Frith-Allbee-Hodgkinson Trio (uk/us), Duo Lettow-Erel

improvisation | contemporary | jazz | avant-garde

An encounter between three outstanding improvisational musicians who view sound as uncharted territory. Guitar legend Fred Frith —co-founder of Henry Cow and a defining figure in experimental music since the 1970s—meets Tim Hodgkinson, a collaborator from those radical beginnings and a tireless researcher at the intersection of improvisation, composition, and sound anthropology. Joining them is Liz Allbee, a Berlin-based trumpeter and sound artist who transforms her instrument into a vibrating, resonating chamber of breath, electronics, and material experimentation. A completely improvised trialogue. Raw, poetic, unpredictable.

Hamburg-based musician Gunnar Lettow works with a prepared bass and electronics. Following this initial collaboration, Erel and Lettow decided to continue as a duo. Gunnar’s electroacoustic sounds and Korhan’s electronically processed field recordings and found sounds now give rise to a fascinating, abstract soundscape. The result is not a traditional bass-and-electronics combination, but rather a fluid field of hums, vibrations, crunching textures, fleeting impulses, and acoustic particles. The bass serves less as an instrument than as a starting point for transformations; the electronics expand, shift, and fragment the material. Erel and Lettow are interested in transitions, frictions, and those moments in which sound, gesture, and structure intertwine.

The concert is presented by Frequenzgänge.

Supported by Jazz Moves

FRED FRITH (electric guitar, objects), LIZ ALLBEE (prepared trumpet, electronics), TIM HODGKINSON (clarinet, lap steel, electronics)

An encounter between three outstanding improvisational musicians who view sound as open territory. Guitar legend Fred Frith —co-founder of Henry Cow and a defining figure in experimental music since the 1970s—meets Tim Hodgkinson, a fellow pioneer from those radical early days and a tireless explorer at the intersection of improvisation, composition, and sound anthropology. Joining them is Liz Allbee, a Berlin-based trumpeter and sound artist who transforms her instrument into a vibrating resonating body of breath, electronics, and material experimentation. A completely improvised trialogue. Raw, poetic, unpredictable.

FRED FRITH

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LIZ ALLBEE

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TIM HODGKINSON

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Duo LETTOW (prepared bass) / EREL (electronically processed field recordings)

Gunnar Lettow and Korhan Erel have been collaborating as a duo since 2011. Prepared bass and electronically processed field recordings, found sounds, and digital sound processing come together to create a fascinating, abstract soundscape. It is not a traditional bass-and-electronics setup, but rather a fluid field of hums, vibrations, crunching textures, fleeting impulses, and acoustic particles. The bass serves less as an instrument than as a starting point for transformations; the electronics expand, shift, and fragment the material. Erel and Lettow are interested in transitions, frictions, and those moments in which noise, gesture, and structure intertwine.

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