Chris Cogburn – Ignaz Schick – Valerio Tricoli Soundperformance

Chris und Ignaz arbeiten gemeinsam in der Gruppe Anáhuac (zusammen mit dem Kontrabassisten Juan J. Garcia); Chris und Valerio traten zuletzt als Trio in San Miguel de Allende, Mexiko, auf (zusammen mit dem italienischen Sänger Marco Albert); und Ignaz und Valerio arbeiteten im Ensemble Berlin Sound Connective, sowie als Trio mit Quentin Tolimeri zusammen. Die drei Musiker sind erfahrene elektroakustische Improvisatoren und engagieren sich aktiv in der internationalen experimentellen Musikszene mit zahlreichen genreprägenden Kooperationen und Ensembles. Jeder von ihnen hat einen eigenen Stil und eine eigene musikalische Sprache entwickelt, und das Zusammenspiel des Trios ist eine logische Kombination aus elektronischen (Ignaz, Valerio) und akustischen (Chris) Klangquellen, wobei erweiterte und selbst erfundene Techniken intensiv genutzt werden. Die daraus resultierende Musik wird ein intensives Zusammenspiel elektroakustischer Klänge sein, bei dem Percussion, Turntables/Sampler und ein Revox-Tonbandgerät zum Einsatz kommen.

Chris Cogburn is a percussionist, curator, and organizer based in Austin, Texas. Cogburn’s artistic practice and curatorial interests are rooted in the collaborative context of improvisation. Current music practices focus on the threshold between acoustic and electronic sounds, their differing timbral qualities and their sites of resonance.
Current projects include A Spirale w/ Chris Cogburn with Italian experimentalists Mario Gabola and Maurizio Argenziano; Anáhuac, with Berlin turntablist Ignaz Schick and Mexico City double bassist Juan García; and Fear of the Object, an audio-visual project in collaboration with Norwegian video artist Kjell Bjørgeengen and an evolving cast of guest musicians including: Juan García (Mexico City), percussionist Ingar Zach (Madrid), and cellists Judith Hamann (Melbourne), and Aimée Theriot-Ramos (Amsterdam).
Cogburn has led workshops on improvised music around the US, Canada, Mexico and Peru, working in diverse contexts including with Mexico’s national contemporary music ensemble, CEPROMUSIC. He has performed at Festival Aural, El Nicho (Mexico City), Seattle Improvised Music Festival, SXSW, Fusebox Festival, Big Joy Festival, and Blurred Edges Festival (DE); and has released recordings on several labels including: Astral Spirits, Another Timbre, INSUB, Simple Geometry, Balance Point Acoustics, SOFA, True Blanking, among others.
Beginning in the summer of 2003, Cogburn has hosted an annual festival of improvised music – No Idea Festival – showcasing collaborations between improvisors from around the world. Highly regarded for its unique curatorial process, No Idea Festival aspires to connect creative musicians, providing the space and time where creative process can flourish, leading towards new areas and approaches in the music. No Idea events have been held in several cities in the US, Latin America, and Spain, including: Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Dallas, Marfa, New Orleans, Shreveport, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico City, Lima, Peru, Bogotá, Colombia, and Madrid.
More information: www.noideafestival.com

Ignaz Schick is a Berlin based sound artist, composer & visual artist. He also performs as instrumentalist on turntables, sampler, objects, electronics & alto/baritone saxophone.
He studied the saxophone & performed in free jazz & avant rock bands. At the same time he was getting obsessed with multitrack tape machines, record players or effect boxes & he started experimenting with self built instruments & sound making devices. After college he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich & worked as an assistant for contemporary composer Josef Anton Riedl. Since 1995 he lives/works in Berlin where he became an active & integral force of the so-called „Berlin Nouvelle Vague“ & the blossoming „Echtzeitmusik“ scene. He has been prolific as curator (Festival für Andere Musik, Erase & Reset, Time Shifts, TITO, Echtzeitmusiktage 2010, Flux Festival 2018, Fuchsfest 2021, REFLUX Festival 2022, …) & runs the experimental music label Zarek.
He tours worldwide solo & with groups like Perlonex, Phosphor, Berlin Sound Connective, Nighthawk Kitchen, Tree People, Splitter Orchestra or ILOG and he has released over 75 albums on many international labels & his own imprint. He has collaborated with more than 200 international sonic artists – amongst others Mwata Bowden, John Butcher, Don Cherry, Douglas R. Ewart, Limpe Fuchs, Sven-Åke Johansson, George Lewis, Paul Lovens, Roscoe Mitchell, Toshimaru Nakamura, Charlemagne Palestine, Andrea Parkins, Andrea Neumann, Keith Rowe, Akira Sakata or Martin Tetreault.
Since 2012 he concentrates on conceptual composition, sound installations & research in different cities of the Global South. He directs the 12-15 piece workshop ensemble Circuit Training which focuses on conceptual, graphic & verbally instructed scores.
http://www.zangimusic.wordpress.com and  http://www.zarekberlin.bandcamp.com

Valerio Tricoli is a Palermo born and Munich resident composer and performer of electro-acoustic music.
Active since the late 90’s, his main instruments for live presentations are reel-to-reel tape recorders, used as completely analogue devices for live sampling and real-time transformation / editing / mixing of pre-recorded and live-produced sounds.
His concerts focus on the impromptu creation of a narrative which takes into account the multiple relations intervening between reality, virtuality and memory during the acoustic event: sounds are always hovering between the „here and now“ of the concert situation and the shady domain of memory – distant but at the same time present like in a deja-vu experience.

His electro-acoustic studio compositions are aligned to – and try to reinterpret – the tradition of Musique Concrète ,and explore themes of the internal – represented both by the psychological and the physical – and of the occult, making them often deeply existential works, self-investigations of the psychological, emotional and irrational horror within.