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– with Sounding Situations we premiered War Whispers successfully in Hamburg and performed a side specific version of it at BAM Festival, Berlin. The piece is based on the text “to be in a time of war” by Etel Adnan, which contributed her voice and statements to the performance. The piece reflects on Distant Resonances (so the title of the trilogie, in which War Whispers is the second position) by informing our daily -safe- space through news from far places. In Hamburg we performed the piece together with Jana de Troyer and Negin Razzaghi, in Berlin as Sounding Situations Trio. On one day Klaus Janek was substituted by our friend and colleague Biliana Voutchkova.

– with  sOnic alchemy Sofia Borges and Klaus Janek we are working on our first release PONDER REFLECTIONS for scatter archive. The recordings were made at Morphine Raum by Rabih Beaini, Berlin and mixed and mastered by Alexis Baskin. Release date to be announced!

– a book of waves gets reviews: “These are two players who know each other very well and know how to interact with each other, doing a great job.” (Vital Weekly -FdW) “And perhaps that is the secret joy here: Graydon and Janek remind us that music, like water, has no need to hurry. It will find us, carve us, drown us, or cradle us, whether or not we’re ready.” (chaindlk.com – Vito Camarretta), “Texturally absorbing excursions in liminal space between electro-acoustic music and a scrabbly sort of computerised free jazz” (Boomkat), “A Book of Waves flows-floats with its highly nuanced blocks of suggestive, liquid-like waves of sounds, and this cyclical sonic adventure perfectly echoes Helreich’s book and its deep ocean metaphors. (salt-peanuts.eu – Eyal Hareuveni)

– The Japan tour was very successful and brought us recordings of wonderful encounters, so for example the session we did at DOMM Studios, Tokio with Toshimaru Nakamura, no input mixer, or a concert documentation with Takeshi Nishimoto, guitar in Matsumoto. We are planning and working on it to release the recordings in 2026. Once more thanks to Andy Graydon which started the Japan momentum and keeps it rolling.

to come

Dec 12: with Miriam Ackermann, flue electronics, Nicola Hein, guitar electronics, Rainer Spehl Woodshop, Berlin

Nov 23: with Sounding Situations, War Whispers, BAM Festival, Berlin
Nov 20-22: with Cathy Miliken and Dietmar Wiesner (direction) and Lucy Zhao, Ravi Shrinivasan, Bakr Khleifi, Silvia Ocougne, Michael Schiefel, Warnfried Altmann, Marius Moritz, Thomas König,  Tonkünstlerfest, Magdeburg
Nov 6: with Ingo Reulecke dance and Wieland Möller, percussion, Rainer Spehl Woodshop, Berlin

Oct 20: with Echomorph (Ira Hadzic Cedrik Fermont gongs/field recordings and Michael Thieke, clarinet), Galliläa Kirche, Berlin
Oct 11: sOnic alchemy feat Alex Nowitz,  Designing Voices, fabrik, Potsdam
Oct 7-10: with Sounding Situations: War Whispers, Kampnagel, Hamburg