Mi, 15.10.2025, 20:00 Uhr
Hörbar: Ignaz Schick / David Wallraf
Ignaz Schick (*1972 in Germany) Ignaz Schick is a Berlin based sound artist, composer & visual artist. He also performs as instrumentalist on turntables, sampler, objects, electronics, alto/baritone saxophones & flutes. He studied the saxophone & performed in free jazz & avant rock bands. At the same time he was getting obsessed with multitrack tape machines, record players or effect boxes & he started experimenting with self built instruments & sound making devices. After college he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich & worked as an assistant for contemporary composer Josef Anton Riedl. Since 1995 he lives/works in Berlin where he became an active & integral force of the so-called "Berlin Nouvelle Vague" & the blossoming "Echtzeitmusik" scene. He has been prolific as curator (Festival für Andere Musik, Erase & Reset, Time Shifts, TITO, Echtzeitmusiktage 2010, Flux Festival 2018, Fuchsfest 2021, REFLUX Festival 2022, ...) & runs the experimental music label Zarek. He tours worldwide solo & with groups like Perlonex, Phosphor, Berlin Sound Connective, Nighthawk Kitchen, Tree People, Splitter Orchestra or ILOG and he has released over 75 albums on many international labels & his own imprint. He has collaborated with more than 200 international sonic artists – amongst others Mwata Bowden, John Butcher, Don Cherry, Douglas R. Ewart, Limpe Fuchs, Sven-Åke Johansson, Zbigniew Karkowski, George Lewis, Paul Lovens, Roscoe Mitchell, Toshimaru Nakamura, Charlemagne Palestine, Andrea Parkins, Andrea Neumann, Keith Rowe, Akira Sakata or Martin Tetreault. Since 2012 he concentrates on conceptual composition, sound installations & research in different cities of the Global South. He directs the 12-15 piece workshop ensemble Circuit Training which focuses on conceptual, graphic & verbally instructed scores. David Wallraf David Wallraf is a noise artist and theorist from Hamburg. In their audio works they explore the acoustics of the uncanny: Field recordings, electromagnetic waves and obsolete audio technology are woven into soundtracks for the nightmare of 'capitalist realism'. Since 2013 they released about 80 solo works and collaborations. In February 2025, the tape album Crudeltá Necessaria will be released on Karlrecords. A collaboration with Jena Jang is due to be released on German tape label Econore in March. A recent interest has been live scoring of surrealist silent films, including works by Luis Buñuel, Maya Deren and Jean Genet. David’s dissertation on noise, the book Grenzen des Hörens – Noise und die Akustik des Politischen (Limits of Hearing – Noise and the Acoustics of the Political) has been published in German, an English translation is in process. https://davidwallraf.com/ https://davidwallraf.bandcamp.com/
