tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
Echo Ho is a Beijing-born, Cologne-based sound artist and performer dedicated to interdisciplinary research and strategy at the intersections of art, philosophy and technology. She begins from the idea that art is not a form of representation, but a potent force that can change the structures that shape the world we live in today. Her work emphasises the transformative potential based on the unity of subjectivity and objectivity and engages in the process of the invention to break through the closed, predetermined cultural frameworks to strive for greater connectedness amidst the living environment on planet earth. Between 2011 and 2013 Ho was a Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Graduate School for Arts and Sciences at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 2007 to 2014 Ho worked as part of the artistic and scientific staff at The Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. Ho’s works have been performed or presented at the He Xiangning Art Museum Shenzhen, Center-A Vancouver, ISEA 2010 Germany, ZKM Karlsruhe, among others....
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tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
Echo Ho is a Beijing-born, Cologne-based sound artist and performer dedicated to interdisciplinary research and strategy at the intersections of art, philosophy and technology. She begins from the idea that art is not a form of representation, but a potent force that can change the structures that shape the world we live in today. Her work emphasises the transformative potential based on the unity of subjectivity and objectivity and engages in the process of the invention to break through the closed, predetermined cultural frameworks to strive for greater connectedness amidst the living environment on planet earth. Between 2011 and 2013 Ho was a Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Graduate School for Arts and Sciences at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 2007 to 2014 Ho worked as part of the artistic and scientific staff at The Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. Ho’s works have been performed or presented at the He Xiangning Art Museum Shenzhen, Center-A Vancouver, ISEA 2010 Germany, ZKM Karlsruhe, among others.
https://www.qintronix.space/
Hans W. Koch is a composer and sound artist. He studied music, history and physics at the Pädagogische Hochschule Weingarten from 1984 to 1988 and composition at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, with Johannes Fritsch, from 1988 to 1995.
Since his time as a student he has engaged intensively with the work of John Cage and Morton Feldman, also as a performer. Further important impulses have emerged from his studies of Giacinto Scelsi and Janis Christou, which have also been published. He also pursues research on composers on the edge of the mainstream, such as Nicolai Obouchow and Leni Alexander.
Artistically he is interested in the creation of sound and structure as a process, also in the search for hidden aspects of everyday objects. This also extends to the use of computers as musical instruments in a very literal sense.
“I see art in general as the shaping of thoughts in different materials. Personally I favour conceptual approaches: more thought, less material.”
In 2007, he was a visiting professor of composition and experimental sound practices at California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. Since 2012, lecturer in hybrid sound composition and extended systems at Robert Schumann University of Music and Media Düsseldorf. He currently serves as the professor of sound at Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln.
He also curates concerts and sound art events in Cologne such as BrückenMusik from 1999 to 2012, and within the framework of Reihe M since 2009, and has been a member of the board of “ON – neue musik köln” since 2010.
His work has been presented at various festivals and by different broadcasters both nationally and internationally.
https://www.hans-w-koch.net/
Based in Philadelphia (USA), Noa Even is a versatile saxophonist dedicated to the creation of new music through close collaboration with composers, improvisation, and most recently, composition. As an improviser, she is interested in iteration, speech patterns, and other forms of vocalized communication, and exploring the idiomatic, tactile qualities of the saxophone. In recent years, Noa has been working with composers on atomic, a multimedia solo program exploring themes of human connection. She co-hosts an interview series on improvised music called Talking Free Music that began during the pandemic and is posted on YouTube. As a member of her duos, Ogni Suono and Patchwork, Noa has toured extensively and released albums of commissioned works on New Focus Recordings. She will be joining New Thread Quartet, a saxophone quartet based in New York City, in August 2023. Over the years, she has visited dozens of college campuses as guest artist and clinician, offering master classes, performances, student composer readings, clinics, and artist talks. She is Lecturer and Head of Woodwinds at Rowan University in New Jersey, a Conn-Selmer Artist-Clinician, a Vandoren Artist, and Treasurer of the North American Saxophone Alliance. You can follow her on Instagram @noaeven.music and visit www.noaevenmusic.com for more information.
Viola Yip is an experimental composer, performer, improviser, sound artist and instrument builder. Her instruments and sound performances have been presented in music festivals and venues such as Issue Project Room (NYC), The New School (NYC), Look and Listen Festival (NYC), DiMenna Center (NYC), CCRMA at Stanford University, CNMAT at UC Berkeley, Center for New Music (SF), Constellation (Chicago), Cycling ‘74 Expo, Hong Kong Arts Center (HK), Sonic Arts Research Center at Queen’s University Belfast, University of Huddersfield (UK), QO-2 Brussels, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Currents/ Festival für aktuelle Tiefkultur Köln, Kunst Station Sankt Peter Köln, A L’arme! Festival Berlin, DARA String Festival Berlin, Seanaps Festival Leipzig, ZiMMT Leipzig, Festival für Immaterielle Kunst Hamburg, Pinakothek der Moderne München and Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK).
She received an Honorary Mention from Giga-Hertz-Preis 2021 at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta stipendium in Munich as well as an residency at Studios für Elektroakustische Musik, Akademie der Künste Berlin.
https://www.violayip.com
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