Matana Roberts, Audrey Chen und Axel Dörner | Bex Burch

In the organizer's words:

Two concerts in one evening: the three musicians Matana Roberts (alto saxophone, clarinet, vocals), Audrey Chen (vocals, electronics) and Axel Dörner (piano, trumpet) improvise together on the stage of HAU1. Bex Burch (xylophone, percussion, electronics) will open the evening with a solo concert.

The composer, percussionist and instrument maker Bex B urch describes her organic sound textures as "messy minimalism". These vary between meditative spirituality, improvisation and playful, energetic rhythms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duhT4ok8VI8
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/there-is-only-love-and-fear

Originally based in Chicago's jazz scene, composer and musician Matana Roberts has been exploring her own family history as part of African-American history since 2010 through the long-term project "Coin Coin": the result is a fever dream of field recordings, jazz passages, text fragments, gospel and blues elements and electronica.

https://matana-roberts.bandcamp.com/album/coin-coin-chapter-five-in-the-garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbNKUAy0Qik&t=449s

Audrey Chen is a Taiwanese-American musician living in Berlin. Using voice and electronics, Chen explores her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. Much of her music is improvised, unedited and her approach to it is personal and intuitive. Her playing explores the combination and layering of analog synthesizers, preparations, and traditional and extended techniques for voice and cello - with the aim of combining these elements into a unique ecstatic personal language.

https://audreychen.bandcamp.com/album/runt-vigor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQeXGUXqz5o

Axel Dörner studied piano and trumpet in Arnhem and Cologne and lives in Berlin. In addition to his collaboration with numerous internationally renowned musicians in the fields of improvised music, new music, jazz and electronic music, he has developed a new, extraordinary style of trumpet playing based on sometimes unusual, often newly invented playing techniques. Dörner is considered one of the most important voices in improvised music worldwide.

https://axeldoerner.bandcamp.com/album/unweil