You Are Here! Episode 1: Worldliness and Unruliness

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by Hannes Seidl

In the first episode of the podcast series «You Are Here!» trumpeter Paul Hübner meets two keyboard players, Liz Kosack and Christoph Ogiermann, for a shared musical indulgence.

«Fremd-Aushalten ist eine der wesentlichen antifaschistischen Übungen, die wir gerade brauchen. Also je fremder die Kunst, desto offener die Münder. Es wäre im Moment verdammt angesagt, dass es ganz viel komische Musik gibt.»
Christoph Ogiermann 

The podcast series «You Are Here!» is a musical position statement. Where are we right now? An intentionally ambiguous question. Where are we socially? Artistically? With our minds? How do we (re)connect musically? In the first episode we learn about control and surprise, how music can keep society from becoming even more divided, and why experimental music is an antifascist practice (spoiler: Because it confronts us with the foreign).

With Liz Kosack, Christoph Ogiermann (sound/voice), and Paul Hübner (sound)
Produced and arranged by Hannes Seidl
Editor and interviews: Theresa Beyer
Language: German and English

A production by Norient.

«It is a scary time right now. It feels like the divisions in society are only getting broader, like an earthquake is happening. I think music is a binding force and has this power to say: We are all together.»
Liz Kosack


Paul Hübner has studied trumpet with Malte Burba and Mike Svoboda in Mainz and Basel. As an interpreter, performer, composer, and improvisor he is notably devoted to new and experimental music. Paul gives concerts in Germany and abroad, as a soloist and in different ensemble formations, amongst them the Ensemble Modern, BR Symphony Orchestra, ensemble phoenix as well as his own formations 3® and mam.manufaktur für aktuelle musik. Visit his website.

Christoph Ogiermann, based in Bremen, Germany, works as a spoken word performer, singer, violinist, and keyboardist in the fields of improvisation and European arts-music. Ogiermann is an artistic director for projektgruppe neue musik bremen and REM (Rapid Ear Movement: concerts and festival of electronic music) and a member of the collective artists’ association TONTO in Graz, Austria, and of Stock 11. He is cofounder and member of MusicActionEnsemble KLANK.

Liz Kosack is a musician and designer from Maine, USA, active in Berlin and New York. Her work is cross-platform but focuses on synthesizer playing and masks. She has received fancy papers from William Paterson and Jazz Institut Berlin, plus an emphatic head-pat from New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the first openly lizard-person recipient of the prestigious SWR Jazzpreis (2019.) She is in one million bands, with some heavy cats and dogs. Visit her website.


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The recordings were made in September 2020 during «You Are Here», a project by Briefkastenfirma and Mousonturm Frankfurt, funded by Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main and Hessische Kulturstiftung, supported by Palmengarten Frankfurt.

Artistic direction: Theresa Beyer, Paul Hübner, Hannes Seidl
Assistance: Sophie Hein
Design and scenography: form fellows
Production management: ehrliche arbeit – Freies Kulturbüro

Biography

Hannes Seidl was born in Bremen and lives in Frankfurt/Main. He is a composer, active in the field of sound installations, music theatre, short films, and concert music. His focus lies on mixed media works such as his radio concerts «You Are Here» (2020) or «Good Morning Deutschland» (2016), or the scenic concert «Salims Salon» (2017). Since 2008 he has been working on different projects with video artist Daniel Kötter, including the recent trilogy Stadt Land Fluss (2017–2019). Follow him on Instagram, and on his Website.

Published on April 01, 2021

Last updated on May 29, 2024

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