after more than six months of preparation, two brainstorming sessions with over 50 artists, proposed by a network of 12 curators, hosts and mentors, the day has come: the program of the free flow festival 2024 is out. you can find more information and access to tickets below and on the website released today. we look forward to seeing you in june!
your guerillaclassics team
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sunday 16 june 2024
start of the walk at 12:30pm, trammuseum burgwies:
suburb river sketch #freeflow
andres bosshard (sound gardener), anja jagodić (accordeon), charlotte lorenz (cello) & love lokombe (musician/founder ngwaka son système)
the sound gardener andres bosshard lives and listens in züri seefeld. he takes us on his daily walk through the "töbeli" along the wildbach until it becomes the hornbach and then, after crossing several busy city streets, meets the zürisee. we experience how to actively engage with our daily environment through our sense of listening. we learn how to not only interact with our soundscape, but also how to change our own behavior to create a new city sound. along the way, we will be surprised by small guerilla actions of musicians, and we will begin this festival together with a walk of several hours along the suburban river, celebrating the free flow.
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wednesday 19 june 2024
12pm, pavillon bürkliplatz - start of the actions happening in different places:
norms of movement
neel jansen (dance), mara peyer (dance) & joão lucas (double bass) – curated by graciela martínez arribas
where does the spontaneous movement end and the regulated & established movement begin?
why are many movements so similar, so predictable, so practical?
at what point does movement transcend into dance?
and why is what is broadly called dance reduced to performed movements in certain moments and places, when body and movement are what we are, what we are made of?
we are all born with a brain that enables us to think, just as we are born with a body...then why don't we use it beyond everyday actions? why don't we embrace and play, painting and creating shapes in the space around us?
why do we only use the minimum of its capacities?
norms of movement is a series of interventions in public space at a hub of business and consumption such as the paradeplatz where dancers will intervene with their bodies between the moving bodies in these public spaces along the questions raised in the above.
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5pm, courtyard zunfthaus zur meisen:
chinese chinatour
jian chen (guzheng), yiqing lui (pipa) & chengyi wang (yangqin) – mentored by kay zhang
chinese chinatour is a musical journey, travelling through china’s richness and diversity of chinese musical traditions and regions curated by chinese-french based musician chengyi wang. the concert features a variety of traditional chinese instruments, including the guzheng, pipa and yangqin. the haunting melodies and bewitching rhythms transport the audience throughout china’s different regions, portraying and reflecting a storytelling of chengyi wang’s musical journey and china's musical traditions.
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thursday 20 june 2024
2pm, atelier herman-greulich-str. 70:
instrument-building workshop
love lokombe (musician/founder ngwaka son système)
love lokombe, co-founder of the legendary kokoko, an experimental electronic music group from kinshasa, is in zurich for the free flow festival.
he is collaborating with trinity ‘mother dubber’ njume-ebong on an exciting project which aims to enter in resonance with the world in its physical whole. the idea came from the practice of love and his various collaborators in kinshasa, who explore their city in order to make original instruments from all kinds of found objects.
through this workshop, love will share his experience of creating original sounds and not being assigned, as a musician, to industrial instruments.
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8pm, chiesa evangelica at zwinglihaus:
traces of the organ from aleppo to leipzig to cairo
lynn adib (vocals/flute), antonio garcía (organ), rami nakhleh (percussion) & hasan nakhleh (curation/electric organ/synthesizer) – hosted by luc gut
embarking on a musical journey, this concert traces the melodic scales of ancient syrian churches, meandering through the harmonious depths of johann sebastian bach's organ-music, and reverberating back to the enchanting sounds of cairo's 60s and 70s arab-electric organ tunes. the electric organ became very popular in the middle east during this time and was altered to play quarter tones which allowed it to play most arabic maqam scales. this eclectic voyage serves as a testament to the interplay between diverse musical traditions, weaving a tapestry of cultural exchange and artistic evolution. hasan kai from the band TootArd will be leading the journey, accompanied by singer lynn adib, organist antonio garcía and percussionist rami nakhleh (also from TootArd).
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friday 21 june 2024
12pm, provitreff:
« schliess die augen nicht – von kröten und alten gespenstern » #freetalk
lisa läng (vocals) & lis marti (piano) – talk with severin kolb
classical songs about female characters without sexism? representation of queer people in classical music? difficult to find. lis à lis wants to change this and works in their practice with classical music as a mouthpiece for queer-feminist concerns.
the duo (lis marti, lisa läng) from bern find themselves at the interface between new classical music, literature and queer-feminist activism. their first programme creates visibility and role models for queer people, combines classical music and literature and normalizes diversity on stage. the two-part concert includes a song cycle by robert schumann with a new version of the text by lisa läng. the second part consists of a composition by flurina zehnder to a text by kim de l'horizon. an introduction and a debriefing provide space for a discussion on how to deal with problematic texts in the existing core repertoire.
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5pm, provitreff:
vernissage on vocabularies of essence
lia lütolf (dance), phoebe bognár (flute), dandara modesto (vocals) & kwaku dapaah opoku - reez (multidisciplinary artist) – curated by keabetswe boccomino
the project explores the kind of communication that takes place in the unseen, intangible spaces that exist between sound, movement, and touch. the artists tap into this space to produce a vocabulary that speaks to the creative essence of their practice.
by documenting nuanced sounds and pairing them with movement, vocals and musical instruments, they invite audiences into their ‘inner worlds’. it is through the observed process of co-creation that we also get to discover a new vocabulary that is rooted in free creative expression.
as a critical reflection on language and its limitations - vocabularies of essence speak to our interconnected spirit of creativity to feel, understand and interpret that which cannot be defined/confined by language. it is through their engagement with these moments of creation that audiences get to decide the message of the vocabulary.
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8pm, provitreff:
wimmelbild
all artists of the free flow festival gather for a vibrant, tumultuous evening
shaped by florian kolb
the wimmelbild is an experiment to bundle and celebrate the diversity and energy of the free flow festival 2024 in one night and to celebrate it. the majority of the performers of the festival - and more humans who play music or practice other forms of artistic expression - who want to be part of it show "cells" of their works shown so far or still to be experienced in the coming days.
there will also be spontaneous collaborations between the artists based on improvisation because the wimmelbild is a place of exchange and interaction.the audience moves through a pulsating organism in which all these different sounds, images and ideas merge into a whole and everything seems possible and failure is welcome - let yourself be surprised!
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saturday 22 june 2024
brainstorming from 10 am – 1 pm, raum 236:
voi(x)es - voices of a circle of women imagining the ways of an opera
sylvie fröhlicher (circle facilitation), hiromi gut (creative vision), lisina gut (clay expression), michaela unsinn (voice expression) & deepa valiplackal (character care) – mentored by claron mcfadden
a circle of five women in their thirties in zurich has come together through the initiative of hiromi gut - to share on topics that deserve more space in their lives and possibly in society at large in this locality today. through the writing of letters centering their questions around anything they need to speak about and reading these letters out loud in the circle in the open spirit of receiving, without comment of judgement, these women have created a space for free expression. the imagination of the creation of an opera, and of what opera could be, as a platform to give voice to these topics, was born.
the process started in a small circle, accompanied by the artist claron mcfadden. during free flow festival it will get bigger and open itself up to a broader group of women. the opera is being created through different forms of expression, way beyond the vocal. you don’t need to sing to contribute. you and your expression are enough to be part of this process towards a collective composition.
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5pm, kammermusiksaal 1, zhdk toni-areal:
facing – fehler!
rebecca blau (flute), isabel castro (violin), sandro compagnon (saxophone), maura rickenbach (cello), annika starc (violin), nicolas pistidda (posaune, guitar) & tony hassler (photograpy) – curated by riccardo acciarino (clarinet)
inspired by jacques rancière's idea of active spectatorship, the facing trilogy disrupts the traditional performer-audience dynamic, celebrating the audience as active creators in live performances. emphasizing the emotional essence of art, it challenges the quest for technical perfection, turning mistakes into sparks of interest. this transformative experience redefines live performances, fostering authenticity and resilience in artistic expression.
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9pm, provitreff:
transcending legacies – an introduction to stella chiweshe
robert machiri (sound-worker/dj) – curated by tracy september
transcending legacies honours the legacy of elders whose approach to a classical tradition has impacted the musical and artistic practices of contemporary artists and generations of artists to come, initiated by tracy september. envisioned to be a long term residency project, the seed of this vision will be planted at the free flow festival by a sonic lecture introducing the work of pioneering force, stella chiweshe. this sonic lecture will be hosted by harare born and berlin based ‘sound worker', dj and hoarder of things inspired by his biographical recollection of music and interest in sonic objects, robert machiri.
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10pm, provitreff:
a draft of the anthropocenic sonorities
love lokombe (musician/founder ngwaka son système) & trinity ‘mother dubber’ njume-ebong (dj/researcher) – curated by sinzo aanza
this proposal is a dialogue with the world in its physical whole. it is about engaging everything that the musician can perceive, reach, manipulate, all kinds of objects and materials constituting the world as we know it today then becomes a potential instrument, a potential part of the orchestration.
love lokombe, co-founder of the legendary group kokoko from kinshasa and founder of ngwaka son système and trinity ‘mother dubber’ njume-ebong, researcher, curator and record collector explore the state of the human environment and the environment beyond the humankind, because sound preceded humankind and will survive them. but what kind of sounds do they emanate from a world that now bears its decried, celebrated, feared and perhaps irreversible imprint?
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sunday 23 june 2024
1pm, start of the walk at liebespavillon platzspitz:
sounding workshop with compositions & guidance by saadet türköz
sébastien pittet (solo double bass)
saadet türköz’s workshop is about vocal interaction between the participants: she speaks a language that has no comprehensible, clear content. this meaninglessness has a physical form that transforms into a shape. it is a kind of narrative whose action becomes a joyful, thought-provoking experience through spontaneous reaction and action.
sébastien pittet, double bass, sets the thoughts and dreams of saadet türköz into music. in her basic idea lie short texts or a word that leads one into a depth of the world of sound, into an infinity. one loses oneself in an unknown, insecure, uncomfortable zone, sometimes in paradise. but she loves that you return to the real world.
making music and creating a composition in the spiritual is what makes it incomplete. the way life happens, no beginning, no end - she imagines the whole as an abstraction of the concrete. the interpreter sébastien pittet plays his sensibility.
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3pm, provitreff:
“watersheds” listening session - suburb river reverb
marina mello (harp) & dankushen (dj) – curated by severin kolb & tracy september
water is omnipresent. it flows around us everywhere, often barely visible, hardly noticed. it drips, gurgles, splashes in millions of nuances, but it can also thunder and roar. it is therefore ideally suited to sharpening our hearing. in this listening session, curated by tracy september and severin kolb, after a short group meditation, we will follow a collage of recordings collected on andres bosshard's suburb rivers sketch walk on the previous sunday, 16th june (participation in the walk is highly recommended, but is by no means a prerequisite for the listening session). toshio hosokawa's composition "nach dem bach", played by harpist marina mello, not only reflects different ways of flowing, but also links it to the philosophical quest of humankind. and since all rivers lead to the sea, we also arrive there with a homage to eliane radigue's "occam ocean" compositions. to round off the last day and the free flow festival, dankushen will conclude the event with a "watersheds" dj set that brings together a wide variety of musical water impressions and builds a bridge between nature and culture. to this end, we invite you to a cozy exchange with tea and a view on the limmat.
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A look back at the free flow festival 2022
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YOUR DONATION FOR THE MUSIC
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Thank you for your donations!
IBAN: CH43 0483 5236 9512 9100 0
account number: 0835-2369512-91
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