Electric Umbrella #23

Another edition of one of WORM's most adventurous live music series! Top improvisers meet each other on stage.

Corsano/Pitsiokos/Zimmermann

Chris Corsano, Tizia Zimmermann and Chris Pitsiokos first played together in New York in summer 2023 and quickly found a collective language and love for free jazz, improvised music, drone and noise. Always in the process of discovery, each performance involves further revelations of until-then unimagined musical forms.

Chris Pitsiokos is a New York-born, Berlin-based saxophonist, composer and improviser. As a soloist he has developed a unique voice on the alto saxophone: his expansion of the instrument’s vocabulary has served to multiply its emotive and formal possibilities.
As a bandleader and soloist, he has toured throughout Asia, North and South America and Europe. His writing has appeared in Arcana (edited by John Zorn), and in many articles in the now defunct Sound American, where Pitsiokos was on the editorial board. He has performed with Otomo Yoshihide, Axel Dörner, Keiji Haino, Mazen Kerbaj, Tony Buck, Wendy Eisenberg, Nate Wooley, Miya Masaoka, Paul Lytton, Peter Evans, Weasel Walter, Jaimie Branch and many more!

Tizia Zimmermann has wanted to be a musician ever since she first held an accordion in her hand. She studied classical music on the accordion at the Bern University of the Arts, where she graduated with honours with a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Performance. In addition to interpreting contemporary classical music, she plays in various formations in which free improvisation plays an important role.

Chris Corsano (b. 1975, USA) is a New York-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late 1990's. He's been the rim-batterer of choice for some of the greatest contemporary names in avant-garde music.
Many kindred spirits joined him on stage and on over 180 records, top name a few: Paul Dunmall, Joe McPhee, Okkyung Lee, Bill Orcutt, Mette Rasmussen, John Edwards, Sylvie Courvoisie, Nate Wooley, Jim O'Rourke & Akira Sakata, Merzbow.

Here's a link to them playing as a quartet (with bassist Kyle Motl).

van Bergen / Kimman / Nutters / Prins play Deconstructed Melodies

(Zelf noemen ze het contemplatieve noise-jazz.. // they call it contemplative noise-jazz..)

Een exclusieve formatie van vier Nederlandse muzikale persoonlijkheden die samen alles op muziekgebied hebben gedaan. Improviseren, organiseren van concerten, series en locaties, leiden van bands en ensembles, de wereld rondreizen. Afkomstig uit verschillende generaties en muzikale benaderingswijzen, delen ze in deze bezetting hun liefde voor melodische improvisatie, waarbij ruimte overblijft om lagen van tempo, interpunctie, en lyriek te creëren.
Zelf noemen ze het contemplatieve noise-jazz..
Naast het spelen van eigen composities doen ze onder meer klassieke stukken van Nederlandse collega's: Mengelberg, Altena, en Amerikaanse originators als Sun Ra, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman.

An all-star band of four Dutch musical personalities who, between them, have done everything imaginable in the field of music. Organising and improvising inside of every layer of the music business, curating concerts, series and venues, leading bands and ensembles, playing with the greats, travelling the world. Coming from different generations and directions of noisemaking, here, in this quartet setting, they share their love of melodic improvisation in a floaty memory game, deftly moving around each other, leaving space to create, each on their own, layers of tempo, punctuation, melody, and lyricism.
The result is what the themselves call contemplative noise-jazz.. Playing their own compositions alongside classic pieces from Dutch colleagues (Mengelberg, Altena) and American originators such as Sun Ra, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman.

“We carry our instruments to the stage, and do our best to make sense, to each other and to the audience, referring to culture past and celebrating the originators, while creating something new. A new sensibility both cultural and musical, mostly audible but also beyond sound into the realm of listening, reference, and the practices of everyday life.”

Peter van Bergen - tenor sax
Jeroen Kimman - electric guitar
Koen Nutters - electro-acoustic bass guitar
Gert-Jan Prins - percussion, electronics

Luister wat!
Listen a bit!

**also… IMPROV FOOD… FREE! **
Come around 19:00 hours and enjoy the vegetarian meal, cooked by DE VOLKSKEUKEN, right next to the stage in the concert hall. Please be on time or you’ll find empty plates! Concert will start at 20:30 hours.