Thinking About Barstow: Premiere Of The Electric Surrogate Kithara at Loft

tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET

Victor Gelling, no stranger to the Cologne improvisation and jazz scene, invites you to a special kind of field experiment this evening: With the help of a research grant from the city of Cologne, it was possible to design a completely new instrument based on the microtonal instruments of the American composer Harry Partch. The Electric Surrogate Kithara, an electrified version of Partch’s 14-string instrument, is the centerpiece of the evening. With the help of Cologne stringed instrument maker Stefan Bosch, an instrument was created over months of work in which Victor installed several microcontrollers and other electrical gadgets entirely in the spirit of his own sound world in order to combine Harry Partch’s microtonal approaches with modern improvisational worlds....

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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET

Victor Gelling, no stranger to the Cologne improvisation and jazz scene, invites you to a special kind of field experiment this evening: With the help of a research grant from the city of Cologne, it was possible to design a completely new instrument based on the microtonal instruments of the American composer Harry Partch. The Electric Surrogate Kithara, an electrified version of Partch’s 14-string instrument, is the centerpiece of the evening. With the help of Cologne stringed instrument maker Stefan Bosch, an instrument was created over months of work in which Victor installed several microcontrollers and other electrical gadgets entirely in the spirit of his own sound world in order to combine Harry Partch’s microtonal approaches with modern improvisational worlds.

For a first presentation, Victor has invited some old and new faces from the Cologne improvisation scene to organize a classic first meeting (and also the first appearance of the new instrument).

Together with Laura Totenhagen, Jordan White and Darius Heid on stage, a wide variety of minds, equipped with both acoustic and electronic sound languages, will come together.


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