a composers' collective
We will play with Phill Niblock at this year’s MaerzMusik in Berlin.
Phill will have a massive 7-hour-set at the festival’s closing event The Long Now (March 28-29), and we will accompany some pieces live: One Large Rose, Three Petals, Guitar too, for four and FeedCorn Ear. Julia Berg will play with us on One Large Rose, and Elisabeth Smalt will play on Three Petals. There will also be other fine performers on other pieces. Don’t miss.
Makino Takashi will show his new work Phantom Nebula at the 30th Hamburg International Short Film Festival. We will accompany him and provide live sound during the screening. The performance will take place at the festival centre.
Monday, June 9th, 8 PM
Kolbenhof, Friedensallee 128, 22763 Hamburg
The line-up for In C at the Mojo Club:
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.
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).
January 30, 7:30 PM
Kampnagel
Hamburg, Germany
We will play on the opening night: 5 ROOMS, a concert installation for three ensembles, together with Decoder and Nyx. It seems like we will play two new compositions for three halls by Jan Feddersen and Peter Imig, respectively, as well as an older piece by Robert Engelbrecht (in one hall).
We will also be part of the katarakt Allstars, performing a rock version of Terry Riley’s classic „In C“ on the closing night: February 2, 11 PM
Dec 19, 8 PM
Christianskirche
Hamburg, Germany
Third in a series of concerts for the 100th birthday of John Cage, Nelly Boyd will play works which deal with the topic of nature in different ways. On the programme:
„Branches“, „Inlets“ and „Four3“.
With special guest Matthias Kaul.
With support by Kulturbehörde Hamburg.