Saturday, 08 February, 2025 - 20:00
fluid form club #8: POLYPLAY x witch 'n' monk + IŞIL KARATAŞ
Doors 20:00 | Concerts 21:00 | Ticket price: 10€ advance | 15€ at the door
THE FLUID FORM CLUB presents passionately unpredictable music that escapes classification, in a space that brings together a community of curious minds.
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WITCH 'N' MONK
Radically manipulated flutes, anarchic soprano vocals and analogue electronics
Defiantly original duo Witch 'n' Monk combine Mauricio Velasierra’s radically electrified Latin American flutes, with Heidi Heidelberg’s jazz-punk guitar/bass and anarchic soprano vocals.
The music travels seamlesly from structured arrangements to wild improvisations, using a myriad of control pedals and labyrinthine signal paths to orchestrate live. The essence of their collaboration is encapsulated in the name; dark/light, feminine/masculine, punk/Romantic. Creating contrast is fundamental to their work and thus they tread upon the edges of genres. Celebrated in jazz, contemporary classical and DIY music scenes they have played prestigious venues and festivals such as the Royal Festival Hall, Berlin, London and Umea Jazz Festivals and Paris' La Cigale.
Their latest album was released on John Zorn's legendary Tzadik Records in 2020 to critical acclaim. It was named Contemporary Album of the Month by The Guardian and received the prestigious Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
"Blending Latin American flutes, electronics, complex vocal lines with a touch of Frank Zappa lyricism and a radical punk aesthetic, the duo of Heidi Heidelberg and Mauricio Velasierra crafts a dramatically bizarre vocal music from another dimension! Intertwining dark/light, feminine/masculine, composed/improvised and punk/romantic, dreamlike improvisations are sampled, manipulated and reinvented through the lens of contemporary music and pop. You have never heard anything quite like Witch ’n’ Monk!" - John Zorn
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POLYPLAY
Rhythms of the multiverse exploding with futuristic utopian melodies and deep, prophetic basslines
POLYPLAY takes you off the usual grid into uncharted musical landscapes. They’ve got a twisted, playful approach to polyrhythms—unafraid to dive deep into chaos while keeping things sharp and precise. Their sound is a glance into what the future could sound like: bold, and completely unpredictable.
Intense and insane rhythms colliding with futuristic beats and dirty electro-acoustic sounds. It’s a mash-up of everything from mind-bending basslines to melodies that never sit still. POLYPLAY aren’t just making music; they’re creating an entirely new kind of movement—a sonic playground where improvisation, tension, and unexpected shifts come together in a way you’ve never heard before.
Line-up:
Beatdenker - synth guitar, sampler, composition
Olga Reznichenko - keytar, bass synth
Philip Dornbusch - drums, sounds
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IŞIL KARATAŞ
Live visuals
Işıl Karataş is a filmmaker and multimedia artist who experiments with various forms, formats and audiovisual languages. She studied Film and Media Studies in Istanbul, Paris, Lyon, Utrecht and Weimar. She is currently a PhD candidate in Vienna and explores the sensory, cultural, ecological and aesthetic meanings of analogue filmmaking in a digital age. Her films, live visual performances and experimental ethnographic audiovisual works have been presented at various film, music and interdisciplinary festivals and media and anthropology conferences from Taipei to Belfast, Gmünd to Oslo.
https://www.fluidformclub.net/
As part of the series FLUID FORM CLUB