11 October 2018 | 20:00

Wild Sonico : Adachi - Gordoa - Marx #497

  • Doors: 19:30
  • Start time: 20:00
  • Entrance: 6-10 € (up to your offer)


WILD SONICO | Contemporary & Experimental Music
Artists experiment with the infinite world of internal reactive forms of electronic medias using variable systems, digital and analog, to create compositions and performative sonic experiences. 

Günter Marx – new solo work for violin and electronics.
Günter Marx is an experienced player of contemporary music and has been working over 20 years with synthesisers and electronic violins. He tested an implementation of the methods modified FM and subtractive synthesis expanded by modified single sideband modulation and common methods of sound processing such a filters and reverberation. Marx was the principal first violinist at the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra for many years and now lives in Munich. He also performs as soloist and was member of several chamber ensembles including the Brahms Quartet Hamburg, the Leonardo Quartet Cologne and Musikfabrik NRW. His interest in electroacoustic music was roused during his studies at the Musikhochschule Köln, where he attended courses with Gottfried Michael Koenig. This led to collaborations with composers Thomas Kessler, Mesias Maiguashca, Wilfried Jentzsch and Rainer Bürck (Trionys) among others, featuring his MIDI violin, and also to own compositions in this field, such as VIOMESPEL for violin and Computer and ELPOEM for mezzo-soprano and tape. www.trionys.de

Tomomi Adachi (vo) + Tomomi Adachi II (vo) – duo, improvisation with AI
ADACHI Tomoni (family name is ADACHI), born in Kanazawa, Japan in 1972, is a performer, composer, sound poet, installation artist, occasional theater director. He studied philosophy and aesthetics at Waseda University in Tokyo. He has played improvised music with voice, live electronics and self-made instruments. He had composed works for his own group "Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus" which is a punk-style choir. He has also performed contemporary music : vocal, live-electronics or performance works by John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Christian Wolff, Tom Johnson, Dieter Schnebel, TAKAHASHI Yuji, YUASA Joji and Fluxus including world premiere and Japan premiere as Cage’s “Variations VII,” “Europera 5,” and “Waterwalk”. He is the only performer of sound poetry in Japan and has performed Kurt Schwitters' "Ursonate" for the first time in Japan. He has made several sound installations and original instruments (e.g."Tomomin", his hand made electric instrument is familiar to many musicians). In the field of theater music, he has collaborated with some experimental theaters and dancers. He also organized many concerts which picks up experimental music, sound art, collaboration work and inter-disciplinary performance in Japan and Germany, include concerts with Chris Mann, Trevor Wishart, Nicolas Collins and STEIM in Japan. He founded “Ensemble for Experimental Music and Theater” with his students in Tokyo in 2011, the group is working for pieces by Fluxus and recent conceptual composers. www.adachitomomi.com

Premiere : Emilio Gordoa – "La Montanña" for 4 snare drums and electronics.
Emilio Gordoa is a mexican composer and vibraphonist based in Berlin since 2012. He’s involved in numerous projects including his work as a soloist and in collaboration with theater and dance. Emilio is specially focus in sound art, experimental music, noise, free jazz, improvisation and contemporary music. He is redefining the vibraphone as a source, treating it with preparations and extended techniques, and is a busy composer as well, writing graphic scores for a variety of ensembles, large and small, for theater, documentary films and audiovisual. Studied music composition with Julio Estrada, Vincent Carver and Mario Lavista, and percussion with Raul Tudon. He has collaborated with several artist from all around the world such as John Russell, Tristan Honsinger, Nate Wooley, John Edwards, Ken Vandermark, German Bringas, John Butcher, Misha Marks, Axel Dörner, Tony Buck, Tobias Delius, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Ignaz Schick, Harri Sjöströjm, Frank Gratkowski, Jaap Blonk, Burkhard Beins and Ute Wassermann. Emilio is a current member of Circuit Training ensemble, Radiation iX, Para.keets, Corso, Dörner-Gordoa-Thieke-Vorfeld Quertet, and M0VE Quintet. He often performs around Europe in a wide kind of scenarios. www.emiliogordoa.com