Open stage for free improvisation

Opener:

• • Marcel Daemgen - electronic,
  • Jörg Fischer - dr,
  • Lutz Jahnke - dr,
  • Wolfgang Reimers - sax

After an opening by the opener, the stage is open to improv session musicians, who we put together in various formations.

Admission €7/€5, Culture Pass holders €1, session musicians free

About the musicians of the opener:

Marcel Daemgen: freelance composer, producer and live musician in the fields of electronic, noise and pop music, film and theater music since 1989.
Since 1998 numerous CD releases with Augst & Daemgen in co-production with DeutschlandRadio. Music theater productions with the Electronic Music Theater (EMT) and concerts with Alfred Harth and Jörg Fischer. With these and other projects, he has been a guest at numerous international festivals for contemporary music, performance and media art.

Jörg Fischer is a drummer and member of the Wiesbaden ARTist-Kooperative (e.V.). For almost 30 years, his focus has been on free jazz and free improvisation. After studying drums in Mainz with Janusz Stefanski, he is often put into the jazz box as a drummer, but also draws a lot of inspiration from post-Beefheart avant-punk / noise rock / no wave and classical new music (the most fascinating for him here is serial music). This outlines a rather multifaceted field, which he cultivates in a number of very different bands - but what they all have in common is free improvisation.
He can now be heard on a whole series of CDs, the last few releases are, for example: Lurk Lab, duo with Peter Brötzmann, trios with Mark Charig & Georg Wolf, Michael Denhoff & Ulrich Phillipp, Alfred 23 Harth & Marcel Daemgen.
In addition to his activities as a performing musician, he is also a passionate drum teacher (in the rock/pop/jazz field), occasionally composes and runs the sporeprint label.

Lutz Jahnke (drums), designer and drummer since 1991. He plays free and applied music in a wide variety of small and large formations, is a member of the ARTist Kooperative New Jazz Wiesbaden and is involved in experimental jazz concerts at the "akademie für interdisziplinäre prozesse offenbach". In 2019, he founded the free jazz ensemble Sudden Orchestra and has already received a special award for exceptionally innovative performance and diversity.

Wolfgang Reimers, soprano saxophonist of improvised music, philosopher and former cab driver, known from the very first FIM days of the 1990s, is involved in various improvisation projects in the region, especially in the Darmstadt scene with Detlef Kraft, Christoph Thewes and the ARTist Kooperative New Jazz Wiesbaden.