Seine Grundlagen für das heutige Spiel erarbeiteten sie sich durch strukturierten Kompositionen von Ignaz Schick, mit denen sie ihre ganz eigene individuelle Art der Improvisation fanden. Mittlerweile spielen sie frei und verschmelzen dabei ihre Erfahrungen auch aus neuer Musik, Jazz und europäischer abstrakter Musik.
Ignaz Schick (*1972) is a Berlin based sound artist, composer & visual artist. He also performs as an instrumentalist on turntables, objects, live-electronics, alto/baritone saxophone & flutes.
In his youth he studied the saxophone and performed in free jazz and avant rock bands. At the same time he was getting obsessed with multitrack tape machines, record players and effect boxes and he started experimenting with many different instruments and sound making devices. After college he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and worked for several years as an assistant for contemporary composer Josef Anton Riedl. Since 1995 he lives & works in Berlin where he became an active and integral force of the so-called „Berlin Nouvelle Vague“ and the blossoming „experimental“ music scene. He has been also prolific as curator (Festival für Andere Musik, Erase & Reset, Time Shifts, TITO, Echtzeitmusiktage 2010, Flux Festival 2018, Fuchsfest 2021, REFLUX Festival of contemporary electroacoustic Music 2022, …) and runs the experimental music label Zarek.
Schick has toured worldwide solo or with groups like Perlonex, Phosphor, Berlin Sound Connective, Nighthawk Kitchen, Tree People, Splitter Orchestra or ILOG. He has released music on several labels like Absinth, Astral Spirits, Charhizmha, Irrah, Le Petit Mignon, Mikroton, Non Visual Objects, Potlatch, Staalplaat and his own imprint Zarek and collaborated worldwide with more than a hundred international sonic artists – amongst others with such greats as Mwata Bowden, John Butcher, Don Cherry, Douglas Ewart, Limpe Fuchs, Sven- Ake Johansson, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Toshimaru Nakamura, Charlemagne Palestine, Andrea Parkins, Keith Rowe, Matthias Spahlinger or Martin Tetreault.
Since 2012 he mainly focusses on conceptual composition and experimental radio pieces. In parallel he has started several new projects with a younger generation of Berlin experimentalists (Yemen Breakfast, Radio Nightmares, Hawking, Overdue, KUDU, Ilog, …). He also frequently collaborates with Nick Dunston, Achim Kaufmann, Christian Lillinger, Rieko Okuda or Harri Sjöström and has founded the 12-piece workshop ensemble Circuit Training which focusses on the realization of conceptual graphic & verbally instructed scores.
He has received various composition, travel & research stipends/grants for Paris, South-East-Asia, Los Angeles & Istanbul for writing new pieces and researching the local scenes. Amongst others he received the prestigious composition fellowships at Villa Aurora (2017) & Kulturakademie Tarabya Istanbul (2018). Schick took part in several exhibitions and showed a larger selection of his audio/visual works in a solo exhibition at Schauraum K3 in Bavaria (2019) and at the Berlin based project space Liebig12 in 2021. In 2022 besides several festival appearances he had a two month sound art residency at Sonoscopia Porto, organized & co- curated REFLUX Festival of Contemporary Electro-Acoustic Music in Berlin and focussed on the large scale research project „City Sound Kolkata“ in collaboration with Goethe Institue Kolkata/India which involved a month of research in April followed by a month of production and workshop in November finally resulting in a four and a half hour durational concert installation in January 2023 involving 7 local musicians from different sonic scenes. Since February 2023 Schick is traveling all around India researching and collaborating with different experimental musicians and sound artists in Goa, Kochi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune and Delhi to name a few cities.
http://www.zarekberlin.bandcamp.com
Georg Janker
Gilt als einer der vielversprechendsten Bassisten der improvisierten Musik. Durch die Mittel der Improvisation gelingt es ihm, die Musik aktiv in die Kommunikation mit den Künstlern und dem Publikum einzubeziehen. Georg Janker ist Autodidakt. Wichtige Impulse für seine Arbeit gaben ihm die Arbeit mit Ignaz Schick, ICI Ensemble München, Gunnar Geisse, Eric Zwang-Eriksson, Norbert Vollath, Fredi Pröll, Embryo, Roman Bunka, Barre Phillips, Red Mitchell, William Parker, Phil Minton, Peter Brötzmann, Sebi Tramontana, und die Arbeit mit Künstlern aus verschiedenen Sparten: Steffen Haas, Hannes Schmidt, Karen Janker, Roula Karaferi.
Sunk Pöschl
Sunk Pöschl studierte von 1970 bis 1974 Schlagzeug an der Münchner Jazzschule und von 1977 bis 1979 klassisches Schlagzeug. Seitdem ist er als freiberuflicher Schlagzeuger in der zeitgenössischen Jazzszene aktiv. Seine Interessen und Aktivitäten umfassen improvisierte Musik, Modern Jazz und Mainstream Jazz. Dreimal wurde er mit dem Preis der Deutschen Phonoakademie ausgezeichnet. Er trat auf Festivals in Saalfelden, Frankfurt, Bregenz, Ingolstadt, München, Würzburg, Offenburg, Mauren u. a. auf und wirkte mit zahlreichen Bands an Radio- und Fernsehproduktionen mit. Von 1981 bis 1985 tourte er mit dem Dave Burell Trio durch Deutschland, die Schweiz, Österreich und Italien. Seit 1986 arbeitet er regelmäßig mit dem Andy Lutter Trio/Quartett zusammen, seit 1995 mit Ignaz Schicks DeCollage 3 u. a.