Runde Ecken-Reihe: AG/BC und OPPUGN

In the organizer's words:

cuba kultur presents a Round Corners and JazzToday Special:

Round Corners series: AG/BC and OPPUGN

Improvisation, resonance, confrontation: this year's Round Corners Festival as a series. The quartet AG/BC and the duo OPPUGN kick things off.

One evening, two sets, four styles - and one common denominator: the desire for open sound. This double concert brings together the international art of improvisation and local scene practice in an exciting dramaturgy. The opening act is the duo of Martin Küchen and John Hughes.

Küchen, born in Sweden in 1966, is a formative figure on the European improvisation scene. With instruments ranging from sopranino to baritone saxophone, he moves between jazz, noise, composition and sound installation. His work ranges from international tours to music for film, theater and poetry, including projects such as Trespass Trio, Angles 9 and All Included.

At his side: John Hughes, born in Rochester, New York in 1972, a double bass player with deep roots in the American and European improvisation scene. Having lived in Hamburg for many years, he combines precise playing with great openness. Hughes is active in numerous formations - from duo to large ensemble contexts - and is also involved as a curator and mediator, for example at the Blurred Edges Festival. In the duo, two independent sound languages meet: dense, searching, communicative.

In the second set, the space expands: Simon Camatta, Philipp Buck, Marc-Stefan Andres and Michael Göring form a quartet that understands improvisation as a collective process.

Simon Camatta, internationally sought-after improvisation and jazz percussionist and graduate of the Folkwang UdK Essen, is known for his full-length solo performances as well as for interdisciplinary works in unusual locations. Whether with independent dance companies, in the theater or in projects such as "Percussion meets canvas" - Camatta continuously expands the space of what percussion can be. He also curates his own festivals and lives in Essen.

Philipp Buck, drummer, composer and curator of the "JazzToday" series in the BLACK BOX at cuba, was born in Berlin and studied jazz drums. Buck thinks of music as material: he places, arranges and sequences sounds, breaks them down into individual notes and reassembles them. In his workshop, sound is formed, destroyed, repaired - even and uneven, abstract and sensitive at the same time. His music is like acoustic architecture in which the finest particles are whirled up and rearranged.

Guitarists Marc-Stefan Andres and Michael Göring have been working together for years and develop dense soundscapes in their interplay: with effects, loops and repetitions that shift slowly or break abruptly. Sometimes they create fragile, melodic structures, sometimes raw, disturbing textures. Chance and control stand side by side on an equal footing.

Together they create an open structure that forms in the moment - a second set that deliberately knows no fixed boundaries, but creates transitions: between noise and sound, between the individual and the collective.

An evening for all those who want to hear music not as a finished product, but as a process.

Line-up:
OPPUGN
Martin Küchen - saxophone
John Hughes - Bass

AG/BC
Marc-Stefan Andres - Guitar
Michael Göring - Guitar
Simon Camatta - drums
Philipp Buck - drums

Price information:

15€ normal price, 10€ reduced, under 20 years of age Free admission