We are proud to present a unique pair of performances:

Duo
(Andrea Neumann, Sabine Ercklentz)
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Quartet
(Andrea Neumann, Sabine Ercklentz, Mark Trayle and Ulrich Krieger)

Saturday, November 1
8 p.m. • $10

 A bit about the performers:

Andrea Neumann – piano
Sabine Ercklentz – trumpet
“Both musicians reduce – if not ignore – old-fashioned instruments: the piano is no longer merely a piano, and the trumpet is not just a trumpet. Translated into avant-garde vocabulary, both Sabine Ercklentz and Andrea Neumann reveal – literally, technically, structurally and formally – one of the eventual futures of both piano and trumpet by laying these instruments bare.” - City of Women, 2006

In the process of exploring the piano for new sound possibilities, Neumann has reduced the instrument to strings, resonance board and metal frame. With the help of electronics to manipulate and amplify the sounds (sometimes to make parts of the sound audible which are inaudible without amplification), she has developed numerous new playing techniques, sounds, and ways of preparing the dismantled instrument.

Ercklentz develops sounds on the trumpet which border between normal trumpet tone and noise (extended sounds). Furthering the possibilities of extended sound techniques comes from the use of live-electronics and analog electronics remixed from an independent sound source.

Mark Trayle – laptop
Mark works in a variety of media including live electronic music, installations, improvisation, and compositions for chamber ensembles. He performs internationally, including t-u-b-e (Munich), DEAF ‘04 (Rotterdam), Resistance Fluctuations (LA), net_condition (ZKM Karlsruhe), Pro Musica Nova, Format5 (Berlin), and Inventionen 2004 (Berlin). “Few musicians go to Mark Trayle’s level of musical and technological extremes.” – Electronic Musicia

Ulrich Krieger – saxophone
Ulrich plays contemporary composed and free improvised music. He is also a composer of chamber music and electronic music. His recent focus lies in the experimental fields and fringes of contemporary pop culture, somewhere in the limbo between noise and heavy metal, ambient and silence. (He has also managed to transcribe and arrange Lou Reeds infamous ‘Metal Machine Music’ for classical instruments.)

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