An encounter between three outstanding improvisational musicians who understand sound as open territory. Guitar legend Fred Frith – co-founder of Henry Cow and a defining figure in experimental music since the 1970s – meets Tim Hodgkinson, a collaborator from those radical beginnings and a tireless researcher at the intersection of improvisation, composition, and sound anthropology. Alongside them is Liz Allbee, a Berlin-based trumpeter and sound artist who transforms her instrument into a vibrating resonating chamber of breath, electronics, and material experimentation. A completely improvised trialogue. Raw, poetic, unpredictable.
Hamburg-based musician Gunnar Lettow works with a prepared bass and electronics. Following this initial collaboration, Erel and Lettow decided to continue as a duo. Gunnar’s electroacoustic sounds and Korhan’s electronically processed field recordings and found sounds now give rise to a fascinating, abstract soundscape. The result is not a traditional bass-and-electronics combination, but rather a fluid field of hums, vibrations, crunching textures, fleeting impulses, and acoustic particles. The bass serves less as an instrument than as a starting point for transformations; the electronics expand, shift, and fragment the material. Erel and Lettow are interested in transitions, frictions, and those moments in which sound, gesture, and structure intertwine.
