Taxi Salon: FUJI||||||||||TA + Amina Hocine + Mazen Kerbaj

Taxi Salon in November explores constructed and reconfigured instruments that work with airflow, from pipe organs and air compressors to extended trumpet techniques. The sound installations unfold throughout the space and become the basis for free improvisations. The series is dedicated to contemporary music that moves between experimental and leftfield. The program seeks to confront commodified listening culture through preparations, détournements and destructions.

FUJI||||||||||TA (Japan)

FUJI||||||||||TA is a Sound Artist and composer based in Japan. He creates his unique sound art and music which takes various natural phenomena that respond to his interest in wanting to hear unheard sounds and noises. In 2009 Fujita hand fabricated an original instrument, a Pipe Organ. Since then, he has released a number of different sets, but what he have in common is that his expressions are mainly use the sounds of air and minimal. The release of album “iki” on Hallow Ground in 2020 led to greater recognition outside of Japan, and since then he has been active in Europe and North America.

Amina Hocine (Sweden)

Swedish composer Amina Hocine transforms hardware store materials into an instrument that defies expectation. Her creation, which she built from PVC pipes, ball valves, and an air compressor, produces sounds that seem impossibly electronic, spreading what she calls 'sound crystals' through space. These frequencies shift and refract depending on the listener’s position to the instrument, creating an acoustic phenomenon more akin to light than conventional music.

Mazen Kerbaj (Lebanon / Berlin)

Mazen Kerbaj is a Lebanese musician born in Beirut. Kerbaj is widely considered as one of the initiators and key players of the Lebanese free improvisation and experimental music scene. As a trumpet player, whether in solo performances or with long-lasting groups like “A” Trio, Kerbaj pushes the boundaries of the instrument and continues to develop a personal sound and an innovative language, following in the footsteps of pioneers like Bill Dixon, Axel Dörner and Franz Hautzinger.

Supported by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and the Cultural Department of the City of Munich.

Taxi Salon is a series of events organized by Import Export.
Booking/Programm: Johannes Kuhn