Summer Concert: TLF Trio Poser, Reece Cox

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• TLF Trio photographed in the exhibition NOT ENOUGH TO SEE, Louise Lawler, Galerie Marian Goodman Paris, 2022. With permission of Louise Lawler and Marian Goodman Gallery.

The Summer Concert in the courtyard of KW Institute for Contemporary Art stages a musical and theatrical encounter between TLF Trio and Poser by Reece Cox. 

 

The Danish experimental ensemble TLF Trio de/re-constructs chamber music by dismantling conventional forms of classical music and its scores through pared-down and experimental compositions. Staged as an ensemble sitting opposite each other in a virtuosic dialogue, TLF Trio channels minimalism, free improv, and modes of Central-European Classical of the Late Renaissance and Early Baroque, culminating in musical pieces that are characterized by sonic plasticity and visuality. Like prancing figures or movements in space, the sound of the instruments gain materiality; they meet, alternate, exchange, and then pass again. More sculptural than narrative, TLF Trio’s music fluidly shape-shifts between being an object in the room to being the room itself, creating an interplay of presence and absence intervening sound, pause and silence.

 

It is precisely this question of presence and non-presence that the project Poser by artist and musician Reece Cox addresses. Poser is a fictional music group and vehicle for the production of art and performance. The group’s live act consists of instruments not-played, half-played, or worn as props, along with microphone cables running into the void, and performers who qualify for their role primarily through an aloof stage presence and scant musical contributions. Poser takes the practice of playback to an extreme and presents a fully cast band that is almost but disconnected from its own music. Reducing the stage performance to absurdity by imitating and ultimately undermining the airs and graces of a stage act, Poser adopts the familiar setting of a concert as a situational readymade. What remains is a soundtrack and its disembodied presence, the substance of which has been lost somewhere in the cabling between the stage and the loudspeakers aimed at the audience. Poser will perform within Café Bravo, designed by Dan Graham and opened in 1999.

 

TLF Trio is a Danish experimental ensemble consisting of cellist Cæcilie Trier, pianist Jakob Littauer, and guitarist M. K. Velsorf. They are based in Copenhagen, Berlin and Los Angeles. TLF Trio released their first album Sweet Harmony on the French electronic and experimental label Latency in 2022, and a sophomore EP, with new material and reinterpretations by German electronic dub techno pioneer Moritz von Oswald, New Songs & Variations, also on Latency in 2023. They have performed at leading venues and festivals for experimental music throughout Europe, among others Berlin Atonal, Rewire Festival, Den Haag, and Villa Medici, Rome.

 

Cæcilie Trier is a cellist, singer and composer based in Copenhagen, known for her avant-chamber pop and neoclassical cello music as CTM (Suite for a Young Girl, Tambourhinoceros, 2016, Red Dragon and Babygirl, Posh Isolation, 2018, 2022, Vind, 15 Love, 2023) and for her collaborations with musicians like Soho Rezanejad, Croatian Amor, Coco O, Boli Group, and Dawda Jobarteh. 

 

Jakob Littauer is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer based in Berlin, known for his electronic avant-pop as Yangze (Event Horizon, Escho, 2019) and his work as a songwriter and producer for a variety of pop artists such as Liss (Run Away, Talk to me, Escho, 2019), Varnrable (Crazy Bitch, On Fire, Escho, 2020, 2022) and Mø (Motordrome, Columbia Records, 2022).

 

K. Velsorf is a guitarist, composer and artist based in Los Angeles. He studied visual arts at Malmö Art Academy and Cooper Union in New York, and is currently studying music composition with Michael Pisaro at CalArts. He released the solo album 10 Pieces For Guitar And Various Instruments in 2019 and is a frequent collaborator of artists Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, for whom he composed the score of their film series Paradise (2022) and is the musical director of their newly opened New Theater Hollywood.

 

Reece Cox is an artist and writer based in Berlin. Recently, he has staged performances at House, Berlin; September Sessions, Stockholm; Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin; Sara’s, New York; Gisela Capitain, Cologne; and others. In 2018, he founded INFO, a label and curatorial project focused on exhibiting and distributing exceptional sound works by contemporary artists.

 

Poser at KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Performers: Steve Katona, Ewa Awe, Ivan Krasnov

Percussion contribution: Alexander Iezzi

Bass Guitar: Caleb Salgado

Music / Scenography / Dramaturgy: Reece Cox

Meeting point: KW courtyard

Price info: Tickets available online soon / Remaining tickets at the box office

Next date:

• Date Friday, 30/August/2024 20:00
• Venue KW - Institute for Contemporary Art
• Address Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin-Mitte