Jordan, Max + Local Heroes Tour 2024

In the organizer's words:

Max Arsava and Jordan White have known each other for a long time and find that they haven't played together much. To remedy this, they travel through Germany and meet up with new and old friends from the world of improvised music in every city. Their heterogeneous biographies of electro-acoustic music, French spectralism, post-Coltrane free jazz and ragged noise rock function as necessarily intertwined coordinates - what will emerge is to be found out live; nevertheless, the two hope to generate neither uninteresting music nor economic ruin. On November 22, they will be playing together with Hanna Schörken and Fabian Neubauer.

Jordan White
Guitarist Jordan White was born in Australia in 1993 and moved to Melbourne at the age of 18 to study at the Victorian College of the Arts. There he studied with Stephen Magnusson, Andrea Keller and Geoff Hughes and became part of the jazz and improvisational music scene, playing with Ronny Ferella, Ren Walters, Miroslav Bukovsky and others. He also worked with performance artists such as Tony Yap and Elnaz Sheshgelani and co-founded YoWo Music, a music program for girls and transgender youth. After moving to Leipzig, White became part of the jazz scene there and completed a master's degree in Weimar from 2017-2020, where he studied with Frank Möbus, among others. During his six years in Weimar, he became a leading player in jazz in Thuringia, founding the "Come Closer" festival and curating over 100 concerts at the Other Music Academy. Jordan White leads the "White-Reznichenko Quintet" together with Olga Reznichenko and works as a composer and sound designer. From 2021 to 2023 he was production manager of the "Yiddish Summer Weimar" and active in the Weimar Foreigners' Advisory Council. He has lived in Cologne since October 2023, teaches at music schools in Cologne and Krefeld and is on the board of trustees of Musikfonds e.V.

Max Arsava
Max Arsava is a Berlin-based pianist, composer and improviser. In addition to his main instrument, he also plays synthesizers and other electro-acoustic sound generators and works with cassette tapes, contact microphones, objects, as well as loopers and samplers. He works mainly at the intersection of contemporary music, free jazz and electroacoustic music with a strong interest in DIY culture, free improvisation, noise rock and other forms of community-oriented experimentalism. He studied jazz piano at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with Bernhard Pichl and at the Hochschule für Musik Weimar with Achim Kaufmann. Concerts have taken him to Denmark, Austria, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, England and the United States. In 2018, he founded the trio werken with the Copenhagen-based singer Sarah Buchner and the Düsseldorf clarinettist Sebastian Langer, which is dedicated to improvised chamber music beyond stylistic listening expectations; in 2023, the trio released its debut album kollektive verkabelung. Since 2022, he has been working with composer and sound artist Jascha Hagen on the cybernetic expansion of the prepared piano. In the same year, he became part of the radio art collective Rundfunkorchestra. In November 2023, he released his quintet debut nowhere dense on the Berlin label Aut Records.

Fabian Neubauer
Fabian Neubauer, born in 1994, is a multi-instrumentalist in the field of improvised and experimental music. He uses a variety of instruments such as piano, drums, organ, Wurlitzer electric piano, electric guitar, electric bass, various flutes and a no-input mixing board. After studying at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, he played with numerous international musicians and worked on various album productions. Neubauer has traveled to countries such as Italy, England, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Poland as part of international concert tours. He currently lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany.