Gingerly Shaping The Air, Pt3 – live

Wed., Sept. 30, 26 / Doors open at 7 p.m. / Show starts at 8 p.m. / Concert / Advance tickets: €13 (plus fees) / B.O. price: €16

Gingerly Shaping The Air, Pt. 3 – live
Shunsuke Oshio, Ayami Suzuki, Fabian Neubauer, and Matthias Kaiser

Voice, electronics, prepared violin, and other instruments and sound sources come together on Wednesday, September 30, in the project “Gingerly Shaping The Air” at the Musikbar im Bunker—as sound material in variously condensed states.

Ambient music serves as the fertile ground on which music can be created—beyond anachronistic repetitive patterns, yet with a respectful gesture toward those who came before us. A beautiful reflection on a project centered around the Japanese musician and artist Ayami Suzuki from Tokyo.

For the participating musicians—Shunsuke Oshio, Ayami Suzuki, Fabian Neubauer, and Matthias Kaiser—improvisation serves as a means of continuously reorganizing sound and creating transitions to sound textures that never reach a definitive state.

Ayami Suzuki brings a practice in which the voice functions as a permeable membrane between the inner self and the environment—a sound body that moves through various states. Shunsuke Oshio will expand this sound body with deconstructive guitar sounds and electronic transformations. Fabian Neubauer, by contrast, operates with a constant shifting of material and function: instruments become situational aggregates whose meaning only emerges in the course of improvisation. And Matthias Kaiser anchors this openness in a precisely articulated materiality of the violin, which is at once a source of resistance and a resonant space.

Ayami Suzuki – Voice, Electronics

The Tokyo-based musician combines her folk-influenced vocal practice with improvisation, field recordings, and electronic soundscapes. Releases on labels such as Students of Decay, Longform Editions, and Ftarri showcase a distinctive form of vocal ambient music that feels at once physical, permeable, and ethereal.

Shunsuke Oshio – guitar, electronics, synthesizer

Starting with the electric guitar, the Düsseldorf-based musician develops highly ramified electronic soundscapes in which the instrument and signal processing merge inseparably. His work spans ambient and experimental music, as well as compositions for theater, film, and installations.

Fabian Neubauer – Multi-instrumentalist

Fabian Neubauer works internationally at the intersections of experimental music, free jazz, noise, and electroacoustic improvisation. His practice views music as an open-ended process in which acoustic and electronic instruments intertwine just as naturally as performative and conceptual approaches.

Matthias Kaiser – Prepared and Amplified Violin

The Cologne-based violinist uses preparations, effects processing, and subtle live looping to create multi-layered soundscapes that bridge the gap between improvisation and compositional thinking. International collaborations—particularly with musicians from the Chinese experimental scene—shape his work just as much as his long-standing projects as a curator and initiator of experimental music.

Supported by:
Initiative Musik
The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media