Name: East Asian Improvisations
Start: 2025-03-06T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Kühlspot Social Club

An Evening of Improvisation on East Asian Instruments
Lázara Rosell Albear: Sho (Japanese Mouth Organ), Drums
Shiomi Kawaguchi: Shamisen (Japanese Lute), Shinobue (Japanese Transverse Flute
Vincent Laju: Shakuhachi (Japanese Bamboo Flute), Cello
Wolfgang Schwabe: Guqin (Chinese Zither)
(We are playing the second set. The first set will be Andreas Voccia (Elektronik) Natalie Peters (Stimme) Caroline Tallone (Hurdy gurdy), Biliana Voutchkova (Geige))

The Musicians
Lázara Rosell Albear
is a Cuban/Belgian artist, graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, KASK Ghent, Belgium and co-founder of the MahaWorks organization. Her practice blends a multiplicity of means of expression, combining sound research, performance, film, drawing and installation. Transgression, presence, resonance, vibrations, new worlds, poetry: these are keywords on her unifying practice. She has worked with Alain Platel (les ballets C de la B.), Isnelle da Silveira, Brett Bailey, Jan Dekeyser, Xavier Lukomsky, Jörgen Teller, Sammy Baloji, Doris Bloom, Valerie Oka, Oren Lazovsky, Aerea Negrot, Pitched Klunchun & Chen Wu-kang’s Behalve, Fallon Mayanja, Terrie Ex and Heidi Kvelvane, The Post Collective, Ignaz Schick, Laura Leiner, Paed Conça, Marina Cyrino and Matthias Koole and Laura Robles ao. In her own projects such as Dark Speeches, Invisible Cities, the art ensemble de Brussels, Small Metal Gods and other collaborations in parallel with her personal and pluridisciplinary process-based research. Member of PlaygroundBerliM. She has received a Bunkacho Fellowship 2002 (Japanese Ministry of Culture), Danish International Visiting Artist 2011 and a residency at the Wiels Center for Contemporary Art 2016. Channeling experimental drums and percussion, pocket trumpet, shô, electronics and kinds of utterances. www.mahaworks.org
@lazara_ra
Vincent Laju
Shakuhachi player, Cellist, improviser & composer, he studied and graduated in France. He has performed in National Centers for Music Creation like GMEM, for festivals and concerts in Europe, Asia, Middle east and US. Based in Berlin, he collaborates with composers and artists from all discipline, he can be heard from solo to large ensembles such as "Berlin Improvisers Orchestra" and "Grand 8" (Marseille). Poetry and drawing: His graphics work series « Zeilen » is performed with Elo Masing (violin) and exhibited in France and in Germany, he play with the poet Mathias Traxler.
Shiomi Kawaguchi
since she was a child growing up in Tokyo, she started learning Shamisen (a Japanese three-stringed instrument) and Min-yo (Japanese folk songs). In 2017, after years of traveling silk-road with the Shamisen and Feld work of Folk music and local ceremony , she moved her base to Berlin. Performing traditional, psychedelic, experimental, and jazz in many festivals in Europe. December 2024 she played at Nobel peace prize as Shamisen trio - Mitsune She is a member of ‘Mitsune' http://de.mitsune.de/ , the psychedelic folk band "Jaguar no me" http://www.jaguarnome.com/ , and jazz band 'The Japs' https://aandjaps.wixsite.com/sitetop
de.mitsune.de
Wolfgang Schwabe
Learnt to play qin with the Qin master Ge Hancong (葛瀚聰) in Taiwan. After random performances with LTK, a Taiwanese punk band, in the late nineties, he has been regularly performing in Taipei and Berlin playing Echtzeit Musik. In 2018 the CD “180818” with Lin Hui-Chun was released (https://huichunlin.bandcamp.com/album/180818). He is the co-founder of the “International Conference on Guqin, Aesthetics and Humanism” and has published numerous articles on Qin aesthetics.