free music forum - concert dates

The free music forum concert series is a project of
the cultural association free music forum, Vienna (AT).

FREE
JAZZ & IMPROVISATION

* Programme 2024 *
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25.04.
Cansu Tanrikulu - Nick Dunston - Lukas König (TUR/US/AT)
(vocals / double bass / drums)

09.05.
Angélica Castelló - Carl Ludwig Hübsch - Petr Vrba (AT/DE/CZ)
(electronics / tuba / trumpet, electronics)

23.05.
Sven-Åke Johansson - Joel Grip (SE)
(percussion, vocals / double bass, vocals)

06.06.
NABELÓSE:
Ingrid Schmoliner - Elena Margarita Kakaliagou (AT/GR)
(piano / french horn)

*** more to be announced ***

Doors 19.30h / Concerts 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)

Cansu Tanrıkulu – vocals, electronics
Nick Dunston – double bass
Lukas König - drums
(TUR/US/AT)

Kuratiert von Mona Matbou Riahi
"Ich freue mich sehr, Ayse Cansu Tanrıkulu und Nick Dunston nach Wien einzuladen. Mit Nick hatte ich beim Jazz to Pot Festival, Melting Pot 2021 gespielt und hatte sofort eine eine Verbundenheit und Inspiration gespürt. Ebenso faszinierte mich dort Cansu's Musik, die verschiedenste Elemente nahtlos zu einer einzigartigen Klangausdruck verbindet. Die Herangehensweise der beiden Musiker:innen an den Jazz, reicht von avantgardistischer Improvisation bis hin zum experimentellen Songwriting und verbindet Akustiksound mit ätherischen elektronischen Elementen auf vielseitige und authentische Weise. Mit dem gleichgesinnten Schlagzeuger Lukas König spielen sie seit einigen Jahren zusammen und ergänzen sich perfekt. Eine erfrischend innovative musikalische Perspektive!"

Curated by Mona Matbou Riahi:
"I'm delighted to invite Cansu Tanrıkulu and Nick Dunston to Vienna. Drawn by the profound connection and inspiration I felt after playing with Nick at Jazz to Pot Festival, Melting Pot 2021, and being captivated by Cansu's music, which seamlessly blends diverse elements into a unique sonic experience. Their innovative and inspiring approach to Jazz, ranging from avant-garde improvisation to experimental songwriting and connects acoustic with ethereal electronic elements in a authentic and versatile way. Since some years they play with drummer Lukas König and complete each other perfectly. A fresh innovative perspective!"

Cansu Tanrıkulu, born 1991 in Ankara, is an internationally recognized vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and an improviser in creative music, based in Berlin. With her elastic singing, wide stylistic vocabulary and far reaching approach to melody and text- based improvisation she also uses synth, guitar and electronics. She played/plays with PILED UP (w. Lukas König, Nick Dunston & Simon Jermyn), Melez (w. Jim Black & Elias Stemeseder), MeoW (w. Jim Black, Liz Kosack & Dan Peter Sunderland) & Tanrıkulu feat. Greg Cohen & Tobias Delius, Pep Talk (w. Korhan Erel), Aşa (w. David August) and multiple other duo collaborations including clarinetist Carol McGonnell, guitarist & composer Jessica Ackerley and composer & multi-instrumentalist Nick Dunston.
http://www.aysecansutanrikulu.com/

Nick Dunston, born in 1996, New York and Berlin, double bass player and multiinstrumentalist, is an acoustic and electroacoustic composer, improviser. Since his studies in new music and jazz performance he explores notions of ancestral memory, materiality, embodiment, decolonization, and Afro-surrealism. His is involved in the experimental jazz community in New York and recently also in Berlin. In 2023 he was nominated for the Deutscher Jazzpreis (German Jazz Prize) double bass category. He plays/played with Skulptura (Cansu Tanrıkulu, Liz Kosack, Eldar Tsalikov, Mariá Portugal), Marc Ribot, Ches Smith, Lucrecia Dalt, Mary Halvorson, Imani Uzuri, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey, Anna Webber, Amirtha Kidambi, Craig Taborn, and Vijay Iyer.
https://www.nickdunston.info/new-page

Lukas König, born 1988 in St. Pölten (AT) is internationally active in various acclaimed groups from contemporary jazz and experimental improvised music (Kompost3, Mopcut, PLF etc) to pop rock (Bilderbruch). As soloist he produced albums from HipHop to creative sound explorations on a single cymbal. He is focusing on morphing space and time, stretching rhythm/sound/noise or silence with a great variety of expressions. He plays also with Moor Mother, Dälek, Guilty Simpson, Nappy Nina, Sensational, Reggie Washington, Briggan Krauss, Malcom Braff, Joge Sánchez-Chiong, Wolfgang Mitterer, Wolfgang Puschnig, Shahzad, Franz Hautzinger, Fennesz, Luke Stewart and many more.
https://lukaskoenig.com/

Angélica Castelló - electronics
Carl Ludwig Hübsch - tuba
Petr Vrba - trumpet, electronics
(AT/DE/CZ)

Kuratiert von Franz Hautzinger:
"Es ist großartig, dass Angélica Castelló, Carl Ludwig Hübsch und Peter Vrba in einem neuen Trio zusammenarbeiten. Diese Kombination aus Tuba, Trompete und elektronischen Elementen verspricht eine äußerst vielschichtige und interessante Klanglandschaft. Mit ihren unterschiedlichen und reichen Erfahrungen in den Bereichen neue Musik, kreativen Jazz, elektroakustik und freie Improvisation dürfte das Trio die Grenzen der improvisierten Musik weiter ausloten und sicherlich ein facettenreiches Klangerlebnisse bieten."

Curated by Franz Hautzinger
"It's great that Angélica Castelló, Carl Ludwig Hübsch and Petr Vrba working together as a new trio. This combination of tuba, voice, trumpet and electronic elements allows a great varity and interesting sound creations. With different and rich musical experiences in new music, creative jazz, electroacoustics and free improvisation, the trio will explore the boundaries of free improvisation and surely offer a multi-facetted sound experience."

Angélica Castelló, Born in Mexico City lives in Vienna. She is active as recorder player (Paetzold sub great bass recorder), composer, sound artist, teacher and curator. Even though she remains devoted to old music, new and electroacoustic music take center stage in her work. Her compositions have been presented at many festivals. She is performing in Europe and America with several ensembles and musicians like: Low Frequency Orchestra, frufru, Cilantro, Plenumg, Zimt and she playes/played with musicians like, John Butcher, Katharina Klement, Olga Neuwirth, Jerome Noetinger, Maja Osojnik, Billy Roisz, Gunter Scheinder, Martin Siewert, Burkhard Stangl, Dafne Vicente-Sandoval, Tamara Wilhelm and many others.
https://castello.klingt.org/

Carl Ludwig Hübsch, lives in Köln and is composer, tuba player, percussionist. He startet as a clarinetist before choosing the tuba and played as drummer within punk and rock in his youth. He focuses on new music and improvisation and plays as soloist and in his ensembles as well as with musicians like Wolter Wierbos, Thomas Lehn, Franz Hautzinger, Jaab Blonk, Pierre-Yves Martel, Philip Zoubek and others.
https://huebsch.me/

Petr Vrba, lives in Praque and plays trumpet, clarinet, sythesizer and electronics. His main musical interest is non idiomatic improvisation and experimental music. He founded together with George Cremaschi the Prague Improvisers Orchestra and is performing with many musicians and with his ensembles: Poisonous Frequencies (with Didi Kern, Tomislav Federsel), junk & the beast (with Veronika Mayer), The MoND (with Ken Ganfield, Pasi Mäkelä), NOIZ (with Thomas Lehn, Tiziana Bertoncini). He curated an ongoing concert series in Prague and sind 2018 also the Alternativa-Festival in Prague.
https://www.vrrrba.cz/

Sven-Åke Johansson - percussion, accordion, vocals
Joel Grip - double bass, vocals
(SE)

Kuratiert von Joel Grip :
"Sven-Åke Johansson und Joel Grip arbeiten seit 2006 als eine ausgeklügelte und spielerische Rhythmusgruppe zusammen. Neben der Arbeit an Texten, Liedern und Videos als Duo sind und waren sie der Knotenpunkt einer Vielzahl von kleinen Ensembles, in denen Extreme von Geschwindigkeit, Wiederholung und Lautstärke in einer konzentrierten Reibung aufeinander prallen.
Als alternde Schweden, zwischen denen Generationen liegen - beide leben in Berlin (Sven-Åke seit Anfang der 70er Jahre und Joel seit den 10er Jahren) - teilen sie die Liebe zum Überschreiten von Grenzen und zum Vorankommen, behalten aber immer eine bewusste Verbindung zum Swing in seiner weitesten Bedeutung."

Curated by Joel Grip:
"Sven-Åke Johansson and Joel Grip have collaborated as an elaborate and playful rhythm section since 2006. Apart from work around texts, songs and visuals as a duo, they are, and have been, the nexus of a manifold small ensembles in which extremes of speed, reiteration and volume graciously collide in a focused friction.
As aging swedes, generations apart – both living in Berlin (Sven-Åke since the beginning of the 70s, and Joel since the 10s) – they share a love for crossing borders and moving further, but always keeping a deliberate connection to swing in its widest of meanings."

Sven-Åke Johansson, from Sweden (1943), lives in Berlin. As a percussionist he shaped with his style the german free jazz era in the 60ties and 70ties. From the 80ties on he developed as well into visual arts and new music and performed with musicians from all over the world, created music theatre pieces, radio plays and visual art, lyrics and texts. He played/plays with musicians like Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Hans Reichel, Radu Malffati, Axel Dörner, Pierre Borell and many more.
http://www.sven-akejohansson.com/

Joel Grip, from Sweden, lives in Berlin. He is active as double bass player, visual artist and curator. Joel Grip makes music with transformative character using improvisation. He is/was active in groups Klub Demboh, Oùat, [ahmed], [ism], Herr Borelgrip, Tribute to Sheep, and in various collaborations with Sven-Åke Johansson and with Tristan Honsinger.
https://joelgrip.com/

NABELÓSE:
Ingrid Schmoliner - piano
Elena Margarita Kakaliagou - french horn
(AT/GR)

Kuratiert von Elisabeth Harnik:
"NABELÓSE ist ein aktuelles und meiner Meinung nach sehr interessantes internationales Projekt der Wiener Pianistin Ingrid Schmoliner, deren Arbeit ich seit Jahren mit grossem Respekt verfolge. Schmoliner und die griechische Hornistin Elena Kakaliagou arbeiten seit über 10 Jahren zusammen. Sie formen einen Soundkosmos aus einer Mischung von Komposition und Improvisation, Raumklang und Klangraum. Das Duo zeichnet sich durch eine Vielfalt musikalischer Einflüsse aus, die von Neuer Musik bis hin zum Minimalismus reicht und gelegentlich auch griechische Volksmusik. 2022 veröffentlichten sie ihr zweites Album “OMOKENTRO”. Schmoliner präpariert ihren Flügel mit Holzstücken, stacheligen Nadeln und E-Bogen und nähert sich damit ästhetisch der elektronischen Musik an - allein durch die Verwendung akustischer Mittel. Kakaliagou entwickelt unkonventionelle neue Spieltechniken und entlockt dem Waldhorn Sounds die wie der Wind, das Meer oder die eines brüllenden Tiers klingen und einige Minuten später erklingt der lyrische Sound des Waldhorns und begleitet Schmoliner's Stimme in einem eher klassischen Duo...Das sollten Sie nicht verpassen!"

Curated by Elisabeth Harnik
"NABELÓSE is a current and, in my opinion, very interesting international project by Viennese pianist Ingrid Schmoliner, whose work I respect since many years. Smoliner and her playing partner since more than ten years, the Greek hornist Elena Kakaliagou, move in designing their sound cosmos at the intersections of composition and improvisation, sound space and spatial sound. The duo draws on a variety of musical influences ranging from New Music to Minimal, as well as, occasionally, Greek folk music and released in 2022 their second album “OMOKENTRO”. Schmoliner works with a piano, prepared with wooden sticks and even porcupine needles as well as e-bows to approximate the aesthetics of electronic music through the use of mostly acoustic means. Kakaliagou invents unconventional new techniques for her horn, that make the instrument sound like the wind, the sea, or like a roaring animal; a few minutes later the well-known lyrical sound of the french horn accompanies the voice of Schmoliner in a more classical duo.... Not to be missed!"

Ingrid Schmoliner, based in Vienna, is an austrian pianist, singer and composer with a distinctive individual style. She is also working as a music teacher and co-founded the festival for all contemporary - present music New Adits in Carinthia. Schmoliner invents an experimental and contemporary style with the means of new music, jazz, folk music and improvisation, ambient and techno. She is active as a soloist as well as in groups and ensembles together with musicians like: Pascal Niggenkemper, Joachim Badenhorst, Emilio Gordoa, Adam Pultz Melbye, Alexander Kranabetter, Elektro Guzzi and many others.
https://ingridschmoliner.klingt.org

Elena Margarita Kakaliagou, from Greek, based in Berlin is a french horn player in the fields of free improvised and contemporary music next to classic chamber music. She played/plays with musicians like Mathias Guerra Zeitkratzer Ensemble, Phil Niblock, Robin Hayward, Hilary Jeffery, Thomas Stempkowski, James Andean, Katharina Klement, CC Hendrix, Thomas Noll to name a few.
https://elenakakaliagou.com/index.html

*** more to be announced ***

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