2011 C. "Zingaro" solo - Festival Live!iXem / Chiesa di Sant'Eulalia dei Catalani / Palermo

Live recording at MIA Festival 2019 

From an almost compulsive fascination with sound, the overwhelming resonance of large acoustic spaces, and the subtleties of false emptiness. We are left with the collective exploration of strings and wood, in constant vibrations in their reflected silences.

A different string quartet, which sacralizes the profane. Or profanes the sacred, initially presented as StringChamberPot, later renamed as ZARM Ensemble. 

ZARM Ensemble are:
Carlos “Zingaro” - Violin
David Magalhães Alves - Violin
Ulrich Mitzlaff - Cello
Alvaro Rosso - Double Bass 

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About the show:
"Cleanly connected in all facets of a performance, the established quartet’s
balance meant that sonorous double bass notes were as prominent
throughout as trebly sweeps from the others.
By midpoint, blazing staccato upsurges were bursting from “Zíngaro”’s and
Mitzlaff’s string sets, while Rosso prepared his strings with clothespins
placed just above the bridge to create thumping strokes that were then
decorated with rococo pulses from the violins.
Later with Alves’ output more tonal and “Zingaro”’s more dissonant, the two
fiddlers tossed the theme back and forth without losing its lilt, with all four
contributing to a savory pitch-sliding finale."
KEN WAXMAN
(2019 - Jazz World)
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Recording by Daniela Sousa E José Felix Da Costa

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Live at MIA festival 2019

Jetsam, from sea unworthiness, things thrown overboard to lighten a hurrying ship.

ZARM Ensemble present a short video, a collage of discarded recordings reconstructed into something new. Miniatures of improvised moments, brimming with collective life and variety making landfall.

Recorded at Galeria Monumental by António Busca.
Edited and Produced by David Magalhães Alves

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ZARM Ensamble are an award-winning string quartet started by Carlos "Zíngaro” (violin), David Magalhães Alves (Violin), Ulrich Mitzlaff (Cello) and Alvaro Rosso (Double bass).

From an almost compulsive fascination with sound, the overwhelming resonance of large acoustic spaces, and the subtleties of false emptiness. We are left with the collective exploration of strings and wood, in constant vibrations in their reflected silences.
A different string quartet, which sacralizes the profane. Or profanes the sacred.

ZARM Ensemble has held performances at Galeria Monumental, Lisboa(2018); the MIA festival, Atouguia da Baleia ( 2019); Faroeste EMCII, Caldas da Rainha (2021); Culturgest - Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisboa(2022); Ciclo de Polinização, Paredes de Coura (2022); and was part of the “Renova” project led by Musician Carlos Zíngaro and Choreographer Paula Pinto, winner of Renova Art Commissions (RAC) 2021 curated by Martim Sousa Tavares.

Jetsam

Carlos "Zíngaro” - violin
Ulrich Mitzlaff - violoncello

SYNOPSIS

The currently called immediate composition is the base of this duo formed by Portuguese violinist Carlos “Zíngaro”, central figure of free jazz and European experimental music, and Ulrich Mitzlaff, a German violoncellist with multidimensional collaborations in several categories.

From this initial premise, they develop their expression and create sound spaces that, without being related to specific languages, are not alien to the paths and influences of every component of their creation.

In this sense, it´s predictable that, during this duo´s performance, there´ll be an intense and diverse musical interaction. The exploratory sensitivity of these musicians goes from free jazz to contemporary music in its most random side, including many other approaches to the music of our time.

Photos by Nuno Martins

Carlos "Zíngaro" | Ulrich Mitzlaff – Ex2 Live at Festival Lem 2019, Barcelona

ULRICH MITZLAFF
Violoncello player (acoustic and electric) & composer

ULRICH MITZLAFF completed his cello studies in the seventies at Tübingen (Germany) with Professor Stefan Zarnescú. Since 1996 he lives at Lisbon, Portugal, where he works as cellist and composer of contemporary and experimental music, improvisation, free-jazz, conceptual composition and sound-art. He collaborates with various artists in multidisciplinary and electro-acoustic projects and he is member of the art-association “granular” (http://www.granular.pt).

He participated in many international festivals like “Lumina 2015” (Museu Paula Rego, Cascais 2015), “Granular Festival” (Lisbon 2015), “Jazz ao Centro” (Coimbra 2015), “XVI Ciclo de Música Contemporánea” (Museo Vostell Malpartida, Cáceres, Spain 2014), “Musica Viva” (Lisbon 2012), “Jazz em Agosto” (Lisbon 2012 and 2010), “Tempo para Criar” (Guimarães – European Capital of Culture 2012), “ImaxinaSons” (Vigo, 2011), “Sonorities” - festival of contemporary music (Belfast, Northern Ireland 2010 and 2005), “Metasonic III” (Lisbon 2010), “Festival LEM Primavera” (Barcelona, 2009), “Festival Portugal and the World” (Brussels 2007), “Metasonic LX” (Lisbon 2006), “Festival Músicas do Mundo” (Sines 2006), “Festival Alkantara” (Lisbon 2006), “CAMP 03 - international festival for electronic music, sound art and visual arts” (Tübingen 2003) and “CAMP 05” (Montemor-o-Novo 2005), “Encontros de Música Experimental- EME” (Setúbal 2000 and 2001), “Ó da Guarda” (Guarda 1999, 2005 and 2008) among many others. 

Video-links
Separados Frutos at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, May 2007:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN12qeHM_7c; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm2hdN20fNY; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjnNReXrk4; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWYNW5g5V60)
Evan Parker Improvisation Collective “Call them Improvisors”, “Sonorities Festival 2010” at Belfast Northern Ireland: https://vimeo.com/55792259
Manuel Guimarães | Ulrich Mitzlaff 
Grass: https://myspace.com/ulrichmitzlaff/video/grass/7946131;
Lodo: https://myspace.com/ulrichmitzlaff/video/lodo/7947121
I/O – Ulrich Mitzlaff | Carlos Santos present “BLAU”, at “EKA Palacea”, Lisbon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIFuH64CuLo&feature=share&fb_ref=share
Visual Piano - Kurt Laurenz Theinert | Ulrich Mitzlaff present “Visual Piano” at Museu Paula Rego - Casa das Histórias, Festival LUMINA 2015, Cascais: https://vimeo.com/139681042

Audio-links
I/O – Ulrich Mitzlaff (violoncello, objects) | Carlos Santos (digital electronics, objects) present “BLAU”, at “XVI Ciclo de Música Contemporánea”, Museo Vostell Malpartida, Cáceres, Spain: https://soundcloud.com/umitzlaff/io-blau-live-at-mvm-exa

Discography 
Cròniques 2, Albert Cirera / Ulrich Mitzlaff, Discordian Records 2015 
http://discordianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cr-niques-2-2
Day One, “Zíngaro” / Mitzlaff / Viegas / Rosso - 4TET, JACC-Records 2015
https://soundcloud.com/zmvr-4tet
Cellos, Ulrich Mitzlaff / Miguel Mira, Creative Sources Recordings 2010
Spiritualized, Lisbon Improvisation Players (LIP), Clean Feed/Trem Azul 2006 
A morte do príncipe D. Afonso e outros romances tradicionais da Guarda, Teresa Aurora Gonçalves, Aquilo 2004 
Compact Disconcert, Nuno Rebelo, Raka Records & Teatro Nacional S. João 2002 
Miles Away, Ulrich Mitzlaff, Elroi Record Productions 1994 


Carlos "Zíngaro" | Ulrich Mitzlaff – Ex2 Live at Festival Lem 2019, Barcelona

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