The Art of the Duo #21 mit Cansu Tanrıkulu (vocals, live processing)

In the organizer's words:

The Art of the Duo #21 with Cansu Tanrıkulu (vocals, electronics)

About The Art of the Duo:

The duo is an intimate, fragile and exciting form of musical interplay. In the concert series "The Art of the Duo", the art of the duo will be presented in various combinations. Temporary sound experiments, dialogs, dialogues, parallel developments or even three-dimensional sound structures are created.

The guests are the singer Cansu Tanrıkulu, winner of the SWR Jazzpreis 2024, and from Bremen: Johannes Haase (violin) and Chi HIm Chik (saxophone, electronics).

About Cansu Tanrıkulu:

Cansu Tanrıkulu is a singing multimedia artist, composer and improvising musician and one of the most active young voices in the European creative music scene. Her elastic vocals, broad stylistic vocabulary and wide-ranging approach to improvising melodies and lyrics make her a sought-after singer in various genres, playing with Marc Ribot, Greg Cohen, Jim Black, Lukas König, etc. Tanrıkulu has been part of the faculty of Bern University of the Arts since 2023. She is the winner of the SWR Jazz Prize 2024.

The Hong Kong media artist and performer Chi Him Chik oscillates and wanders between practices and identities. He is inspired by reflections on the conflicts, dilemmas, pain and chaos of personal, social and political experiences and events. He combines aesthetics and techniques from different genres and transforms his spectrum of artistic languages into performative experiences with the help of sound, light and space.

The violinist Johannes Haase moves in contemporary sound worlds on electric and modern instruments. He performs his latest works, composes and improvises. He has collaborated with Fred Frith, Johanna Borchert, the artists of Ciudad Abierta and the Goethe Institutes in India and Chile. He is the winner of the John Cage Prize of the John Cage Organ Foundation Halberstadt and the Klaus Huber Special Prize of the Hochschule der Künste Bremen. Co-founder of the Kommas Ensemble and PULSE. Masterclasses and workshops at various universities in South America, Europe and Asia. 2018 lecturer at the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, since 2019 he teaches improvisation at the Akademie der Deutschen Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

A workshop with Cansu will take place on April 5 from 11-16h. Attendance at the concert is included when booking the workshop.

Voice, sound design + form: The development of sound and hierarchy structures in the improvising ensemble by focusing on sound design, conducting and compositional forms are part of Cansu's workshop.Also: sound ecosystems, voice and sound design, graphic scores and a Q & A session!

Registration at info@johanneshaase.com