Absurd Big: Mini-Festival mit drei Konzerten an einem Abend

In the organizer's words:

Experience three outstanding concerts in one evening:
5:30 pm Simon Rummel Ensemble - Alte Pullover Musik
7:00 pm: InterInter #9
8:30 pm: Piano-Lounge 7

Simon Rummel Ensemble - Alte Pullover Musik
Jazz, Improv, New Music, Counterpoint

The Simon Rummel Ensemble comes to visit Essen at the Rabbit Hole Theater for a concert with music between Happening, Renaissance Counterpoint, Jazz, Viennese Classical, enjoyable improvisational music, funny ditties, microtonality and musical landscape painting - a colorful bouquet of musical pieces in which composition and improvisation entertainingly shake hands, performed by eleven "unpretentious virtuosos" (Julia Neupert, SWR) from Cologne, Berlin, Leverkusen and Strasbourg.

Playing: Lucia Mense - recorders, Joris Rühl - clarinets, Georg Wissel - alto sax, clarinet, Brad Henkel - trumpet, Moritz Wesp - trombone, Lu Hübsch - tuba, Radek Stawarz - violin, Oxana Omelchuk - casio keyboard, Ketonge - voice, electronics, Michael Griener - percussion, Simon Rummel - keyboard instruments

InterInter #9 - Stress and Relaxation

The ninth InterInter evening will be an experimental encounter of music and movement on the theme of "Stress and Relaxation".

Three young musicians - on electronic percussion, violin and piano - and two performers from the physical theater explore the many facets of stress and relaxation in everyday life in a spontaneous interplay. Subway, yoga, work, suit, elevator, meditation, snooze, filter coffee. Where is the balance? Can the performers find a balance? In an approximately 45-minute improvisation with acoustic and electronic sounds, physical theater and performance, the performers explore hectic and calm and everything in between.

The Essen-based artists Meret König (physical theater), Daniel Ismaili (percussion/electronics), Élise Rosenbaum (violin) and Francesco Matejcek (physical theater) are supported by international guest Filippos Raskovic (piano) from Lithuania and embark on a unique journey into the unknown, full of tension and relaxation, inspiration and expiration.

Piano Lounge 7: Sculpting Space

For the seventh Piano Lounge concert, Xi Chen invites violinist Muzi Lyu. In "Sculpting Space", Muzi Lyu and Xi Chen create an evening in which music becomes the art of spatial design. Sounds shape, flow and expand the space - a fascinating artistic exploration of the idea that music is not just sound, but a medium that sculpts space itself.

The program begins with Toru Takemitsu's filigree Distance de Fée (1951), whose delicate tones create a fragile, almost ethereal soundscape. This is followed by Witold Lutosławski's Subito (1992), a work full of sudden energy that permeates the room with unexpected impulses. The final piece is John Adams' Road Movies (1995), a work of minimal music that uses repetitive structures and constant movement to keep the space in constant transformation - like a musical journey through ever-changing landscapes.