Thursday 31.7.2025 7.00 p.m. - 8.00 p.m.
The images by Ellen Banks emerge from her engagement with scores and sounds: notations of classical music as well as jazz standards. The artist reveals this on the reverse sides of her canvases and paper-based picture supports. On the picture surface itself, however, colors and forms condense into signs. What happens when her images are retranslated back into sound? Cellist Ulrike Brand, recorder player Sophie Renger, and guitarist Olaf Rupp bring the sound of the images back into the space in various ways: through recomposition of the works hidden within Banks’s compositions, through the intuitive approach of free improvisation, and through interpreting Banks’s painting as a musical score.
Ulrike Brand, cello
Sophie Renger, recorders
Olaf Rupp, guitar
ULRIKE BRAND is a cellist, performer, and composer. On the cello she has developed her own sound world through new playing techniques, with her music positioned in the space between concept and improvisation. She writes essays, conducts workshops, and has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships. Since 2018 she has been a lecturer in improvisation at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin).
SOPHIE RENGER is a versatile recorder player who focuses particularly on the improvisation, interpretation, and creation of contemporary music. She is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary collective zone[27] and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in contemporary music at UdK Berlin with Dr. art. Susanne Fröhlich.
OLAF RUPP performs solo improvised music on classical and electric guitar. He has collaborated with pioneers of improvised music such as Lovens, Brötzmann, Morris, and Zorn. He currently plays in XENOFOX with Rudi Fischerlehner, in DUO_BRAND_RUPP, and in WEIRD WEAPONS with Tony Buck and Joe Williamson.
www.audiosemantics.de
/ Meeting point: Exhibition mood indigo at ZAK Center for Contemporary Art, ground floor
/ Free admission
