appearance 2025

Nov 20-22: with Sören Birke, WuWei, Lucy Zhao, Ravi Shrinivasan, Bakr Khleifi, Cathy Miliken, Dietmar Wiesner, Michael Schiefel, Tonkünstlerfest, Magdeburg

Sept 10: with Francis Heery, electronics, Olaf Hochherz, turning plate, Zwitschermaschine, Berlin

July 2: with Ingo Reulecke, dance, Wieland Möller, percussion, Hosek Contemporary, Berlin

June 19: with Echomorph (Ira Hadzic, Michael Thieke, Cedrik Fermont), Zwingli Kirche, Berlin
June 13-15: with Sounding Situations, WAGNER WELTWEIT, Tischlerei Deutsche Oper, Berlin
June 7: with sounding situations, NEAR MY EARS, Locarno
June 6: solo at Ether Festival, Locarno

May 22: with Andy Graydon, Give me little more, Matsumoto
May 21: with Andy Graydon, Space Eauuu, Kobe
May 17: with Andy Graydon, Gift Lab, Tokyo
May 16: with Andy Graydon, LOWW, Tokyo

April 23-26: with Sounding Situations, WAGNER WELTWEIT, K1 Kampnagel, Hamburg
April 9-12: with Sabdagatitara, Frühlings Kurse, Darmstadt

March 18: with Brendan Dougherty, drums and Milan Zendehnam, guitar at Rot Bart, Berlin
March 17: as sOnic alchemy (Sofia Borges/Klaus Janek) feat. Alex Nowitz, Rainer Spehl Workshop, Berlin
March 1: as sOnic alchemy (Sofia Borges/Klaus Janek) feat. Natalie Peters, Morphine Raum, Berlin

Feb 22-23: sounding situations with Biliana Voutchkova, violin, Christian Kobi, saxophon, NEAR MY EARS, Sonohr Festival, Bern
Feb 18: premiere of the movie Stolz & Eigensinn, from Gerd Kroske, were Michael Thieke and I created the filmscore, Delphi Filmpalast/Berlinale, Berlin
Feb 13: with Francis Heery, electronics and Olaf Hochherz, turning plate, Rainer Spehl Workshop, Berlin

Jan 12: with Echomorph – Cedrik Fermont, gong, electronic, Ira Hadzic, gong and Michael Thieke, clarinet at PAS Berlin

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Near my ears

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To be in a time of war”, a text by the Lebanese philosopher Etel Adnan. Adnan, is the starting point for a ramble through the streets of a city center. Simultaneous to war reports and world events, tourists stream towards the city center, homeless people, working people, children at play, party-goers, follow their everyday lives. As a mobile music theater, Near My Ears seeks out places where the quotidian and the political meet to create an approach to global connectedness.

Our journey to this show actually started 10 years ago at our residency in Brussels at QO2 where we developed the first prototype of our mobile live set up. Actually by then the text of Etel Adnan found us (in this order) — and has been accompanying us through different times. This text-tissue, as Etel would probably called it herself, made us search for her, and in 2017 we traveled to meet her in Paris in her apartment. We spoke about our work and what we would like to do with her “tissue” and she recorded it with us. We are so grateful to have met her in person. We have been patently waiting all these years and knew at some point these recordings will come to live again — which is now in Near my Ears.

I premiered this piece together with two amazing local musicians Dorrit Bauerecker and Rochus Aust, Milena Kipfmüller and Etels voice in Köln, walking through the city and trying to understand and feel what it means “to be in a time of war”…..

In future places and cities we look out for collaborating with local musicians.

concept, music and performance: Sounding Situations / Klaus Janek and Milena Kipfmüller

music and performance (Köln): Dorrit Bauerecker and Rochus Aust

text: Etel Adnan and Milena Kipfmüller

production: Kathrin Goelz

management: Fabia Mekus and Anna-Mareen Henke

pls click HERE for the recording of the premiere of the piece at Sommerblut Festival Cologne 2024

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