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Thijs Lodewijk (1973), known as LUDOWIC, is a Dutch musician, composer, and multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges the gaps between experimental electronic music, forgotten instruments, visual art, and sound architecture. His father’s musicality and his mother’s visual sensibility laid the foundation for a dual artistic identity that he continues to explore to this day. After being accepted to both art school and the conservatory, he chose to study music at the Codarts Conservatory in Rotterdam—a decision that laid the foundation for his hybrid practice.

Today, LUDOWIC operates at the intersection of electronic music, the revival of historical instruments, contemporary art, and speculative sound design. His concerts combine immersive sound with visual sensibility and emphasize the physicality of analog instruments. Through analog sensibility, visual thinking, and his commitment to rediscovering forgotten synthesizers, he continually expands the spectrum of what music can reveal about memory, perception, and the future of sound.

An event presented by a.s.s. concerts & promotion GmbH.

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Stadtgarten

The first concert in the newly built Stadtgarten concert hall in the mid-1980s launched a program unlike anything Germany had seen: an independent, artistically driven concert series devoted to contemporary improvised music. It was guided neither by attendance figures nor by public subsidies, yet it guaranteed musicians minimum fees and was run on professional terms. The conditions mattered just as much: an acoustically optimized, street-level concert space offering a strong setting for audiences and performers alike. Operations were financed through the adjoining hospitality business, the Stadtgarten restaurant and beer garden, a model that drew attention well beyond Germany.

Today the Stadtgarten Köln ranks among Europe's internationally recognized venues for contemporary and improvised music. The American magazine Down Beat features it regularly in its listings; it has received Germany's federal APPLAUS venue program award several times, including "Venue of the Year" in 2016, followed by the German Jazz Prize in the same category in 2022. More than 400 events across the full spectrum of contemporary music now take place there each year. Its international standing rests above all on the high proportion of demanding, experimental programming.

A programming mission of this kind depends on reliable public support. The venue's 30th anniversary in September 2016 opened that prospect: through a partnership between the City of Cologne and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, programming work is being substantially strengthened, and from 2017 onward the Stadtgarten Köln is being developed step by step into a "European Center for Jazz and Contemporary Music" – with the goal of becoming one of Europe's leading music centers.

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