COMING UP:

SPECTRES VII
15.06.2024
ALAG
Wibichstrasse 43, Zürich, Switzerland

We are very excited to announce the next installment of the Spectres series for contemporary acousmatic and electroacoustic music. Spectres VII will be focused on the spatialisation and performance of the works

Speaking Spaces 2: Surfaces from Graz (2023)
by Natasha Barrett

Mare Buchlae (2024)
by Ana Dall'Ara-Majek

Agon (1998)
by Horacio Vaggione

as well as performances by

Axel Kolb

Manolo Müller


The works of Natasha Barrett, Ana Dall'Ara-Majek and Horacio Vaggione will be performed by Axel Kolb and Manolo Müller with the explicit permission from the composers.


The concert will take place at ALAG, a former church which has found another use since 2019 and is now a place for a variety of cultural and political events. Spectres will be the last concert to take place in this repurposed building before it will be transformed once more and will serve as an additional classroom for the school next door. For Spectres VII we will fill the room with a concert-specific multichannel loudspeaker system with the speakers positioned at different points in the space. This allows us to work with and react to the specific acoustic architecture of this former church, transforming the building into a site-specific instrument on which the works will be performed. Projecting the pieces into the room using this instrument reinforces the interplay between the venue's actual acoustic architecture and the works' internal musical sonic space, both unfolding as integral to the musical experience.

Speaking Spaces 2: Surfaces from Graz will be performed from the stereo verison while the original is immersive Ambisonics.
This concert is made possible with the kind technical support by the ICST Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology.

More Details to be announced soon.


Spectres VI Flyer

SPECTRES VI

28.04.2024, 19:30 at Babyangel,
Geroldstrasse 31, 8005 Zürich

For Spectres VI we invited the austrian artist Fabian Lanzmaier, who will perform an improvised multichannel concert. Additionally, we also invited the three acts LAMINA, Gildas Bouchead and the duo HJM from Brussels, as well as Axel Kolb and Manolo Müller from Spectres.

Fabian Lanzmaier (AUT)
LAMINA (BE)
Gildas Bouchaud (BE)
HJM (BE)
Axel Kolb (CH)
Manolo Müller (CH)

With kind technical support by the ICST Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology.

Flyer by Babybrusher

Spectres X Sonic Matter Flyer

SPECTRES x SONIC MATTER Zürich.
01.12.2023, 22:00 at Walcheturm.

Our curatorial collaboration with the Beirut based collective FREQUENT DEFECT

- Spectres (22:00):

Annie Aries
Atrice
Axel Kolb
Modulaw


- Frequent Defect (23:30):

June as
Renata
Jad Atoui
NÂR
h.w.g.a.

Blue Moon Rising

Spectres x PW-Magazine



A collaboration with PW-Magazine for their gathering "Blue Moon Rising" at Cabaret Voltaire.

Our contribution:
Jamira Estrada
Modulaw
and Axel Kolb

next to a lot of other exciting contributions curated by
Body Archive

07.07.2023
20:00 - 00:00
Cabaret Voltaire, Geroldstrasse 31, 8005 Zürich

Spectres V Flyer
Spectres 4 Flyer No. 1

Spectres IV (part 1/2)


The first evening of the Spectres IV presented four acousmatic performances by

Modulaw
Axel Kolb
Endobliss
XV06-Y



06.08.2022
Aktionshalle Rote Fabrik, Zürich, Switzerland
Doors 20:30


Flyer by ©Babybrusher

Spectres 4 Flyer No. 2

Spectres IV (part 2/2)


The second evening of the fourth Spectres presented four electroacoustic performances by

Robin Siedl
Caterina De Nicola
Pain
Noijzu



07.08.2022
Aktionshalle Rote Fabrik, Zürich, Switzerland
Doors 17:30



Flyer by ©Babybrusher

Spectres 3 Flyer

Spectres III


The third Spectres was located at Zentralwäscherei Zürich
and was part of the event "YAWREDDY"

Next to other concerts, three electroacoustic pieces by
Modulaw
Alban Schelbert
and Axel Kolb
were performed using multiple speakers.


03.12.2021
Zentralwäscherei Zürich
Doors 17:30



Flyer by ©Babybrusher

Spectres 2 Flyer

Spectres II


For the second Spectres in october 2021,
Li Tavor
performed their piece „The Presence Of My Voice“
for voice and the Buchla synthesizer
next to two acousmatic pieces by
Modulaw
and Axel Kolb



14.10.2021
Secret location, Zürich, Switzerland
Doors 19:30



Flyer by ©Babybrusher

Spectres 1 Flyer

Spectres I


Spectres‘ first appearance in august 2021.

Performances by

Jamira Estrada
Modulaw
Simeon Sigg
Axel Kolb



12.08.2021
Manegg, Halle E, Zürich, Switzerland
Doors 20:00



Flyer by ©Babybrusher