In the neighborhood of ritual, perfomance, nothing, trance, serenity and sonic exploration, we find two men in their golden years sitting on a big carpet, surrounded by things. Their knees might squeak, but their hearts sing.
Our distinguished artist in residence at the Monday Club in October is none other than the amazing Herman Müntzig! Herman Müntzing is an experimental and improvising musician and composer from Baskemölla, Sweden, who prefer to treat and mistreat different kinds of acoustic and electric objects whenever and wherever it is appropriate.His musical world embraces sounds produced by “normal” musical instruments as well as short-circuit videomixers, children toys, found objects and slowly rolling ping-pong balls. He is also the creator of 12 stringed experimental instrument “Flexichord” built out of strings and pickups from 2 electric guitars attached to a piece of massive wood. He performs concerts and workshops mainly in Europe, due to a stubborn decision about never ever go by airplane....
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In the neighborhood of ritual, perfomance, nothing, trance, serenity and sonic exploration, we find two men in their golden years sitting on a big carpet, surrounded by things. Their knees might squeak, but their hearts sing.
Our distinguished artist in residence at the Monday Club in October is none other than the amazing Herman Müntzig! Herman Müntzing is an experimental and improvising musician and composer from Baskemölla, Sweden, who prefer to treat and mistreat different kinds of acoustic and electric objects whenever and wherever it is appropriate.His musical world embraces sounds produced by “normal” musical instruments as well as short-circuit videomixers, children toys, found objects and slowly rolling ping-pong balls. He is also the creator of 12 stringed experimental instrument “Flexichord” built out of strings and pickups from 2 electric guitars attached to a piece of massive wood. He performs concerts and workshops mainly in Europe, due to a stubborn decision about never ever go by airplane.
So he travels mostly by train, performs solo and with groups, with famous musicians from the "improv-scene", with not so famous musicians from the "improve-scene", and with people who don't even consider themselves being musicians. Attended the Royal Academy of Music in the late eighties and has since graduation transformed from a straight jazz/rock bass player into a more broadminded sound artist, working mainly in the fields of improvised and experimental music. Since the late nineties, his life as a musician includes different Swedish and international groups. Giving concerts in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, UK, Iceland, Poland, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, Ljubliana, Belarus. Collaborations with Lisbeth Diers, Eugene Chadbourne, Martin Küchen, Lotte Anker, Sten Sandell, Raymond Strid, among others.
The interest in expanding the common thoughts about the qualifications for a "real" musical instrument made him search for new sounds in the everyday surroundings, exploring casual objects and their own unique sound qualities. Eventually this research made him create, in cooperation with guitar builder Martin Kuhn, the "Flexichord", a 12-stringed experimental music instrument made out of string and pickups from two electric guitars attached to a horizontal solid piece of wood. Performing the flexichord invites him to prepare and play the instrument with different materials and objects like rubber, stones, glass, metal, saw-blades, sticks etc. Combining this with low-fi electronics, contact mikes and all sorts of randomness and miscalculations shows the essence in his aesthetics.
In the neighborhood of ritual, perfomance, nothing, trance, serenity and sonic exploration, we find two men in their golden years sitting on a big carpet, surrounded by things. Their knees might squeak, but their hearts sing.
Our distinguished artist in residence at the Monday Club in October is none other than the amazing Herman Müntzig! Herman Müntzing is an experimental and improvising musician and composer from Baskemölla, Sweden, who prefer to treat and mistreat different kinds of acoustic and electric objects whenever and wherever it is appropriate.His musical world embraces sounds produced by “normal” musical instruments as well as short-circuit videomixers, children toys, found objects and slowly rolling ping-pong balls. He is also the creator of 12 stringed experimental instrument “Flexichord” built out of strings and pickups from 2 electric guitars attached to a piece of massive wood. He performs concerts and workshops mainly in Europe, due to a stubborn decision about never ever go by airplane.
So he travels mostly by train, performs solo and with groups, with famous musicians from the "improv-scene", with not so famous musicians from the "improve-scene", and with people who don't even consider themselves being musicians. Attended the Royal Academy of Music in the late eighties and has since graduation transformed from a straight jazz/rock bass player into a more broadminded sound artist, working mainly in the fields of improvised and experimental music. Since the late nineties, his life as a musician includes different Swedish and international groups. Giving concerts in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, UK, Iceland, Poland, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, Ljubliana, Belarus. Collaborations with Lisbeth Diers, Eugene Chadbourne, Martin Küchen, Lotte Anker, Sten Sandell, Raymond Strid, among others.
The interest in expanding the common thoughts about the qualifications for a "real" musical instrument made him search for new sounds in the everyday surroundings, exploring casual objects and their own unique sound qualities. Eventually this research made him create, in cooperation with guitar builder Martin Kuhn, the "Flexichord", a 12-stringed experimental music instrument made out of string and pickups from two electric guitars attached to a horizontal solid piece of wood. Performing the flexichord invites him to prepare and play the instrument with different materials and objects like rubber, stones, glass, metal, saw-blades, sticks etc. Combining this with low-fi electronics, contact mikes and all sorts of randomness and miscalculations shows the essence in his aesthetics.
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