In the organizer's words:

14:00 Thomas Sauerborn - [zimbel]

In 2015, Cologne-based drummer Thomas Sauerborn began working on his unaccompanied drum solo project. To do so, however, he put most of his drum set aside for the time being and concentrated entirely on a single hanging cymbal. He simply titled this program "[zimbel]", for which he also developed his own notation. And it really doesn't take much more than this one small cymbal (aka cymbal) to show how varied, differentiated and reflected it can be improvised on: sometimes noisy and loud, then again so dynamically quiet that almost nothing can be heard, sometimes you can feel a regular pulse, then again just a buzzing, light whirring. "Thomas Sauerborn's [cymbal] is the sounding proof of this, recommended for focused listening, enjoyment and amazement!", bassist Dieter Manderscheid is convinced.

Thomas Sauerborn - cymb

14:30 Etienne Nillesen solo

Vibrating overtones and the dimension of silence: drummer and improvisation artist Etienne Nillesen explores the microtonalities of the snare drum in his spatially unfolding, meditative solo concerts. Over long periods of time, layered sound levels are created in minimalist-repetitive frictions. Through a combination of traditional and extended techniques such as the use of toys, bows or bells, Nillesen develops a diverse spectrum of pitches, overtones and intermediate tones from which rhythmic microstructures emerge. The US trumpeter Nate Wooley described the intensity of his improvisations on the snare drum as "unexcavated truth". Nillesen is currently a lecturer at the ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, where he teaches improvisation and percussion. His solo album will be released this fall on the Norwegian label SOFA music. Highly virtuoso improvisation of sonic temporality.

Etienne Nillesen - extended snare dr

16:00 Elvin Brandhi & Ludwig Wandinger

Ludwig Wandinger, born in Weilheim, Bavaria in 1995, is actually a drummer. He moved to Berlin in 2014 to study this instrument with John Hollenbeck and Jim Black at the Jazzinstitut Berlin. But Wandinger is more than just a young jazz musician. He began producing electronic music as a teenager under the aliases Alban Winter and Triggerboy. Nowadays, however, he has long since left this aesthetic framework behind him and, as Kirschbluetenimwind, creates multimedia, performative art that is shown in galleries and played in clubs. His duo partner Elvin Brandhi from the UK is also difficult to categorize aesthetically and stylistically. She writes poetry and makes sound art, using her loop station to manipulate her voice and language as well as the field recordings and loops. As a duo, Brandhi and Wandinger set out to explore a multi-layered, as yet undiscovered cosmos of sound in which the visual and the acoustic find equal space.

Elvin Brandhi - voc/efx
Ludwig Wandinger - dr/efx

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