progressive string quartet from Bremen, Germany

Johannes Haase & Malin Grass (violins)
Yuko Hara (viola) Jakob Nierenz (cello)
Pablo Garretón (electronics, sound direction)

Official soundcloud of Waldfrieden, location for psytrance parties and festivals in Western Germany since 1996

Multigenre Bass Music Soundsystem

Crew:

Bassfeld / Doktor Dreh / folivora / Grev / Kai Ser / MIAVO / Mo / Mohamed Lit / Simon / Skankmaster Hank

inventive and expressive violin player on electric and acoustic instruments - in experimental, free and funk music

“Dark, expansive Techno, dripping with psychedelia.”

Bookings & Inquiries - aleckat.music@gmail.com

Links  & Label Affliliations

We love different kinds of music and believe in the synergies in between all of them.
Our partys and the projects in which we participate are supposed to be hideouts from everyday life.
Curating at @Zugvoegelfestival
2026:
31.01. // Fi - Cologne
15.02. // Flux - Bremen
2025:
21.02. // UMZU - Bremen
05.04. // P.ara - Bremen
20.04. // Fi - Cologne
25.05. // IRGENDWO - Bremen
07.06. // Gleispark - Oldenburg
01.-03.08. // Zugvögel Festival - Udenbreth
06.09.// IRGENDWO - Bremen
28.11.// Subway - Cologne

2024:
19.01. // P.ara - Bremen
15.06. // IRGENDWO - Bremen
25.-28.07 // Zugvögel Festival
01.-04.08 // Zugvögel Festival
26.10. // Fi - Cologne
17.11.// Kukoon - Bremen
21.11.// UMZU- Bremen
22.12. // Odonien - Cologne


2023:
18.03. // Stapeltor - Duisburg
18.06 // Fockegarten - Bremen
28.07.-31.07. // Zugvögel Festival
08.08.-11.08. // Zugvögel Festival
04.11. // p.ara - Bremen
22.12. // Odonien - Cologne

2022:
05.03. // Pusdorf Studios - Bremen
07.05. //Pusdorf Studios - Bremen
29.07.-31.07.// Zugvögel Festival
05.08.-07.08. //Zugvögel Festival
16.09. // Pusdorf Studios - Bremen
12.11. // Pusdorf Studios - Bremen
16.12. // Odonien -  Cologne

We feel deeply connected to:
@Ernstall
@luced
@zoe-reijue
@ilja-myschkin
@judith-ahrends
@herkunderground
We love warmups

Peer 23 e.V. Mannheim
Zugvögel e.V. Cologne
Anderswo  , Bremen
Conartism, Bremen
Cosmic Society, Berlin
Gesellen, Wuppertal
Kalamari Disko / Kwerformat, Duisburg
Draußen Verlaufen/ Minha Galera e.V. Cologne
Zucker e.V., Bremen

The past:
IRGENDWO, Bremen ('21,'20,'19,'18)
Pusdorf Studios, Bremen (RIP)
P.ara, Bremen
Drittel, Bremen
Studio 672 , Cologne (RIP)
Yuca, Cologne
Zugvögel Festival, Udenbreth/Tenerife
Ms Treue, Bremen
Noon, Bremen
Schaulust, Bremen
Peer 23, Mannheim
Roxy , Cologne (RIP)
Odonien, Cologne
Zum scheuen Reh, Cologne
Im Schnörres, Cologne

PS: We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and try to fight against it where it is possible.

Man kann den Bummelkasten in eine Schublade stecken.

Composer, Performer, Media Artist

He studied Electronic Music and Composition at Conservatorio G.B. Martini (Bologna, IT) and at Hochschule für Künste Bremen (GER).
2015-16 he was Meisterschüler in “Temporal Media” at the HfK Bremen (Prof. Jean-Fraçois Guiton), with focus on interactivity between sound, image and gesture.
He improved himself through workshops with international composers, performer and sound artists such as D. Smalley, B. Parmegiani, S. Sciarrino, A. Mayr, F. Bayle, P. Billone, M. Belli, A. Soto, B. Fort, F. Maheu, L. Sonami, J. O’Callaghan, R. Normandeau.

Since 2018 he teaches Sound Design at the Hochschule Bremerhaven (Digital Media Department) and gives workshops about electroacoustic techniques for live sound in cooperation with Theater SCHLACHTHOF.

His soundtrack for the silent movie "die Leuchte Asiens" (1925, F. Osten) was screened at Berlinale 2018.

2018 he started the project ElekTrAktions, a multimedia electroacoustic performative serie in Bremen, in cooperation with Theater SCHLACHTHOF and the support of Senator für Kultur Bremen.

2017 he was finalist at the FRANZ LISZT - Scholarship (Akusmatische Komposition) in Weimar.

His works and activities spread among electroacoustic and instrumental composition, live music for performance, dance and theatre, free improvisation, sound direction, sound design for film and multimedia interactive installation, analysis of electroacoustic music. All shown in international festivals (GER, UK, FR, BR, IT, GR, NL, CA).

He regularly cooperates with different institutions in the field of free improvisation and multimedia performance, such as Ensemble New Babylon (Bremen, GER) Theater Bremen (GER), Weserburg Museum (Bremen, GER) and Tempo Reale (Florence, IT).

2010 - 2013 he was copy editor of MusicaElettronica.it, an Italian blog about experimental music and art.

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