TAM PHAM_IGNAZ SCHICK_INGÓLFUR VILHJÁLMSSON

Name: TAM PHAM_IGNAZ SCHICK_INGÓLFUR VILHJÁLMSSON
Start: 2024-07-08T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Kühlspot Social Club

Schedule

Mon Jul 08 2024 at 08:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Kühlspot Social Club | Berlin, BE

Tam Pham – dan bau (monochord), electronics
Ignaz Schick – turntables, sampler
Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson – bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet
This is the first meeting of three special instrumentalists from different musical background. Tam Pham is from Hanoi and lives in Hamburg, she uniquely combines Vietnamese traditions with contemporary practices while Schick is known as an innovator in the Berlin Echtzeitmusik and electro-acoustic scenes. Vilhjálmsson has been very active in the international contemporary music circuit as an outstanding instrumentalist but also collaborates in different experimental and improvised projects. The three of them will be performing different duos and a trio set.
Tam Thi Pham (b. 1990) is a Vietnamese multimedia composer, improviser, and performer based in Hamburg, Germany. By merging technology and tradition, poetics and politics, and the sonic and visual realms, Pham creates an integrated mode of expression where music and performance are two indivisible parts.
Pham has delved into the unique sounds and extended techniques of the dan-bau, a traditional Vietnamese instrument, incorporating them into free-improvisation and experimental music. Her artistic journey is a quest to explore individuality while seeking connection with the broader social environment.
Her works have been featured at festivals in Vietnam, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Hungary, Germany, France, and Serbia, demonstrating the wide-reaching appeal of her innovative compositions.
Ignaz Schick is a Berlin based sound artist, composer & visual artist. He also performs as instrumentalist on turntables, sampler, objects, electronics & alto/baritone saxophone.
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, George Lewis, Paul Lovens, 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.
Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson is a prolific performer of the newest and most progressive genres of music. He studied clarinet with Harmen de Boer and bass clarinet with the pioneering bass clarinettist Harry Sparnaay and early in his career started commissioning and premiering many solo pieces for the instrument. Ingólfur recorded his solo album, “Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson, Solo Bass Clarinet, Contrabass Clarinet” in 2017, featuring works written for him by Alistair Zaldua, Jesper Pedersen, Jakob Diehl, Thrainn Hjalmarsson alongside the more recent modern repertoire from Franco Donatoni. He has collaborated with many famous composers including Helmut Lachenmann on his masterpiece Dal niente, whilst also frequently giving masterclasses and workshops for both instrumentalists and composers. He was a member of Adapter Ensemble from 2006 to 2022 and as an improvising musician he has been active with Reanimation Orchestra and with dancer Mariangela Tinelli and many others in the improvising scene in Berlin.