Biegungen Im Ausland: Dunston/Schick [LIVE]
Free
Nick Dunston, double bass
Ignaz Schick, turntables, sampler, & electronics
Dunston/Schick is a newly founded duo of the American Nick Dunston, who only recently moved to Berlin, and Ignaz Schick, who has been active in Berlin since the 1990s.
Nick Dunston is a formerly Brooklyn-based composer, bassist, and scholar, now residing in Berlin. An “indispensable player on the New York avant-garde" (The New York Times), his performances have spanned a variety of venues and festivals across North America and Europe. He's performed, toured, and recorded professionally with bands led by artists such as Tyshawn Sorey, Vijay Iyer, Marc Ribot, Ches Smith, Imani Uzuri, Ingrid Laubrock, Anthony Coleman, Roman Filiu, Jonathan Finlayson, Amirtha Kidambi, Moor Mother, Dave Douglas, Matt Wilson, Tomas Fujiwara, Allison Miller, Jeff Lederer, Jeff "Tain" Watts, and Darius Jones. He’s spent extensive time studying with bassists Linda May Han Oh, Ben Street, Harish Raghavan, as well as with composer Missy Mazzoli.
As a composer, Dunston has written for a wide range of artists of multiple genres and disciplines. He's written for entities such as the New York Public Library of Performing Arts, the Joffrey Ballet School, The Witches, violist Joanna Mattrey, and the ESMAE Jazz and Chamber Orchestras. In 2019 he was awarded the Van Lier Fellowship by Roulette Intermedium, which supported the world premieres of The Floor is Lava! (upright bass quintet), and La Operación (double saxophone trio + soprano voice), referred to as “a work so dramatic and large that is both a response to socio-historical truth as well as a reflection on his own identity…” (I Care If You Listen). As a writer, he's made monthly contributions to Hot House Jazz Magazine from 2016-2019.
Ignaz Schick is a sound artist, turntablist, composer, and visual artist. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, he worked in Berlin, where he became an important part of the young real-time music scene. From live electronics he develops an independent electro-acoustic instrumentation, the "Rotating Surfaces". Since 2012 he has focused on the realization of concept compositions and experimental radio pieces. Schick curates festivals for experimental music and runs the experimental music label Zarek. He tours worldwide, solo or with groups such as Perlonex and Splitter Orchester, has released numerous albums, and has collaborated with internationally renowned artists such as Mwata Bowden, Don Cherry, Sven-Ake Johansson, Charlemagne Palestine, and Martin Tetréault. Schick has received numerous fellowships, including the 2016 Berlin Senate/Cité des Arts Paris Composition Fellowship and the 2017 Global Cultural Exchange Fellowship for Southeast Asia (Malaysia/Laos/Indonesia/Vietnam). In addition, Schick was a 2017 fellow at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles.
The livestream will take place at 8pm Central European / 11am Pacific.
Livestream on the Ausland YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX4OGikCyD-NV3x0AtqEA9A
Supported by the Berliner Senatverwaltung für Kultur und Europa
Presented by Digital in Berlin.