exploratorium berlin

Continuous course in German language. For details see German version.

Sunday 12 – 14 h, once a month, facilitator: Tayfun Guttstadt
Welcome to our monthly meeting for makam-based improvisation!
Once a month on Sunday, we will meet at noon to play and improvise together in a given makam or two for two full hours. The improvisation will be lead by Tayfun Guttstadt on the Ney. Theoretical aspects will be worked on, too, but the focus is on playing together and feel the mood of the respective makam. Typical forms of oriental music will also be introduced, everything by playing and feeling.

All instruments including voice and all levels welcome.  

Dates until June 2020:
23.2. | 29.3. (postponed from 15.03.!)| 19.4. | 17.5. | 14.6.20

Cancelled on March 29 and April 19 due to Corona Pandemic

The Open Stage is an offer for experienced improvisers in music, dance and other arts. It provides the opportunity of monthly artistic explorations in varying adhoc ensembles. There are no restraints for playing, the performances emerge solely from mutual perception and (re)acting.

Listeners/spectators are welcome, too.

The dates until June 2020:
12.1. | 9.2. | 15.3. | 19.4. | 17.5. | 14.6.2020

Due to the corona pandemic, the sessions on March 15 and April 19 have to be cancelled!

In German language. For details see German version.

Dates until June 2020:
Tue 7.1. | 4.2. | 24.3 | 21.4. | 12.5. | 9.6.
18 – 19.30 h

cancelled on March 24 because if Corona Pandemic

Contact:
Mathias Maschat, E-Mail to Mathias Maschat

Admission free, registration required

FELDENKRAIS is a method with which we can optimize our action processes. It is used in dance, instrumental teaching, acting and singing to free the play from unnecessary tensions, to organize movements more efficiently and thus improve performance.

It is learning through movement and learning through experience. In gentle, coordinated movement experiments we explore and harmonize the movement.

After we have tuned the instrument “body”, we use the lightness and the changed kinesthetic feeling in the body to go new, surprising ways of improvisation – with or without instrument, vocally or dancing.

The workshop explores the various ways of sound production in close relation to the physical aspect of the musicians movement.

The participants are centred in the process of discovery. Through open physical and sound improvisation exercises we will touch upon different practices always with the conscious understanding of our main goal – finding ways to express our own individual sense, finding our own voice and perceiving the outcome by intuitively reacting to the momentum. By being present we raise our awareness of the natural force leading the process of finding new relation between sound and movement. At the end of the workshop we will have an open performance with all participants. The workshop is suitable for musicians, actors, dancers and other performing artists.

Only in German language. For more details see German description.

Upcoming dates until June 2020:
25.1. | 7.3. | 25.4. | 6.6.

cancelled due to Corona Pandemic

Irène Schweizer (CH) – piano
Hamid Drake (US) – drums, percussion

“Her piano playing is straightforward and crystal clear, her musical signature unique, her appearance charisma. Nobody else plays like that.” – Irène Schweizer, piano icon of European free jazz and the first female jazz musician to receive the highly endowed Schweizer Grand Prix Musik, Switzerland’s most important cultural award. That was in 2018. Twenty years earlier, on March 28, 1998, she played for the first time at the Taktlos festival (co-founded by her) in Zurich with the American drummer Hamid Drake, one of the most respected drummers of free music.

Since then he has been her favorite drummer – and that means something! Because one of her specialties and preferred constellations are duos with drummers and numerous big names are her regular partners: Louis Moholo-Moholo, Günter “Baby” Sommer, Andrew Cyrille, Pierre Favre, Han Bennink and Joey Baron. About playing with Drake, she says: “When I play with Hamid, we have impeccable communication. Follow and lead is a question of mutual coordination and not a struggle for prominence, but an extremely elegant dialogue, so close, intimate and loving!” You can hear “abstraction paired with South African melodies – and not to forget, a large portion of delight in playing.” (Nina Polaschegg)

Admission: 12 / 10 / 6 Euro (normal price / reduced / Berlin-Pass)

Irene Schweizer (Documentary)

#15 Irène Schweizer – brilliant jazz pionneer | Swiss Grand Award for Music 2018

Irene Schweizer／Fred Anderson／Hamid Drake

In German language. For more details see German version.

Upcoming dates until June 2020:
9.1. | 13.2. | 12.3. | 30.4. | 28.5. | 18.6.2020