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Pedro A. Ramirez, reiheM, Luis Antunes Pena, Anders Førisdal
Photo: Pedro A. Ramirez: Serge-Modular-System

LOFT

reiheM präsentiert: Pedro A. Ramirez // Luis Antunes Pena & Anders Førisdal

Pedro A. Ramirez - Serge-Modular-System Luis Antunes Pena - Elektronik & Modularsynthesizer Anders Førisdal - E-Gitarre & Elektronik

Pedro A. Ramirez - Serge-Modular-System

Luis Antunes Pena - Elektronik & Modularsynthesizer Anders Førisdal - E-Gitarre & Elektronik

(english: see below)

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reiheM: Eintritt: 15/10,– €

Pedro A. Ramirez Der aus Kolumbien stammende Klangkünstler Pedro A. Ramirez erforscht mit seiner Werkreihe acrosynthetics die wechselseitige Dynamik computergesteuerter Berechnung und modularbasierter Synthese. Mit seinem selbstgebauten Serge-Modular-System und neuronalen Netzen sowie Rückkopplung per Computer erkundet er das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen analoger und digitaler Synthese. Noise/Rauschen ist für ihn weniger ein ästhetisches Ziel als eine kontingente Quelle, aus der sich Form und Bedeutung in der klanglichen Praxis entwickeln lassen. https://airpopcrack.bandcamp.com/album/rotary-alchemist

Luis Antunes Pena & Anders Førisdal Luis Antunes Pena und Anders Førisdal bilden gemeinsam das Duo Real.Invention. Im Dialog zwischen Serge-Modularsystem, Computerprozessierung und E-Gitarre/FX-Pedalen entwickeln sie improvisatorisch einen fesselnden Strom aus geschichteten Texturen, fragmentierten Patterns und variantenreichen Rekursionen. Konzeptuell agieren die Musiker bewusst an der Schnittstelle zwischen Improvisation und Komposition und loten deren gegenseitige Bedingungen, Abgrenzungen und Übergänge aus.

https://soundcloud.com/antunespena

reiheM – Konzertreihe für Gegenwartsmusik, Elektronik und neue Medien wird veranstaltet von Mark e.V. und gefördert durch:

Pedro A. Ramirez - Serge Modular System

Luis Antunes Pena - electronics & modular synthesizer Anders Førisdal - electric guitar & electronics

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reiheM: Tickets: 15/10,– €

Pedro A. Ramirez

In his series acrosynthetics, Colombian sound artist Pedro A. Ramirez explores the reciprocal dynamics of computer-controlled computation and modular synthesis. Using his self-built Serge modular system, neural networks, and computer-generated feedback, he explores the tension between analog and digital synthesis. For him, noise is less an aesthetic goal than a contingent source from which form and meaning can be developed in sound practice.

https://airpopcrack.bandcamp.com/album/rotary-alchemist
Luis Antunes Pena & Anders Førisdal

Luis Antunes Pena and Anders Førisdal together form the duo Real.Invention. Through a dialogue between the Serge modular system, computer processing, and electric guitar/effects pedals, they improvisationally develop a captivating stream of layered textures, fragmented patterns, and richly varied recursions. Conceptually, the musicians deliberately operate at the intersection of improvisation and composition, exploring their mutual conditions, boundaries, and transitions—allowing form and meaning to evolve through their sonic practice.

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Venue:

LOFT

The LOFT in Cologne's Ehrenfeld district is exactly what its name suggests: a spacious loft on the top floor of a former perfume factory. Since 1989 it has been home to the city's musical avant-garde as well as a scene hub and a jazz laboratory for students.

Over those decades it has grown into a respected stage for improvised music, contemporary music, and jazz, with a reputation reaching well beyond Germany. Most of the Cologne jazz musicians who have made their mark nationally and internationally in the past thirty years took their first career steps here, among them Nils Wogram, Hayden Chisholm, Angelika Niescier, Frank Gratkowski, Robert Landfermann, Pablo Held, and Sebastian Sternal.

The Cologne Triennale, WDR, and Deutschlandfunk stage concerts and recordings at the LOFT, and the venue has been invited to the Moers Festival five times. Its own label, 2ndFloor, releases selected recordings, and more than 1,000 live and studio productions made in the LOFT studio have appeared on other labels. Supported by the association 2ndFloor e. V. and the collective jungesloft, it presents over 200 events a year.

Top-tier instruments – including a Steinway D grand, one of the finest concert pianos in any German jazz club – a professional recording studio with award-winning engineers, and the room's distinctive atmosphere have drawn many prominent guests, from Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, and Peter Brötzmann to Kurt Rosenwinkel, Marilyn Crispell, and Jim Black. Still, the programming focus remains on supporting Cologne's own musicians.

Since 2009 the LOFT has received the NRW venue programming award every year, an honor that specifically recognizes work with emerging regional artists. In 2016 the British Guardian named it one of the ten best jazz clubs in Europe, and at the German Jazz Prize it was voted "Club/Venue of the Year" in 2021 and again in 2023 — a category decided not by the expert jury but directly by the more than 1,300 members of the German Jazz Union.

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