Improvisation with
Lazara Rosell Albear: Sho, Drums
Vincent Laju: Shakuhachi, Cello
Shiomi Kawaguchi: Shamisen
Wolfgang Schwabe: Guqin
About the Musicians
Lázara Rosell Albear
is a Cuban/Belgian artist, graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, KASK Ghent, Belgium and co-founder of the MahaWorks organization. Her practice blends a multiplicity of means of expression, combining sound research, performance, film, drawing and installation. Transgression, presence, resonance, vibrations, new worlds, poetry: these are keywords on her unifying practice. Member of PlaygroundBerliM. She has received a Bunkacho Fellowship 2002 (Japanese Ministry of Culture), Danish International Visiting Artist 2011 and a residency at the Wiels Center for Contemporary Art 2016. Channeling experimental drums and percussion, pocket trumpet, shô, electronics and kinds of utterances. www.mahaworks.org
Vincent Laju
Shakuhachi player, cellist, improviser & composer, he studied and graduated in France. He has performed in National Centers for Music Creation like GMEM, for festivals and concerts in Europe, Asia, Middle east and US. Based in Berlin, he collaborates with composers and artists from all disciplines, he can be heard from solo to large ensembles such as “Berlin Improvisers Orchestra” and “Grand 8” (Marseille). Poetry and drawing: His graphics work series « Linien » is performed with Elo Masing (violin) and exhibited in France and in Germany, he play with the poet Mathias Traxler.
Shiomi Kawaguchi
since she was a child growing up in Tokyo, she started learning Shamisen (a Japanese three-stringed instrument) and Min-yo (Japanese folk songs). In 2017, after years of traveling silk-road with the Shamisen and Feld work of Folk music and local ceremony, she moved her base to Berlin. Performing traditional, psychedelic, experimental, and jazz in many festivals in Europe. December 2024 she played at Nobel peace prize as Shamisen trio – Mitsune She is a member of ‘Mitsune’ http://de.mitsune.de/ , the psychedelic folk band “Jaguar no me” http://www.jaguarnome.com/ , and jazz band ‘The Japs’ https://aandjaps.wixsite.com/sitetop
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Wolfgang Schwabe
Learned to play qin with the Qin master Ge Hancong (葛瀚聰) in Taiwan. After random performances with LTK, a Taiwanese punk band in the late nineties, he has been regularly performing in Taipei and Berlin playing real-time music. In 2018 the CD “180818” with Lin Hui-Chun was released ( https://huichunlin.bandcamp.com/album/180818 ). He is the co-founder of the “International Conference on Guqin, Aesthetics and Humanism” and has published numerous articles on Qin aesthetics.