About this Event
On Friday, 24 February, Kühlspot Social Club presents a concert of improvised & experimental music with the following 2 ensembles:
1st set:
OHLMEIER – KHROUSTALIOV
Lothar Ohlmeier – bass clarinet
Isambard Khroustaliov –modular synthesiser & computer
2nd set:
BEYER – FISCHERLEHNER – SCOTT
Kriton Beyer - daxophone
Richard Scott - modular synthesiser
Rudi Fischerlehner - drums
Web-Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/870031734060854
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BEYER – FISCHERLEHNER – SCOTT
Richard Scott is a composer and performer of electronic and improvised music. For much of the last decade he has been dedicated to the compositional and performance possibilities of analogue modular synthesizers. He also works with a variety of digital technologies such as Ambisonics, multichannel diffusion and with instruments such as the Buchla Lightning and Thunder and his self-designed WiGi system developed as an Artistic Resident at STEIM.
He has performed with many great improvising musicians like Derek Bailey, Phil Minton, John Russell, Axel Dörner, Thomas Lehn, Audrey Chen, Clive Bell, Richard Barrett, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Michael Vorfeld, Jon Rose, Ute Wassermann, Shelley Hirsch, Evan Parker, Frank Gratkowski, Stock, Hausen and Walkman, Bark! and the Lightning Ensemble.
Initially inspired to play electronic music by Cabaret Voltaire, Lee Scratch Perry and Stockhausen in the early 1980s he was later introduced to free improvisation by John Stevens (Spontaneous Music Ensemble) and studied saxophone under the guidance of Elton Dean and Steve Lacy. He studied Indian classical and West African music and later acousmatic and electroacoustic composition with professors David Berezan and Ricardo Climent.
He has released many recordings, for example with Grutronic and Evan Parker for PSI records and a solo double LP, Several Circles, and an album with Twinkle3 and Sidsel Endreson for Cusp Editions. In recent years he co-founded and co-curated several notable concert series in Berlin: Basic Electricity, AUXXX and Sound Anatomy. From his Berlin studio he also works as a mastering engineer for various artists and labels, for example his own Sound Anatomy label, PSI Records and Huddersfield Contemporary Records (HCR).
His work has been featured on BBC Radio 3 and 4, International Computer Music Conference (Athens, Utrecht and Huddersfield) SARC Sonorities Belfast, International Festival for Artistic Innovation, Leeds, MANTIS Electroacoustic Music Festival, Manchester, Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Quebec, Berliner Festspiele Immersion, Next Festival of Advanced Music Bratislava, London Jazz Festival, Konfrontationen, Nickelsdorf, SMC (Sound Music Computing) Athens and Ulrichsberg Kaleidophon.
He holds a PhD in Sociology/Musicology, and a master's degree in Electroacoustic Composition, an HND in Jazz Theory and Musicianship and is currently working on a second PhD, this time in Composition. He is author of several articles on the subject of Free Improvisation, Modular Synthesis and post-acousmatic music and he recently edited an issue of eContact! journal dedicated to Analogue and Modular Synthesis. He wrote extensively for Wire magazine, was administrator at the LMC (London Musician’s Collective) and has been an active member of the improvising and electroacoustic communities in London, Manchester and Berlin. He initiated the Sines&Squares Festival for Analogue and Modular Synthesis in Manchester in 2014 and 2016.
Scott has been described as, “a singular virtuoso”, and “a master of the analogue synthesizer”. His 2016 electroacoustic suite Several Circles was described as, “fantastically colourful and abstract”, “brilliant and confounding” and as “a universe all of its own”. His music has been compared to the one of Morton Subotnick, Derek Bailey, Mouse on Mars, Todd Dockstader and Autechre.
https://richard-scott.net/
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Rudi Fischerlehner is an Austrian drummer that works in various musical projects in the fields of improvised and experimental music, jazz and post-rock. He also composes and produces music for bands, film and performances.
Born in 1977 in Austria he was introduced to the drums at an early age and started performing with bands as a teenager around Linz, Austria. Following a brief period studying classical percussion he moved to Vienna, travelled to Africa and China, spent a few months in New York and now resides in Berlin.
His current projects include the drum solo project 15 8 SLUM, Xenofox with Olaf Rupp and Ohlmeier / Khroustaliov / Fischerlehner. He also plays or has played with Gorilla Mask, Matthias Müller, Mia Dyberg, Joke Lanz, Zsolt Sőrés, Julie Sassoon, Fiium Shaarrk, Tonia Reeh, Tristan Honsinger, Matthias Schubert, Andreas Willers, Frank Paul Schubert, Erste Stufe Haifisch and many more.
Projects in which he features have been regularly invited to festivals and clubs internationally and featured on radio stations as Ö1, BBC Radio 3, SWR and Deutschlandfunk.
As a producer and composer for film soundtracks he contributed to movies by Ella Raidel, Johanna Kirsch and Katharina Lampert and was involved in the art, video or performance work of Alterazioni Video, Tarek Atoui (Berlin Biennale 8), Katrin Plavcak, Wilhelm Groener, Rainer Kohlberger and Haroon Mirza.
http://www.rudifischerlehner.net/
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Kriton Beyer is a Greek-German musician and composer who works – as a performer and improviser – mainly with the harmonium and the daxophone.
He studied musicology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. From 1990 - 2004 he played with a variety of local music groups in Greece, such as Sakis Papadimitriou's "ad-hoc ensemble" and the post-rock group "Sigmatropic". In 2004 he moved to Berlin, where he got heavily involved in the improvised music scene of the city.
Since then, he has worked with many musicians like Phil Minton, Kalle Kalima, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kresten Osgood, Tristan Honsinger, Tomomi Adachi, Richard Scott, Willi Kellers, Matthias Bauer, Antonis Anissegos, Olaf Rupp, Els Vandeweyer, Harri Sjöström, Nicola Hein and Liz Allbee. Kriton Beyer is a member of the electroacoustic trio "uproot", the ensembles "Redox Reaction", "AEAEA" and the "Berlin Soundpainting Orchestra". He is involved in the multimedia project "Dark Eye" with Korhan Erel and Nicolas Wiese, the movement, sound and light experiment “enLIGHTenment” with butoh dancer Yuko Kaseki and has cooperated with japanese visual artist and live painter Akiko Nakayama.
In his work with the harmonium, Kriton Beyer uses both the natural sound of his instrument and "traditional" playing techniques as well as preparations, objects and extended techniques. His daxophone play is characterized by a very personal musical and sonic aesthetic, deviating from that of the instrument’s inventor Hans Reichel, who often had a tonal approach to the instrument. Kriton Beyer chooses to work sometimes with a stripped, minimal and strictly acoustic sound of the instrument, while at other times – in contrast to that – he also works with setups ranging from subtle to sometimes extensive use of effects and electronics.
As an improvising musician, he has performed throughout Europe. His compositions are largely based on conceptual art. Kriton Beyer has also conceived and commissioned the music software CinePrompt®, which was specially developed for the use for live musical performance and live recording to films.
He curates and manages the concert series and record label "The Procrustean Bed" dedicated to Experimental Improvised Music.
http://www.kritonbeyer.com/
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OHLMEIER – KHROUSTALIOV
Lothar Ohlmeier is a German musician (soprano and tenor saxophone, bass clarinet) active in the fields of jazz and free improvisation. Ohlmeier first studied clarinet in Hanover, then saxophone and bass clarinet at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Tim Armacost and Harry Sparnaay.
He stayed in the Netherlands, where he became part of the improvised music scene, recording and performing with numerous groups and labels. In 1998 he founded the quartet Dalgoo with Tobias Klein, Meinrad Kneer and Christian Thomé, which released three critically acclaimed albums until 2005 and was reactivated in 2018. Together with Julie Sassoon and Bart van Helsdinger he founded Atzilut in 2000.
Ohlmeier then lived in Great Britain, since 2009 with his partner Sassoon in Berlin. He has also worked with musicians such as Steve Argüelles, Benoît Delbecq, Guillaume Orti, Jim Black, Ingrid Laubrock, Dylan Bates, Jorrit Dijkstra, Sandip Bhattacharya, Mohammad Gomar, Latif Saad, Anton Goudsmit, Achim Krämer and Tim Giles.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Ohlmeier
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Isambard Khroustaliov is the alias of electronic musician and composer Sam Britton from the groups Icarus, Fiium Shaarrk and Leverton Fox. Sam trained as an architect at the Architectural Association in London, but now works across the borders of music composition and performance, software development and research. He holds a PhD in electronic music and composition and has been a resident composer and researcher at IRCAM in Paris and STEIM in Amsterdam. Sam has also worked with the London Sinfonietta as part of their Writing the Future commissioning scheme, with Aphex Twin on his Remote Orchestra project and is an associate member of Matthew Herbert’s New Radiophonic Workshop.
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/artists/isambard-khroustaliov/
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kühlspot Social Club, Lehderstraße 74, Berlin, Germany
EUR 15.00