09 03

space 8pm
start 9pm

recommended price: 10.-

2 sets

Daniel Bierdümpfl (plucked) + Jakub Švenjar (banged) + Noah Punkt (plucked) + 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.

Noah Punkt is a bass player and composer living in Zurich, Switzerland. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in musicology in 2010 (focusing on music theory, music sociology and psychology) Noah Punkt has been working as a freelance musician and music lecturer since 2012. His work focuses on jazz and improvised music. Primarily in smaller ensembles, he explores the openness, intimacy and flexibility of reduced instrumentation.

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.
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Marina Mello is a Brazilian harpist based in Zurich. After years of studying classical and contemporary music between Brazil and Switzerland, she has developed a unique and expressive style, exploring the harp’s infinite possibilities. Her artistic journey is centered on researching new sound textures, flowing from bittersweet whale chants to destructive, unsettling noise provocations and melodic moments.

Marina Mello pushes the musical boundaries of the harp by focusing on non-traditional playing techniques—using extended techniques, preparation with objects, and effects on pedal, lever, and electric harps. She believes that, as a harpist, many stereotypes and expectations can and should be disrupted.

At the moment, she is preparing her debut solo album, which will be released by Buh Records, a label based in Lima.

marinamello.com