Jam Sessions
Jam Sessions with musician Laura Pudelek are dance improvisations addressing everyone who wants to dance and improvise freely without the guidance of a teacher.
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.
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.
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