Eyal Maoz – Stefan Poetzsch – Lukas Ligeti Trio

Performing together for more than 10 years, the duet navigates the perplexing landscape that exists in the intersection of free improvisation, contemporary, classical music, and rock. The music deconstructs sound while at the same time challenging the hegemony of genre in Western European musical tradition. Their playing is dramatic and playful while insightful of the problematic. They reflect the relevance of improvisation to our lives today.

Violin, viola and live electronics composer Stefan Poetzsch (Germany) is known to realize his partly tonal extensions of his string instruments with ingenious and unconventionally arranged live electronics, while distinctively supporting and emphasizing the natural sound of the viola.  His catalog of more than 100 compositions and improvisation projects has often been performed in connection with dance, texts, and painting.
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Eyal Maoz (NYC) is a composer, guitarist and bandleader. Maoz’s music oscillates between extremely delicate and highly volatile. His work evokes extravaganza of cutting edge experimental and chamber grace. “Maoz redefines what ethnocentric world fusion can be from a mean-streets New York City perspective.” (All Music Guide), and in a 2021 review, Downtown Music Gallery writes:”… Eyal Maoz is one of the best electric guitarists to emerge from the Downtown scene over the past decade plus. Each song here gives Maoz a chance to add his magic touch, crunch or incisive lead guitar licks while never showing off and always in favor of the song they are the center of…”
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The composer and drummer/electronic percussionist/improvisor Lukas Ligeti has forged a fiercely independent path at the cutting edge of new music, creating strikingly original work cognizant of a multitude of traditions yet belonging to none of contemporary music’s known streams or groupings. At the intersection of contemporary composition, Downtown New York experimentalism, jazz, and electronics, his work builds strongly on concepts from various music traditions from around the world, especially from Africa. Often characterized by complex polymetric structures, his music ranges from the through-composed to the free-improvised. He is deeply engaged in the field of “experimental intercultural collaboration”, a phrase he has coined. Born in Austria, he lived mainly in New York City from 1998 until 2015 and subsequently in Southern California, where he served as faculty member of the PhD program “Integrated Composition, Improvisation and Technology” at the University of California, Irvine. He has also been an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria and divides his time between Miami, Florida and Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Slow Slow Loris

Slow Slow Loris plays avant-garde industrial noise melodies using voice and electronics. Based in Berlin and the US, they have released albums on Staaltape, Zaetraom, & Cloister Recordings and have toured both Europe and the USA.

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