Music Unlimited Festival

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The Music Unlimited Festival is an international festival for jazz and improvised music that takes place annually in the old slaughterhouse in Wels . For ORF it is the “Mecca for all friends of experimental music”.

history

The festival first took place in November 1987 and was named "Music Unlimited" at the suggestion of the musician and musicologist Gunther Schneider. In the early years, contemporary improvising and composing currents were juxtaposed and the so-called third-stream movement was also discussed as a way of resolving this apparent contradiction. At that time, the New York downtown music scene around John Zorn , Bill Frisell and Elliott Sharp , which characterizes this openness in approach , was particularly decisive for the content of the festival .

Every other year since 1991, the festival has been curated by a musician under a theme chosen by him. The three-day festival is organized annually by the cultural association Waschaecht in cooperation with musicians. So far, almost 1,000 musicians have played in 500 bands and formations, from solo projects to 25-piece orchestras. Contemporary music is presented beyond familiar listening and sound habits: "From chamber music to techno , everything is allowed that is outside the mainstream." Important guests and companions of the festival are all curators and especially artists such as Clive Bell , Ken Vandermark , John Zorn , Evan Parker , Peter Brötzmann , Fred Frith , Mats Gustafsson , Satoko Fujii , Kent Kessler , Christof Kurzmann , Carla Kihlstedt , Lotte Anker and Okkyung Lee or bands like Shellac , Dälek , Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and The Ex .

The festival also presents a number of free concerts every year and is considered highly praised in the international music scene; Visitors not only come from the region, but are also attracted internationally.

Discographic notes

CDs and LPs

  • 1995 - Jon Rose - Techno with disruptions (Don't worry, PDN 002)
  • 1996 - Peter Brötzmann, Maleem Mahmoud Ghania , Hamid Drake - The "Wels" Concert ( Okka Disk , OD12013)
  • 1996 - Orchestra 33 1/3 - Orchestra 33 1/3 (Don't plague yourself, PDN 006)
  • 1998 - DKV Trio - Live in Wels & Chicago (Okka Disk, OD12030)
  • 1998 - Dafeldecker / Kurzmann / Fennesz / O'Rourke / Drumm / Siewert - Dafeldecker / Kurzmann / Fennesz / O'Rourke / Drumm / Siewert ( Charhizma , cha002)
  • 1999 - Various - Mottomo Otomo, Unlimited XIII ( Trost Records , TR 076)
  • 1999 - Otomo Yoshihide - Mira Ni Naru Made / My Dear Mummy (Charhizma, cha017)
  • 1999 - Poire_z - Presque_Chic (Sonoris, SON-42)
  • 2000 - Incapacitants - Live Incapacitants (Alchemy Records, ARCD-123)
  • 2004 - Beñat Achiary - The Seven Circles - Dedicated to Peter Kowald ( FMP , FMP CD 128)
  • 2005 - Joe McPhee - Everything Happens for a Reason (Roaratorio, ROAR 09)
  • 2007 - Dafeldecker / Kurzmann / Tilbury / Wishart - Dafeldecker / Kurzmann / Tilbury / Wishart (Mikroton Recordings, MIKROTON CD 4)
  • 2007 - Carla Kihlstedt & Satoko Fujii - Minamo (Henceforth Records, 105)
  • 2011 - Various - Long Story Short (Trost Records, TR 112)
  • 2013 - DKV Trio + Gustafsson, Nilssen-Love & Pupillo - Schl8hof (Trost Records, TR 125)

DVDs

  • 2011 - Various - Unlimited 23 (PanRec, PANDVD04P)
  • 2013 - The Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet plus Yoshihide Otomo, Michiyo Yagi , Toshinori Kondō & Akira Sakata - Concert for Fukushima Wels 2011 (Trost Records, TR 114)
  • 2013 - Phil Minton / Dieb13 - In the pavilion (PanRec, PANDVD09)

literature

  • Tamara Imlinger (Ed.): Peace and Fire: 25 years of Schl8hof Wels. Works association of the old slaughterhouse in Wels, Wels 2010; On-line

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Festival "music unlimited" in Wels (ORF 2011)
  2. ↑ Seasonal program for “new music” presented. ORF, August 29, 2016, accessed on August 31, 2016 .
  3. ^ Christa Hager: Music from all Fugues , Wiener Zeitung , November 11, 2013
  4. ↑ Holger Pauler: Live: Music Unlimited - Wels ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Jazz thetics @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.j25.jazzthetik.de
  5. ↑ music unlimited: Festival even attracts visitors from North America to Wels , nachrichten.at , November 3, 2014