This is an audio teaser from the premiere of my 40" composition "OHNE GARANTIE - music for a future without guarantees", based on texts by Zola Mennenöh with thoughts about how to cope with the uncertainty of future, inspired by Lisa Nyberg.  

Probably the most silent music I´ve ever written.

A commission by Acht Brücken Festival Köln. 
Recorded at WDR Funkhaus on may 1st 2023 and broadcasted by WDR3 

Zola Mennenöh (voc, text)
Lisa Meignin (fl)
Jone Bolivar (cl)
Laura Hovestadt (Vla)
Ruben Jeyasundaram (vcl)
Max Andrzejewski (perc., comp.)

Picture by Jörn Neumann.

"OHNE GARANTIE - music for a future without guarantees" - Live TEASER - WDR3 Broadcast

Keep it simple! Restraint is challenge. Tracks with acoustic instruments and treatment and Granular Plus Improvisations for home-entertainment.

Max Andrzejewski (*1986) is a drummer and composer, living in Berlin.

His energetic musical work between contemporary composition and improvised music brings him all over the world for concerts and composition commissions. 
The „maverick aesthete“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung) Max  Andrzejewski studied drums at KHM Cologne and JIB Berlin. His own band HÜTTE won one of the biggest German Jazz Prices - Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis 2013. 
He also plays in and writes music for the experimental Rock duo TRAINING and the chamber musical group „Stemeseder Andrzejewski light/tied“. 
Max played in bands with Julien Desprez (ABACAXI), the experimental Surf band Expressway Sketches, Charles Gayle, Kalle Kalima, and many others.

Max composes contemporary music - commission works include works for Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Beethovenfest Bonn, Podium Festival Esslingen, Acht Brücken Festival, Ensemble Resonanz, Kammermusikfestival Regensburg, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Maxim Gorki Theater a.o.
Max was on tour in Aserbaijan, Israel, Russia, Cuba, USA, Czech, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Egypt, Austria, Serbia, Switzerland, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexiko and appears on numerous albums on Traumton, Act, Pirouet, Wizmar, Unit, Jazzhaus, NWog, Whyplayjazz.