musician, improviser, composer, radio presenter - instruments: soundtable, sax, bass clarinet, piano, clarinet

Heiner Metzger

Heiner Metzger lives and works in Hamburg.
He is involved since the early eighties in improvisation and experimental music, where he plays soundtable, saxophon, clarinet, synthesizer and piano with ensembles and once only groupings. At that time he co-founded the groups: vis, tyrrn, Timeta and worked with dancers and visual artists. Later he joined the TonArt-Ensemble, a group of hamburg improvisers where he explored the graphical notation as chance of an open composition for about ten musicians. At 2005 he created the soundtable, an instrument with whom he zooms in on the sounds of objects and the table, sometimes amplified by piezo pick-ups. He performs the soundtable in duo with Birgit Ulher (tp) and the Stark Bewölkt Quartett with Gregory Büttner, Michael Maierhof, Birgit Ulher and collaborated with musicians invited to the h7-club: Ofer Bymel, John Butcher, Simon Camatta, Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga, Gene Coleman, Julia Eckhardt, John Hughes, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Tim Hodgkinson, Bonny Jones, Christian Kesten, Goh Lee Kwang, Sebastian Lexer,Lugiano Maggiore, Ulrich Phillipps, Ernesto Rodrigues, Keith Rowe, Lars Scherzberg, Wolfgang Schliemann, Christoph Schiller, Damon Smith, Olivier Toulemonde, Jonas Kocher, Nate Wooley, Seymour Wright... a.o.

CD:
blurred cages, Goh Lee Kwang: stereo dj-mixer, Heiner Metzger: soundtable, objects | records 2010-05-10 bandcamp
blinzeln, Birgit Ulher, Heiner Metzger | © 2008 Creative Sources Rec. CD 155
Murmúrios, TonArt Ensemble & Ernesto Rodrigues | © 2010 Creative Sources Rec. CS 170
Beside his musical work he organises concertseries: Stark Bewölkt, h7-club, is activ in the Verband for contemporary Music - Hamburg
and moderates the monthly radio transmission klingding at the local radio station FSK.
With Judith Haman he creates installations, performances, radioshows and organised/curated the artist run spaces Blinzelbar and Frappant(ended 2009).

Heard Of Bears is a free improvisation collective based in Marseille, France. The sound they often end up making could be described with words like cavernicole and nocto-diurnal.

The geometry of the group is variable and for the moment consists of Simon Sieger (Accordion, Trombone), Vincent Lajus (Violoncello), François Wong (Saxophone), Rachel Chen (Violin) and Ed Williams (Electric Guitar).

NEW! Check out our brand new BANDCAMP!
Coming soon our first EP, Cavern Sessions Vol. 1
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TANDEM

An acoustic trio of improvisers, Tandem blends many contemporary experimental musical influences including electroacoustic, minimalist, and free improvised music. Working with a large instrumental palette filtered through each musician's diverse backgrounds in baroque, hip hop and Tuareg traditions, sound and the act of listening itself constitute the core of their music.

"Subtle and suspenseful improvisations... at times so still that the slightest movements of the instruments themselves offered moments of drama to the flow of the music."
Woodland Pattern Book Center

Find us on Facebook, Bandcamp and Soundcloud: Tandem Trio

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Guitariste sarde, vit a Marseille.
En solo, sa musique est une histoire de bruits et de mélodies obtenus sur une guitare modifiée. Bienvenue aux accidents sonores, les pieds sur les pédales d’effets, rêve de paysage électronique, de drone et d’improvisation.
Entendez-vous ces voix oubliées? Échos d’une absence hantée, de quel exil sur quelle Lost Highway?...
Musique qui se tisse en même temps qu’elle se défait, épure, déchirure estompée.
Dans le lyrisme désenchanté de Fabrizio Fenu résonne l’Italie des années de plomb. Marcher encore sous le soleil... Au loin, quel est cet embrasement ? Crépuscule ou lueur d’aube nouvelle?

Il a collaboré avec:
Nicolò Terrasi, Jean-Marc Montera, Farida Amoudou, Vincent Lajus, Vincent Russell, Talibam!!, Utku Tavil, Naoko Ishiwada, Regine Chopinot, Gino Robair, Erica Sollo, Paolo Sanna,Alexis Chevrier, Ed Williams, Claude Favre, Philippe Lemoine, Loise Bulot, Remi Coste, Anne-Céline Pic-Savary, Silvia Corda, Adriano Orrù, Travis Mccoy Fuller, Fabrizio Casti, Giacomo Salis, Luca Pissavini, Masahiko Ueji, Alessandra Seggi, Famoudou Don Moye, Sophie Charlotte Laatsh, Marta Anatra, Claudia Mollese, Costa Fatal...

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