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Gaudenz Badrutt / Hans Koch

`Social Insects`

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Duo Hans Koch / bassclarinet, sopranosax –
Gaudenz Badrutt electronics
The bass clarinet player Hans Koch and the electronic musician Gaudenz Badrutt have collaborated on various musical projects for years. In 2011 they founded a duo that combines bass clarinet and electronics. Hans Koch (bass clarinet, saxophone, electronics) is mainly known as a member of the Hardcore Chambermusic Trio Koch-Schütz-Studer, but also as a soloist as well as for his collaborations with Phil Minton, Fred Frith, Paul Lovens etc. As a bass clarinet player he has developed a very personal style. The electronic musician Gaudenz Badrutt is mainly known as one half of the electroacoustic duo strøm (together with Christian Müller, electronics and bass clarinet), as well as part of the duo Jonas Kocher (accordeon) – Gaudenz Badrutt. His music is coined by a very instrumental use of computer/live sampling and electronic devices. The music of the duo Hans Koch-Gaudenz Badrutt stems from sparse musical material; creating pieces that live on lightness, density, fragility and humour. CD ‘Social Insects’ on flexionrecords, 2012
Flexion Records
Concerts as duo in Europe and Japan.
‘…Koch/Badrutt don’t play easy pieces of music, far from actually, and intense listening is required, but once you get deeper into this some true beauty unfolds. Strangely wonderful difficult music.’ (Vital weekly)
http://www.gaudenzbadrutt.ch/about/


Social insects

Hans Koch bass clarinet & Gaudenz Badrutt electronics
Flexion Records flex_004, 2012
limited edition 220 numbered copies
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Thomas Peter/Hans Koch

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Hans Koch Sopransax/Bassklarinette – Thomas Peter – amplified objects/live-electronics
Das Duo arbeitet seit Herbst 2013 zusammen und vereint ihre weiten Erfahrungen im Bereich der Improvisation, Jazz, zeitgenössischer und elektronischer Musik in einem frei improvisierten Projekt zusammen. Entstanden ist eine ausserordentliche Zusammenarbeit, welche sich durch die folgende Momentaufnahme, einer Aufnahme vom März 2014 manifestiert. Das Duo arbeitet mit Klangräumen, die äusserst vielschichtig, komplex und variantenreich aufgebaut sind. Das Geräuschhafte, Heterogene und nicht Rhythmisierte herrscht in vielen Momenten vor, durchbrochen aber mit ruhigen, konsonanten und fein ziselierten Passagen. Aufnahme und Mixing in Biel in eigener Regie.
Recorded: März – April 2014

Herbal International
English:

This duo has been performing since 2013 and combines there wide experiences in the field of Improvisation, Jazz, Contemporary Music and Electronic Music.The collaboration expresses there music in a complex and versatile sound field. There goal is not communicate in a direct dialog, but rather to strobe a common sound space, which allows a multilayered musical result. Due to Hans Koch`s immense sound-repertoire and Thomas Peter live produced electro-acoustic sound-creations, they produces noisy, heterogene and interwoven sound moments, interrupted by calm, harmonic and carving sound passages. 
http://www.tpeter.ch

 

ELGAR

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Hans Koch reeds

Flo Stoffner guitar
Lionel Friedli drum 

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Das Trio fühlt sich am wohlsten inmitten eines Widerspruchs, in der Twilight Zone zwischen brachialer Energie und zerbrechlichen Klanggebilden, zwischen hochverdichteten Sounds und transparenten Linien, zwischen pulsierenden Beats und freier Improvisation. Nie versiegt die Neugier und die Lust auf neue Klänge; jedes Konzert ist eine neue Recherche am Rande des Möglichen, des Schönen und manchmal auch Erträglichen.”ELGAR” 2016 Vinyl
Record at
http://www.schoenegg-variete.ch/
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Kontrabassduo Studer Frey

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“Zürich Concerts”
15 Years of Kontrabassduo Studer-Frey Peter K Frey (b) – Daniel Studer (b) + Magda Mayas p, Giancarlo Schiaffino trb, Gerry Hemingway dr, Jan Schlegel eb, Christian Weber b, Jacques Demierre p, John Butcher ts/ss, Harald Kimmig vl, Hans Koch bcl/ss, Michel Seigner git, Alfred Zimmerlin vc rec. live at Walcheturm, Zurich, Leo Records, LR 750/1751, 2016 order:
info[at]studer-frey[dot]ch
http://www.studer-frey.ch