Improvisation

Music, composed and performed simultaneously by 2, 3... musicians.

The music we make could be called a kind of contemporary chamber music, only:
nothing is predetermined and not a word is discussed about what shall be played. None of us knows beforehand what will happen musically; everything is improvised.

Though: our objective consists always in a music that sounds in the ideal case as it would be composed well: surprising, fresh, suggestive, complex, witty, clear.


Walter Fähndrich


Concentric circles

The concept of this avowedly "non-conceptual", free improvisation can be illustrated by successively throwing various stones into the water, creating concentrically spreading circles, but also in relation to uniform wave patterns. The outstanding quality of this action and reaction was a wide-awake ability to communicate and the instrumental implementation of the impulses.

Spontaneous "conversations" developed with a constantly changing density of relationships and based on the basic rhetoric of each individual. There was no room for boredom. The musicians' intensive listening to each other stimulated correspondingly intensive listening from the audience. A refreshingly new way of joining in was called for and - without ingratiation - made quite easy.

Another quality of the performances was, in my opinion, the honesty, which not only sounded out the viability of impulses, but also took note of their flattening out. Not only did this avoid idle time; it also made it possible to identify a kind of form-finding that is decisive for such free improvisation: The music continued for as long as the constantly renewed energy lasted. The result: longer and shorter pieces, out of inner necessity.


Linus David



"What emerges on the CD, reacts with each other, meanders or is sometimes fragmented by brash interactions, are all kinds of astonishing sound events, all of which emerge from highly ambitious instrumental mastery. Low and even lower frequencies mix up the sound spectrum, condensing a sensual cosmos. (...) In the long run, logical processes and ever new musical formulas emerge, which unite to form unexpected connections. You first have to imitate this quartet in such a highly condensed stringency. A discovery!"


Stefan Pieper, Jazzthetik