random expectation (CN / DE)

Matthias Kaiser continues the tradition of dentists making music: In particular, his long-standing collaborations with a widely underrated Chinese avant-garde have recently attracted a great deal of attention. His latest coup is Random Expectation, a septet and melting pot of Chinese and European music: the initial spark was the first European sojourn of musicians/performers Sun Yi-Zhou, Zhu Wenbo and Zhao Cong, driving forces of Beijing's experimental scene. The striking differences to local playing practices astounded and inspired Matthias Kaiser. Consistent sound research, bowing to the elementary forces of sound, noise and silence, the reference to the spatial situation and the resulting performative decisions lead to music which, in its directness, uncovers and exposes the essence of sound itself and makes it tangible beyond narrative formalisms.
In this septet, Matthias Kaiser on the prepared violin enhanced with electronics unites sound artists of the most diverse provenance: the Beijing performers SunYi-Zhou (feedback), Zhu Wenbo (clarinet, tapes, etc.) and Zhao Cong (objects), three radical voices using a language enriched with elements of performance art. ) and Zhao Cong (objects), three radical voices that use a language enriched with elements of performance art, the sound artist Tan Shuoxin (electronics), who comes from Beijing and lives in Cologne, in her work deep in the cognitive worlds of algorithmic acoustics, sound ontology and Lacanian topology, the Cologne-based musician, composer, ensemble leader and constructor Simon Rummel (microtonal harmonium) and the Düsseldorf-based pianist, composer and feedback specialist Thilo Schölpen (piano, feedback).