Saturday, 07 December, 2024 - 20:30

TETRATON // The MINTON-BEYER DUO

Liz Allbee
Sabine Ercklentz
Phil Minton
Kriton Beyer

TETRATON: In this improvisational duo, Allbee and Ercklentz continue their investigations into the nature of the trumpet and its sonic and imaginative possibilities. The audience is invited to dive into auditory worlds, which borrow from fantastic underwater visions and unknown jungles, populated by futuristic hybrid beings. The two experimental trumpet & electronics players from Berlin share an interest in radical extensions & techniques and multi-channel sound, having both developed their own language and tools. They use diverse strategies for sound production and diffusion.

The MINTON–BEYER DUO seems like a study of the phenomenon of the voice with two different instruments: the human voice and the daxophone.
Acoustically, despite the speed, changeability and abundance of musical information, the sound of this duo is simple, clear, unambiguous and direct and therefore very intimate and never artificial. The two voices complement each other equally, without one ever covering up the other. They move gracefully somewhere between the animal and the human, sometimes comical and grotesque, sometimes subtle and fragile, in an intuitive musical exchange of blows between two multifaceted voices of different natures.