In the organizer's words:

On 15.12.2025 a chamber music evening of sound, improvisation and poetry will take place in the Lettrétage. You will hear pieces of music from speech, poems from vocal stories, instruments and instrumental pieces, word outsides and bridges from side to side: langues, longing & behalten, respirationen, intermezzi ...

They play in a variety of forms with ad hoc texts from Arp to
Petrarca, from Xerxes to Debussy:

Beat Keller: feedbacker electric guitar
Vincent Laju: voice, cello, shakuhachi
Norbert Lange: voice, steam whistle
Harald Muenz: voice, iPad
Lorena Izquierdo: voice
Mathias Traxler: voice, clarinet, piccolo

Lorena Izquierdo is a vocalist, performer, poet and curator. She explores the relationship between music, body, word and space: action poetry, in which gesture and sound become living matter. From experimental voice to performance art, she uses objects as extensions of the body, creating an intense and mutable presence in each action. Her poetry collection Fugas reflects her interest in soundscapes and the mysteriousness of language.

Beat Keller is a Swiss musician in the field of avant-garde jazz, improvised and experimental music. He has received several awards and grants from Pro Helvetia - the Swiss Arts Council, the Canton of Thurgau, the Canton of Zurich and the City of Winterthur. Beat Keller has played with many important exponents of the Swiss and international scene, including Joke Lanz, Axel Dörner, Shelley Hirsch, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Saadet Türköz, Burkhard Beins, Christian Wallumrød, Michael Thieke, Werner Puntigam, Jason Kahn, Ute Wassermann, Cara Stacey and many more. He performs regularly at festivals and renowned concert venues worldwide, and concert tours have taken him all over Europe, to the USA, Latin America, Asia and South Africa.

Vincent Laju is a French musician and composer who lives in Berlin. He works in a broad spectrum of contemporary music and with a special focus on improvisation with various music ensembles and artists of all disciplines, most recently with Yurika Saito (visual arts), Sophie Watzlawick (video), Mizuki Ishikawa, Elo Masing, Mathias Traxler, Kim Jung-Jae, Simon Rose, the Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, the Ensemble Grand8 (Marseille) or as a solo cellist. He completed his studies in France, where he also received an award, and has performed at festivals (2025 in Apnées Grenoble, EMAF Osnabrück, Lacking Sound Festival Taipei) and in various countries, particularly in Asia.

Norbert Lange, born 1978 in Gdynia, lives in Berlin. Writer and translator. Most recently published: Unter Orangen (Wunderhorn, 2021), William Blake & das lyrische Konto (Aphaia Verlag, 2024, co-edited with Kristian Kühn). As a translator: A Seneca Journal by Jerome Rothenberg (Moloko Print, 2022, co-edited with Barbara Felicitas Tax), Zodiac Sign Sagittarius by Veronica Forrest-Thomson (Urs Engeler/roughbooks, 2023).

Harald Muenz is a German-Italian composer & sound artist with a focus on experimental & electronic music, audiovisual & radiophonic art, text & performance. His work explores themes such as language, cultural identity & diversity and reflects implicit social issues & prejudices, communicative contradictions & cognitive dissonances. He transcends traditional New Music practices by combining musical-acoustic situations with language, text, video & image media to create experimental spaces of perception. Muenz studied composition with Johannes Fritsch, Krzysztof Meyer & Helmut Lachenmann, electronic music with Hans-Ulrich Humpert & Clarence Barlow as well as aesthetic phonetics at the University of Cologne with Georg Heike. He has been awarded the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Scholarship of the City of Cologne as well as the Sponsorship and Research Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Mathias Traxler, born in Basel in 1973, is a writer and translator living in Berlin. His literary work lies at the interface between poetry and music, poetry recitation and translation. Of particular importance in his work are readings that incorporate text-generating, interpretative and improvisational elements. Most recently published: Komplimente machen, hochroth 2020; Álvaro Seiça: 365 vorhergesagte Gedichte | previsão para 365 poemas, translated by Mathias Traxler, parasitenpresse 2021; Variationen Montale Reihe i-iv, parasitenpresse 2025.

Curated by Mathias Traxler.
Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social
Cohesion.