northeastern Canada, has named his new ensemble of Belgian and French improvisers after this ancient animal – inspired by its parallels to the world's oldest musical form, improvisation. Like the Limules, improvisation has demonstrated remarkable stability over millennia, yet remains constantly under latent threat posed by current social developments.
The line-up of Limules varies: around the core collaboration between Belgian saxophonist Audrey Lauro and French clarinettist Xavier Charles, pianists such as Sophie Agnel or Barbara Dang are occasionally featured. Our concert at the MUG will be completed by French percussionist Peter Orins.
Limules is supported by CALQ – Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Québec Council for the Arts and Letters.
This concert is made possible also by the Federal Culture Prize Applaus, which Offene Ohren e.V. was awarded in autumn 2024.
Location: MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur
Entrance fee: 15 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 12 Euro, free admission up to 21 years (inclusive)
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Casey Moir, voice [AUS/S]
Elisabeth Coudoux, cello [D]
The music of this duo reveals the purity of both voice and cello, presenting a rich intuition that transcends the boundaries of predefined structures. It is a fusion of professional craftsmanship and an intimate familiarity with their respective instruments. Textures and tensions emerge, contrasts dissolve, subtleties unfold, and surprising twists are ever-present.
Casey Moir (b. 1984) is a vocalist, improviser and composer of experimental music, born in Australia and now based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Her artistic practice focuses on exploring the extended possibilities of the voice. She enjoys testing and pushing conventional boundaries, investigating how vowels and consonants can be shaped, distorted and manipulated, and how sounds can be created and sculpted using the tongue, lips, glottis and hands.
She combines these somewhat unconventional aspects with other musical elements such as form, direction, overall shape, structure and movement. She is also deeply interested in the concept of space and room, and how these dimensions can be explored through performance, improvisation and composition. This interest has led her to compose larger-scale works that utilise the entire room as a stage, where musicians and/or audience members are ambulatory, altering their directions, trajectories and proximities to objects, sounds and one another.
Elisabeth Coudoux (b. 1985) is a German cellist working at the crossroads of different musical genres: free improvisation, experimental music, new contemporary music and jazz. Building on her classical training, she graduated with a degree in jazz under Frank Gratkowski and Professor Dieter Manderscheid at the Cologne University of Music and Dance.
Alongside her own projects – such as Emißatett, for which she also composes and which was featured on the Offene Ohren e.V. concert stage in November 2016 – she is a member of numerous ensembles and participates in interdisciplinary projects with dancers, visual artists, poets and performers. Elisabeth Coudoux is also a member of IMPAKT, a collective for free improvisation based in Cologne.
Location: MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur
Entrance fee: 15 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 12 Euro, free admission up to 21 years (inclusive)
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.