Schallschatten · Roger and the Pacemaker

Name: Schallschatten · Roger and the Pacemaker
Start: 2025-09-25T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Echoraum

Schedule

Thu, 25 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Echoraum | Vienna, WI

Donnerstag, 25. September 2025 · 20:00 Uhr
echoraum, Sechshauserstrasse 66, 1150 Wien
https://echoraum.at/programm/
Schallschatten · Roger and the Pacemaker
Birgit Ulher (Trompete, Radio, Lautsprecher, Objekte) & Petr Vrba (Trompete, Elektonik) · Seijiro Murayama (Perkussion, Stimme) & Roger Fähndrich (E-Gitarre, Stimme, Text)
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Schallschatten
Birgit Ulher (Trompete, Radio, Lautsprecher, Objekte) & Petr Vrba (Trompete, Elektonik)
A unique collaboration of two respected improvisers/composers who relentlessly seek beyond the instrument limitations. Extended techniques, preparations, usage of electronics, that’s common base for Vrba and Ulher, a duo that came into being after a very successful concert at The NOW now festival in Sydney, whose organisers had the superb idea to make them play together. Carefully listening and inspiring each other for new trajectories during their instant compositions, exploring sonic possibilities of their instruments and common environment, they create a joyful journey for the listeners. Their first album Schallschatten has been released in 2021 by the Slovenian label Inexhaustible Editions. https://inexhaustibleeditions.bandcamp.com/album/schallschatten
‚Two trumpets! And all the possible sound effects, imagined, found by chance or coveted after hundreds of hours of practice and research….A superb discovery!
We are amazed by the extraordinary sound bestiary, the almost limitless range of their palette of rare or untraceable timbres and always in constant mutation.‘ Jean-Michel van Sschouwburg
Petr Vrba often works with extended techniques, preparation and bass clarinet mouthpiece on trumpet. Besides acoustic modulation of idiomatic usage of the trumpet he also uses electronic devices to modulate the sound, ring modulator for example. Besides playing trumpet he uses more and more electronic equipment, often body controlled and/or DIY electronics. http://vrrrba.cz
Birgit Ulher works mainly on extending the sounding possibilities of the trumpet by using splitting sounds, multiphonics and granular sounds and has developed her own extended techniques and preparations for producing these sounds. Besides this material research she is especially interested in the relation between sound and silence. Since 2006 she works with radios and uses extended speakers, fed with radio noise in her trumpet mutes. http://www.birgit-ulher.de
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Roger and the Pacemaker
Punk Impro Duo
Seijiro Murayama (Perkussion, Stimme) & Roger Fähndrich (E-Gitarre, Stimme, Text)
Wir sind Seijiro Murayama und Roger Fähndrich.
Einer improvisierte mit Keiji Haino, als der andere Laufen improvisierte. Wir machen keine Musik, aber wir spielen Test Gigs. Wir gebrauchen dazu Stimme, Schlagzeug, E-Gitarre und Texte. Hier sind zwei Ausschnitte:
After the coming and going of countless waves of pain
There will be the unbuckling of the strain
a sigh of relieve at the end of the race
and the wiping of sweat from the face
The circle will melt in the heat of the sun
When the good people come undone
so vollgestopft mit bleichem Fleisch
so stolz, so besorgt, hinter der Schranke
ich mit mir, bye bye nein danke
https://roger-f.com/pacemaker.html
Seijiro Murayama (JP, 1957) arbeitet improvisierend seit 1980 mit Stimme und Perkussion. Auf ihrer US-Tournee ’82 mit Keiji Haino wurde er in New York aktiv von der Musik John Zorns inspiriert. Zur Zeit improvisiert Murayama solo, im Duo oder Trio, u.a. mit Jean-Luc Guionnet, Axel Dörner, Eric La Casa, Klaus Filip, Hugo Abraham, Cyprien Busolini.
https://urojiise.wixsite.com/seijiromurayama/home
Roger Fähndrich (CH, 1982) schreibt paradoxe Protestsongs als Roger F. & The Structure und ist Gründer des „Center of Negativity“, einem Forschungsort für Gespräche über schwierige Emotionen. Er hat in Bern einen BA in Fine Arts und in Gent einen MA in Autonomous Design abgeschlossen.
www.roger-f.com