Post modern sudoku jazz
To mistake is the only chance for something new to happen and therefor isn’t a mistake.
Unrehearsed, impolite, unwashed, charismatic, vicious sounds from the pit.
Instant compositions. The naive glorification of improvising the new.
Drums, no input mixer, prepared objects, feedback fun, vocals, recorder - Jakub Švejnar
Guitar, synth, fx, vocals, tape - Daniel Bierdümpfl
Daniel Bierdümpfl is an Linz - Austria based interdisciplinary Artist.
Daniel is a former luthier of plucked & bowed string instruments, he studied time based & interactive media arts at the Kunstuniversität Linz (AT) and works as a free lance artist in the fields of music, performance, theater, choreography, poetry, film & photography. He was nominated among five other finalists for the Oe1 Jazz scholarship 2023 as well as one of six finalists I AM ABROAD 2024 Open Call (New European Project for Free Improvisation Artists) Vienna AT. He is the head of programming & production for Raumschiff Linz with a focus on contemporary, improvised and off-genre music & performance.
Jakub Švejnar is a drummer, percussionist and improviser. Born in Zlín in 1995, he started playing the drumset at the age of 13 and moved to Prague to study at the conservatory of Jaroslav Ježek. During his studies, he developed a more experimental approach to playing and moved towards free improvisation, which became his main focus. Apart from the drumset, Jakub uses various percussion, objects, no-input mixer and voice. He’s an up-and-coming player on the Prague improvisation and jazz scene and is member of bands such as Jungle Debris, Grandmothers Favourite, Pudlax, Uthando, Pátra/Švejnar and Dust In The Groove. He premiéred new-music compositions with ensembles/composers: Dust in the Groove (Michal Wróblewski – Game no.5), PMP Ensemble (Anthony Braxton – Trillium X), Petr Hora - The Theatrical Stroll of a Diamond Spider, Elia Morreti (Once Enea Stuck a Seed In My Ear), Timotheé Quost (A Tool Is A Tool) and also coolaborates with performance and dance theather ensembles – Špatné divadlo, Me-Sa Company and Divadlo Continuo.
Daniel is a former luthier of plucked & bowed string instruments, he studied time based & interactive media arts at the Kunstuniversität Linz (AT) and works as a free lance artist in the fields of music, performance, theater, choreography, poetry, film & photography. He was nominated among five other finalists for the Oe1 Jazz scholarship 2023 as well as one of six finalists I AM ABROAD 2024 Open Call (New European Project for Free Improvisation Artists) Vienna AT. He is the head of programming & production for Raumschiff Linz with a focus on contemporary, improvised and off-genre music & performance.
Jakub Švejnar is a drummer, percussionist and improviser. Born in Zlín in 1995, he started playing the drumset at the age of 13 and moved to Prague to study at the conservatory of Jaroslav Ježek. During his studies, he developed a more experimental approach to playing and moved towards free improvisation, which became his main focus. Apart from the drumset, Jakub uses various percussion, objects, no-input mixer and voice. He’s an up-and-coming player on the Prague improvisation and jazz scene and is member of bands such as Jungle Debris, Grandmothers Favourite, Pudlax, Uthando, Pátra/Švejnar and Dust In The Groove. He premiéred new-music compositions with ensembles/composers: Dust in the Groove (Michal Wróblewski – Game no.5), PMP Ensemble (Anthony Braxton – Trillium X), Petr Hora - The Theatrical Stroll of a Diamond Spider, Elia Morreti (Once Enea Stuck a Seed In My Ear), Timotheé Quost (A Tool Is A Tool) and also coolaborates with performance and dance theather ensembles – Špatné divadlo, Me-Sa Company and Divadlo Continuo.
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CAE - Composed Audience Ensemble (contemporary)
Collective Composing is a project for the mediation and promotion of contemporary improvised music and the emancipation of the audience.
In a blitz workshop, a simple, already formulated graphic notation method will be presented in order to subsequently provide the audience with a small "vocabulary book" of the notation method, a sheet of paper and, of course, a pen for composing. Everyone is invited to DRAW their own spontaneous "score" using graphic notation as a guidance or inspiration, which will then be randomly distributed to the musicians. This can literally be any possible drawing. The four musicians will interpret four drawings of four audience members, turning it into one collective composition. Over the course of the evening, several mini-compositions will be created and played, for which the audience, in the nearest sense of the word, is drawn responsible.
No prior musical knowledge necessary.
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Emilija Veljković – Cello
Radoš Veljković – Viola
Iradi Luna – Double Bass
Nika Jeraj – Transverse Flute
Tetiana Bykova – Accordion
Genius Loci (NL) + Daniel Bierdümpfl (analog spatial audio)
As touring musicians, Wietse Voermans (Vehikel, Spoken) and Ruud Voesten (Ambrosia, ROEST) have performed at many different unique places. In their new project 'Genius Loci' they use their stage not only as a place for performing, but make it an active participant in their compositional and improvisational process. Stories about the location, the city or the employees, a particular set of acoustics or just a very small, tight stage all become deciding factors in the music. The main part of the music will be created in an improvisational fashion and moves between the limits of what this line up has to offer. Loud, soft, beautiful or ugly.
Wietse Voermans – Reeds, fx
Ruud Voesten – Drums, fx
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Daniel Bierdümpfl – electric guitar, fx
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SODA CITROEN (music for lemons)
Sophie Adelt - Voice, fx
Daniel Bierdümpfl - guitar, fx
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{LOW_LEVEL_LITERATURE} (experimental, impro)
Low level literature is a Pd ( PureData ) based live-music project.
Ben Wesch is an electronic musician, Guitarist, Oud player & researcher in the field of spatial audio, creating new synthesis methods and postdigital instruments at the Tangible Music Lab in Linz.
Ben Wesch - Electronics
Daniel Bierdümpfl - guitar, fx, prepared sounding objects
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Adrian Dozetas & the charlatans of wisdom
(domestic poetry & galatic music)
....is a project based on texts of Adrian Dozetas, improvised music and performative spontaneous madness. To agitate, contact, touch & the audience’s soul.
https://dozetas.com/
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DonauVerhau (Jazz manouche, gypsy Jazz)
...is an enchanting conglomerate of musical fisher*wo*man reaching for the poetics of every metaphorical river floating on this planet.
DonauVerhau is an international group of musicians from Austria, Italy and Germany living in Linz (Austria) by its eponym;
the beautiful river Danube. Just like the Danube, which crosses all over Europe and is connecting various cultures along the way (in fact more than any other river on earth), the Bands aspiration is to interconnect cultures musically and lyrically all along its journey.
the beautiful river Danube. Just like the Danube, which crosses all over Europe and is connecting various cultures along the way (in fact more than any other river on earth), the Bands aspiration is to interconnect cultures musically and lyrically all along its journey.
Attempting a modern turn on Gypsy Jazz, the group is trying to push borders and stigmas within the scene of the genre by enriching it with all of the groups nationalities and diverse musical portfolios.
The group allready featured & played concerts with artists like; Enji Erkhem , Tomas Novak etc.
Sophie Vierbauch - Vocals
Daniel Bierdümpfl - Guitar , vocals
Federico Perinelli - Double bass , vocals
Aron Hollinger - Guitar , vocals
Federico Perinelli - Double bass , vocals
Aron Hollinger - Guitar , vocals