Raumbespielung 2023/2: F.I.M. meets MOMEM

F.I.M. meets MOMEM
„improvised music meets electronic scene“

An event within the framework of "Kulturerwachen Frankfurt 2023" - a program sponsored by the Kulturamt Frankfurt with the CRESPO-Foundation and the Polytechnische Gesellschaft.

The F.I.M. is known for its national/international exchange and cross-genre formats. This time there will be a cooperation with MOMEM - Museum of Modern Electronic Music. Here improvised music meets the electronic club scene of Frankfurt.

Beginning: 19:00

• Matthias Vogt - electronic
• Mia Dyberg - saxophone
• Dennis Sekretarev - trumpet
• Jo Jena - guitar
• Philipp Wildenhues - drums
• Jürgen Werner - flute, soprano saxophone
• Chris Rücker - bass

Matthias Vogt
Musician and music producer Matthias Vogt is the link between live and electro for MOMEM. With training as a church musician, as well as a professional musician and instrumental teacher for jazz and pop music, Vogt is not only a true connoisseur, but also a practitioner. He has been able to experiment in many ways over the decades: starting with the German rock band FDH, he made the leap to DJ, performed regularly at the Cocoon Club, founded the deep house formation Motorcitysoul with C-Rock and finally, in 1992, the breakbeat label Pansen Records. He was also involved in numerous jazz projects.
Vogt's repertoire is hard to sum up, but what unites it is his love of music in all its facets and styles.

Mia Dyberg
Berlin-based saxophonist Mia Dyberg plays in the fields of jazz and free improvisation. Her unique melodic expression stems from sound experiments & Scandinavian melancholy. She composes for the Mia Dyberg Trio, which plays free jazz with narrative motifs & time-stretch grooves. Clean Feed Records released Ticket! which received 4 stars in Downbeat Magazine. She is a permanent member of the dadaist improvisation collective Klub Demboh, playing regularly with Axel Dörner and others.
'Mia Dyberg is a saxophonist who is well versed in free improvisation. But not without having “head and tail” in what she does. Dyberg’s playing is controlled and easy-to-grasp. She has full control of the free but also has a good sense for jazz history’ – Jan Granlie, Salt Peanuts.'

Dennis Sekretarev
Dennis Sekretarev studied in Amsterdam, Philadelphia and New York.
After graduation Dennis was part of the Amsterdam free improvised music scene.
Since 2018 Sekretarev lives again in Frankfurt, where he works with different lineups.

Jo Jena
Since 2018, guitarist Jo Jena has been focusing on (free) solo improvisations in the field of tension between acoustic jazz and ambient, which are mainly distributed in the digital framework (Bandcamp, I-Tunes, YouTube), but also presented in concert format. He has had and continues to have points of contact with electronic music, especially electronic club music, whether through duo projects with drummers Mike Daliot ("Maschinensommer", live drum 'n'bass) or Bertram Ritter ("Schney", dub/funk), but also as the guitarist of the Frankfurt funk fusion band "Flowarea" for many years. Also in his solo improvisations, as recently in a homage to the techno pioneer Robert Hood entitled "Free Solo #43", electronics is and remains an important subject, which is then to be rediscovered each time from the "interface" guitar.

Philipp Wildenhues
Growing up in a musical household, it was less a question of whether he would learn an instrument than which one. Many attempts at different instruments led to the drums. Besides private lessons with Christopher Choe, the first decade was determined by playing in an increasingly progressive punk rock band. Initially regional, the band became international and toured from England to Slovenia. The band produced several studio albums with release on the Berlin label Fond of Life. The passion for improvised music developed during the studies to become a professional musician and instrumental pedagogue at the Frankfurt Music Workshop for Jazz and Popular Music under the direction of Michael Demmerle with individual lessons in the main subject drums with Rainer Rumpel. Barely finished the studies very successfully, many projects followed in cooperation with a lot of music making people in various styles like: Jazz, Drum`n`Bass, Indie, Folk, Hip Hop, Techno, Funk, Rock, Pop ,Soul, Blues, Free, Experimental with concerts in some countries like Belgium, Spain, England, Slovenia, India, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, USA, France, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic ... TBC
Current activity / band projects: Improvisation, Furniture Construction / Ramatou Orchestra, Pronto Pronto, Van Deyk, Er&Er, DNS.

Jürgen Werner
After classical training on the flute, learning various saxophones, the occupation with traditional playing styles (jazz standards, bossa nova), free improvisation became a focus of his musical interest. As a member of the F.I.M. in the 90s, he continued to play free improvised music in various formations (including Katharsis Ensemble) even after its dissolution.
Travels to Cuba and India brought world music influences and extensions of the instrumentarium (ind. Bansuri, Kalimba).
His musical conception is to let influences of different playing styles - from New Music, World Music to Free Jazz - flow into free improvisation, away from dogmatism, purism and stylistic conventions.

Chris Rücker
After classical training on the flute, learning various saxophones, the occupation with traditional playing styles (jazz standards, bossa nova), free improvisation became a focus of his musical interest. As a member of the F.I.M. in the 90s, he continued to play free improvised music in various formations (including Katharsis Ensemble) even after its dissolution.
Travels to Cuba and India brought world music influences and extensions of the instrumentarium (ind. Bansuri, Kalimba).
His musical conception is to let influences of different playing styles - from New Music, World Music to Free Jazz - flow into free improvisation, away from dogmatism, purism and stylistic conventions.