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Hybrid Sessions je každoměsíční událost konající se v Kampusu Hybernská. Akce vždy začíná kratším improvizačním vystoupením dvou hudebníků, kteří spolu nikdy v takovéto konstelaci nehráli a kteří ideálně přicházejí z různých hudebních scén. Po koncertě následuje jam session, který je otevřený všem hudebníkům bez ohledu na žánrové zaměření. Chceme vytvořit prostředí pro kreativní tvorbu v přítomném okamžiku, nic není předem určené, jediným očekáváním je vysoká úroveň bytí v přítomnosti. Základní backline (bicí, kytarová komba, PA, klavír) je zajištěn.
Cristoph Irmer – housle
Jonathan Aardestrup – kontrabas
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Hybrid Sessions is a monthly series at Kampus Hybernská. We feature an opening improvised duo set with two musicians coming from different backgrounds to form a new constellation. Afterwards, we host a jam session open to all musicians, regardless of background. We want to create an open environment where musicians feel free to be creative in the moment, nothing is predetermined and the only expectation is a high level of presence. A basic backline will be provided.
Cristoph Irmer
From 1980 to 1985, Cristoph Irmer studied Teaching Music at Kassel University, then until 1990 classical violin at the Conservatory Köln-Wuppertal. He lives and works in Wuppertal. In 1994/95 he participated in the Peter Kowald project "365 days at ORT" in Wuppertal; in 1996 he appeared at the "Drumming for Africa" with Tony Oxley, Trevor Watts and others. In the same year he worked together with Arvo Pärt at the Vinschgau Organ Summer. Irmer organized the annual "Klappstuhl-Fest" for free music and dance in Wuppertal from 2000 to 2010. He joined the "London Improvisers Orchestra" from 2002 until 2012. Together with Gunda Gottschalk and other musicians he appeared at the Moers Festival in 2006. Since 2007, also together with Gunda Gottschalk, he organizes the "Wuppertal Improvisation Orchestra", which has cooperated with a lot of well-known musicians, dancers and visual artists from different European countries. Irmer is a member of the "Ring for Group Improvisation", based in Berlin, as well as the "Exploratorium" Berlin (Center for Improvised Music and Creative Music Education). He offers workshops for improvised music and conducting in groups, most recently in Krefeld at the "Frei Vier Festival" in 2022.
Jonathan Aardestrup
Copenhagen-based musician, composer, producer and organizer Jonathan Aardestrup has balanced his expressive output between the unconventional and the catchy. A free-spirited bass player who is always seeking to break new ground in denial of pointless repetition, leading to a continous investegation in composed original music, improvisation and the corelation of the two.
While always playing with collectively based groups that worked closely
together for many years, the idea of bringing musicians together has been central to his efforts and since he was a young teenager, he has been organizing events which facilitate foundation for musicians to build relations through music as a social phenomenon based on freedom – characterised by abstract, sometimes wordless and always independent political statements in Hip Hop, Jazz, Reggae, Avantgarde and Experimental Electronic.
In the last couple of years, his primary focus has been on creating a continous flow of more or less spontanious sessions with likeminded musicians refecting common ideas in music as in life. New meetings and explorations with emotionally unifed collaborators has lead to a more open and direct musical conception.
This has sparked jolts of mystic magical energy, in new constelations with many different members of the impro scene including Louis Moholo-Moholo, TS Hawk, Anders Vestergaard, Rasmus Kjær, Laura Toxværd, Christian Balvig, Niels Mestre, Sven Meinild, Kristian Tangviek, Mads Egetoft, Paul Wacrenier, Szymon Pimpon, Andreas Røysum, Siv Øyunn, or Maria Dybbroe.
He is a member of the international collective of improvisors The Community, currently playing in The Way Out, Trup Aardestrup and on a freelance basis.
