grubenklang.reloaded
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The "grubenklang.reloaded" project seeks to reflect space and time through the medium of contemporary jazz. It is primarily based in Dortmund in the east and Moers in the west. Its theme is the construction of spatial and artistic bridges in the region and far beyond.
The project harks back to the remarkable musical traditions of jazz and pursues the standards set in the early 1980s by the "GrubenKlangOrchester", which was founded by Bochum pianist and composer Georg Graewe. Domestic and international musicians, including many leading contemporary soloists, were assembled in this ensemble, which for a decade shaped the innovative sound of the Ruhr region. Today it unites tradition and modernity, the past and the future.
Graewe will manage the project as Artistic Director as well as taking an active part as composer and performing musician. Alongside concerts featuring the reformed "GrubenKlangOrchester", events will include "flash mobs", spontaneous concerts and musical readings. These happenings will be supplemented by chamber music recitals involving regional musicians and artists from New Orleans, Vancouver, Amsterdam, Chicago and New York.
Georg Graewe & the GrubenKlangOrchester
3.9.: domicil, Dortmund
28.11.: Zeche Carl, Essen
29.11.: 17th Dortmund Jazz Days, words and music (in the Napp bookshop, Bochum; all events at 8 p.m.)
2.9.: Artist tbc
7.10.: Barbara Finken, Joanna Lewis, Melissa Coleman, Georg Graewe
4.11.: Artist tbc
2.12.: Surprise act, guerrilla jazz and galleries; spontaneous concerts, flash mobs, exhibitions and installations in the Ruhr Metropolis, information: guerilla@grubenklang-reloaded.de, sonic fiction 2010
7.11.: stanzwerk, Bochum, workshops and master classes, autumn 2010, new generation
29.9 – 1.10.: domicil, Dortmund
Partners: MOERS Festival, domicil, Napp bookshop (Bochum) and others
Website:
www.grubenklang-reloaded.de