Wednesday. 17.5., 20hrs.
cuba-cultur
Tickets: 8,-/ 5,- €

Xtended Guitars: The quartet with Erhard Hirt, Hans Tammen, Nick Didkovsky & Mike Cooper played contemporary tabletop guitar music - sounds that seem chaotic on the surface, with a forest of apparently separate details, interlinked underneath, woven together as a maze of infinite complexity. Xtended Guitars 1 Xtended Guitars 2 Hans Tammen Erhard Hirt Nick Didkovsky Mike Cooper

Hans Tammen

Erhard Hirt

Although living on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean the four musicians of „Xtended Guitars“ met and built a colorful ensemble:
- Erhard Hirt, long-time experienced in improvisational and experimental music
- Hans Tammen, who after his past as a Jazz musician nowadays develops interactive music software, which he uses besides preparations for his „endangered“ guitar playing
- Nick Didkovsky who as a composer and computer programmer teaches at the New York University and
- Mike Cooper, with backgrounds in folkblues, who today is concerned with electronic music, filmmusic and sound installations.
The four musicians all use their instruments as „table-guitars“, thus by the use of a great variety of gadgets exploring new sound-worlds. At first their playing sounds chaotic but then the musicians create a dense network of an infinite number of structures.