year-to-date: 17.02.25
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28 02
this event is not part of the (march mix) but also promoted by ytd at nordflügel, gessnerallee
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space 8.3pm
start 9.3pm
the song of a loom is floating through the air,
steadily clicking and rattling,
a soft hum filling the room.
What threads will it connect, weaving sound into story?
Merlin Modulaw unveils his latest creation, The Songweaver. Drawing from diverse musical codes and references, his studies in electroacoustic composition and a wide spectrum of collaborators in contemporary electronic music, rap and dancehall, The Songweaver explores the intersections of memory, culture, and storytelling, weaving them into something new and uniquely his own.
Taking form through various formats and medias, the project will be presented at Gessnerallee as a performance on a multichannel loudspeaker system, creating an immersive environment where music unfolds spatially, inviting the audience to experience sound on a sensory and emotional level.
Neither a traditional concert nor a static installation, The Songweaver is a hybrid performance that reflects Modulaw’s practice of collaboration and experimentation.
What stories emerge from the threads we follow?
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01 03
this event is not part of the (march mix) but also promoted by ytd at nordflügel, gessnerallee
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space 7pm
start 8pm
SONOSYNTHESIS is a collaborative project presented by MigrArt. Bringing together musicians from Switzerland and other parts of the world, SONOSYNTHESIS is a musical exploration of (trans)cultural, social and political intersections between musicians who are in community with each other across borders. The project was born from a series of residencies that took place in 2023 with 11 different musicians. During the residencies the musicians explored ideas around collective authorship, “noise”, belonging, exclusion, care and community.
To launch the SONOSYNTHESIS album, a release tour across Switzerland takes place featuring Yasmine El Baramway, NÂR, Kay Zhang, LEGION SEVEN, tracy september, and Siavash Nameshiri. Evoking the spirit of the initial residencies, the tour is an opportunity to experience the energy of the album live. With solo and collective performances, catching a live show will be an opportunity to encounter this new and unexpected sonic language in person.
migrart
03 03
space 5pm
start 6pm
(tea + snacks on site)
ETERNITY’S PILLAR - A TV show by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda Episodes 1 - 4
Throughout the mid-1980s viewers tuning in late at night to Los Angeles’s KTTV Channel 11 could catch a broadcast unlike any other: ETERNITY’S PILLAR, a journey through the astral plane created and hosted by jazz visionary and spiritual guru Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda. Blending music, meditation, chanting, and an avant-garde video-art aesthetic, this singular audiovisual experience—four episodes of which are presented here—is a sublimely cosmic expression of Coltrane’s deep-held belief in music’s capacity to attain spiritual transcendence.
04 03
space 8pm
start 9pm
1 piano + multiple players + ur favourite drinks
feat. Simone Keller, Vera Kappeler
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06 03
space 8pm
start 9pm
VÍZ is the experimental solo project of Hungarian Transylvanian multidisciplinary artist Réka Csiszér. It delves into themes of fragmented identity through processed acoustic liminal sounds, analog synthesis, Székely folklore, horror, diaristic arias, and noise. Her upcoming album Danse des Larmes, set for release on March 28th via the Athens-based label Heat Crimes, follows her acclaimed debut Veils, a bold seven-part audiovisual body horror soundtrack that spiralled out from her long-held passion and work in the field of in theater, cinema and opera. Those elements are still present on Danse des Larmes, but by examining her past, Csiszér is able to reach into the future, amalgamating gothic horror and speculative science-fiction. VÍZ’s live act has been described as eerie and captivating—oscillating between avant-garde sci-fi opera and haunting incantations; creating hypnotic sound constructions that dissolve in catharsis.
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CECILIA is a composer and performer from Quebec, Canada. She develops a surreal soundtrack between dark fairy tale and poetic recital. Her songs are sensory encounters with melancholic infatuation that unfold through sculptural breaths, powerful vocals, and tactile sound textures. Her stage performances play with emotional intimacy and theatrical excesses, reflecting the introspective yet hallucinatory and reckless spirit of her recordings. She released her first EP, Charity Whore, in 2017 on Grooming Label, followed by her debut LP, Adoration, on Halcyon Veil in 2018. In 2021, she released Summer in Sexilia on Xquisite Releases. Her latest album, CHOEUR, came out on October 4, 2024, via the Milan-based label Haunter Records.
.ltd
07 03
space 8pm
start 9pm
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𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤
𝘣𝘺
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𝘢𝘯𝘥
𝑯𝑶𝑹𝑨 𝑳𝑼𝑵𝑮𝑨
Violeta García is a cellist, improviser and composer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Based in Spain, she tours a lot with her band Blanco Teta. She is a performer in many art forms, including free improvisation, contemporary and trans-media experimental repertoire in violoncello and electronics and collaborations with dancers, film makers and visual artists. After years of studying classical and popular music on violon- cello and, later, contemporary composition and improvisation, Violeta has developed her own musical voice needed to emerge beyond outside specific genres.
Throughout Swiss composer and musician Hora Lunga’s work, the focus lies is on exploring boundaries, both musically and in terms of performance and content. Above all, genre designations lose all meaning, as the music always takes place within a dramaturgically conceived overall framework. In recent years, his projects have ranged from pop music produc- tions to experimental works and sound performances, as well astheatre and film productions. His ensemble WIRREN consists of up to fifteen performers.
09 03
space 8pm
start 9pm
Daniel Bierdümpfl (plucked) + Jakub Švenjar (banged) + Tapiwa Svosve (blowed)
Daniel Bierdümpfl is a former luthier of plucked & bowed string instruments, he studied time based & interactive media arts at the Kunstuniversität Linz (AT) and works as a free lance artist in the fields of music, performance, theater, choreography, poetry, film & photography. He was nominated among five other finalists for the Oe1 Jazz scholarship 2023. He is the head of programming & production for Raumschiff Linz with a focus on contemporary, improvised and off-genre music & performance.
Jakub Švenjar is a drummer, percussionist and improviser. Born in Zlín in 1995, he started playing the drumset at the age of 13 and moved to Prague to study at the conservatory of Jaroslav Ježek. During his studies, he developed a more experimental approach to playing and moved towards free improvisation, which became his main focus. Apart from the drumset, Jakub uses various percussion, objects, no-input mixer and voice. He’s an active player on the Prague improvisation and jazz scene and is member of bands such as Jungle Debris, Grandmothers Favourite, Pudlax, Uthando, Pátra/Švejnar and Dust In The Groove.
Tapiwa Svosve, born 1995, is a Musician and Theorist. He is invested with multidisciplinary practices combining sound to theatre, painting, and historical praxis and currently lives in Zurich, Switzerland. Svosve has a unique temperament ranging from extreme avant-gardism to free jazz and noise music. Thinking through silence, negative spaces, solo performance and the negotiations of the body and instruments, Svosve adjusts music and sound to train various physical and performative techniques.
11 03
space 8pm
start 9pm
Rahel&Zooey is a duo based in Berlin, playing synthesizers and sampler.After they met a few years ago they changed their setup for each concert, exploring their sound with only one continuity: they always sing in unison.
14 03
this event is not part of the (march mix) but also promoted by ytd at nordflügel, gessnerallee
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doors 8.3pm
start 9.3pm
Alpha Maid's musical output lies somewhere between avant-garde and pop. Over the course of EP releases 'Spy' (2019) 'CHUCKLE' (2021), as well as a self-released joint EP with Mica Levi called 'spresso' (2023) – (now the name of their power trio band with drummer Zach Toppin), Alpha Maid has developed an aesthetic that draws from grunged-out guitar, lo-fi glitch, noise audio sample electronics and potent yet controlled vocal hooks,that deliver incisive observations of human behaviour and society, in the process becoming a key figure within London’s subterranean music community.
The artist will work at Gessnerallee for two weeks to explore the sound, visual and narrative world of new unreleased compositions. To conclude the residency, Alpha Maid invites the audience to a concert at Nordflügel, where she will be joined on stage by Sebastien Forrester a nd Oli Haylett, to trailer themes from Alpha Maids forthcoming full length release.