20:00 VXCDR – Plastiq and Choir

The music of Plastiq is freely improvised: they are dedicated, body and soul, to the moment. Tracks coalesce out of the interplay between beats, voices, and keys, sounding the way they do for the first and only time. Spaces, audiences and collaborators all play an interactive part in the process. Plastiq explores the overlap between the synthesized and the acoustic, between music, video, performance and theatrical space. For the Jazzwerkstatt 22, Plastiq has invited musicians from Switzerland, Poland and Germany to join them in an experiment. Inspired by compositions for modular synthesizer and fascinated by the independence of modular interaction, the “Plastiq process” will be applied to a group of singers. Plastiq and Choir will decode and improvise the creaks, babblings and rustlings, the endless loops of this music, with their voices alone.

Raphaela Andrade (voc), Lena Geue (voc), Claire Huguenin (voc), Alex Rodriguez Lazaro (voc), Luka Lenzin (voc), Katarina Poklepovic (voc), Michele Quadri (voc), Piotr Zabrodzki (voc), Nathan Bontrager (voc)

21:00 Kid Be Kid

Kid Be Kid is the one-woman band of the 2020s. The easiest way to describe the music of this sensational singer, musician and producer is as alternative, futurist R&B. The renaissance woman from Berlin manages to combine a punkish approach with jazz-tinged arrangements and baroque flourishes. She tears down genre barriers with piano, synthesizer, beatbox and voice, creating deeply moving music. After her prophetically titled solo debut Sold Out, Kid Be Kid presents the follow-up Lovely Genders at this year’s Jazzwerkstatt.

Kid Be Kid (voc, p, synth)

22:30 So Beast

“So Beast is Katarina Poklepovic and Michele Quadri, producers and beatmakers […] who live in the countryside near Bologna…” I read in the duo’s official bio. Immediately, my neck muscles relax and I feel hungry. But this has nothing to do with dolce far niente—in the words of Z.A., So Beast is “the most insanely energetic thing I’ve ever seen”. The music is influenced by psychedelic sounds, pop, punk, avant-garde noise, rap and contemporary world music, without allowing itself to be confined too closely to any of them. Experimentation and revolution are the watchwords of their existence.

Katarina Poklepovic (voc, synth, sampler), Michele Quadri (g, perc, sampler)

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400 Jasa

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