FLUID FORM CLUB #8: POLYPLAY x Witch 'n' Monk

Name: FLUID FORM CLUB #8: POLYPLAY x Witch 'n' Monk
Start: 2025-02-08T20:00:00+01:00
Location: ausland

Schedule

Sat, 08 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

ausland | Berlin, BE

FLUID FORM CLUB presents passionately unpredictable music that escapes classification, for a community of curious minds
Line-up:
Witch 'n' Monk (host band)
POLYPLAY
Live visuals: IŞIL KARATAŞ
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WITCH 'N' MONK
Radically manipulated flutes, anarchic soprano vocals and analogue electronics
Defiantly original duo Witch 'n' Monk combine Mauricio Velasierra’s radically electrified Latin American flutes, with Heidi Heidelberg’s jazz-punk guitar/bass and anarchic soprano vocals.
The music travels seamlesly from structured arrangements to wild improvisations, using a myriad of control pedals and labyrinthine signal paths to orchestrate live. The essence of their collaboration is encapsulated in the name; dark/light, feminine/masculine, punk/Romantic. Creating contrast is fundamental to their work and thus they tread upon the edges of genres. Celebrated in jazz, contemporary classical and DIY music scenes they have played prestigious venues and festivals such as the Royal Festival Hall, Berlin, London and Umea Jazz Festivals and Paris' La Cigale.
Their latest album was released on John Zorn's legendary Tzadik Records in 2020 to critical acclaim. It was named Contemporary Album of the Month by The Guardian and received the prestigious Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.

"Blending Latin American flutes, electronics, complex vocal lines with a touch of Frank Zappa lyricism and a radical punk aesthetic, the duo of Heidi Heidelberg and Mauricio Velasierra crafts a dramatically bizarre vocal music from another dimension! Intertwining dark/light, feminine/masculine, composed/improvised and punk/romantic, dreamlike improvisations are sampled, manipulated and reinvented through the lens of contemporary music and pop. You have never heard anything quite like Witch ’n’ Monk!" - John Zorn
http://www.witchnmonk.com
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POLYPLAY
Rhythms of the multiverse exploding with futuristic utopian melodies and deep, prophetic basslines
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IŞIL KARATAŞ (live visuals)
Işıl Karataş is a filmmaker and multimedia artist who experiments with various forms, formats and audiovisual languages. She studied Film and Media Studies in Istanbul, Paris, Lyon, Utrecht and Weimar. She is currently a PhD candidate in Vienna and explores the sensory, cultural, ecological and aesthetic meanings of analogue filmmaking in a digital age. Her films, live visual performances and experimental ethnographic audiovisual works have been presented at various film, music and interdisciplinary festivals and media and anthropology conferences from Taipei to Belfast, Gmünd to Oslo.
https://isilkaratas.com/music-videos