About
Dietrich Petzold - Violin, Viola, Bowed Metal
Ernesto Rodrigues - Viola
Guilherme Rodrigues - Cello
Matthias Bauer - Double Bass
Dietrich Petzold
Classical violin education, since 1975 freelance violinist and viola player, soloist in various ensembles, LP and CD productions, film and TV (e.g. with: Klaus Lenz Big Band, Uschi Brüning & Co, Zotos Compania, Chris Jarrett, Mikis Theodorakis, Johannes Bauer, Wu Wei, Ahmed Aslan, Kemal Dinç, Antonis Anissegos, Butch Morris, Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues, Thomas Gerwin, Klaus Kürvers, Willi Kellers, Matthias Bauer, Tristan Honsinger)
- since 1980 numerous compositions and live music for theatre, film, TV (e.g. for Deutsches Theater Berlin, DEFA, Mecklenb. Landesth. Schwerin, Bühnen d. Stadt Gera, Teatret Vart Molde, Landesth. Greifswald/Stralsund, Hans-Otto-Theater Potsdam, Junges Theater Zürich, Staatstheater Cottbus)
- approx. 40 compositions for radio play and feature, e.g. for SWF, MDR, NDR, DR, ORF, RBB
- Teaching (e.g. for berliner schule für schauspiel, Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" Berlin)
- in own studio (tonus arcus) recording producer and director of numerous audio book and chamber music productions, radio features (e.g. WDR, DLF), member of the Association of German Sound Engineers VDT
- Sound director for live recordings: Tuscan Sun Festival (IMG Artists), diverse contemporary chamber music festivals and choir concerts
- Since 2010 guest musician and composer at Schauspiel des Staatstheater Cottbus
- Chairman of the Board of Förderband e. V. Kulturinitiative Berlin
Ernesto Rodrigues
He has been playing the violin for 40 years and in that time has played all genres of music ranging from contemporary music to free jazz and free improvisation, live and in the studio.
As a avant-garde violinist/violist his main interest shifted towards contemporary improvised and new music as well as graphic scores by Gerhard Stäbler.
Studies with contemporary composers Paulo Brandão, Eurico Carrapatoso, Emmanuel Nunes, Pedro Figueiredo and Pedro M. Rocha.
The relationship with his instruments is focused in sonic and textural elements as well as the use of extended techniques.
Electronic music was an early influence on his approach to violin playing, which challenges traditional romantic concepts of the violin and viola through use of preparations and micro tuning.
Has founded and directs Variable Geometry Orchestra since 2000. A large ensemble where the conduction is operated by balancing the sound masses that travel in the acoustic space, dictating the construction of the realtime composition, and thus revealing the organized juxtaposition of specific instruments as mobile sound groups.
Active in different settings on the Portuguese scene for free improvised music, both as a collaborator and in leading his own groups including many important and creative musicians.
Has created the record label Creative Sources Recordings in 1999, which mainly concentrates on releasing experimental and electro-acoustic music.
Music for Dance, Cinema, Video and Performance.
Guilherme Rodrigues
Guilherme Rodrigues is a cellist, improviser and composer from Lisboa, Portugal.
He was born in 1988 in Lisboa and started to learn cello and trumpet when he was seven at Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and later in Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa to study classical and music theory until his twenty-three. With an intuitive approach to improvisation and exploration of the timbres, using both classical and extensive techniques, his music is exciting, polyrhythmic and full of contrasts.
Apart from work in music ensembles ranging for contemporary classical to free improvisation, has created music for dance, theater, radio, television, silent film. After lengthy residency in Lisboa, (1988-2016) moved to Berlin and has been active as composer and improviser in the scene playing in projects and beautiful musicians as Ernesto Rodrigues, Jean-luc Guionnet, Tristan Honsinger, Axel Doerner, Sei Miguel, Tim Goldie, Jeffrey Morgan, Mia Dyberg, Klaus Kurvers, Gabriel Paiuk, Blaise Siwula, Gino Robair, Michael Thieke, Wade Matthews, Leonel Kaplan, Gabriel Paiuk, Tom Djll, Jassem Hindi, Tisha Mukarji, Masahiko Okura, Toshihiro Koike, Sharif Sehnaoui, Dietrich Petzold, Christine Abdelnour, Alexandre Bellenger, Carlos Zingaro, Nuno Rebelo, Nuno Torres, Naoto Yamagashi, Heddy Boubaker, Gerhard Uebele, Guillermo Torres, Tomas Gris, Carlos Santos, Bruno Parrinha, Miguel Ivo Cruz, Alberto Cirera, Nuno Morão, Mark Sanders, Raymond Macdonald, Neil Davidson, David Stachenas, Lisa Ullén, D'incise, Cyril Bondy, Miguel Mira, Rodrigo Amado, Abdul Moimême, Monsieur Trinité, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Matthias Bauer, Christian Wolfarth, Thanos Chrysakis, Kurt Liedwart, Miguel A. Garcia, Ilia Belorukov, Andrew Lafkas, Gao Jiafeng, Eric Wong, Johan Moir, Casey Moir, Magda Mayas, Matthias Muller, Alexander Frangenheim, Vasco Trilla, among others.
Has performed and toured in all Europe. Released more than 40 albums of his own projects.
Matthias Bauer
is a double bass player, improviser and composer based in Berlin. He is specialised in contemporary music, performed a large repertoire of solo compositions for double bass and is working with Berlin based new music ensembles. He performed with many internationally renowned musicians of the free improviser scene and took part in various ensembles and festivals. A central concern is his own solo performance incorporating the voice. Bauer has written music for smaller and larger ensembles as well as for theatre and dance.
current projects as improviser: • Solo • Alchimia Organica with Maria Lucchese • Duo with Floros Floridis • Up and Out with Harri Sjöström, Phil Wachsmann, Emilio Gordoa, Dag Magnus Narvesen • Berlin Art Quartet with Matthias Schubert, Matthias Müller, Reinhard Brüggemann • Dis/con/sent with Ernesto and Guilherme Rodrigues, Dietrich Petzold • Bauer/Bauer/Narvesen with Conny Bauer and Dag Magnus Narvesen;
former collaborations: Conny Bauer Quartet, Baby Sommer Trio, Sven Åke Johansson Quintet, Uli Gumpert Trio, Butch Morris Sky Scrapers, SPOK, Bauer 4, a.o.
and with Johannes and Conny Bauer, Thomas Borgmann, Willi Kellers, Georg Gräwe, Martin Blume, Hanns Reichel, Bill Dixon, Tony Oxley, Phil Minton, Luc Houtkamp, Alex Kolkowski, Axel Dörner, Rudi Mahall, David Moss, Peter Hollinger, John Rose, Shelley Hirsch, Wolfgang Fuchs, Paul Lovens, Tony Buck, John Butcher a.o.
selected discography: • Berlin Abbozzi (FMP) Bill Dixon, Klaus Koch, Tony Oxley; • Kryonics (Emanem) John Rose, Alex Kolkowski; • Sven Ake Johansson Quintett (hatOLOGY) Axel Dörner, Rudi Mahall, Sten Sandell; • Bauer 4 (Jazzwerkstatt) Konrad, Johannes Bauer, Louis Rastig; • Die Harke und der Spaten (Umlaut Records) Sven Ake Johansson, Axel Dörner, Mats Gustafsson, Sten Sandell, Per Ake Holmlander, Raymond Strid; • Alchimia Organica (creative source rec.) Maria Lucchese; • spontan in granit (creative source rec.) solo; • up and out (amiranirecords) Phil Wachsmann, Harri Sjöström, Emilio Gordoa, Dag Magnus Narvesen; • The Balderin Sali Variations, (Leo Records 2019), Harri Sjöström, Evan Parker, Sebi Tramontana, Philipp Wachsmann, Veli Kujala, Libero Mureddu, Emilio Gordoa, Teppo Hauta-aho, Matthias Bauer, Paul Lovens, Dag Magnus Narvesen;
