Category: Music and Performance

Hughes / Scherzberg / Wiese

John Hughes – Double Bass

Lars Scherzberg – Alto & Sopranino Saxophones

Nicolas Wiese – Electroacoustics

A trio based in Hamburg and Berlin, these three musicians have
played together since early 2006. A very specific group sound has
emerged, as well as an optimised technical approach, out of
their necessity to find a common language between acoustic and
electronic information.
The acoustic material that Nicolas Wiese recycles on the computer is
exclusively what he records from Lars Scherzberg and John Hughes
during the show.
This is quite interesting; while improvising on their instruments they
are constantly confronted with their electronically alienated
reflections.
On a Sunday afternoon in June 2008 in Berlin, the three gave a live
example of this process in the Vivaldi Saal which was to create the
basis of their debut album Discard hidden layers?.

(Press release by the label Schraum)

 

live recordings 2011:

© JH/LS/NW