tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CET
Chris Corsano, Tizia Zimmermann and Chris Pitsiokos first played together in New York in summer 2023, during Tizia’s six-month stint in the big city.
The trio quickly found a collective language drawing on their highly personal approaches to their respective instruments and their shared interests in free jazz, improvised music, drone and noise. Always in the process of discovery, each performance involves further revelations of until-then unimagined musical forms.
Accordionist Tizia Zimmermann is one of the nine musicians who received a Carte Blanche in the 24/25 season. The Carte Blanche is awarded to outstanding musicians on the Swiss jazz scene and offers them the opportunity to further develop their current musical work and try out new things.
Tizia Zimmermann was probably born with a fascination for the accordion: “It was always clear that the accordion would be my instrument,” says Tizia Zimmermann. “My mother listened to a lot of music that featured accordions or the bandoneon. So the accordion was always there. I then got a small toy accordion, which I took with me everywhere and always played it.” Tizia Zimmermann really started playing the accordion at the age of 8. She would have liked to have taken lessons even earlier, but there were no such small accordions back then. A good 20 years later, Tizia Zimmermann is a professional accordionist and plays in various formations with a focus on improvised and contemporary classical music.
Chris Pitsiokos is a New York-born, Berlin-based saxophonist, composer and improviser. While Pitsiokos does not concern himself with genre, broadly speaking his music falls under the umbrella of experimentalism, including noise, sound art, improvised music, experimental jazz, free jazz, noise rock, new music, minimal music, drone and art rock. As a soloist he has developed a unique voice on the alto saxophone: his expansion of the instrument’s vocabulary has served to multiply its emotive and formal possibilities. He has recorded over 30 albums as a leader or co-leader and appears on many others.
As a bandleader and soloist, he has toured throughout Asia, North and South America and Europe. His touring has taken him to major international festivals such as Sapporo International Arts Festival in Japan, Moers Festival in Germany, Jazz Jantar in Poland, Jazz Festival Lima in Peru, Wels Unlimited Music Festival in Austria, Jazz Festival Saalfelden in Austria, Meteo Mulhouse Festival in France, Jazz Cerkno in Slovenia, and the Observatory in Singapore. In New York, his music has been presented at Roulette Intermedium, ISSUE Project Room, and in a residency at the Stone. His writing has appeared in Arcana (edited by John Zorn), in a Japanese-language book on Kaoru Abe, and in many articles in the now defunct Sound American, where Pitsiokos was on the editorial board. He is known for his solo saxophone performance, his audio-visual electro-acoustic piece “Irrational Rhythms and Shifting Poles”, his band CP Unit and his longstanding duo with Otomo Yoshihide. He has also performed with Axel Dörner, Keiji Haino, Luke Stewart, Tony Buck, Wendy Eisenberg, Nate Wooley, Miya Masaoka, Paul Lytton, Peter Evans, Weasel Walter, Jaimie Branch, Chris Corsano, Oli Steidle, Elias Stemeseder, and Tyshawn Sorey.
As an organizer, Pitsiokos presented concerts independently in New York from 2013 until 2022 when he relocated to Berlin. In Berlin he co-curated the program at Sowieso from 2022-2023 before starting a new venue, Richten25 and its parent-organization Odamusic e.V. in 2024 with a collective of six other artists.
http://www.chrispitsiokos.com/
„…arguably the most riotously energetic and creative drummer in contemporary free jazz“
Wire Magazine
„One of the world’s great drummers.“
The Guardian
Chris Corsano (b. 1975, USA) is a New York-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late 1990’s. He’s been the rim-batterer of choice for some of the greatest contemporary purveyors of „jazz“ (Joe McPhee, Paul Flaherty, Mette Rasmussen, Zoh Amba) and „rock“ (Sir Richard Bishop, Bill Orcutt, Jim O’Rourke), as well as artists beyond categorization (Björk for her Volta album and world tour, Michael Flower, Okkyung Lee).
Corsano began a long-standing, high-energy musical partnership with saxophonist Paul Flaherty in 1998. Their style, which they occasionally refer to with (semi-)tongue-in-cheek humor as „The Hated Music“, combines modern free-jazz’s ecstatic collectivism with the urgency and intensity of hardcore punk. A move from western Massachusetts to the UK in 2005 led Corsano to develop his solo music — a dynamic, spontaneously-composed orchestra-of-one utilizing extended techniques for drum set, non-percussive instruments of his own creation (e.g. bowed violin strings stretched across drum heads), circular breathing on modified reed instruments, and stockpiles of resonant metals. He spent 2007-08 as the drummer on Björk’s Volta world tour, all the while weaving in shows and recordings on his days off with the likes of Evan Parker, Michael Flower, and Jandek. He moved back to the U.S. in 2009 and continued touring in an ultrawide array of ever-evolving collaborations. In 2017 he won the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. A renowned solo performer in his own right, Corsano has a new solo record, The Key (Became The Important Thing [and Then Just Faded Away] out on the Drag City label.
https://www.cor-sano.com/
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