DJ Set & Live Violin Improvisation

About:
After years of traveling and changing residencies, @Chrystal-Chris arrived in Berlin, where she met @Sawatzki.
Their shared passion for deep, complex electronic music led to their first performance on a pristine lake – and so, Saphear was born.

Sawatzki, a trained jazz violinist with a classical background, improvises live to Chrystal Chris' carefully curated DJ sets. This synergy creates performances that are truly one-of-a-kind.
Their soundscape blends Ambient, Electronica, Deep House, UK Bass & Breaks, and neo-classical elements, offering a captivating musical journey.

This fusion shines in its own uniqueness, resonating between sadness and felicity, light and darkness, yin and yang. Like crystals thrive with other solute molecules, Saphear grows steadily by attracting people through their enthusiasm and passion for music.

Catch their highly energetic performances – where new crystals take shape.

Tim Catlin is a guitarist, instrument designer and sound artist with a deep fascination for exploring the sonic possibilities inherent in friction, magnetism and resonant systems.  Although his work spans composition, improvisation, installations and soundtracks, common threads woven throughout  are a keen ear for sonic minutiae, a preference for physical over digital audio manipulation and a yearning for transcendence through sound.

Much of his activity has involved re-investigating the sonic properties of the guitar through a combination of traditional and extended techniques, guitar preparation and modified designs. These pieces are often drone based and densely textural, “blurring lines between metal machine music and holy minimalism.” (The Wire, UK)  Further works utilising resonance, feedback and the harmonic series have employed electric sitar, chromatic handbell sets, cymbals and long string instruments.

Most recently he has constructed a set of new instruments; the “Vibrissae”. These are microtonally tuned metal rod instruments, which are activated by longitudinal stroking to produce a sustained, “singing” tone. He formed the Overtone Ensemble in 2012 to perform works using these instruments along with other self-made instruments.

He has performed or collaborated with Machinefabriek, Jason Kahn, Jon Mueller, Otomo Yoshihide, Phill Niblock, Mike Cooper, Candlesnuffer, Philip Samartzis, Rod Cooper, The Wall of E Guitar Ensemble and many others.

Solo and collaborative releases include “Radio Ghosts” (23five, 2007), “Slow Twitch”, (Dr Jims, 2004), “Sieve” with David Brown (Bocian, 2013), “Glisten” and “Patina” with Machinefabriek (Low Point, 2009 and 2011) and “Plates and Wires” with Jon Mueller, (Crouton 2007).

correspondences is a social enterprise. We focus upon creative projects which bring together socially engaged, situational and interdisciplinary practices to connect diverse audiences, thinkers and artists in ways that stimulate, inspire and question.

The creative programme includes independently curated and co-curated: site-specific exhibitions; workshops, talks and events; and, special publications, with leading artists from Australia and elsewhere.

For the remainder of 2019/20 and 2020/21, correspondences’ key focus is the co-curation, exhibition design and creative production of Silent Dialogue.

Silent Dialogue is an art exhibition and programme of events about migration and the search for a sense of belonging in an 'otherland'. 

Here you will find 'playlists' and 'repostings' from Silent Dialogue and correspondences' other creative projects.

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