Klang & Realität #4 (Sound & Reality #4)
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This edition within the Klang & Realität series, curated by Phillip Schulze, unfolds three unique acoustic worlds: The Mehta Schulze Duo creates multidimensional sound sculptures utilising hybrid trumpets and analogue synthesis. Elisabeth Coudoux probes the tension between sound, silence, and movement with her cello. David Hanraths combines analogue and digital sounds to create immersive spaces.
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The lives of Rajesh Mehta (composer, musician, artist, engineer) and Phillip Schulze (composer, media artist, electronic musician, curator) have crossed several times over the past two decades.
Their first encounter took place in the aftermath of Mehta giving a lecture on his music architecture project „Sounding Buildings“ which Schulze attended as a student, as part of a design seminar by architect Daniel Libeskind at the HFG Karlsruhe. During the late 1980s, Mehta studied with multi-instrumentalist and composer Anthony Braxton, while Schulze also studied with Braxton years later, following his studies in Karlsruhe. Both lived in the US, Singapore, and Germany at roughly overlapping times, keeping in touch sporadically, but without settling on the right moment for a creative collaboration. This changed with Mehta’s move to Duisburg in 2019.
Over the years, Rajesh Mehta has developed a multitude of instruments under the „Hybrid Trumpets“ moniker: Different trumpets may be connected to each other in various ways employing tubes to create expanded soundscapes generating a wide variety of tonalities and musical noise material. Schulze projects counterpoint sound panoramas into the room using analogue modular synthesizers via multi-channel speaker systems which can be reminiscent of abstract representations of fauna and flora.
With their duo, Schulze and Mehta combine their skills and energies to realise multidimensional sound sculptures in special architectures, simultaneously opening a trans-idiomatic and intercultural quest for oscillations between the body and ephemeral, virtual and physical space.
Elisabeth Coudoux is a composer-performer, mainly as a cellist, increasingly interested in installation-based performances in which she is involved as a protagonist with texts and movements. She studied classical cello in Dresden, expanding this with her jazz cello studies in Cologne. Most recently, she studied in the „Sound and Reality“ master’s degree programme at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. Her many years of international activity as a cellist within the independent current contemporary music scene have taken her to international festivals together with many well-known musicians. Her current projects are „Spinifex Maxximus“, „FEAR O‘ SHE“, Duo Moir/Coudoux, Trio „netzlich“, Trio Filippou/Riahi/Coudoux. She produced several recordings, including a solo debut.
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David Hanraths describes himself as a musician, sound artist, hobbyist, producer and realisator. His work is guided by an interest in methods and technologies that deepen the interaction with the world. He studied music informatics and production at the Institute for Music and Media and has been studying in the „Sound and Reality“ programme since 2023. David creates his own environments with digital and analogue means, primarily in collaboration with artists from other disciplines. He has realised various sound installations in Germany and played concerts in various formations as a live coder or instrumentalist. The process lies at the core of his work. This means that the expression of spontaneity, curiosity and playfulness, as well as improvisation and coincidence, determine what happens – products remain a secondary matter.
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Mehta Schulze Duo, Elisabeth Coudoux, David Hanraths
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Klang & Realität is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the Alliance of International Production Houses.