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Upstream

Concert series for new music and performance:

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Drift

  1. Lara Agar & Louis d’Heudières
  2. Wojciech Rusin
  3. bod [包家巷]

Drifting does not necessarily describe the music, sounds, words and objects of Wojciech Rusin, bod [包家巷] and Lara Agar & Louis d’Heudières, but perhaps a state of mind that emerges. Consonant harmonies, undulating movement and soft spiritualism lead a feeling to bubble to the surface that the past and the future are drifting inexorably into the present. Drawing on the region of East Anglia where they grew up, Agar and d’Heudières’ collaborative project reimagines ancient English myths through self-programmed synths and violin textures. After collaborating with Poland’s Spółdzielnia Muzyczna new music ensemble at last year’s Unsound festival, Rusin continues to work with classical instruments, balancing their timbres against electronic soundscapes designed to push the Stubnitz’s sound system to its limit. bod [包家巷]’s gripping and immersive audiovisual style - combining voice, software synthesisers and electronics - closes out an evening with an epic rumination on alienation and awe.

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Normality

  1. Anja Dietmann
  2. Michael Maierhof
  3. MICHAELBRAILEY

Our fourth concert brings together three Hamburg-based artists whose work forces us to question our relationship with contemporary normality in unique and different ways. Expect constructed environments in which motors and everyday objects are harnessed for their expressive musicality (Maierhof), songs that invite cats, dogs and skype calls into absurd and playful dialogues (Dietmann), and immersive reflections on post-digital love, sadness and intimacy (MICHAELBRAILEY).

MS Stubnitz, Hamburg

Detritus

  1. Alexandra Spence
  2. Nika Son
  3. Yes Indeed

Upstream’s September edition combines artists from Australia and the UK with Hamburg-based artist Nika Son for an evening dedicated to the idea of DETRITUS. We are taken from homemade instruments made from discarded materials (Alexandra Spence) to the creative potential of hypnotic and scattered states induced by insomnia (Son) to a chaotic affirmation of detritus as fertile ground for pushing music into new spaces (Yes Indeed).

MS Stubnitz, Hamburg

Revelation

  1. Fion Pellacini
  2. Weston Olencki
  3. Tintin Patrone

Titled “REVELATION”, our second event celebrates the power of sound to enlighten, astonish, surprise, and transform familiar, lived experience into something otherworldly.

MS Stubnitz, Hamburg

Upstream

  1. Neil Luck
  2. CILIA

Upstream is a concert series that brings new, forward-thinking, uncompromising music and performance from around the world to Hamburg. Using the metaphor of ‘upstream’ to reference being closer to the source, and also salmon, which swim upstream to migrate, it is focused on charting the latest currents and tackling contemporary themes in art and music.

MS Stubnitz, Hamburg