Chromatic

Index
Season  3



E.24      CW x Postklub Satellite
E.23      A Desperate Vitality
E.22      On the Verge
E.21       Some of Hell Is Born of Good Manners
E.20      Talking Nature
E.19        Invisible to the Eye
E.18        Uncomfortable Utopia
E.17        Belonging
E.16        Collective Utopias
E.15        The Questionarch Solidarity Walk and Fundraiser and FEED
E.14        Light Exciter
E.13        Dare You Say: Game Night
E.12        Enigma
E.11         Chronicles
E.10        Equal Distance
E.9          Syntax
E.8          Spectrum
E.7          Gelgit
E.6          Of Memories and Dreams
E.5          Refuge Worldwide presents «Parallels»
E.4          Trembling Ground
E.3          Tumultuous
E.2          Sketches of Eastern Ukraine
E.1              E.1           Thinking about the Meanings of the Archive

Se    
Season 2


E.24      110 × 3:33:08
E.23      Glaring Light
E.22      She-Pigeon
E.21       Presence of the Absent
E.20     Sunken Temple
E.19        Cinema of Cockaigne w/ anorak
E.18        Anatolian Leopard
E.17        Phantom Power & Eribòz
E.16        Maths, Euphoria, and Misinterpretations
E.15        Rockingdesk & Fine Tuning
E.14       «Chromatic Wednesdays» in collaboration with Hive International  Short Film Days  Berlin
E.13        Offseeds present  «Tales of Extinction»
E.12        The Matter of Memory
E.11         A.I.D and abet! #3
E.10        Anthony Hüseyin – Project O: «Yıldızların Altında» Release
E.9          MitEinAnder – an exploration
E.8          Troubled Relations
E.7          The Ruins of Empire
E.6          Wanderings Through Uncertainty
E.5          The Hungry and the Restless
E.4          Haunted / Desert
E.3          Part 1 / Part 2
E.2          Liquid Machine
E.1           Escargot à la Rostropovich!
             



“Chromatic Wednesdays”is a bi-weekly event series organized by Apartment Project, which promotes artistic expression across various disciplines and formats. Each month, Chromatic Wednesdays focuses on a new theme, for which two events are realized. In 2022, the themes were: Improvisation, Exile, Precarity, Mutualism, Recurrence, Echoes, Divergence, Instability, Curiosity, Resonance, Sanctuary and Inversion. In 2023: Solidarity, Upheaval, Resistance, Light, Comma, Mythology, Position, Urbanism, Unbound, Dystopia, Home and Intelligence. Chromatic Wednesdays invited artists, musicians, performers, scientists and cultural practitioners to collaborate, experiment and share their unique research, practices and experiences with each other and the public. The events included a wide range of multidisciplinary, hybrid formats, including concerts, performances, workshops, film screenings, lectures, exhibitions, readings, and panel discussions.

In 2021 the project came to life as a reaction to artistic disruption caused by the pandemic.  Today numerous challenges persistently endanger cultural production. How do artists and  audiences from different backgrounds and mediums come together? What forms of new expression can be explored or can be expanded? What kind of new networks between institutions and artists can be established? How can these networks sustain the survival of the artists?

As part of Chromatic Wednesdays’ Season 2 and 3, a total of 167 participants from countries, such as Turkey, Germany, France, Italy, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Ukraine, Norway, Japan, Iran, Poland, Switzerland, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Sweden, Russia, China, the U.K, USA, Portugal, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cameroon, Namibia, Israel, Egypt, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Russia, Taiwan were invited. Of them, 92 female, 63 male and 12 non-binary participated.

The very first editions were streamed online due to Corona measures. Since June 2021, the events have been held in a hybrid format, mainly at the Apartment Project and online.
             Team:                    Emre Birişmen – Project Lead / Coordination / Video Production
Melih Sarıgöl – Project Lead / Administration / Sound Production
Selda Asal – Lead Artistic Advisor
Berk Asal – Production / Administration
Gabriela Seith – Content Writer / German Translation
Merey Şenocak / Ece Gökalp / Gökçe Berndt / Soliane Malefond – Promotion / Social Media
Suat Can Beldek – Graphic / Webdesign
Beril Ece Güler / Cemre Bayatlıer – Production Assistant

2nd Season Advisory Board:                   Selda Asal, Valentina Karga, Florian Wüst, İpek İpekçioğlu, Steffi Weismann

3rd Season Advisory Board:                   Berk Asal, Anıl Eraslan, Zorka Wollny, Stéphane Bauer, anorak (Lukas Ludwig / Johanna Markert)
                Moderation:                   Erden Kosova, Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Florian Wüst, Nil Mutluer

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Season 3
Episode 14

Theme: 
Position

23 August ´23


LIGHT EXCITER

Music performance by Hilary Jefferey, Ignaz Schick, Chris Pitsiokos, Germán Gabriel García and Markus Krispel
How do improvisation and given structures relate to each other? The musicians Hilary Jefferey, Ignaz Schick, Chris Pitsiokos, Germán Gabriel García and Markus Krispel tested the possibilities of improvisation in the framework of Albert Amerioun’s light installation. The light panel with 25 bulbs determined the temporal framework, influenced dynamic parameters and gave the musicians rhythmic impulses in the interpretation of the moment. Tensions in the musical reactions to the abstract narration arose through the light signals and challenged the individual expression of the musicians in the interaction. What positions did they take in this interplay between the given structures and the freedom of improvisational expression? In addition, Markus Krispel took part not only in the improvisation, but performed with his interactive sound installation «The expanded Saxophone» presenting results of current research on the prepared instrument at the intersection of sculpture, sound research and craft.
Hilary Jeffery (b. 1971, Surbiton, UK) is a musician based in Berlin. Following studies at Dartington College of Arts, University of York and with James Fulkerson at the European Dance Development Centre in Arnhem, Hilary embarked on a colorful musical career playing throughout the world in many settings including theaters, jazz clubs, cathedrals, night clubs, festivals, dance studios, bars, cinemas, galleries, streets, forests and mountains. As well as composing, Hilary plays trumpet, trombone, tuba, piano, electronics, and practices singing. In Berlin he plays in many groups including Zinc & Copper, Minor Tom, Tonaliens, Inconsolable Ghost, Mullet, zeitkratzer and Mouse On Mars Dimensional People Ensemble. The sense of silent space he experienced during a journey to the Sahara Desert in 1990 is a central and sustaining influence on his work.
Ignaz Schick (b. 1972, Trostberg) is a Berlin based sound artist, composer, and conceptual and visual artist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and worked as an assistant for the composer Josef Anton Riedl. After moving to Berlin in 1995, he became an active and integral force in the «Berlin Nouvelle Vague» and experimental music scene. In addition, he makes sound installations, experimental objects, visual collages, text scores, concrete poetry, graphic scores and drawings. He performs as an instrumentalist with turntables, sampler, objects, live-electronics, alto saxophone and flutes. He has curated projects including for the Festival für Andere Musik, Erase & Reset, Time Shifts, T.I.T.O., Echtzeitmusiktage, Flux Festival and runs the experimental music label Zarek. Schick has toured worldwide and collaborated with international sonic artists, such as with Mwata Bowden, Don Cherry, Douglas Ewart, Sven-Åke Johansson, Paul Lovens and Toshimaru Nakamura. Since 2016, he has received composition and research grants for Paris, South-East-Asia, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Mexico City, Kolkata and Porto.
Chris Pitsiokos (b. 1990) is a saxophonist, composer and improviser living in New York and Berlin. His music falls into the realm of experimentalism, including noise, improvised music, experimental jazz, free jazz, noise rock, new music, minimal music, drone, and art rock. As a soloist, he has developed a unique voice on the alto saxophone. He has recorded over 30 albums as a leader or co-leader. Mostly performing as a soloist, he also plays with improvised music groups, with Otomo Yoshihide and with ROKC Music, and has collaborated with Axel Dörner, Mazen Kerbaj, TonyBuck, Wendy Eisenberg, Nate Wooley, Miya Masaoka and Paul Lytton. Pitsiokos has toured in Japan, the US, South America and Europe, and participated in festivals such as the Sapporo International Arts Festival (Japan), the Moers Festival (Germany), Jazz Jantar (Poland), Jazz Festival Lima (Peru) and Wels Unlimited Music Festival (Austria). Pitsiokos is a member of the editorial board of Sound American and writes for this magazine.
Germán Gabriel García (b. in Rosaria, Argentina) is a trumpet player, improviser and composer based in Berlin. He began his trumpet studies privately and later studied classical and jazz music at the Escuela Municipal de Música de Rosario and at the Escuela de Música de la UNR. When he moved to Buenos Aires, he continued his studies at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory. After encounters with experimental and improvised music, he began to explore it by investigating and playing with other musicians in the field of experimental music and Neue Musik in Berlin. Currently, he focuses on expanding the sounds of the trumpet, exploring techniques, using the possibilities of his body in relation to sound and gesture, and experimenting with electric amplification and digital electronics.
Markus Krispel (b. 1977, Vienna) studied art history, history and social pedagogy. He has been playing the piano since the age of seven and started improvising in his teens. Since then he has played in many bands in Vienna, such as LICHT, Ron Bop, Die Vögel and [[[ALTAR:THRON]]]. Focusing later on the saxophone, he has given numerous international concerts and released several CDs and LPs. He organizes tours, concerts and festivals in Graz, Vienna, Budapest and Berlin. Having started training as a woodwind instrument repairer in 2014, he now works full-time as a repairman. He also works on technical and experimental creations of saxopohones cooperating with outstanding international experts to find solutions for extended possibilities on the instrument. Recently, he started artistic research in the field of woodwind instruments and their foundations, considering the saxophone as a sculptural artistic object. Since 2018 he has been active in the Berlin music scene as an improviser and organizer.

Albert Amerioun (Light Panel) is an electronic engineer running his own company «amp – fx», building analog effect pedals and tube driven amplifiers. Next to that he invents a variety of artistic devices, like his presented light panel and self built touch sensitive electronic instruments.

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