Czajka & Puchacz + Gianluca Elia
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Czajka & Puchacz + Gianluca Elia
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Czajka & Puchacz released their first, predominantly acoustic album Bivališča in July 2020 and followed up with a retro-avant-pop single of their alter duo Kiebitz & Uhu a year later. Since the second release, which explored experimental songwriting within a field of existentialism and abstraction of daily life, the pair has continued exploring ways to merge instant songwriting with the aesthetics of European school of free improvisation and the idiom of musique concrete present on Bivališča.
Gianluca Elia works in the experimental music scene in Copenhagen, performing noise and developing software instruments for local Artistic Research practitioners, acting as a link between aesthetical and technical practices.
The three musicians met in Denmark. Over the past six years, Gąsiorek and Elia have been collaborating closely in groups such as Boys Cry, E/I, and Perfect Volume, among many. Moreover, Elia recently developed a software to enable Draksler to involve microtonality in her (solo) piano practice. This performance will be near first concert they attempt as a trio.
Kaja Draksler is a Slovenian pianist and composer currently residing in Copenhagen. After her studies in the Netherlands, she decided to stay in Amsterdam, where she is an active member of the improvisors scene, performing extensively all over the Europe. She is one of the founding members of the interdisciplinary group I/O and part of the internationally acclaimed Doek collective. Besides her frequent solo performances and various ongoing collaborative projects, she is currently focusing on her own (Amsterdam-based) Octet. As a composer she has been commissioned by various international groups, ranging from vocal and chamber ensembles to big bands and orchestras. In the spirit of the Dutch jazz/improvised music legacy, Kaja is drawn to the idea of erasing the stylistic and historical musical borders, and discovering personal expression and language through composition and improvisation.
Szymon Gąsiorek is a Copenhagen-based Polish drummer, composer and improviser working within multiple contexts. Graduated from Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. He is a leader and co- leader of such bands as: Pimpono Ensemble, E/I, The Love And Beauty Seekers, Wood Organization, I Love My Mother, Mother Uraño, Alfons Slik, as well as a part of G•Bop Orchestra, Franciszek Pospieszalski Sextet, Perfect Volume. He has co-founded a collective and record label Love & Beauty Music. Involved in organizing DIY festivals and event series as Idealistic Festival, Dźwięko Działka or ‚_is happening’.
Gianluca Elia is working across improvised and electroacustic music, programming and performance. Originally from the jazz, free-jazz and underground scene of Milan (Italy), he visited different scenes and academies, oscillating between Italy, Amsterdam, Berlin and Copenhagen, where he’s now based. Producing a great variety of outputs, his latest works include: a smartphone application for a participative performance concept (Squidback, 2019), an audiovisual software instrument to work in real time with multiple layers of videos (VideoKeyboard, 2018), an electroacoustic improvised music trio (Perfect Volume) and a solo work for no-input mixer (dance with my mother, 2018). He graduated in 2019 from Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium Copenhagen, with a project titled “Becoming Program, Becoming Performance”, researching relationships between these two praxes, which are central in his work.
