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| Sunday, April 25th, 7pm Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee $6.00 General/$5.00 Advance tickets and Members Alternating Currents Live presents: Hardcore Chambermusic Hans Koch, Martin Schütz, & Fredy Studer Trio Hans Koch - reeds, electronics, sampling, and composition Martin Schütz - electric and acoustic cellos, electronics, sampling, and composition Fredy Studer - drums, percussion, and composition The Swiss trio "KOCH-SCHÜTZ-STUDER" is well known on the international scene for its  radical and uncompromising hardcore chamber music. These
three musicians have worked together since 1990 to create a trio music
characterized by hard contrasts and contradictions. Sequenced sounds
from various unrecognizable sources and their very original approach to
live-electronics creates a dense wall of sound in stark contrast to
completely acoustic, minimalistic-ambient improvisations. Analog
("played") and digital ("programmed") beats are juxtaposed against
free "outer-limits" improvisations. It is a music free of stylistic
restrictions. In addition to recording as a trio, they have
collaborated with musicians from Cuba (the CD "Fidel"), Cairo ("Heavy
Cairo Traffic"), as well as New York DJs I-Sound and M.Singe ("Roots &
Wires.")Biographies: Self taught drummer and percussionist Fredy Studer was born 1948 in Lucerne, where he still resides. He was one of the first drummers to incorporate open improvisation as well as straight beats into his style, and, since the early seventies, has worked with many different bands on a wide variety of projects, including concerts and workshops, radio and television performances, and compositions for dance, theater and film throughout the world. Current groups and projects include his duo with percussionist Pierre Favre and the all-percussion-trio "Schulkowsky- Studer-Baron" (with Robyn Schulkowsky and Joey Baron). He was named "... one of the most innovative drummers in Europe..." by "Drums & Percussion" magazine and his work has been recorded on more than fifty CDs and LPs. Hans Koch quit his career as a recognized classical clarinetist to become one of the most innovative improvising reed-players in Europe. Since the 1980s he has worked with everyone from Cecil Taylor to Fred Frith. He has helped shape the sound of Koch-Schütz-Studer Trio with his very original treatment of live electronics, both as an extension of his saxophones and clarinets as well as with sampling/sequencing. Martin Schütz is a cellist and electronic musician, improvisor and composer. He has been a figure on the European scene of improvised music since the 1980s and has played with innumerable musicians from Europe, USA and elsewhere. His approach to the electric and acoustic cello as a rhythm-& sound-machine is very unique and he is an acknowledged composer / performer for theater, dance and film.  This concert is brought to you by the Alternating Currents Live series,
broadcast on WMSE (91.7) FM, Milwaukee.
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