Doors open 19.30h
Concert starts ca. 20.15h
Tickets (cash only): 15 Euro/10 Euro *
*Ask for a reduced ticket price at the entrance if you need financial support. We have a few low price tickets for every concert.
location: celeste
Hamburgerstr. 18, 1050 Vienna (AT)
(U4 Kettenbrückengasse or U4 Pilgramgasse)
free music forum concert series is curated by a team
of internationally renowned musicians and the initiator of the series.
* Our programme fall/winter 2023 *
5.10.
PINK FOREST: Guylaine Cosseron - Franz Hautzinger - Benjamin Duboc
19.10.
Jean-Luc Guionnet - Seijiro Murayama - Klaus Filip
16.11.
Joe McPhee - Susanna Gartmayer - John Edwards - Mariá Portugal
30.11.
Milana Zarić - Elisabeth Harnik - Richard Barrett
after concert: Dancefloor with DJ Didi Kern & DJ Lars Bulnheim
7.12.
Hanne de Backer - Signe Emmeluth
5.10.23
PINK FOREST
Guylaine Cosseron - voice
Franz Hautzinger - trumpet
Bejamin Duboc - double bass
(FR / AT)
Concert curated by Franz Hautzinger:
"Guylaine Cosseron is an outstanding vocal artist from the Normandie. Benjamin Duboc is one of the most active artists in the Paris scene of improvised music and jazz avantgard. He creates projects for small and large ensembles, where he crosses the borders of music and art in a very individual way. At one of his projects (Volumes II) Cosseron and I met each other and together with Duboc we decided to work together as a trio. The music of Pink Forest has no stylistic borders because all members are skilled in different music styles which gives us a wide range of possibilities."
Guylaine Cosseron from France is a vocal artist who started as funk and jazz singer and performed in experimental theatres in France. Since 2003 she plays in different groups and ensembles of contemporary jazz and free improvisation with musicians like Phil Minton, John Russel, Soizic Lebrat, Sophie Agnel, Pascal Battus, Frédéric Blondy, Xavier Charles and others.
Guylain Cosseron on soundcloud
Franz Hautzinger from Austria plays trumpet. He developed from the beginning on an unique technic and creates experimental soundscapes. He plays as soloist as well as together with other musicians from the international avantgard. In the last couple of years he lived in France and played regular with different musicians and ensembles of abstract improvised music, like Frédéric Blondy, Xavier Charles, Isabelle Duthoit and in the ONCEIM orchestra. Other musicians he played/plays with are for example Christian Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide, Luc Ex, Tony Buck, Axel Dörner, Mazen Kerbaj, Roger Turner, Derek Bailey, Wolfgang Reisinger, Martin Siewert and others.
http://franzhautzinger.com/
Benjamin Duboc from Paris is a double bass player, improviser and electroacoustic music composer. His work is based on the notions of present/presence, air/surroundings, borders, fluidity and dilution. "Music is sharing the air which surrounds us - to play music is to play a game". Musical partners are for example Sylvain Kassap, Jean-Sébestaien Mariage, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Antoine Paganotti, Julien Desprez, Eve Risser, Edward Perraud and he is member of the ONCEIM orchestra.
http://benjamin.duboc.free.fr/
19.10.23
Jean-Luc Guionnet - alto sax
Seijiro Murayama - snare & voice
Klaus Filip - sinewaves
(FR / JP / AT)
Konzert kuratiert von Franz Hautzinger:
"Ich freue mich drei Profis der Abstrakten Music Improvisation einzuladen; seit langem arbeiten alle drei Musiker an ihren individuellen Materialien und Strukturen und beeinflussen damit die internationale Szene. Sie treten weltweit auf, geben Workshops und gestalten Projekte zwischen Musik und Sound Art.
Jean-Luc Guionet beschreib das Trio wie folgt: Die Qualität und einzigartige Quantität eines Auftrittsortes sind zuerst bestimmend für unsere Musik. Darin liegt eine grosse Vielfalt und dies macht jedes Konzert eigen - komponiert durch unsere Stimmung im Moment und von der Architektur und der Akustik des Raumes selbst."
Concert curated by Franz Hautzinger:
"I am looking forward to invite three masters of abstrakt music improvisation. All three musicians have developed their individual materials and structures and influenced the international music community with it. They perform around the globe and do workshops and projects between music and sound art.
Jean Luc Guionnet descripes the trio like this: The qualities and unique quantities of a performing space are the first condition of our music. Inevitably, this implies great diversity between one concert and another - composed by our moods at a particular moment, by the architecture and the acoustics of a space."
Jean-Luc Guionet based in Paris is a saxophone player with a very precise, often abstract articulation. He plays in several groups of improvised contemporary music and jazz. He also performs electroacoustic music with electronics. With Seijiro Murayama he works since 15 years together, other musicians he collaborates with are for example Frédéric Blondy, Betrand Denzler Edward Perraud, Clayton Thomas, Jim Baker, Jason Roebke, Seymour Wright, Matjia Schellander, Annette Krebs, Axel Dörner, Tony Buck, Miquel A. Garcia, Eric La Casa.
https://www.jeanlucguionnet.eu/
https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/74532-Jean-Luc-Guionnet
Klaus Filip based in Vienna is musician and sound artist. He is exploring sine waves, their appearance in time and at the threshold of perception, their entanglement with acoustic instruments. As sound artist the interplay of sound and light are his main topics. Filip has programmed ppooll, a live music software used by many musicians around the world. And he was co-curator of the reheat festival in Nickelsdorf. Within experimental improvisation music he works for example with: Radu Malfatti, Noid, Christian Kobi, Hans Koch, Kai Fagaschinski, John Tilbury, Christof Kurzmann, Cordula Bösze, Ursula Endlicher, Susanna Gartmayer, Katharina Klement.
http://filipino.klingt.org/
Seijiro Murayama grew up in Japan and lives in France. He works since the 80ties with voice and percussion exploring different styles of improvisation. He also composes electroacoustic and conceptual music and gives workshop on (non-idiomatic) improvisation. Musicians he plays with are for example: Eric Cordier, Stéphane Rive, Tim Blechmann, Axel Dörner, Tomaz Grom, Enrico Malatesta, Martin Küchen, Antonin Gerbal, Thierry Madiot, Pascal Battus and others.
https://urojiise.wixsite.com/seijiromurayama
16.11.23
Joe McPhee - alto/tenor sax, voice
Susanna Gartmayer - bass clarinet
John Edwards - double bass
Mariá Portugal - drums, voice
(US / AT / UK / BR)
Konzert kuratiert von Corinne Studer:
"Ein neues Quartett wird aus der Taufe gehoben und wird in den Tiefen unserer Ohren nachhallen. Wir hatten bereits letztes Jahr das Duo Joe McPhee und John Edwards eingeladen und als Überraschungsgast für das 2. Set Susanna Gartmayer. Das Duo hatte ebenso wie das Trio einen begeisterten Applaus verdient. Mariá Portugal war zuvor zu Gast bei unserer Konzertreihe (im Duo mit Angelika Niecsier) und hat uns mit ihrer Schlagzeug- und Gesangperformance in ihren Bann gezogen. So entstand die Idee, ein Quartett zu bilden: Alle sind auf eine ähnliche Weise Eins mit ihrem Instrument: Berührend zart bis kämpferisch laut, von wendig schnell bis atemberaubend akzentuiert, von freier, zeitgenössischer Improvisation bis Free Jazz. Wir dürfen gespannt sein, wie es klingt, wenn Joe McPhee und Mariá Portugal singen, wenn verschiedenen Generationen geprägt von verschiedenen Geschichten - aus New York, Wien, London, Sao Paulo tief durchatmen und sich auf eine gemeinsame musikalische Reise begeben.
Dank der Kollaboration mit dem Festivals Music Unlimited in Wels ist es möglich dieses Quartett nach Österreich einzuladen und hier zum ersten Mal zu hören: sowohl am Festival wie auch hier in Wien und bei weiteren fmf-Kollaborationspartnern in Villach (Kulturforum), St. Johann (muku) und Graz (Stockwerkjazz).
Concert curated by Corinne Studer:
"A new quartet will be born and it will echo deep in our ears. Last year we invited the duo Joe McPhee and John Edwards and for their 2. set special guest Susanna Gartmayer. The duo as well as the trio have earned a frenetic applause. Mariá Portugal played before at our series (in duo with Angelika Niescier) and convinced and touched us with drums and singing. Based on that the idea to form a quartet was born. They are in a similar way one with their instruments: from deeply touching to challenging loud, from quickly agile to breathtaking emphasised - certainly from free, contemporary improvisation to free jazz. It will be interesting to hear how it sounds when Joe McPhee and Mariá Portugal are singing, also when different generations with different histories - from New York, Vienna, London and Sao Paulo - taking a deep breath to start together a musical journey.
Thanks to the collaboration with the Festival Music Unlimited in Wels it was possible to invite the quartet to Austria and to hear it for the first time: at the Festival as well as here in Vienna and also at the fmf collaborators in Villach (Kulturforum), St. Johann (muku) and Graz (Stockwerkjazz).
Joe McPhee grew up in New York, is a multi-instrumentalist and plays since the late 60ties within the creative and free jazz music world. His play is energetic, demanding and breathtaking sensitive - still with over 80 years! He learnt to play trumpet as a kid and - inspired by John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Ornette Colemann - he thought himself saxophone in his thirties. McPhee's first recording was with Clifford Thornton in 1967 on the album "Freedom and Unity". He became involved and known in Europe in the midd 70ties and since the 90ties he also plays with a younger generation from Chicago and New York. He played/plays regular for example with Ken Vandermark, Peter Brötzmann, Evan Parker, Mats Gustafsson, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen, Jeb Bishop, The Thing, Clifton Hyde, Jérôme Bourdellon, Raymond Boni, Joe Giardullo.
Joe McPhee on Discogs
Joe McPhee on Catalytic Sound
Susanna Gartmayer grew up in Vienna and started to play saxophone and after her studies in fine arts she swichted to bass clarinet. She is active as composer, soloist and plays in many ensembles and groups; form experimental rock to free improvisation and contemporary music. In the last decade she became one of the important bass clarinet musician in Austria. In duo with double bass player Manu Mayr, she played the opening concert for the 40. Jazzfestival in Saalfelden in 2019 . She is a member of "The Vegetable Orchestra" which tours around the globe and plays for example regular with Stefan Schneider, Thomas Berghammer, Didi Kern, Christof Kurzmann, Alex Kranabitter, Mona Matbou-Riahi, Jakob Gnigler and Brigitta Bödenauer. Together with Thomas Berghammer and Didi Kern she organizes and curates the weekly event "Monday Improvisers Session" in Vienna.
https://gartmayer.klingt.org/start.html
John Edwards grew up in London and started experimenting with the bass guitar before he switched in his twenties to play double bass. He is deeply rooted in the creative free jazz and improvisation genre. Since the 80ties he is as soloist and in many groups and ensembles in Europe active and became one of the most renowned bass players. He played/plays regular for example with Peter Brötzmann, Joe Mc Phee, Phil Minton, Maggie Nichols, Evan Parker, Roscoe Michtell, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Mark Sanders, Caroline Kraabel, John Butcher, Pat Thomas, Irène Schweizer, Hans Koch, Florian Stoffner, Gabriele Mitelli, John Dikeman.
John Edwards on Discogs
Mariá Portugal grew up in São Paulo, Brasil and is since the age of 16 an active musician, touring in South America, Europe, Asia and Oceania and present on international jazz and improvisation Festivals. She is drummer and singer and also composes for dance, theater and movies soundtracks. 2020 she was invited to a residency by the Moers Festival in Cologne and lives since then in Germany. Nevertheless after 28 years she is still deeply connected to her Brazilian music community. She plays with the instrumental group Quartabê and with musicians like Arrigo Barnabé, Elza Soares, Metá Metá, Maria Beraldo, Maggie Nicols, Charlotte Hug, Angelika Niescier, Gerald Cleaver, Ute Wasserman, Joëlle Leandre, Billy Martin, Burkhard Beins, Emilio Gordoa, Fred Frith, Jasper van't Hof and Paul van Kemenade. Portugal is also curator of Soundtrips-NRW for the city of Duisburg.
https://www.mariaportugal.com/
30.11.23
A coproduction with
Tickets für dieses Konzert werden an der Abendkasse angeboten und von Wien Modern im Vorverkauf ab September. Mit Festivalpass ist das Ticket an der Abendkasse um 5 Euro erhältlich. Ohne Pass zum üblichen Eintrittspreis von 15 Euro. Keine Sitzplatzreservierung möglich.
Tickets for this concert will be available on the concert evening and also at Wien Modern via ticket presale, starting in September. Owners of a festival pass will get a ticket at the entrance for a reduced price of 5 Euro. Without festival pass our usual ticket price of 15 Euro applies. No seat reservation possible.
Milana Zarić - harp
Elisabeth Harnik - piano
Richard Barrett - electronics
(RS / AT / UK)
ca. 22.30h Dancefloor:
Grooving through the night!
DJ Didi Kern & DJ Lars Bulnheim
Konzert kuratiert Elisabeth Harnik:
"Das klassisch konnotierte Instrument Harfe ist in der improvisierten Musik eher selten anzutreffen und ich finde es bildet mit dem Tasten- und Saiteninstrument Klavier eine besonders reizvolle Achse! In dieser neue Trio-Formation werden wir den Klangraum zwischen akustischen und elektronischen Instrumenten erkunden und reflektieren. Genießt diese selten bereisten Klangspuren!
2009 standen Richard Barrett und ich das erste Mal gemeinsam beim Comprovise Festival in Köln auf der Bühne. Beide waren wir sowohl als Improvisationsmusiker:innen als auch als Komponist:innen im Programm vertreten und hatten sofort gegenseitiges Interesse an unserer Arbeit. Durch Barrett lernte ich wenig später die serbische Harfenistin Milana Zarić kennen.
Zarić und Barrett begannen ihre Zusammenarbeit 2013 und konzertieren seitdem regelmäßig im Duo und in zahlreichen kollaborationen mit anderen Musiker:innen aus Serbien, Europa, USA und Austrialien. Sie führen sowohl komponierte als auch frei improvisierte Musik auf, meist im selben Kontext. Zarić und ich arbeiten seit 2019 in verschiedenen Formationen zusammen, zuletzt beim Ring Ring Festival 2021 in Belgrad im Trio mit der Cellistin Frances-Marie Uitti."
Concert curated by Elisabeth Harnik:
"The classically connoted instrument harp is rarely found in improvised music and I find it especially exciting in combination with piano! In this joint new trio line-up we will explore and reflect the sound space between acoustic and electronic instruments. So join us for some hardly travelled sound paths!
I first shared the stage with Richard Barrett at the Comprovise Festival in Cologne in 2009. We both were presented as improvisers and composers and were immediately mutually interested in our work! Through him I later got introduced to Serbian harpist Milana Zarić.
Zarić and Barrett started working together in 2013 and since then they have been regularly performing as a duet, and also in collaboration with many musicians in Serbia, around Europe, the US and Australia. They perform composed, as well as freely improvised music, most often in the same context. Zarić and myself have also performed together in different formations since 2019, most recently with cellist Frances-Marie Uitti at the Ring Ring Festival 2021 in Belgrad."
Milana Zarić, Serbian harp player, is equally active in classical, contemporary composed and free improvised music. She connects in her performance with contemporary and new technologies acoustic and electric harps. Milana has been the principal harpist of Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra since 2005. As the artistic director and harpist of Ensemble Studio 6, she regularly collaborates with composers and sound artists in Europe and in the US. She is active as a soloist and in ensembles together with musicians like: Richard Barrett, Yedo Gibson, Vasco Trilla, Peter Evans, Christopher McIntyre, Marina Džukljev, Manja Ristić, Ivana Grahovac, Katalin Ladik, Frances-Marie Uitti and others.
https://milanazaric.com/
http://www.studio6.st/
Elisabeth Harnik, Austrian pianist and composer. of V:NM (Association for promotion and dissemination of New Music) which organizes concerts in Graz/Austria. As an improvisation musician she works within an electroacoustic inspired sound world, using specific preparations and extended techniques while pushing the limitations of the piano.
Beside her solo performances she is member of numerous ensembles for improvised music and has performed and recorded with a number of internationally recognised representatives of the contemporary jazz scene in Europe and abroad such as Johannes Bauer, Thomas Lehn, Frank Gratkowski, Jaap Blonk, Joëlle Léandre, Mikołaj Trzaska, Alison Blunt, Fay Victor, Steve Swell, Michael Zerang, Dave Rempis, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ken Vandermark, Tim Daisy, Andrea Centazzo, Clayton Thomas a.o.
http://elisabeth-harnik.at/
Richard Barrett from UK is internationally active as composer and performer, teaches at the Institute of Sonology in Den Haag and is Professor of Creative Music Research at the University of Leiden. His work encompasses a range from free improvisation to intricately-notated scores, and from acoustic chamber music to innovative uses of digital technology. Current projects include a major new cycle of works for the ELISION Ensemble, with whom Richard Barrett has been working regular since 1990, and for ensembles Fonema Consort and Soundinitiative. Ongoing performative collaborations include with Paul Obermayer (in FURT), Evan Parker, and several other improvising ensembles such as SKEIN (with Achim Kaufmann, Frank Gratkowski, Wilbert de Joode and others) and Colophony (with Jon Rose and Meinrad Kneer). In October 2020 he set up the digital label STRANGE STRINGS together with harpist Milana Zarić . He is the author of two books, Music of Possibility (2019) and Transforming Moments (2023), both published by Vision Edition.
https://richardbarrettmusic.com/
https://soundcloud.com/r-barrett
7.12.23
Hanne de Backer - baritone sax
Signe Emmeluth - alto sax
(BE / DN)
Konzert kuratiert von Corinne Studer:
"Ein energiegeladenes Duo was letztes Jahr schon auf unserer Wunschliste stand, wird die free music forum Konzertreihe 2023 abschließen und uns mit frischer Energie in die Winterpause pusten!
Beide habe ich schon in verschiednen Formationen vor allem auf Festivals gehört und beide überzeugen mit Feinheiten ebenso wie mit kraftvollen, lebendigen Free-Jazz Ausdrucksweisen. Im Duo führen sie einem gekonnt auf eine musikalische Achterbahnfahrt mit überraschenden und schönen Wendungen.
Signe Emmeluth und Hanne de Backer lernten sich 2019 in Krakau kennen, als sie dort als Teil von Steve Swells Tentett auftraten. Kurz darauf gingen sie mit Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit auf Tour. Dabei entdeckten sie ihre gemeinsame Leidenschaft für freie Musik und Tanz. 2022 erschient ihr erstes Duo-Album auf dem norwegischen Label Smalltown Supersound."
Concet curated by Corinne Studer:
"This energetic duo, which we already wanted to invite last year, will close the free music forum concert series 2023 and will blow us with fresh energy into the winter pause!
I heard both musicians already in different formations, mainly on festivals and both convinced with nuances as well as with powerful lively free jazz expressions. As a duo they lead us skilful on a rollar coaster ride with surprising and beautiful turns.
Signe Emmeluth and Hanne de Backer met each other in 2019 in Krakow playing in the Steve Swell Tentett. They met again on tour with the Paal Nilssen-Love's Large Unit and discovered similarities about their passion for free music and dance. In 2022 their first duo album was released on the Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound."
Hanne de Backer lived long in Antwerp before she moved to Brussels. After her degree as actor in 2010 she started to play the baritone saxophone. She is using the impact of music and performance without any style restrictions. With her project g a b b r o she explores the interaction of improvisation and environment. She produced two albums with Marc De Maeseneer, Agnes Hvizdalek, Raphael Malfliet and Henrik Munkeby Norsteb (G A B B R O 4). In her latest project she was traveling with piano player Andreas Bral and drumer Raf Vertessen and with a Camel alongside the Belgian coast, musically emphasising this region. This adventure was 2023 published in a film documentary.
https://www.gabbro.be/about-hanne
Signe Emmeluth was born in Danemark and lives now in Oslo. She plays alto saxophone and electronics. Signe became an important musician in the scandinavian scene, also because of her own Emmeluth‘s Amoeba and the Spacemusic Ensemble. She playes also with Mats Gustafsson, Kresten Osgood, Paal Nilssen-Love, Terrie Ex and is well versed in the music of Peter Brötzmann and Mats Gustafsson.
https://signeemmeluth.bandcamp.com/
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