Monday 3 April 2023, 8pm
Pleased to host SO SNER - the Austrian/German duo of Susanna Gartmayer (bass clarinet) and Stefan Schneider (electronics) - performing alongside Tokyo-born, Düsseldorf-based artist, composer, musician, Miki Yui.
SO SNER is a duo which consists of Susanna Gartmayer and Stefan Schneider. They started their working relationship in 2015 around the Approximation Festival in Dusseldorf. Gartmayer's bass clarinet polyphonies so impressed Schneider that he quickly suggested a collaboration. That same year, they began recording what was later to become their first album REIME in Kraftwerk's former Kling Klang studio, which in 2015 served as a community workspace and a concert venue. The second part of the album was recorded in the summer of 2020 in Dusseldorf at a church, whose interior wood paneling facilitated organic acoustics.
So Sner s sound is equally oriented towards experiment and tradition, whose roots can be traced ́ back to the UK of the early 80s: an era in which post punk, jazz, avant-garde and polyrhythm were blended with the help of intellectualism and punk attitude in such a way that manifold sketches of possible music emerged which are only being colorized today.
Susanna Gartmayer grew up in Vienna and started to play saxophone and after her studies in fine arts she swichted to bass clarinet. She is active as composer, soloist and plays in many ensembles and groups; form experimental rock to free improvisation and contemporary music. In the last decade she became one of the important bass clarinet musician in Austria. In duo with double bass player Manu Mayr, she played the opening concert for the 40. Jazzfestival in Saalfelden in 2019 . She is a member of "The Vegetable Orchestra" which tours around the globe and plays for example regular with Stefan Schneider, Thomas Berghammer, Didi Kern, Christof Kurzmann, Alex Kranabitter, Mona Matbou-Riahi, Jakob Gnigler and Brigitta Bödenauer. Together with Thomas Berghammer and Didi Kern she organizes and curates the weekly event "Monday Improvisers Session" in Vienna.
https://gartmayer.klingt.org/
STEFAN SCHNEIDER is a Düsseldorf based musician and producer who, since a little more than two decades, is one of the most original and prolifc voices in contemporary electronic music. SCHNEIDER is a founding member of Düsseldorfs electronic outfit KREIDLER (1994-99) and has also been a third of the internationally highly acclaimed trio TO ROCOCO ROT (1995-2014). During the past couple of years he has also collaborated and produced with a.o. Joachim Roedelius (Cluster), Arto Lindsay, Bill Wells, Dieter Moebius (Cluster), Klaus Dinger (NEU!) Sofia Jernberg, Koshiro Hino (YPY/GOAT), John McEntire (tortoise) and fine art superstar Katharina Grosse. Since 1994 concerts in EU, USA, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, China, Algeria, Kenya, Siberia.
On his fresh behind the ears label TAL, Schneider has recently released the music of kenyan folk singer OGOYA NENGO AND THE DODO WOMENS GROUP who have been on an extensive tour in Europe earlier this summer. TAL has also issued an OGOYA NENGO EP with remixes by the likes of ORSON, LENA WILLIKENS, TOLOUSE LOW TRACKS and DON'T DJ. plus a reissue of the stunning 1982 album of NON BAND from Tokyo.
Miki Yui is an artist and musician from Tokyo, based in Duesseldorf /Germany. Since 1999 she creates sonic landscapes emerging out of delicate noises, samples, electronic sounds, and field recordings. Her unique minimalist and organic approach towards sound balances between subtle nuances, industrial hums and turbulent hooks. In her live concerts she invites listeners to take part in mesmerinzing in the acoustic spaces, rich of abstract and narrative sound circulation.
She has released her solo albums from 12K /LINE(N.Y.) and Hören (Osaka). Her 5th solo album "Oscilla" is released in October 2015, on her own imprint MY.
