In the organizer's words:

Another First Meeting concert put together by Fabian Neubauer - five musicians come together for the first time and play a completely free improvised concert. The occasion is the European tour of Turkish-American musician İpek Eginli.

First Meeting 2 with: Ipek Eginli - piano, electronics / Este Kirchhoff - guitar, electronics / Jun-Y Ciao - saxophone / Mitch Heinrich - voice / Fabian Neubauer - drums

Ipek Eginli is a Turkish-American experimental sound artist, pianist and improviser whose work combines electro-acoustic free improvisation on piano, voice, modular synthesizers and no-input mixers. Her performances are often described as adventurous, daring, playful and vibrant, shifting effortlessly between organic and mechanical sounds to evoke emotions ranging from delicate and gentle to dark and explosive. Eginli's electroacoustic solo debut album "Field Recording in a Black Hole" (WeirdCry Records) and the live improvised duo album "Explorers" with cellist Daniel Levin (EyesAndEars Records) were released in 2024, followed by her third album "Clouds Carry Me to the Sky" in 2025, which received recognition from BBC Radio.

Este Kirchhoff is a musician, sound artist and multi-instrumentalist from Essen, Germany. Her music combines elements of punk, noise, free jazz, folk and glitch electronics. Este plays self-developed and traditional instruments such as banjo, harmonica, zither, guitars as well as laptop and DIY electronics. He often uses cheap, disused or homemade instruments, everyday objects and open source software as a critical approach to consumer culture and the commercialization of music.

Mitch Heinrich, Wuppertal. Sound poet, poet and screamer. Member of WIO, "fumm" and mitchmaikwolfGang. His most recent poetry collection "Sprung" was published by "Der gesunde Menschenversand".

Jun-Y Ciao was born in Shanghai and currently lives in China and Germany. He studied fine arts at the Düsseldorf Academy. In addition to his work as an artist, he is an improviser and composer of experimental music. He has been one of the most active improvisers in China for fifteen years. He is the founder of the "Free Music Collective of Shanghai" and the label "Where is the Zeitgeist?"-Editing Office. As a curator, he has curated the famous "One and a Half Tonnes" series of avant-garde music events.

Fabian Neubauer (1994) is a musician, multi-instrumentalist and improviser at the intersection of experimental and improvised music, free jazz, noise and performance art. He works with piano, drums, electronics and various objects. His practice combines free improvisation with conceptual approaches and understands music as an open, intuitive process. Neubauer performs solo and in ensembles, works interdisciplinary with dance and visual arts and is also active as a curator in various projects.

Ipek Eginli
Este Kirchhoff
Mitch Heinrich
Jun-Y Ciao
Fabian Neubauer