Fr, 28.02.2025, 20:00 Uhr
Hörbar: David Wallraf / Hex Vortex / John Hughes & Dong Zhou
Hörbar: David Wallraf / Hex Vortex / John Hughes & Dong Zhou HEX VORTEX HEX VORTEX is the brainchild of Berlin's NOISE TESTAMENT festival creator, known for his booking activities as OBNOXIOUS OUROBOROS. After having played guitar and bass in a dozen bands from 1995-2020 he moved to the Harz Mountains right before the pandemic started, spent countless walks thru the mountains and sleepless nights to come up with the idea, the sound and the setup of HEX VORTEX. Using his musical experience of three decades and improvisational talent to record everything live on the spot onto two tracks and ever evolving his authentic style of heavy psyched out ritualistic industrial dub, harsh brain melt drone, weird electro kraut and hard hitting rhythmic freeform noise. https://hexvortex.bandcamp.com David Wallraf David Wallraf works with noise in Hamburg. The resulting audio works explore the acoustics of the uncanny: Field recordings, electromagnetic waves and obsolete audio technology are woven into soundtracks for the nightmare of ‘capitalist realism’. Wallraf's works are released internationally. In February 2025, the album Crudelta Necessaria is released on the Berlin label Karlrecords, and around 80 records have been released since 2013. In addition to concerts and various collaborations (currently with the Korean noise artist Jena Jang), David performs live soundtracks to surrealist silent films. Following the works of Luis Buñuel, Maya Deren and Jean Genet, a soundtrack for Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin is planned for 2025. https://davidwallraf.com/ https://davidwallraf.bandcamp.com/ John Hughes John Hughes, a bassist and composer originally from the US, has been a prominent figure in Hamburg's jazz and free improvisation scene since 1998. He has organized numerous festivals and concert series, including the award-winning Multiphonics Hamburg, and currently curates the monthly Audible Instances series at Westwerk. A versatile double bassist, Hughes plays and composes for the piano trio Hosho, collaborates with the quartet Gravelshard, Winntizki/Hughes/Lücker Play MONK, trios with Ove Volquartz and Frank Gratkowski, and works in duo with Tobias Delius, Luís Vicente, Olaf Rupp, and Camila Nebbia. Hughes teaches double and electric bass at the Musikschule Neumünster and at the inclusion project Barner 16 in Hamburg. https://www.johnhughes.info/ Dong Zhou Dong Zhou (no pronouns) is a composer-performer based in Hamburg. Zhou gained a B.A. in music engineering at the Shanghai Conservatory and an M.A. in multimedia composition at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. Zhou won several prizes, including the first prize in the 2018 ICMC Hacker-N-Makerthon, the finalist of the 2019 Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, and the Nota-n-ear Award 2022. Zhou had works included in the ‘Sound of World’ Microsoft ringtones collection and was commissioned by festivals and institutions such as the Shanghai International Art Festival, ZKM Karlsruhe, Stimme X Festival, etc. Zhou is currently a doctoral candidate in ICAM of Leuphana University, a member of Stimme X e. V. Zeitgenössisches Musiktheater Norddeutschland and Deutscher Komponistenverband Hamburg. https://dongzhou.live/ Mit freundlicher Unterstützung vom Verband für aktuelle Musik Hamburg und der Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg. With the kind support of the Association for Contemporary Music Hamburg and the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media.
