News from the RSH Impro course. While certainly not a techno track, at least it works with beats…
Claudio Huerta Honores, accordion; Natalie Schönberger, clarinet; Qirici Ermir, French horn (most of the beats are processed horn sounds); Hyeongjin Oh, tuba (the high "sky sound" that runs through most of the track); Joaquim Simões, guitar; Anastasia Deligiannik, violoncello; Ella Sternstedt, bass guitar; recording Benedikt Wild; additional tracks, producing & mixing Hubertus Dreyer

DistantSummer

Where it all started:
In spring 2020, with this strange virus from China that nobody understood…
when everything became lockdown and home-office…
we tried to keep the RSH impro course alive.
Remembering Miles, Teo Macero and Weather Report, we took our Zoom mics, our phantasy, the mood of that time and puzzled it all together. Dennis improvised based on Hubertus’ "Curtis revisited", Yunfei added her voice, then the others followed. The recordings took place between April 21 and 27 in Germany, Russia (infinitely long ago, as it now seems), China, Taiwan and Korea, so it could be called a global response to a global situation.
That’s how the »digital edition« of the RSH impro course began.

Double Bass – Dennis Pientak, Jean Hommel
Voice – Yunfei Li, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Yue Ma
Clarinet – Bo Kyung Kim
Trumpet – Yi-Chuang Yang
Additional tracks, mixing & producing – Hubertus Dreyer

In these times I

The second installment, one might also say: Second movement of the »in these times«-series.
The I Ging-coins are thrown, a poem is recited, a flute melody and a bassoon melody with strong Chinese flavor its played… and then this guzheng player with the fascinating name Mao Hong adds a incommensurable tune,, fhe flute and the bassoon adjust there tunes to it, until the next turn of events as foretold by another tossing of coins
.
Voice – Yünfei Li. Flute – Yi-yin Chen. Bassoon – Zhaoqi Zhang. Guzheng – Mao Hong. Violoncello and coins – Matthias Balzat. Additional effects + mixing + producing, Hubertus Dreyer. – Hubertus Dreyer.

In these times II

Improvisation online at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Part 3. Bo Kyung Kim, clarinet, Yue Ma, voice, Ella Kiiski, violoncello; additional tracks (synthesizers) + mixing + producing, Hubertus Dreyer.

lyrics

I wonder why my inlaid harp has fifty strings, 
Each with its flower-like fret an interval of youth. 
The sage Chuangzi is day-dreaming, bewitched by butterflies
The spring-heart of Emperor Wang is crying in a cuckoo
 Mermen weep their pearly tears down a moon-green sea
 Blue fields are breathing their jade to the sun....
 And a moment that ought to have lasted for ever 
Has come and gone before I knew.
锦瑟无端五十弦 一弦一柱百思华年度 庄生晓梦迷蝴蝶 望帝春心托杜鹃 沧海月明珠有泪  蓝田日暖玉内生烟容 此情可待成追忆 只是当时已惘然

In these times III

And the grand finale of »in these times«, with much more beat than the movements before and the ghost of Miles at the end (thanks to Yi-Chuan!)

Featuring Ekaterina Zhurasvskaya, voice; Yi-Yin Chien, flute, Bo Kyung Kim, clarinet; Yi-Chuan Yang, trumpet; Jia-Hua Feng, trombone; Matthias Balzac, violoncello; Jean Hommel and Dennis Pientak, double bass; additional tracks (synthesizers) + mixing + producing, Hubertus Dreyer.

In these times IV

Live from the Partikasaal of the RSH Düsseldorf, June 15th, 2022. (As guests in the concert of the composition class of Prof. Oliver Schneller
http://www.oliverschneller.net
https://soundcloud.com/osmusik )

Joaquim Simoes, guitar (https://soundcloud.com/joaquim-simoes)
Claudio Huerta Honores, accordion (https://soundcloud.com/claudioahh)
Hubertus Dreyer, piano (https://soundcloud.com/hdathome)
Luis Küffner, live electronics (https://soundcloud.com/phalanxeu)

Clash!

News from the RSH improvisation course.

Yue Ma, voice; Eunhyun Chu, flute; Zhaoqi Zhang, bassoon; Haneul Kim, French horn; Maria Leszczynska, Violoncello; Jakob Hornbachner, double bass; Hubertus Dreyer (@hdathome), electronic manipulation of some bird recordings.

Mixing and production by Benedikt Wild (@benediktwild).

We strongly recommend not to get lost in this wood and to leave it before sunset. We disclaim any responsibility for anything that happens afterwards.

森 - Wald

News from the RSH Improvisation course. We thought that, in this situation, Germany botching the vaccine rollout, nothing would be better than cooking a good pasta dish together. Six people on four square meters. The kitchen hot and filled with steam, the air heavy with spices and… Sorry, no smoking in the kitchen, and especially not THAT stuff! Please, can someone open the window? And turn the music louder! Anyone should listen to it! No worries, we've got enough garlic in our pasta to fend off a whole army of corona mutants!!! 

Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, recitation and cooking; Hye Jin Kim, clarinet, cooking, and abuse of pots and pans; Camillo Chaparro Arenas, violoncello and cutting onions; Gayeong Gal, violin; Rafael Vieira Carvalho, guitar; additional tracks (synthesisers) + mixing + producing Hubertus Dreyer.

Pasta Mista

A retro-techno-version of a life improvisation from April 2022. Let your imagination run wild to create in your mind the most horrific sci-fi-movie fitting to the music – or just take it as it is: Something else…
Natalie Schönberger – clarinet; Xingtiao Ai – clarinet; Hyeongjin Oh – tuba; Yuqing Su – violin; Ana Gonzales – viola; Shinyoung Lee – voice; live electronics – Luis Küffner; recording – Benedikt Wild; additional effects, producing, mixing – Hubertus Dreyer

Finnegans Saké

Here another "older" new track from the RSH-Improkurs - this time featuring a beautiful Cello mixture and a beat built from French Horn Samples. Let yourself fall in the hypnotising sound of parallel Cello lines!

Parallels

Our longest track so far! Based on a live improvisation we used without cuts. Additional soli, lots of samples from musical and non-musical sounds and a few effects were applied to enhance that trance-like feeling of looking out of the window while the sun is slowly setting and darkness is creeping into the room. Enjoy.

Agnes Konnerth, voice and percussion; Yuki Saito, guitar; Gayoung Lim, violin; Daniel Maskow, violoncello; Benedikt Wild, piano; additional effects, producing, mixing – Hubertus Dreyer

EveningSky

News from the RSH-impro course!

A trip to the sonic underworld of Düsseldorf's Altstadt.

There is also a music video available: https://youtu.be/SJ1HF_TI_Kw

Bassoon: Stanislava Mikhailovskaia
Guitar: Yuki Saito, Ares Gnauk
Piano: Hubertus Dreyer
Cello: Juliette Martin, Daniel Maskow
Recording, editing, additional sounds, video: Daniel Maskow

Up And Down The Ponor

One of the older tracks by the RSH-impro course… rather jazzy and uplifting! (A straight 7/8.) Beautiful oboe by Cristian Gonzales Palacios.

Yi-yin Chien – flute Cristian Gonzales Palacios – oboe Hyejin Kim – clarinet Aleksandar Dimitrov and Camillo Chaparro Arenas – violoncello Additional tracks (synthesizers, e-piano) + mixed + produced Hubertus Dreyer.

Saliendo Al Sol (New)

Last year we had the opportunity to play music for the silent movie ‚Der Golem‘ at Tage der Kammermusik. Happy to share our take on the enigmatic beginning of the movie: The Golem Overture.

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