DOCH / MJ Soundwalker feat. Valeria Zangger

Line-up:
Martina Berther eb, Vera Kappeler Gongs, Peter Conradin Zumthor Gongs

A newly formed trio in an unusual line-up: The well-known piano-percussion duo Kappeler/Zumthor reduces its instrumentation to six gongs and brings Martina Berther on board. The gongs are rubbed, not struck. So the instruments begin to sing, hum, roar and scream. The electric bass fits into this ancient, acoustic world as a kind of binding agent and basis. The result is a calmly breathing music of earthy beauty. In praise of the shadow. A new, poetic kind of drone music.

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Line-up:
Valeria Zangger dr, Marc Jenny elec

AI algorithms bring about a conditioning suitable for the masses beyond the surprising. The perfection of the machine kneads softly and irons smoothly. It's high time to take countermeasures! With a musical plea for the love of daring, drummer Valeria Zangger and Marc Jenny compete with his Soundwalker to scratch up the ear canals. Bulky, angular, frayed and human.

The Soundwalker, Marc Jenny's self-developed electronic musical instrument, does not have AI, but has an artistic life of its own in the form of unpredictability and overwhelm. The operation of the machine thus becomes all the more an art – with everything that makes art: courage, failure and moments of happiness.

Drummer Valeria Zangger enters into a dialogue with MJ's Soundwalker. They play with and against the machine, create sounds at the edge of the universe and in the middle of the Postremise. A live experience with depth. A unique celebration of humanity. Music with its finger on the pulse, developed and produced in the present by two empathetic improvisers.