Phil Minton & Carl Ludwig Hübsch / Jasper Stadhouders & Rieko Okuda

Duo-Doppelkonzert

Phil Minton & Carl Ludwig Hübsch

Phil Minton and Carl Ludwig Hübsch are on the road as improvisers, daring to step into the unknown day after day, into a new music that assembles itself. This kind of sound is based on blind agreement between the musicians. What is played is what is necessary. The music is the boss. And so, from moment to moment, fine, wild, exciting and magical things emerge before the ears of the listening listeners.

Jasper Stadhouders & Rieko Okuda

Jasper Stadhouders (Tilburg, NL, 1989) plays guitar, bass and mandolin. He's an improviser, composer, band leader and concert organizer. He plays in bands such as PolyBand, Blood Cloud, Cactus Truck, Spinifex, Made to Break, Shelter, Balconies, Bazooka, Bacchanalia, Practical Music, CP Unit, Christian Marien Quartett & more. He toured extensively throughout Europe, North America, Russia, Ethiopia, India, Japan, Palestine, Mexico and Argentina. Jasper can be heard on over 30 releases on labels such as Trost, Not Two, TryTone and Audiographic.

Jasper is part of Amsterdam based musician's collective Stichting Doek. When he's not on the road, he spends his time between Amsterdam and Berlin.

Rieko Okuda is a pianist and a composer from Japan. She began to play Classical music at the age of 3. After she graduated from the college, she moved to USA to study Jazz music. She fell right into the Jazz scene in USA, performing with some of the great American Jazz musicians. A couple of years later, she got interested in Free Jazz and Improvised music while she was in Phliladelphia. She performed with the great improvisers such as Marshall Allen (from San Ra Orchestra). Her interests in Improvised music led her to move to Berlin. Also, she satrted to collaborate with contemporary. In 2017 and 2018, she got the residency in Elektronik Music Studio (EMS) in Stockholm, Sweden. This residency experiences inspired her to Electro Acoustic field, and she started to invite the electronics to her piano solo pieces.

Her first Electro-Acoustic solo album "Paranorm" was integrated chains of microphones and speakers to create feedback ringing overtones. These overtones are also amplified and make waving melodies or almost dancable rythmic patterns over cloud of sounds. In 2020, she has gotten the residency in Visby International Centere for Composers (VICC) to extend her experience, and find more possibilities to create various sounds and composition techniques.