Jam Sessions
The Jam Sessions with musicians Laura Pudelek and Gobi Drab are dance improvisations addressing everyone who wants to dance and improvise freely without the guidance of a teacher.
Tue 07.05.: Jam Session with Laura Pudelek
Tue 21.05.: Jam Session with Gobi Drab
Wed 22.05. – Fri 24.05.: Jam Session with Laura Pudelek
‘Improvising starts for me with the tension of the space held by the architecture, the people with whom you improvise, and the audience. I follow my impulses by acting, reacting, and listening to the tension. And through a chain of these impulses, I look for a flow to create. It is a delicate balance between getting into trance and staying devoted to the task to find an overall composition that communicates. Every sound is possible, melodies or noise, style, or genre, although I avoid my work from becoming too cheesy. I need the unexpected. Sounds coming out of the instrument that I had never heard before, bring me to new areas of imagination and creation. Working with technical devices connected to the cello allows me to improvise with loops and sound effects, generating a journey through various multi-layered soundscapes. It must touch me emotionally; then only I can tell something by playing my cello.’ – Laura Pudelek
is a recorder player, performer, and pedagogue. In her repertoire, she connects free improvisation with the rhetorics of early music and the intricate structures of contemporary music. She is particularly fond of square Paetzold recorders and is greatly interested in contemporary dance.
lives and works as a live and studio musician and performer in Vienna. She studied violoncello with a focus on improvisation and new music at the Musikhochschule Mainz and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Raphael Wallfisch, Wolfgang Aichinger, Burkhard Stangl, Gunther Schneider and Manon Liu Winter. Her artistic activities range from free improvisation and contemporary music, the genres of pop and noise, to contemporary dance and performance. After numerous performances and albums with the chamber pop band Dawa, she now feels especially committed to free improvisation and is active in the Viennese experimental scene. Music and projects with snim – spontaneous network for improvised music, Schaum, Christian Konrad Schröder, Tomas Novak, Nicholas Hoffman, Jaskaran Anand and Robert Stejn, among others.
€ 16/*6 (21.–24.05.)
Language: German, English