Pattern Dissection
The Artists

Farida Amadou© Niclas Weber

Musician, sound artist and composer. Self-taught on the bass guitar, her approach is shaped by radical curiosity and the transformative power to spontaneously reinterpret and expand her material free of conventions. Farida is moving virtuosly between overwhelming walls of sound, vibrating string slaps and rhythmically concise fingerpicking.

Farida Amadou appears on Circuit.

faridamadou.com

Mark Holub© Georg Cizek-Graf

Drummer of outstanding versatility and responsiveness, full of ideas and quick on his feet. Through his playing as well as his experience as a band-leader and composer, Mark is able to steer this coequal group towards thundering crescendo, but sits equally comfortable in the centre of complex and fine rhythm probing in response to impulses thrown in by his companions.

Mark Holub appears on NERR – Filling Open Spaces.

markholub.com

Liz Kosack© Cristina Marx

Liz is a professionally trained, award-winning musician and designer mainly working with an array of synthesizers and masks. Her musical language is an idiosyncratic creature of its own, birthing unique sounds rarely graspable but utterly fascinating, swift in taking turns and always one step ahead of any expectation.

Liz Kosack appears on Circuit.

zardkom.com

Dag Magnus Narvesen© Christer Männikus

Drummer, percussionist and composer with resolute sensitivity and attention to detail who is mainly working in the field of improvised and contemporary music. Working in ad-hoc encounters, Dag Magnus's creativity and well-trained ability to actuate his musical environment encourages his bandmates to uncover new, collectively mapped ground.

Dag Magnus Narvesen appears on Circuit.

dagmagnus.com

Johanna Pärli© Cécile Jund

Johanna makes use of her double bass’s entire body, extracting an armada of multi-layered sounds with an immensely high sonic spectrum that is also reflected in the diversity of her musical projects. She is both patient and wildly adventurous in her performance, and in this trio her contribution wanders from considerate bow work to brisk fingerpicking, gnarly string strikes and pedal use to startling effects.

Johanna Pärli appears on NERR – Filling Open Spaces.

johannapaerli.ch

Sofía Salvo© Cristina Marx

Sofía unleashes the full unbounded potential of her voice by taking advantage of her baritone saxophone’s broad range of possibilities. She is one of Berlin’s most singular musicians and her widely proven capabilities cover gentle additions to support and underline pulsive interplay just as masterfully as rapid licks and roaring bursts of noise, spurring the collective to unpredictable intensity.

Sofía Salvo appears on NERR – Filling Open Spaces.

sofiasalvo.com