Impro Festival - Partout
Impro Festival celebrates new music and will feature this year's Impro Camp participants and exciting bands from the national and international scene.

!FRIDAY!
14:00 Doors
15:00 FredagsJAM - ADELA Quintet (free entrance)
19:00 Axel Dörner Group
20:00 Eteinne Nillesen Solo
21:00 Katt Hernandez Group
22:00 Hyper Elastic Jinx

!SATURDAY!
14:00 Doors
15:00 Eteinne Nillesen Group
16:00 Tegn
17:00 Signe Emmeluth Group
19:00 Keisuke Matsuno Group
20:00 Katt Hernandez & Axel Dörner Duo
21:30 Extemporize

ENTRANCE:
1 day ticket - 60 kr.
2 days ticket - 100 kr.

!FRIDAY!

15:00 FredagsJAM - ADELA Quintet (free entrance)

ADELA Quintet plays jazz of the hard-hitting kind. The energy and playfulness between the musicians are at the center. The giants of the nineties are the great inspiration. Among them are Kenny Garrett, Kenny Kirkland and the Marsalis Brothers. The repertoire consists of a mixture of original numbers and numbers taken from the postbop repertoire. The five members are establishing themselves on the Danish and Swedish jazz scene. The band members are united by their common love for hard-hitting jazz.

Line-up:
Emil Boesen (DK) - alto saxophone
Lea Meldal Backhausen (DK) - trumpet
Anton Bergman (SE) - piano
August Hofman Bøegh (DK) - double bass
David Hartvig Schousboe (DK) - drums

ADELA Quintet opens fredagsJAM with a concert and after the jam is open for everyone. So bring your instrument and take the chance to create new musical connections.
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19:00 Axel Dörner Group
!Improvisation and real time composition!

This group has been working with the sensational German trumpet player Axel Dörner for a week during Impro Camp under the theme "Improvisation and real time composition".
https://axeldoerner.org/
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20:00 Eteinne Nillesen Solo
Etienne’s exploration of the snare drum pushes the boundaries of its tonal and harmonic possibilities through innovative techniques and a meticulous approach to sound. By employing circular motions and precise control of contact points, he draws out an extensive range of pitches, harmonics, and overtones from the drumhead. His work reimagines the snare drum as a complete sonic entity, transforming it from a percussive instrument into a rich source of melodic and harmonic material.
https://etiennenillesen.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOuSOHx0lOc

Line-up:
Etienne Nillesen (NL) - extended snare drum
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21:00 Katt Hernandez Group
!Improvisation: Listening and Playing!

This group has been working with the remarkable American violinist Katt Hernandez for a week during Impro Camp under the theme "Improvisation: Listening and Playing".
http://www.katthernandez.net
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22:00 Hyper Elastic Jinx
A dynamic quartet that combines diverse impulses from the music scenes in Berlin, Copenhagen and Oslo. With multiple musical languages from jazz, rock, experimental and contemporary music they set their own artistic DNA within the musical frame of free improvised music. Music that is impulsive, expressive and multidirectional.

Each musician in this quartet contributes with different musical backgrounds and they combine them collectively with interactions of tangling frequencies, overlapping textures, open tonalities, rhythmical structures and complex emotions.

Line-up:
Signe Emmeluth (DK/NO) - alto saxophone
Nana Pi (DK) - tenor saxophone
Keisuke Matsuno (JP/DE) - guitar & electronics
Halym Kim (KR/DE) - drums


!SATURDAY!

15:00 Eteinne Nillesen Group
!Resonant Dialogues!

This group has been working with the spectacular Dutch percussionist for a week during Impro Camp under the theme "Resonant Dialogues".
https://etiennenillesen.com/
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16:00 Tegn
Warped and twisted pedal-steel guitar and thundering, staggering drums construct beautiful scenes and unsettling landscapes.

The music ebbs and flows, with glimpses of serenity.

The duo works completely improvised, drawing inspiration from rock, free jazz and all music, but mainly; from their guts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iUI7wTfn4M
https://movementshapedlikeaheart.bandcamp.com/album/tegn

Line-up:
Magnus Munk Tækker (DK) - pedal steel
Jens Højbøge Mosegaard (DK) - drums
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17:00 Signe Emmeluth Group
!The Big Room!

This group has been working with the marvelous Danish saxophonist for a week during Impro Camp under the theme "The Big Room".
https://www.signeemmeluth.com/
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19:00 Keisuke Matsuno Group
!Improvisation: Be curious, be bold!

This group has been working with the incredible Japenese guitarist Keisuke Matsuno for a week during Impro Camp under the theme "Improvisation: Be curious, be bold".
https://keisukematsuno.tumblr.com/
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20:00 Katt Hernandez & Axel Dörner Duo
A meeting between two incredible musicians. A must see!

Katt Hernandez is a violinist: an improvisor, composer and maker of other sound work. In addition to her solo work, she has also played with Ville Bromander's Unfolding Orchestra, Lotte Anker's subhabitat ensemble, Klas Nevrin's Music in Disorder, Fire! Orchestra, GGR Betong, KAI EN Butoh company, among others. She recently earned a PhD in Music from Lund university, entitled "The Ephemeral City: Songs for the Ghost Quarters". Based in Sweden since 2010, Katt is also a veteran of experimental music scenes on the East Coast, alongside a vast array of musicians, dancers, visual artists, puppeteers, film makers and performance artists.
http://www.katthernandez.net

Axel Dörner is a trumpet player, electronic musician and composer. He was born in Cologne,1964. Studied piano and trumpet (with Malte Burba) at the Musikhochschule, Cologne. Lives in Berlin since 1994. He has worked together with numerous internationally respected figures in the fields of "Improvised Music", "Composed Contemporary Music", "Jazz" and "Electronic Music" and has developed a unique style of trumpet playing based in part on unusual, often self-invented techniques. He has toured in Europe, America, Australia, Asia and Africa and appeared on numerous CD and record releases.
https://axeldoerner.org/

Line-up:
Katt Hernandez (US) - violin
Axel Dörner (DE) - trumpet
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21:30 Extemporize
On this evening you can experience a concert of pure instant composing with the musicians particpating at Impro Camp.
They will be conducted by Nana Pi with the music sign language Extemporize - a sign language system developed by Nana Pi. The signs consist of music elements like loop, register, dynamics, multiphonics, etc. and are going to be given by the conductor. The musical interaction is based on the structure of the conductor and the intuition of the respective musicians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtYDK_x_qWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaYw1Z4OP2M&t=420s
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Impro Festival is organized by The Community and Tøjhuset and is supported by Musikaftenskolen Lillebælt, Den Kreative Skole, Statens Kunstfond, Koda Kultur, EWII and Fredericia Kommune.