HGB Leipzig / Class For Performative Arts

26.07.2024 | 8 pm

Hackedepicciotto
“Keepsakes”

Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten has been making music as hackedepicciotto with interdisciplinary musician Danielle De Picciotto since 2001. De Picciotto moved to Berlin in 1987 to become the lead singer of the band "Space Cowboys", co-founder of the Love Parade, musician with Crime & The City Solution, co-initiator of the Ocean Club/Monika Werkstadt with Gudrun Gut and has been initiating projects together with Alexander Hacke since 2001. Over the last 20 years they have developed a deeply intuitive and symbiotic working method and creative partnership that has led to their latest and seventh album "Keepsakes". They glide across genres that include drone, industrial, experimental, spoken word and soundscapes. A strangely fragile beauty pervades their work despite pulsating electronics and menacing riffs.

"Our new album is an ode to friendship," says De Picciotto. "During the pandemic, we realised that friendship is the most important thing there is. It was what we missed the most, so we dedicated each song to a person who is important to us. It's an album of gratitude."

Photo: Felix Adler
 

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28.06.2024 | 8 pm

DJ BROM & AROMA PITCH

AROMA PITCH

Aroma Pitch is an electronic music trio from Berlin. The group grew up in Cologne and began to create various types of electronic dance music with their analogue synthesizers, drum machines and harmonized instruments at quite an early age. Being inspired by versatile fields such as classical drumming and Jazz piano they show great enthusiasm for sophisticated rhythms and multi-layered chords. With their unforeseeable and unique collection of throbbing techno, synthesized disco, raw house and other international grooves they provide a continual mood of surprise and discovery to their listeners.

DJ BROM

DJ Brom aka FRANCE ’98 is a native to the Cologne and Düsseldorf club scenesince many years. He started exploring his eclectic and adventurous style of djingafter playing and hosting events in clubs such as Salon des Amateurs, RobertJohnson, Gewölbe, Jaki (fka Studio672), art institutions like Kunsthalle Bielefeld,Kunstverein München or Bergen Kunsthall and off spaces such as K5 or Soyya Roomwhere he became part of the curatorial team.In late 2018 DJ Brom co-founded the label SPA Recordings alongside longterm friendsPhillip Jondo and Friday Dunard and started hosting a monthly slot on London’s NTSradio focusing on dance (and non dance) music with a global perspective and all ofits different sideways.
 

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13.06.2024 | 8 pm

ARIS Quartet

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
String Quartet No. 1 in E flat major Opus 12

Lukas Ligeti
String Quartet No. 4 "Neostasis"

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in A minor Opus 132

Expressive, dynamic, impressive: the Aris Quartet has been at home on the international stage for over a decade. With its unique sound language, it has long been one of the top chamber music ensembles.

The musicians have performed at venues such as London's Wigmore Hall, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Herbst Theatre San Francisco and the Philharmonie de Paris. Their choice of chamber music partners is high-calibre: Christiane Karg, Tabea Zimmermann, Daniel Müller-Schott, Eckart Runge, Kit Armstrong and Nils Mönkemeyer.

The ensemble also engages in cross-genre projects, for example with jazz pianist Omer Klein. From the very beginning, the musicians have also focussed on contemporary music. Composers such as Lukas Ligeti, Gerald Resch, Misato Mochizuki and Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle have entrusted the quartet with premieres of their works.

Founded in Frankfurt am Main in 2009, the Aris Quartet, whose most important mentors include Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet), continues to play with the same line-up to this day.

The ensemble's success is no coincidence: with numerous first prizes at prestigious competitions, the Aris Quartet quickly achieved its international breakthrough. The musicians were also honoured as 'ECHO Rising Stars' by the European Concert Hall Organisation, were among the BBC's 'New Generation Artists' and won five prizes at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.

In addition to regular appearances on radio and TV, the Aris Quartet has already released six critically acclaimed albums. Further releases for STAGE+, Deutsche Grammophon's new video, streaming and audio platform, followed in autumn 2023.