The concert will be livestreamed via YouTube & Facebook
livestream starts:
8.15pm CET
2:15pm EST (eg New York)
11.15am PST (eg Los Angeles)
4.15am JST (on December 14th, eg Tokio)
concerts starts 15min+
You can watch this livestream for free on YouTube or Facebook, we are of course very happy if you pay Luise Volkmann & Autochrom an „entry“ to this concert, details will follow here and in the respective livestreams shortly.
take me directly to the livestream:
YouTube (1080): https://youtu.be/kGxSZW1sdww
Facebook (720): https://fb.me/e/260ukuEMP...
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The concert will be livestreamed via YouTube & Facebook
livestream starts:
8.15pm CET
2:15pm EST (eg New York)
11.15am PST (eg Los Angeles)
4.15am JST (on December 14th, eg Tokio)
concerts starts 15min+
You can watch this livestream for free on YouTube or Facebook, we are of course very happy if you pay Luise Volkmann & Autochrom an „entry“ to this concert, details will follow here and in the respective livestreams shortly.
take me directly to the livestream:
YouTube (1080): https://youtu.be/kGxSZW1sdww
Facebook (720): https://fb.me/e/260ukuEMP
How do you bring three complementary elements into harmony in such a way that a new symbiotic whole emerges from them? A method used in early color photography provides the answer. The „autochrome“ technique, which goes back to the Lumière brothers at the beginning of the 20th century, is based on the fact that all other colors can be derived from the screening of the three colors red, blue and green, thus creating complex color photographs. Autochrome is also the name of the trio of saxophonist Luise Isabel Volkmann with bassist Athina Kontou and drummer Dominik Mahnig (formerly Max Santner). All three have traveled far. Luise Isabel Volkmann comes from Bielefeld, lived briefly in Berlin and long in Paris to end up in Cologne via Copenhagen and Leipzig. Athina Kontou has Greek roots, grew up in Frankfurt am Main and Athens and now lives in Leipzig. Drummer Dominik Mahnig was born in Willisau (Switzerland), trained at the universities in Lucerne and finally in Cologne, where his center of life has been since 2012. Three life paths that are gridded into a common narrative thread in Autchrom.
As a musician hungry for life, Luise Volkmann has a soft spot for anecdotes, whether they come from films, books, comics or her own everyday perception. Everywhere she picks up on what is on her mind, in the personal as well as the global. Her musical stories always have a background. When she gets into making music with her two players, one quickly forgets which instruments one is listening to. All three make their contributions, intuitively taking responsibility without playing themselves into the foreground. The playful impulse changes incessantly between the three protagonists. At any given moment, the focus is on the story, and the three basic musical colors serve to depict it in the best possible way. „As a composer, I’m more interested in the body of sound than in soloists,“ Volkmann says. „From my human and ideological orientation, I believe in collectivity and community. Society focuses way too much on the individual. Even in jazz, it’s always about the bandleader. It’s much more important to me that, as in rock, there are bands that function as a body of sound themselves. In the rehearsal phase, we worked hard to make sure that everyone took their responsibilities.“
On the way to this collectivity, the trio did a lot of sound research. In the process, a wide variety of questions arose, the answers to which were meticulously sought. How can the saxophone sound similar to the bowed bass? How can you squeak on the cymbal like you do on the saxophone? It was not about demarcation, but about fusion of the different sound sources. Music as a process of integration, just like the color pigments of an autochromic photograph.
Sound: Christian Heck
Production: Dr. Urs Benedikt Müller & Hans Martin Müller
Thanks to: Mischa Salevic & Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
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