Broken Ghost Consort at Sophienkirche

Matthew Goodheart's Broken Ghost Consort combines live performance with immersive electroacoustic sound environments, performing works that inhabit a hybrid world of composition, free improvisation and sound installation. The ensemble is based on the use of "reembodied sound" techniques, in which gongs, cymbals and other resonant instruments are activated by small transducers attached to their surface and controlled by computer so that they sound autonomously. Alongside these 'ghost instruments', live performers interact with written, structured and spontaneously improvised material in an evolving series of works that explore the nature of sound, performance, materiality and space....

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Matthew Goodheart's Broken Ghost Consort combines live performance with immersive electroacoustic sound environments, performing works that inhabit a hybrid world of composition, free improvisation and sound installation. The ensemble is based on the use of "reembodied sound" techniques, in which gongs, cymbals and other resonant instruments are activated by small transducers attached to their surface and controlled by computer so that they sound autonomously. Alongside these 'ghost instruments', live performers interact with written, structured and spontaneously improvised material in an evolving series of works that explore the nature of sound, performance, materiality and space.

The international ensemble with Matthew Goodheart (New York) -piano, composition, George Cremaschi (Prague) -contrabass and Georg Wissel (Cologne) -clarinet has been working together as Broken Ghost Consort since 2016.
In 2019, together with other guest musicians, they recorded the album "Presences", released in 2001 on the New York label Infrequent Seams and described by Jazzwise magazine as "an exacting and fascinating meeting of art, music and science." .

In the absence of travel and concerts caused by the pandemic, the trio continued to work together via web-based platforms and is now presenting its new work in Europe.

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