a composers' collective
We will be part again of this year’s Blurred Edges festival in Hamburg and will present an evening at the Mojo Club. Together with lots of guests we will play Terry Riley’s In C in another electric version (after the rock version at klub katarakt 2013). This time the drummer is Dirk Dhonau, and again there will be overhead projections by Katrin Bethge. The evening will open with some drones and an interactive smartphone composition by Guy Saldanha.
More later!
We are playing again at this year’s klub katarakt festival at Kampnagel, at the opening night on Wednesday, January 15: Hommage à Phill Niblock. We will play the world premiere of Niblock’s new piece Three Petals for three orchestras in three halls, with guest musicians Georgia Hoppe and Ignacio Fernández-Bollo. The other ensembles are Trio Scordatura from Amsterdam, joined by Guy de Bièvre and Harald Muenz, and Ensemble neoN from Oslo. Also on the programme Niblock’s Tow by Tom and Vlada BC. In addition we will also play do nothing, just wait, the singing will start…. sooner or later by Matthias Kaul, neoN will play Alvin Lucier’s Two Circles, and Trio Scordatura will play Time Zones 0.5 by Guy de Bièvre.
Also, don’t miss the opportunity to hear Charles Curtis performing Just Charles & Cello in The Romantic Chord by La Monte Young on Thursday, Jan 16!!!
And all the other fine concerts there.
The description doesn’t say so, but it’s us playing, at Hangar Bicocca, Milan, on September 16, 2010:
You don’t see much here, but it’s the same concert:
A clip from our concert at 3S Studio, Paris, on May 2, 2012. The piece is 3 strings (für Jens Röhm) by Jan Feddersen.
Here’s a video from our concert with Phill Niblock in London on Oct 9, 2009, celebrating the release of „Touch Strings“.
More info on that concert here.
as part of the Blurred Edges festival:
May 17, 7:30 PM
Klavier Knauer, Hamburg, Germany
We will play a programme with pieces for up to 4 pianos. We are happy to have Daria Iossifova playing as a guest with us. Programme so far:
John Cage: Music for piano 53 – 68 (1956)
– Music for piano 69 – 84 (1956)
Morton Feldman: Piece for 4 pianos (1957)
– Two pianos (1957)
– Intermission 6 for one or two pianos (1953)
Jan Feddersen: company for two pianos (2011)
Robert Engelbrecht: Mimi und Bartel for two pianos (2011)
as part of the Blurred Edges festival
May 7, 8 PM
Christianskirche, Hamburg, Germany
We will play a programme with new pieces by us. We are also honoured to present the premiere of a new composition by Matthias Kaul.
Peter Imig: Prometheus for three string instruments and tape (2013) – a re-arrangement of the piece premiered at the opening night of this year’s klub katarakt festival.
Jan Feddersen: 3 Strings No. 2 for bowed electric guitar, cello, double bass (2013) – premiere!
Robert Engelbrecht: A la mémoire de Mascha for three electric guitars with e-bows (2002/2013) – an old piece, now played for the first time in its originally intended form
Matthias Kaul: do nothing, just wait, the singing will start… sooner or later for cymbals and electric toothbrushs (2012) – premiere!
Should become a very spacey concert again.
23. März 2013, 19:00 Uhr
Neues Schwimmbad Wilhelmsburg (Am Inselpark)
Hamburg
Nelly Boyd ist Teil von Utopia, dem neuen Musiktheater-Projekt von Kommando Himmelfahrt. Das Neue Schwimmbad Wilhelmsburg ist eine von mehreren frei begehbaren Stationen, in der wir kontinuierlich von 19 bis 21 Uhr spielen werden, zusammnen mit Marcia Lemke-Kern (Stimme) und Katrin Bethge (Overhead-Projektion).
released 2011 on Edition RZ
including Nelly Boyd’s version of For 1, 2 or 3 People. It was recorded at our Tribute to Christian Wolff concert in the Christianskirche during the Blurred Edges festival 2008, played by our late friend Jens Röhm, together with Robert Engelbrecht and Jan Feddersen. The composer was present. Other performers on the CD include people like David Tudor, Frederic Rzweski etc.