Mi, 14.05.2025, 20:00 Uhr
Hörbar: Rippie / Bell / Akbalkan
Hörbar: Rippie / Bell / Akbalkan Doors 19:00 Concerts 20:00 James Eck Rippie James Eck Rippie is a musician and visual artist originally from Nashville, TN and currently resides in Texas. His work utilizes samples manipulated through variations of synthesis, turntable and electronics, and often explores the psychological impressions that juxtaposition and abstraction procure. Drawing from his extensive experience as a sound engineer in the film industry, Rippie infuses his work with aural dynamism, crafting compositions that serve as gateways to the subconscious narrative, creating what one reviewer noted as "a soundtrack to curiosity". Beyond his solo work, Rippie has shared the stage and studio with luminaries such as eriKm (France), Colin Andrew Sheffield (TX), Paulo Raposa (Portugal), and Simon Whetham (UK), among others. His performances, recordings, sound installations have graced international venues, captivating audiences with their immersive and thought-provoking nature. Rippie's most recent activities include acting as a performer and partial electronic composer in Mathew Richie's opera "Infinite Movement" and an upcoming collaborative record with Swans' percussionist Thor Harris Rrill Bell Born and raised in the US-American Rust Belt, and a resident of Germany for over two-and-a-half decades, Rrill Bell draws on the formative inspirations of radical scratch culture, Cagean thought, harmolodics, musique concréte and various other strains of experimental music practice. Originally rooted in the world of improvisational performance, over the past decade his work has expanded to include various hybrid approaches to location recording, augmented reality, composition, and audio narrative. Yuri Akbalkan Yuri Akbalkan is a Russian-born composer and sound artist working in the field of multimedia art. After moving between St Petersburg and Cologne, he currently resides in Hamburg, where he is conducting artistic research on perceptual construction in art at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. In his practice, Akbalkan explores multiple artistic disciplines, ranging from instrumental and electroacoustic music to improvisation and conceptual theatre. He was as an artist-in-residence at ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe as part of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for New Music, Contemporary Dance, Theatre, and New Media (a project of the Goethe-Institut). While in St Petersburg, he participated in the Electroacoustic Music Lab ESG-21, worked as a lecturer and co-curator of the Course in Experimental Music Practice, and held the position of Editor-in-Chief at Edition reMusik.org, affiliated with the Saint Petersburg Contemporary Music Center. Akbalkan's music has been performed at various venues and festivals, including reMusik.org, ZKM next_generation, The Art of Improvisation, International Bach Festival Hamburg, blurred edges, Sound Ways, Fin de siècle, Exposition XXI, Opus 52, ProToArt, the Pythian Games composers' competition, Moscow Philharmonia, Saint Petersburg Philharmonia, Orpheus Radio, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, and the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre. His works have been performed by musical collectives such as ensemble recherche, noname-ensemble, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME), MolOt-ensemble, Gallery of Actual Music Ensemble (GAM-Ensemble), eNsemble Pro Arte, Mariinsky New Music Ensemble, {instead} ensemble, Ensemble Adapter, and Chromatic Noise Collection. As an improviser, Akbalkan works closely with the SPIIC+ Ensemble on multiple projects. 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.
