tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
To mark the 76-year-old Italian-American percussionist and minimalist Andrea Centazzo ’s stay in Europe, Cologne-based musician Matthias Mainz is forming a new duo with Centazzo in May 2024 with concerts and studio recordings in NRW and Berlin.
Andrea Centazzo has worked with the who’s who of the European and American avant-garde of creative jazz and improvisational music since the 1970s and has released numerous recordings under the Ictus label since 1976. As a composer influenced by minimal music, Centazzo has composed music-theatrical works and worked on concepts of sound and video since the early 1980s.
https://andreacentazzo.com/
Since the mid-nineties, Matthias Mainz has moved freely as a trumpeter between the musical contexts of jazz, improvised and new music and has expanded his instrument using microtonality and electronics. In recent years, Mainz has turned to the piano as an autodidact and uses it in chamber music contexts with musicians and composers of European and non-European origins with diverse stylistic influences and orientations.
https://www.matthiasmainz.com/audiovideo
In the encounter between Centazzo and Mainz, the sound of prepared and electro-acoustically extended grand piano meets the colorfulness of frame drums, cymbals and mallets. In the improvisers‘ dialog, various layers of repetitive minimalism, creative jazz and borrowings from modernism and late romanticism overlap and span an arc over common and individual improvisational languages.
ANDREA CENTAZZO (*1948)
Between 1973 and 1976, he was a member of Giorgio Gaslini’s ensemble before turning to free jazz under the influence of Steve Lacy and playing with Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and Pierre Favre.
In his Central Europe Orchestra he worked with Gianluigi Trovesi, Carlo Actis Dato, Theo Jörgensmann, Radu Malfatti and Albert Mangelsdorff. In 1978 and 1980 he taught at Karl Berger’s Creative Music Studio. Centazzo, who increasingly expanded his range of instruments, recorded numerous albums under his own name on the Ictus label from 1976, which were initially committed to the ideal of creative jazz and new improvisational music with Lacy, Bailey, Evan Parker, Toshinori Kondō, Tom Cora, Vinny Golia, Eugene Chadbourne, John Carter, Larry Ochs, LaDonna Smith and others.
He also created his Indian Tapes and other sound collages, in which he used electronic music, his percussion, recordings of voices and noises, as well as multi-media pieces. Centazzo became increasingly active as a composer of minimal music and made video films. In 1996, he composed his opera Tina about the life of Tina Modotti; two further operas followed in 2000(Memento) and 2001(Simultas). Centazzo has also worked with Don Cherry, John Zorn, Henry Kaiser, Enrico Rava and Guido Mazzon. He became a US citizen in 2000 and has lived in Los Angeles ever since.
(Source: Wikipedia)
MATTHIAS MAINZ (*1972)
is a transdisciplinary musician, curating artist and author. In 2001, he founded the project ensemble realtime research, with which he realized electroacoustic music, media scenographies and theater projects as well as workshops and lecture performances at universities, art and music colleges in Germany, Poland, the USA, Turkey and Iran until 2012. Since 2012, Mainz has been dealing with questions of transcultural music and its embedding in national and international cultural policy with research in Kabul, Tehran and Istanbul and has been realizing curatorial, musical and artistic-scientific work as managing director of the Plattform für Transkulturelle Neue Musik e.V. since 2016. Mainz studied jazz trumpet with Manfred Schoof in Cologne. Other important teachers and influences were the trumpeters Manfred Schoof, Markus Stockhausen, Kenny Wheeler and Laurie Frink as well as the composer Johannes Fritsch. After a scholarship stay in New York at the end of 2001, the combination of improvisation, microtonality, extended playing techniques and electronics on the trumpet formed the focus of his musical work until around 2012. In the transdisciplinary ensemble realtime research, he collaborated for many years with the computer musicians Hannes Hölzl and Alberto de Campo and the raw electronics specialist Joker Nies. Collaborations have led to encounters with musicians beyond jazz and improvised music such as Roedelius, Fehlfarben, Boris Polonski and RobAcid.
Since around 2017, Mainz has turned to self-taught piano in the combination of multi-stylistic improvisation concepts with electro-acoustics, preparations and microtonality. As a pianist, he works with musicians on a recurring basis: Gregory Dargent (oud, Strasbourg), Anil Eraslan (cello, Istanbul/Strasbourg/Berlin), Paul Dutton (sound poetry, Toronto), Joe Sorbara (percussion, Toronto), Lina Allemano (trumpet, Toronto/Berlin), Yasamin Shahhosseini (oud, Tehran), Mutamassik (turntables, New York/Amsterdam), Maurice Louca (guitar, electronics, Cairo/Berlin) and the composers: Marc Sinan (Berlin), Edu Haubensak (Zurich), Orm Finnendahl (Frankfurt) and Marisol Jimemenz (Mexico/Berlin).
Supported by:
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenscahft NRW, NRW Kultursekretariat Wuppertal, IFM - Initiative Freie Musik Köln, mit den Projektmitteln des Kulturamts Köln
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