Clementine Gasser

EVENTS

FRAGMENT, for two actors and cellist

 

By Bogusław Schaeffer


Theatrical concert, concert theatre


“I like to imagine a comical and disquieting world.
In this world I see myself, you, the others – everyone: without exception ...”
(Schaeffer)

 

 

Three lecterns, three scores, three chairs, three slightly “crazy” people. Toying with logic, illogicality, abstraction, concentration. The "FRAGMENT, for two actors and cellist" by the contemporary polish composer Bogusław Julien Schaeffer is an early radical example of instrumental theatre which has art itself as its chosen theme.

The piece, partly experimental in character, is derived from an open musical form, and sections of, usually short, dialogue are its essence. The two actors, addressing each other by a new name progressing along the alphabet in every section, lead conversations whose themes constantly change and take directions that are partly unexpected, partly poetico-philosophical, and partly funny.

Despite the reduced level of communication, often characterised by a lack of understanding and interest – or, perhaps, even because of it – the dialogue offers a high degree of diverse and metaphorical profundity. The intermezzos of the cellist, i.e. the actor speaking through her instrument, range in mood from the lyrical to the grotesque and go beyond the notion of a concert to include theatrical elements, while the actors, on the other hand, perform a musical score.


Directed by Susanna Tabaka-Pillhofer (A) actress | With Jan Tabaka (A) actor |
Susanna Tabaka-Pillhofer (A) actress
Clementine Gasser (CH) cello | Ole Georg Graf (D) ligthdesign | Producted by THEATER TANTO

►  Sunday, 09 may 2010, 8 p.m., Klangforum Wien, Diehlgasse 51, 1050 Vienna/Austria - Premiere

  Additional performances on monday, 10 and tuesday, 11 may 2010, 8 p.m.


Further information: www.theatertanto.at

 

artacts '10 - Festival for Jazz and Improvised Music, 05-07 march 2010

 

With Mats Gustafsson (S) | Per-Ake Holmlander (S) | Maggie Nichols (GB) |  Irène Schweizer CH) | Joëlle Léandre (F) a.o.

 

l(ocal) & V(ienna) Improvisers Orchestra

                  feat. Magdalena Knapp-Menzel (A)

               & Local Singers

                

Conducted by Michael Fischer (A)

  Saturday, 06 march 2010, Festival artacts '10, Musik Kultur St. Johann

                                           Alte Gerberei, Lederergasse 5, 6380 St. Johann in Tyrol/Austria


Further information: www.muku.at

 

Vienna Improvisers Orchestra feat. Gerhard Rühm


gerhard rühm (A) &

           Vienna Improvisers Orchestra


         

                                                     E  X  P  L  O  S  I  V  E    L  I  T  A  N  I  E  S

 

 

                                                     Conducted by Michael Fischer (A)

 

  Thursday, 25 february 2010, 7.30 p.m., RadioKulturhaus Wien, Großer Sendesaal

                                                                Argentinier Straße 30a, 1040 Vienna/Austria


Further information: radiokulturhaus.orf.at

 

UNESCO proclaimed 2009 the Internatioal Year of Astronomy




 

            c o s m i c   p o e t r y 

Mercedes Echerer (A) reads from the works of international women writers and poets.
Women from all continents and three millennia a period of three-thousand years will raise their voice.
Musical interventions by Clementine Gasser (CH) cello

 
P R O G R A M M E
reception of participants  |  welcome  | cosmic poetry and music  |  heavenly beverages and assorted dainties


Conception by Margit Niederhuber (A) | organization by Sonja Baltres (A) | graphic arts by Marion Dorner (A)
Direction by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture (bm:ukk)
and the Austrian UNESCO commission on the occasion of the International Year of Astronomy


                  ►  Tuesday, 24 november 2009, 5.30-9 p.m., Wiener Urania, Uraniastraße 1, 1010 Vienna/Austria

       We kindly ask for your registration via e-mail oeuk@unesco.at until 18 november 2009. Free entrance!

 

MORE-OHR-LESS-Festival 09 at "Lunz am See"/Austria, 04-08 august 2009

MORE-OHR-LESS-FESTIVAL 2009

With    Joachim Roedelius (D)  •  Dieter Moebius (CH)  •  Alessandra Celletti (I)  •   Harri Stojka (A)  •   among others
                                                                                                                                    © Christian Ludwig Attersee 2009

► 
Wednesday, 05 august 2009, 7 p.m., Seebühne, 3293 Lunz am See/Austria

Joachim Roedelius (D) keyboard, electronics | Tim Story (USA) keyboard, electronics
Clementine Gasser (CH) 5-string cello

 

Sajeta Festival at Tolmin (SLO), 28 july - 1 august 2009

10th Sajeta Festival 2009

Clementine Gasser
(CH) 5-string cello solo
  Wednesday, 29 july 2009, SAJETA-Festival
, Tolmin (SLO) 
INDIA - music between the worlds
Klaus Falschlunger (A) sitar | Pepe Fiore (I) tabla/percussion | Clementine Gasser (CH) 5-string cello
  Thursday, 30 july 2009, SAJETA Festival, Tolmin (SLO)

 

Thomas Bernhard: "Die verrückte Magdalena"

"Die verrückte Magdalena" - Thomas Bernhard       


February 12 sees the 20th anniversary of the death of Thomas Bernhard. Vienna’s Burgtheater takes this opportunity to commemorate Thomas Bernhard with a series of plays, film screenings and readings.

With an acute sense of Thomas Bernhard’s light touch and unexpected side blows, Maresa Hörbiger will read from the books "Die verrückte Magdalena", "Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh", "Am Ziel", "Das Vermächtnis" and others. The programme focuses on the women characters created by Bernhard and also includes some lesser known works.

     Recital by Maresa Hörbiger (A) | Music/cello by Clementine Gasser

►  Thursday, 19 february 2009, 7 p.m., Vestibül at the Burgtheater, Dr. Karl-Lueger-Ring 2, 1010 Vienna/Austria
►  Saturday, 23 may 2009, 8 p.m., Vestibül at the Burgtheater, Dr. Karl-Lueger-Ring 2, 1010 Vienna/Austria

 

"Literature and Music" at kunstraumarcade

Gerhard Jaschke: "Weltbude", "Podium portrait 44"


„Weltbude“ ("Sonderzahl" edition): attempts, sketches, attacks, discourses, prefaces and epilogues, ...
                                                                                                                            „Podium Portrait 44“: chosen poems

Gerhard Jaschke (A) recital from his new publications | Clementine Gasser (CH) cello

►  Friday, 15 may 2009, 7 p.m., kunstraumarcade,

     "Raum für aktuelle Kunst", Beethovenhaus, Hauptstraße 79, 2340 Mödling/Austria

 

V:NM 2009: Festival for contemporary, experimental and improvised music, 16-18 april 2009

7th V:NM-Festival in Graz

Jean-Christophe Mastnak (F) frenchhorn, alphorn | Uli Winter (A) cello
Clementine Gasser (CH) 5-string cello | Hermann Stangassinger (A) double bass

  Saturday, 18 april 2009, 9.45 p.m., ESC, Jakoministraße 16, 8010 Graz/Austria
     Further information: vnm.mur.at

 

"Symmetrien des Abschieds", 27-28 march 2009 at the Burgtheater in Vienna

"Symmetrien des Abschieds"

                      at the Burgtheater in vienna


►  27-28 march 2009, from 7 p.m. until midnight

A Carmen Brucic project

The congress entitled Symmetrien des Abschieds (Symmetries of farewell) explores the realities and illusions of saying goodbye to someone or something.

Artistic and scientific approaches are combined to form a work of art that addresses all the senses. The event makes room for new things and allows surprising perspectives to be developed.

Vienna’s Burgtheater is turned into a place of dialogue, discovery and hospitality. On two evenings it serves as the venue of a great farewell party.

Further information: www.burgtheater.at, www.symmetriedesabschieds.at

  Saturday, 28 march 2009, 10 p.m.,
     Michael Gempart (CH) recital, vocal Clementine Gasser (CH) cello

 

TRZASKA|GASSER|ZERANG-Trio: CD-Promotion-Tour in Poland - march 2009

trzaska|gasser|zerang-trio


                ► CD-RELEASE 2009:NADIR + MAHORA


  Mikołaj Trzaska
(PL) saxophone, bass clarinet
                        Clementine Gasser (CH) 5-string cello
                                                   Michael Zerang (USA) drums/percussion

  20 march 2009: ŻAK, ul. Grunwaldzka 195/197, 
     80-266 Gdańsk
►  23 march 2009: Ośrodek Teatralny RONDO,
     76-200 Słupsk

►  24 march 2009: Powiększenie, Nowy Świat 27,
     00-029 Warszawa
►  25 march 2009: Jazzga, Piotrkowska 17,
     90-406 Łódź
►  26 march 2009: Alchemia, ul. Estery 5,
     31-056 Kraków
►  27 march 2009: Pani K, ul. Mickiewicza 13,
     38-500 Sanok

  With kind support from the
  Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw


 
 
KILOGRAM RECORDS (Poland)
 © Macio Moretti

 

Vienna Improvisers Orchestra feat. Gerhard Rühm

►  Friday, 27 february 2009, 8.30 p.m., Porgy & Bess, Riemergasse 11, 1010 Vienna/Austria

 

Gerhard Rühm & Vienna Improvisers Orchestra

             „Aktuelle Berichte“


Gerhard Rühm
recital | Agnes Heginger, Ilse Kilic, Liselotte Lengl voice
Nikolaos Afentulidis bass clarinet, flute, soprano saxophone | Ilse Riedler clarinet, tenor saxophone
Clemens Salesny bass clarinet, alto saxophone | Otto Horvath trombone | Peter Huber trumpet, effects
Iris Kübler accordion | Eric Arn guitar, devices | Clementine Gasser cello | Thomas Stempkowski double bass
Wolfgang Reisinger drums, percussion | Stefan Roth computer | Michael Fischer conductions

Further information: www.porgy.at

Festival KLANG.RAUSCH, Part 2 at Essl Museum

  Wed, 03 dec 2008, 7.30 p.m., Essl Museum, galerie #1, an der Donau, Au 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg/Austria

 

VIST AG - Vienna Improvisers String Trio feat. Annette Giesriegl

Annette Giesriegl voice, electronic devices, indian harmonium | Michael Fischer violin
Clementine Gasser 5-string cello | Karl Sayer double bass
►  CD RELEASED 2008 on the label CS-Creative Sources Recordings (Portugal)

Further information: www.sammlung-essl.at

RITTER TRILOGIE - PART "TRI-ZWI-EINTRACHT"

  Friday, 14 november 2008, starting at 9 p.m., Obere Viaduktgasse 2/1, 1030 Vienna/Austria

Karl Ritter
guitar | Otto Lechner accordion | Clementine Gasser cello
“This music is born out of the moment – very near-to-life sequences of trilogue, dialogue and unison."  (Karl Ritter)

Clementine Gasser: Subversive classical avant-garde

october/november 2008: Musician of the month

                  "Rote Laterne" at Porgy & Bess:

                                    "Raum für Musik und Film", Riemergasse 11, 1010 Vienna/Austria

  Wednesday, 29 october 2008, starting at 7 p.m.

Clementine Gasser 5-string cello solo - Subversive classical avant-garde: "Neue Stücke"
Further information: www.rotelaterne@porgy.at

Wein.Klang.Herbst 2008 - "sonnenwind & regenklang"

" sonnenwind & regenklang"
Lukas Ligeti | Clementine Gasser | Christian Tschinkel
                                      Mia Zabelka & Zahra Mani | Noisy TownGroove | Veronika Mayer

Clementine Gasser
5-string cello solo - Subversive classical avant-garde: "Neue Stücke"

  Saturday, 18 october 2008: "klang.haus, Zentrum für Klangkunst"
                                               
Untergreith 216, 8443 St. Johann im Saggautal/Austria
                                                Further information: www.klang-haus.at

ViennArt 2008

ViennArt is a weekend filled with a great variety of artist performances and an integrative interdisciplinary encounter between people from the arts and sciences, institutions and the business community, students, teachers, free-lancers and the audience. Vienna provides the focus for this intriguing cultural process.


"Decisions. Vienna and the symbolic capital"


  Sunday, 12 october 2008,  matinée - 11 a.m.,      
                                             MUSA, "Museum auf Abruf", Felderstr. 6-8,
1082 Vienna/Austria


Making decisions perceptible – matinée performance

Dance, performance art and music reveal the decision-making process in all its dimensions – the pleasure of taking ownership of one’s life and shaping the world.


⇒  „Es kann nicht, es kann nicht so bleiben“ (This can't go on) Clementine Gasser 5-string cello
3 pieces of music on the theme.
Stating the unbearable: this outcry has an advantage: by making myself understand that – by whatever means – I have to tear free, I am preparing the martial scene of decision, of action, of finding a way out. The exuberance is like a secondary benefit drawn from my impatience; I am feeding on it, I am wallowing in it. Entirely “the artist”, I am even turning the form into content.
(based on Roland Barthes, "Fragments d’un discours amoureux")

⇒  “Fatum. Datum. Stolperstein” Rebecca Schönsee dance

⇒  “ganz weit draußen 108 – entscheidung zu veränderung” Beate Göbel literary performance

 
2 p.m.:  "Entscheidungen leben – Open Space-Konferenz"

Produced by eop (emergence of projects)

Further information: www.eop.at

NOVALIS NACHT - october 2008

Novalis nacht - A ROMANTIC NIGHT AT THE THEATRE

Novalis by Peter Austin-Brentnall
Music/cello by Clementine Gasser
Scenery by Katharina E. Rodax
Lightdesign by Thomas Nichtenberger
Directed by Johannes C. Hoflehner

►  Première: Thursday, 9 october 2008, 8 p.m., Theater Forum Schwechat
                                           Ehrenbrunngasse 24, 2320 Schwechat/Austria

  Additional performances:
10, 11 and 15, 16, 17 october 2008, 8 p.m.

                                                                          

Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772-1801) is one of the most multi-faceted and mysterious poets
of the early Romanticist era. He was not only
the creator of the myth of the blue flower, but also a natural scientist, alchemist, art theoretician, cultural and linguistic philosopher.

TRZASKA|GASSER|ZERANG-Trio: Concerts in Austria - october 2008

TRZASKA|GASSER|ZERANG-TRIO


Clementine Gasser
(CH) 5-string cello | Mikołaj Trzaska (PL) saxophone, bass clarinet
Michael Zerang (USA) percussion

►  3 october 2008, Musik Kultur St. Johann, Alte Gerberei, Lederergasse 5, 6380 St. Johann in Tirol/Austria              ►  4 october 2008, Rote Laterne at Porgy & Bess, "Raum für Musik und Film", Riemergasse 11, 1010 Vienna/Austria                                          

Many thanks to the Polish Institute Vienna and the bm:ukk - Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture for the kind support and co-operation

"Alfred Hrdlička - The Titan and the stage of life"

Exhibition at the Künstlerhaus museum Vienna/Austria. Opening: 30.07.2008, 7 p.m., 31.07. - 21.09.2008

He is the Titan of Austrian contemporary art. The exhibition at the Künstlerhaus museum pays tribute to Alfred Hrdlička, universal artist of acute political and socio-critical instincts.
As a sculptor, painter, draughtsman and graphic artist he has created an oeuvre marked by an extraordinary and excessive nature in both physical and mental terms.

 
Event in the context of this exhibition:

   Thursday, 11 september 2008, 7 p.m, Künstlerhaus museum, Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Vienna/Austria

  

  on art and living          

    
        Recital (Alfred Hrdlička) by Julian Loidl
        Musical interventions by Clementine Gasser 5-string cello | conception by Christoph Feichtinger

 
The exhibition is under the patronage of the Austrian Federal President, Dr. Heinz Fischer.
Curator of the exhibition: Peter Bogner, Joachim Lothar Gartner.
With kind support from Galerie Ernst Hilger.

Further information: www.k-haus.at

MORE-OHR-LESS-Festival 08 at "Lunz am See", 30 july-03 august 2008

With  Joachim Roedelius (D)  •  Dieter Moebius (CH) •  Andrea Eckert (A)  •  Christian Ludwig Attersee (A)  •  a.o.
                                                                                                                                  © Christian Ludwig Attersee 2008
► 
Wednesday, 30 july 2008, 7.30 p.m., Seebühne, 3293 Lunz am See/Austria

Roedelius|Gasser|Story-Trio

Joachim Roedelius (D) keyboard, electronics | Clementine Gasser (CH) 5-string cello
Tim Story
(USA) keyboard, electronics |
special guest: Dieter Moebius (CH) electronics
Further information: www.more-ohr-less.at

KONFRONTATIONEN 08 - Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf, 18-20 july 2008

With Roscoe Mitchell (USA) | Joëlle Léandre (F) | Elisabeth Harnik (A) | Phil Minton (GB) | Peter Brötzmann (D)
Ken Vandermark (USA) | Mats Gustafsson (S) | Paal Nilssen-Love (N) | Kazuhisa Uchihashi (J) among others.

 

  Friday 18 july 2008, 8 p.m., Jazzgalerie, Untere Hauptstrasse 13, 2425 Nickelsdorf/Austria

>> Roscoe Mitchell Project Band

Roscoe Mitchell (USA) composition, saxophone, little instruments | Marco Eneidi (USA) alto saxophone
Susanna Gartmayer (A) bass clarinet |
Thomas Berghammer (A) trumpet | Otto Horvath (A) trombone
Maartje Ten Hoorn (NL) violin | Clementine Gasser (CH) 5-string cello | Meinrad Kneer (D) doublebass
Paul Lovens (D) drums | Tony Buck (AUS) drums

Further information: www.konfrontationen.at

MOVING CULTURE TIRANA 08 - Tirana Jazz Festival, 3-9 july 2008

►  Thursday 03 july 2008, 8 p.m.,

QNK - International Center of Culture, Tirana/Albania


With Fatos Qerimaj (AL) clarinet | Ledatomica (F) among others.

Roedelius|Gasser|Story-Trio

Joachim Roedelius  (D) piano, keyboard, electronics
Clementine Gasser
(CH) cello
Tim Story
(USA) keyboard, electronics


Further information: www.movingculture.org

Roedelius|Gasser|Story-Trio feat. Andrea Eckert

►  Monday, 30 june 2008, 8.30 p.m., Porgy & Bess, Riemergasse 11, 1010 Vienna/Austria

Joachim Roedelius  (D) piano, keyboard & electronics | Clementine Gasser (CH) 5-string cello
Tim Story
(USA) keyboard, electronics | Andrea Eckert (A) recital: Alfred Goubran, Franz Kafka, Cormac Mc Carthy
Further information: www.porgy.at

"gugginger irritationen 1 - festival" - 13-15 june 2008

VIO - Vienna Improvisers Orchestra feat. Gerhard Jaschke (A). Conducted by Michael Fischer (A).
► 
Sunday, 15 june 2008, 7 p.m., Art/Brut Center Gugging, Hauptstrasse 2, 3400 Maria Gugging/Austria

Works made by artists living and working at Art/Brut Center will be presented:
Johann Garber, Johann Hauser, Franz Kamlander, Franz Kernbeis,
Johann Korec
,
Oswald Tschirtner a.o. - Recital by Gerhard Jaschke

T.JAZZ 08

  Saturday, 14 june 2008
starting at 3.30 p.m

T.JAZZ 08
Husarentempel Mödling/Austria

 art installation by
Josef Trattner
(A)

music by
Joachim Roedelius (D)
keyboard, electron
ics
 Clementine Gasser (CH)
5-string cello

Franz Hautzinger (A)
quartertone trumpet

Sylvie Lacroix (F)
flute

  Thomas Lang (A)
e-guitar
Jean-Christophe Mastnak (F)
horn
Jon Sass (USA)
tuba

buffet by
Vinissimo-Vinothek-Bistro &
Café Grande

Further information: T.JAZZ 08

Festival ELEKTRONISCHER FRÜHLING at "Alte Schmiede" Vienna

  Wednesday, 4 june 2008, 7 p.m., Alte Schmiede, Schönlaterngasse 9, 1010 Vienna/Austria
   
"Klanglandschaft mit Saiten" - VIST AG - Vienna Improvisers String Trio feat. Annette Giesriegl
     Annette Giesriegl voice, electronic devices | Michael Fischer violin
     Clementine Gasser 5-string cello | Karl Sayer double bass | Special Guest Manon-Liu Winter piano

e_may 08: Festival for acoustic and electronic contemporary music

  saturday, 31 may 2008, 8.30 p.m.: Kosmos Theater, Siebensterngasse 42, 1070 Vienna/Austria
     Clementine Gasser (CH) composition: SECRET LOVE (premiere), 5-string cello
     Mikołaj Trzaska  (PL) saxophone, bass clarinet

     Joachim Roedelius (D), keyboard, synthesizer, electronics

The secret love of jazz for European Modernism, for so-called classical music – does this love really exist? And if it does, does it hold any significance or does it perhaps only encourage a questionable universality of taste?

To these two questions of principle that arise when writing an essay on this topic a third must be added: can this “love” in its multiple forms of relationships be understood and analysed at all, and is it actually worth our while to conjure up for it even the vaguest kind of systematics?
(based on “Neun Selbstgespräche – Endspiel oder Zukunftsmusik” by Robert Bilek from
“JAZZ op. 3 „Die heimliche Liebe des Jazz zur europäischen Moderne“)

[...] Introducing to the fabric yet another strand, that of electronic music, marks the characteristics at issue here: rhythmic material is unravelled (Roedelius: “Digital Love“) and, fanning out and bringing together familiar sound colours and models, can introduce an urgent propulsion to dissolve pre-existing musical processes: it is an application of different systematic processes, additive and isorhythmic in character. [...]

 

e_may-festival 2008: 30 + 31 may 2008, concerts/performances starting at 7 p.m.
6 commissioned works (premiere)  –  3 concerts per night

Music by  Elisabeth Flunger,
Clementine Gasser, Pia Palme, Eva Reiter, Marianna Tscharkwiani, “subshrubs”:  Angélica Castelló, Katharina Klement, Maja Osojnik, Billy Roisz.

Interpretationes by  the above mentioned composers, Ludwig Bekic, Joke Lanz, Martin Brandlmayr, Robert Buschek, Nicholas Charkviani, Gina Mattiello,
Joachim Roedelius, Mikołaj Trzaska,
Ute Völker among others.
© Michaela Schwentner (photo), David Palme (graphic arts)

On the dexx: Sweet Susie and Live Visuals: Chero Lightning

Live-video by 
Michaela Schwentner |
stage & lightdesign by  Elisabeth Kousal
Sound engineering by 
Alfred Reiter |
conception & organization by  Gina Mattiello, Pia Palme

In co-operation with ORF/Ö1


Many thanks to
Stadt Wien (cultural department), bm:ukk, SKE, mica
 Bezirk Neubau, female:pressure, GEA. Just as many thanks to the
Polish Institute Vienna
for the kind support and co-operation

"10 Jahre SOHO in Ottakring 08", 17-31 may 2008: THE MUSIC DISTILLERY

Friday 23 may 2008, 8 p.m., Ragnarhof, Grundsteingasse 12, 1160 Vienna/Austria

Moderation by Bob Hewis (GB) | conception by Dominik Nostitz (A)
Further information: www.sohoinottakring.at

"10 Jahre SOHO in Ottakring 08", 17-31 may 2008: VIO - VIENNA IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA

►  Thursday, 22 may 2008, 7.30 p.m., Yppenplatz/Brunnenpassage, 1160 Vienna/Austria

Recital by Zwetelina Damjanova (BG) and Semier Insayif (A) | conducted by Michael Fischer (A).
Further information: www.sohoinottakring.at

Bernhard Loibner: MELTDOWN - with Clementine Gasser and Mikołaj Trzaska

►   Wednesday 21 mai 2008, 7.30 p.m., Festival KLANG.RAUSCH at Essl Museum

     Lieferhof, An der Donau, Au 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg/Austria

  © Bernhard Loibner 2007                                                          
Premiere of the trio-version

MELTDOWN

Bernhard Loibner (A) Live electronics,
processed bass guitar & videoprojection

Clementine Gasser (CH) 5-string cello
Mikołaj Trzaska (PL) saxophone, bass clarinet

music by  Bernhard Loibner in collaboration
with Clementine Gasser and 
Miko
łaj Trzaska


in co-operation with
"musik aktuell-neue musik in nö 2008"


Thanks to SKE, bm:ukk

Many thanks to the
Polish Instiute Vienna
for the kind support and co-operation

Clementine Gasser & Mikołaj Trzaska-DUO

subversive classical avant-garde

        meets yass (polish avant-garde jazz)


  Friday 30 may 2008, 7 p.m.: Alte Schmiede, Schönlaterngasse 9, 1010 Vienna/Austria

Clementine Gasser (CH) 5-string cello | Mikołaj Trzaska (PL) saxophone, bass clarinet
Sound engineering by
Christian Friedrich

 

  Tuesday, 20 may 2008, 8.30 p.m., Stockwerk Graz, Jakominiplatz 18, 8010 Graz/Austria

Clementine Gasser (CH) 5-string cello | Mikołaj Trzaska (PL) saxophone, bass clarinet

>> Subversive classical avant-garde: A description which does not wholly exclude coincidental aspects.
Composition, collage techniques and improvisation combine to form a basis for “convulsive beauty”.

[...]  If we take the dialectical term ‘classical avant-garde’ literally, it refers to an artistic process which combines within itself the past and the future, the old and the new, the familiar and the unknown, adaptation and resistance. No, not combines but layers, juxtaposes, pits against each other. So that out of the chaos may emerge a new order. But Gasser’s aim is not order as such. She creates a new order through a process of seeking and finding. What was valid a moment ago is valid no longer. The listener realises that order is not a state, but a process. [...]
Helmut Blechner, culture editor Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF/Ö1

>> YASS: Avant-garde Jazz from Poland - is usually associated with Free Jazz, a part of jazz nomenclature that came into being when the creator of this genre, Ornette Coleman, released his classic records.

In the 1960s, Polish jazz saw an explosion of experiments, certainly encouraged by the special interest in jazz professed by the representatives of serious music. This was the time when the Third Stream was born, the unique synthesis of serious music and jazz (particularly Free Jazz).

Established in Danzig in 1988, the  Miłość  ensemble opened a new chapter in Polish jazz music. Ryszard Tymon Tymański (guitar) is the leader of the group and together with other young musicians he works against the grain of so-called classical streams in Polish jazz. The group named his music Yass, thus tying it in with the original sources of jazz music.

Yass is a conglomerate of New Wave, Free Jazz, contemporary Rock, surrealist instrumental theatre and poetry. Yass challenges jazz as it has been practiced in Poland to date, particularly regarding its creative value. In the early 1990s,  Miłość (Love) was joined, among others, by the highly talented pianist Leszek Możdżer and the saxophonists Maciej Sikała and Mikołaj Trzaska.  Miłość  initiated a creative fermenting process, gathered a circle of adherents and introduced a new stream in Polish jazz.
Tomasz Szachowski ("essays musik – Polnischer Jazz", extracts)


Many thanks
to the
Polish Institut Vienna
for the kind support and co-operation

Festival "doppelpass" - "Ein Doppelpass zwischen Kultur und Sport im Vorfeld der EURO 08"

►  6 may 2008, 7.30 p.m. at Künstlerhaus, Karlsplaz 5, 1010 Vienna/Austria: "Anpfiff - Spielrhythmus"
With the authoress Nora Gomringer (D) and the authors Raphael Urweider (CH) and Ferdinand Schmatz (A).
Moderation by Sylvia Treudl (A) | music/cello by Clementine Gasser (CH)

VIST AG - Vienna Improvisers String Trio feat. Annette Giesriegl


 
Thursday, 1 may 2008, 9 p.m.

Jazzatelier Ulrichsberg
                                                     Festival KALEIDOPHON
Badergasse 2
4161 Ulrichsberg/Austria

Annette Giesriegl voice, electronic devices
 Michael Fischer violin
Clementine Gasser 5-string cello
 Karl Sayer double bass

In co-operation with SWR2 Jazz

►  CD-RELEASE 2008
on the label
CS-Creative Sources Recordings
 (Portugal)

INDIA - Classical & Contemporary Indian Music

Klaus Falschlunger (A) sitar | Pepe Fiore (I) tabla/percussion, recorder | Clementine Gasser cello
►  17 april 08, 7 p.m., Opening "Global Players - Kinder Indiens", 6460 Imst, Tirol/Austria
  18 april 08, 8 p.m., Comune Trambileno, 38068 Rovereto (I)
  19 april 08, 8.p.m., Ponte delle Alpi, 32100 Belluno (I)

Vienna Improvisers Orchestra feat. Rolf Schwendter

  Tuesday, 15 april 2008, 7.30 p.m., Aktionsradius Augarten, Gaussplatz 11, 1200 Vienna/Austria

Vienna Improvisers Orchestra feat. Rolf Schwendter (A), conducted by Michael Fischer
"Tag für Tag - Die Bohème und der Hofer"
Rolf Schwendter is reading from his cycles "Blues auf dem Weg zum Wahnsinn" and "Psalter".

INDIA - "Music between the worlds"

Klaus Falschlunger (A) sitar | Clementine Gasser cello
 
Tuesday, 15 april 2008, 3 p.m.: Mirabellgarten, 5020 Salzburg/Austria
Hosted by ORF and the Austrian Ministry of Education (bm:ukk)

Clementine Gasser SOLO "sonntags abstrakt"

►  Wed, 19 march 2008, 9.30 p.m.: Postgarage Veranstaltungshalle, Dreihackengasse 42, 8020 Graz/Austria

subversive classical avant-garde: Clementine Gasser 5-string cello, composition
Featuring: Incité (D), Alexandr Vatagin

"Michael Blank and Uwe Hauenfels"at gallery Atrium ed Arte Vienna: Concert

Gallery Atrium ed Arte
Lerchenfelderstrasse 31
1070 Vienna/Austria

presents

Michael Blank and Uwe Hauenfels
19 february to 14 march 2008

Exhibition to be opened by
Dr. Christiane Krejs
Direction of the KUNST RAUM NOE

Further information:
www.atrium-ed-arte.at

Concert in the context of this exhibition:
  friday, 14 march 2008, 7 p.m. Clementine Gasser cello solo

TRZASKA|GASSER|ZERANG-Trio: Concerts in Poland - march 2008

Mikołaj Trzaska (PL), saxophone, bass clarinet | Clementine Gasser (CH) 5-string cello

Michael Zerang (USA) percussion


  03 march 08, 8 p.m.: PLAN B, Al. Wyzwolenia 18, Warszawa (PL)
  04 march 08, 8 p.m.: Dragon, ul. Zamkowa 3, 61-786 Poznań (PL)
►  05 march 08, 8.p.m.: Zielony Dwór, Al. Niepodległości 781, 81-805 Sopot (PL)
  06 march 08, 8 p.m.: Młeczarnia, ul. Włodkowica 5, 50-072 Wrocław (PL)
  07 march 08, 8 p.m.: Alchemia, ul. Estery 5, 31-056 Kraków (PL)

VIST AG - Vienna Improvisers String Trio feat. Annette Giesriegl

  Saturday, 01 march 2008, 9 p.m.: Amann Studios, Neustiftgasse 68/23b, 1070 Vienna/Austria

Annette Giesriegl
voice, electronic devices |  Michael Fischer violin
Clementine Gasser
5-string cello | Karl Sayer double bass


►  CD-RELEASE 2008 auf dem Label CS-Creative Sources Recordings (Portugal)

CRYSTAL WORLDS: India - Guest in the Giant

Winterfestival at Swarovski Crystal Worlds, 6112 Wattens,Tirol/Austria, december 2007 to 31 march 2008
Klaus Falschlunger (A) sitar | Pepe Fiore (I) tabla | Padmini Devi (Kerala, South India) dance
Special Guest in february 2008: Clementine Gasser cello


Daily from 9.45 to 4.45 p.m., on thursdays to 7 p.m.

  Friday 1 february to tuesday 5 february 2008, shows/concerts starting at 9.45 a.m. 

ArtPolonia 07 presents: POLISH MOVEMENTS in DUBLIN: Mikołaj Trzaska & Clementine Gasser-DUO

  17 december 2007, 8 p.m.  ArtPolonia, The Sugar Club, Leeson Street, Dublin 2

POLISH MOVEMENTS - "Alchemia"-JAZZ:

 

Mikołaj Trzaska

bass clarinet, saxophone & Clementine Gasser 

5-string cello

                   
               

Art

Polonia

07

in co-operation
with the
Polish Embassy
in Ireland

 

Photos: © Ian Oliver 07


Vienna Improvisers Orchestra feat. Christine Huber

►  Saturday, 29 September 2007, 8 p.m., OHO-Offenes Haus Oberwart, Lisztgasse 12, 7400 Oberwart/Austria
    
"über maß und schnellen",  conducted by Michael Fischer

Christine Huber recital | Annette Giesriegl voice, processing | Liselotte Lengl voice
Timea Heritch bassoon | Marie-France Silvestre clarinet | Clementine Gasser cello
Rainer Ochsenhofer saxophone | Alfred Lang trumpet | Jean-Christophe Mastnak horn
Eric Arn e-guitar | Thomas Stempkowski double bass | Josef Klammer percussion, processing

Art at the Vienna City Library - Christoph Kiefhaber

►  27 september 2007, Musiksammlung der Wienbibliothek, Bartensteingasse 9, 1010 Vienna/Austria

Presentation: "christoph kiefhaber: seltsamer vogel legt luftei"

Hans Spohn, edition Kiefhaber art-foundation | Recital by Otto Brusatti | Music by Clementine Gasser 5-string cello
Further information: www.kiefhaber-foundation.at

ORF/Ö1-Zeit-Ton: e_may-festival 2007

Broadcast of the highlights of the festival (12 may 2007)

►  Monday 24 september 2007, 11.05 p.m.  Presented by Ursula Strubinsky

Colours in the Mechanism of Concealment - Matinée with Anne Waldman & Pia Pame

►  Sunday 23 september 2007, 11 a.m. - Matinée,  Porgy & Bess, Riemergasse 11, 1010 Vienna/Austria

Anne Waldman english recital/voice | Gina Mattiello german recital/voice
Pia Palme conception, composition, (sub-)bassflutes & electronics
Berndt Thurner percussion | Clementine Gasser 5-string cello
Further information: www.porgy.at

MORE-OHR-LESS- Festival 07 at "Lunz am See"

DIE MOTESICZKYS - A Frederick Baker-Film, Portrait A 2007

►   Tuesday, 7 august  2007, 8 p.m. - Seebühne Lunz

Original music by Clementine Gasser | Joachim Roedelius (no Live-music)

MORE-OHR-LESS- Festival 07 at "Lunz am See", 04-10 august 2007

                                                                                                                                  © Christian Ludwig Attersee 2007
 
Saturday 4 august 2007, Seebühne Lunz/Austria, 6.30 p.m. - opening

Joachim Roedelius  piano, electronics | Clementine Gasser  5-string cello | Tim Story  keyboard, electronics

Vienna Improvisers Orchestra feat. Gerhard Jaschke

►  Tuesday 19 june 2007, 9 p.m., PORGY & BESS, Riemergasse 11, 1010 Vienna/Austria

Vienna Improvisers Orchestra feat. Gerhard Jaschke (A) "Illusionsgebiet Nervenruh", conducted by Michael Fischer
Further information: www.porgy.at

MOSTLY JAZZ 07: Festival at acf New York City - LANDSCAPES

►  Tuesday 12 june 2007, 8 p.m., 11 East 52nd street, New York  NY 10022

Clementine Gasser  5-string cello, composition | Bernadette Reiter  viola, composition, video
Further information: austrian cultural forum nyc

Roedelius | Gasser | Novoselic

►  Wednesday 6 june 2007, 9 p.m., PORGY & BESS, Riemergasse 11, 1010 Vienna/Austria

Joachim Roedelius  piano/keyboards, electronics | Clementine Gasser  5 string cello | Jurij Novoselic saxophone
Further information: www.porgy.at

MOVING CULTURE TIRANA 2007 - Tirana Jazz Festival, 29 may - 2 june 2007

►  Friday 1 june 2007, 8 p.m., QNK (International Center of Culture) Tirana/Albania

Joachim Roedelius  keyboards, electronics | Clementine Gasser  5 string cello | Fabio Capanni  extended guitar
Further information: www.movingculture.org

musik aktuell - neue musik in nö 2007

►  Saturday 26 may 2007, 8.30 p.m., Mayerhof, 2304 Orth an der Donau/Austria

Clementine Gasser 5-string cello | Pia Palme  (sub)bassflutes & electronics
Further information: www.musikfabrik.at

"Lichtobjekt" with soundinstallation - Viertelfestival 2007

  Tuesday, 15 may 2007, 4 p.m.


"LEUCHTTURM KLANGWOLKE"

Theaterplatz Baden/Austria

Duration of the exposition: Until 17 june 2007
The installation is free accessible.
This is a philart project.
                                                                   
Introducing words by
Bgm. August Breininger | Leo Hemetsberger
Music by
Clementine Gasser cello
Hans-Joachim Roedelius keyboard

Project manager
Rosa Roedelius installation | Hans-Joachim Roedelius

Co-operative
Rosa Roedelius
| Hans-Joachim Roedelius
Leo Hemetsberger | Peter Kitzinger | Karl Wurth
Clementine Gasser

e_may 07: Festival of contemporary and electronic music

  Saturday 12 may 2007, 7 p.m.                

     KosmosTheater, Siebensterngasse 42, 1070 Vienna/Austria

                 

7 p.m.  Eva Reiter

         Paetzold-bassflutes, viola da gamba, electronics, composition.
         Premiere. Jorge Sánchez-Chiong JSX  turntables

8 p.m.  Sophie Reyer

         Lyric poetry & prose, composition. Premiere.
         Pia Palme  Subbassflutes, electronics
         Gina Mattiello voice-performance | Michaela Grill  Live-video

9 P.m.  Clementine Gasser

          5-string cello, composition. Premiere.
          Diego Mune  e-guitar | Eduardo Valdés  e-guitar

10 p.m.  Marianna

            Tscharkwiani

          Electronics, composition. Premiere.
          Eduardo Valdés  e-guitar | Gina Mattiello voice performance

11 p.m.  Pia Palme &

          Electric Indigo

            Küng-Subbassflutes, electronics, composition.
            Electric Indigo  synthesizer. Premiere.
            JSX  Turntables |  Michaela Grill  Live-video
           
Following: DJ Electric Indigo

            sound engineering by Alfred Reiter
            stage & lightconception by Elisabeth Kousal
            conception & organisation by Gina Mattiello | Pia Palme
in co-operation with Bezirk Neubau, bm:ukk, SKE, mica

musik aktuell - neue musik in nö 2007

►  Thursday, 10 mai 2007, 7 p.m.  -  einSchwingen klangturm St. Pölten/Austria

 "tonSpuren und hoerSpiele" | Clementine Gasser cello solo
                                           Shineform: Volker Kagerer e-bass | Georg Edlinger perc. metallperc. elec.

intermediumorfeus07 - "400 years L'ORFEO - Claudio Monteverdi"

  Thursday, 26 april 2007, 7 p.m., Klangturm St. Pölten/Austria


Welcoming speech by
Carl Aigner

Introducing words by
Hannes Raffaseder

Opening by 
Petra Bohuslav

Conception by
Eberhard Kloke

Markus Wintersberger
Photo © 

Markus Wintersberger

Presentation with musical acts and dance by
Annette Robbert soprano | Clementine Gasser cello | Andrea Nagl dance performance

Baudelaire's impressions of city life

  Sunday, 25 february 2007, 8 p.m.

                      Burgtheater-Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, Vienna/Austria

                                                                       Clementine Gasser © Elvira Faltermeier                                            
                                  Patrick O. Beck © Reinhard Werner                                                                  Erwin Schober © Reinhard Werner


Wilde Kammermusik
with
Charles Baudelaire’s
impressions of city life
(extracts)


Clementine Gasser
conception, music/composition
5-string cello
Erwin Schober drums/percussion
 Markus Hering german recital
Patrick O. Beck french recital
 Hans Mrak dramatic advisor

                                                                                                                                    Markus Hering © Reinhard Werner


Festival HURTA CORDEL 2007 Madrid

Programa del XI Festival Internacional de Improvisación

H U R T A  C O R D E L  2 0 0 7

Lunes 29 de enero: 20:00 Ferrán Fages, Ruth Barberán, Alfredo Costa Monteiro (España) 21:00 Mick Beck, Dave Tucker, Paul Hession (Inglaterra) Martes 30 de enero: 20:00 Ebba Rohweder, Gregorio Kazaroff: Cine Dadá (Alemania/Argentina) 21:00 Irène Schweizer, Pierre Favre (Suiza) Miercoles 31 de enero: 20:00 Tsukiko Amakawa, Javier Carmona (Japón/ España) 21:00 Ken Vandermark, Paal Nilssen-Love (E.E.U.U./Noruega) Jue- ves 1 de febrero: 20:00 SIN RED (España) 21:00 Mat Maneri, Christophe Marguet, Herb Robertson, Claude Tchamitchian (Francia/E.E.U.U.)

   Friday, 02 february 2007, 9 p.m., La casa Encendida, Ronda de Valencia, 2 - 28012 Madrid

      Clementine Gasser (Suiza, violoncelo), Diego Mune (Argentina, guitarra)

20:00 Tiziana Bertoncini, Achim Tang, Thomas Lehn  (Italia/Alemania) Sábado 3 de febrero: 12:00 Espectáculo infantil: La creación de las mariposas (Alemania) 20:00 Orquesta FOCO dirigida por Olivier Benoit (Francia) Domingo 4 de febrero: 12:00 Espectáculo infantil: La creación de las mariposas (Alemania) 20:00 Orquesta FOCO dirigida por Olivier Benoit (Francia). 


Invitation to a musical soirée hosted by the Austrian Federal President


07 december 2006 - PROGRAMME


1. Clementine Gasser cello - "Glühen"

2. Annelie Gahl  violin - “Xnoybis“ (Giacinto Scelsi)

3. Petra Stump clarinet - Capriccio, detto: "l’Ermafrodita"
    (Claudio Ambrosini)

4. Maja Osojnik Quartett - “hisa stevilka 203“, “vsi su venci vejli“,
    “smrt ma krive rebra“

5. Lorelei Dowling & Tamara Joseph (Klangforum Wien) -
    "Duo für zwei Fagotte" (Sofia Gubaidulina)

6. Catarina Pratter & the Rondies - "Be the one"

In co-operation with mica, Klangforum Wien, ORF/ Ö1 Zeitton


KONTRASTE 06 - Sound Moving Image - Klangraum Krems

Sound Moving Image -  Klangraum Krems/Austria, Minoritenkirche, 14 october 2006, 8 p.m.

 

RETURN TO THE PLANET OF PEOPLE


A gesamtkunstwerk combining music, film,  science and drama 

Takon Orchester & Donald Kachamba's Kwela Heritage Jazzband
Gerhard Kubik director
 Cornelia Pesendorfer conception

Doron Goldfarb video
Sinosi Mlendo composition
Christopher Gerald composition
Martin Ptak composition
Markus Mayerhofer composition
Chris Gonsior composition
Heinz Fallmann composition

Martin Ptak conductor | Anna Hauf voice | Clementine Gasser cello | Niko Afentulidis reeds
Chris Gonsior reeds | Thomas Berghammer trumpet | Andreas Pranzl trumpet
Charles Wagner bass trombone | Martin Grünzweig trombone | Heinz Fallmann guitar
Markus Mayerhofer electronics | Andreas Kuttenberger sampler, keyboard | Stefan Fallmann double bass
Uli Soyka percussion | Heinz Ditsch bassoon, accordion
Actors Gregor Melzer, Clemens Wenger, Angela Reisinger, Maria Augustin, Werner Angerer, Rainer Angerer


Zug um Zug - Festival of contemporary music


ZUG UM ZUG - Festival of contemporary music

Music that uses the northern railway line as a backdrop and counterpoint


concert 1: 28 september 06, 8 p.m.

Clementine Gasser cello | Erwin Schober percussion
Pia Palme flutes & electronics | Gina Mattiello voice
concert 2: 29 september 06, 4 p.m.
Tibor Kövesdi bass | Alfred Reiter saxophone | Pia Palme flutes & electronics
concert 3: 29 september 06, 8 p.m.
Katharina Klement piano | Hannes Schweiger percussion | Claudia Cervenka voice


Mittersill Composers' Forum 2006



Further information: Mittersill composers' forum


Festival MODERNISTMOZART 06: Ice records

 Conception by
Claudia Märzendorfer & Nik Hummer
Music by

Noël
Akchoté, Martin Brandlmayr
Bernhard Breuer
, Dorit Chrysler
Christof Dienz
, Electric Indigo
Christian Fennesz

Gammon
, Clementine Gasser
 Fra
nz Hautzinger, Helge Hinteregger
Manfred Hofer
, Katharina Klement
Wolfgang Mitterer
, Michael Moser
Phillip Quehenberger
Matija Schellander
, Martin Siewert
 Armin Steiner
& Melita Jurisic

► 
07 september 2006
Altes Zollamt, 1030 Vienna/Austria
Further information:
MODERNISTMOZART 06


MORE-OHR-LESS- Festival 06 at Lunz am See

                                                                                                                                  © Christian Ludwig Attersee 2006

  Saturday, 05 august 06 , 9.30 p.m.  Seebühne, Lunz am See/Austria - "LUNZ Neuinterpretation"

     Joachim Roedelius
(D) | Tim Story (USA) | Georg Taylor (GB) | Clementine Gasser (CH) | Bernadette Reiter (A)


Concert and award ceremony at the ORF RadioKulturhaus in Vienna, 13 june 2006


CONCERT AND AWARD CEREMONY

of the Förderungspreises für Musik/Komposition 05 der Republik Österreich in the context of a concert

R E A D I N G   T H R O U G H - Part III

Clementine Gasser 5-string cello & composition | Christian Gonsior saxophone | Martin Ptak trombone
Pia Palme subbass-flutes & electronics | Markus Mayerhofer e-guitar & electronics
Erwin Schober drums/percussion | Special Guest: Diego Mune e-guitar

at the ORF RadioKulturhaus in Vienna-Austria, Großer Sendesaal, Argentinierstraße 30a
A concert in co-operation with the Bundeskanzleramt/Sektion Kunst Österreich.

www.radiokulturhaus.orf.at

 

Christoph Schlingensief/AREA 7 at the Burgtheater Vienna: "Matthäusexpedition 2006"

                                                                                                                                                      © Georg Soulek 2006
Musical performance with Patti Smith, january - may 2006
Patti Smith 
songs, recital, guitar, clarinet | Clementine Gasser cello
Extended ensemble: Otmar Klein accordion | Bernhard Moshammer guitar
Further information: www.schlingensief.com