Etienne Nillesen // Nate Wooley, Chris Corsano & Ches Smith

20:00 I Concert I JAKI

Etienne Nillesen is a Cologne-based composer and sound artist whose work explores the harmonic possibilities of the snare drum. His music treats sound not as a sequence of events, but as a spatial and sculptural phenomenon that unfolds through resonance, duration and perception. Listening becomes an embodied experience, characterized by space, acoustics and sustained attention.
Using two specially tuned snare drums, Nillesen explores overtones, interference patterns and subtle transformations, allowing the sound to slowly evolve and reveal its inner relationships over time.
The performances invite the audience to a concentrated listening situation in which small changes in sound and perception open up an immersive world of sound. The concert will be the release concert for his new solo album TWEE.
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After a decade of conceptually oriented bands like Mutual Aid Music and knknighgh, trumpeter Nate Wooley founded the trio Folk Music to return to pure improvisation. He asked two of his favorite colleagues, percussionists Chris Corsano and Ches Smith, to join him, with the only rules being flexibility and spontaneity. The result is an improvisational trio that can produce both delicate sensibilities and massive monoliths of sound.