Festival

Presentation of results of the Special Program

Intermedia Collaboration - percussion, electronics, video, gestures, performance

coached by Pierre Jodlowski and Christian Dierstein

with participants of the impuls Academy 2025

Laila Arafah | Özkan Umutcan Bapbacı | Davide Pentassuglia | Tara Jovana Valkonen | Barbara Zach composer

João Miguel Braga Simões | Antonia Gaggiano | SeongYeon Kong | Rebecca Lloyd-Jones | Rita Sousa e Castro Couto Soares percussion

With Pierre Jodlowski a renowned composer and interdisciplinary artist is tutoring at impuls, whose artistic work is diverse as much as it is concise, impressive and exciting. His music, often marked by a high density, is at the crossroads of acoustic and electric sound and is characterized by dramatic and political anchor. His work unfolds today in many areas: films, interactive installations, staging. He is defining his music as an "active process" on the physical level (musical gestures, energy and space) and on the psychological level (relation to memory and visual dimension of sound). In parallel to his compositions, he also performs on various scenes (experimental, jazz, electronic), solo or with other artists.

Christian Dierstein in turn has established himself among the most interesting performers in the contemporary music of our time, not only as the percussionist of ensemble recherche and Trio Accanto but also as solo performer. He has focused also on music theatre and free improvisation, teaches at Hochschule für Musik in Basel, and gives masterclasses all around the world.

On invitation of the impuls Academy 2025 Pierre Jodlowski and Christian Dierstein are working together on a Special Program for the first time, coaching young composers and percussionists, selected through a call, and supporting them with the development of collaborative projects on spot. Not only classical percussion instruments hereby play a central role, but also the inclusion of objects, body, surfaces and video and electroacoustic elements. The final presentation promises exciting projects!