Lange//Berweck//Lorenz / Nelly Boyd

The festival will be kicked off by the the first ever Hamburg performance of Berlin based electro-acoustical trio Lange//Berweck//Lorenz. Founded in 2014, the collective has committed itself to realizing electronic scores, restoring and (re-) staging forgotten electronic works as well as collaborating on new pieces with contemporary artists. At klub katarakt, Silke Lange, Sebastian Berweck and Martin Lorenz will be taking the stage with a laboratory of analogue and digital synthesizers and machines – the live performance will be extended by video and light design. They will be performing pieces specifically written for them by Kirsten Reese, Midori Hirano and Bernhard Lang.

For the late concert, Hamburg based ensemble Nelly Boyd will perform a composition by Robert Engelbrecht. The piece was written for six instrumentalists (three electric guitars, piano four hands, and percussion) with six separate playbacks of electronic multichannel sounds which will wrap themselves around musicians and audience alike and blend with the live parts of the musicians.

Founded in 2004, the ensemble and composer collective Nelly Boyd has specialized in experimental and minimalistic music, and has worked with composers such as Alvin Lucier, Lois V Vierk, Christian Wolff, and Rhys Chatham. The group has become known for their long-standing collaboration with Phill Niblock, having played many of his pieces including several premieres. Nelly Boyd is performing regularly at klub katarakt as well as blurred edges.