As part of Sadik Kwaish Alfraji’s exhibition A Language Under My Skin, W139 will host a performance by The Names. Shaped by the ideas of critical music, listening and sounding practices, and the position of the post-musical, The Names combines playing musical material with reflections on public space, society, and the world of ideas at large.

Harry Golden - tuba

Marielle Groven - violin

Aimée Theriot - cello

Koen Nutters - bass, composition

Gert-Jan Prins - percussion

The Piece DH (Doug Hammond), composed by The Names initiator Koen Nutters, is an extended structure for modal improvisation based on the letters of the name of Doug Hammond: composer, drummer, musician, poet, and educator. Hammond’s use of specific rhythmic chants for pieces as a compositional hallmark, as well as composing unusually beautiful melodies, mostly based on the metrics of his poetry, along with having a taste for unusual instrumentation, makes him one of the originators of modern-day, rhythm-based, afro-centric, American, musical language in use, and explored further, by musicians on a world-wide scale.

The Names is a new Berlin/Amsterdam/Heerlen collective of creative musicians playing open, yet melodic, pieces in a Cage/Oliveros informed spectrum of improvised strategies and open-ended compositions. Giving homage to the Chicago tradition of AACM music as well as praise to progressive thinking in society, highlighting people such as Angela Davis, Michelle Alexander, Audre Lorde and composers such as Anthony Braxton, Eva-Maria Houben, and George Lewis, whose names, along with the names of band members and friends, have been used as the melodic or structural impetus of each composition.

Shaped by the ideas of critical music, listening and sounding practices, and the position of the post-musical, the group combines playing musical material with reflections on public space, society, and the world of ideas at large. For now, the music revolves around the open-ended compositions and arrangements of Koen Nutters, which serve as a conduit for each member’s personal and musical expressions. Each member, as a composer in their own right, is invited to contribute material to the collective’s repertoire in due time.

More Information about the Project: http://www.lateraladdition.org/#66

The Names record release April 1st, 2022 on: www.editions-verde.com

Bandcamp: https://editionsverde.bandcamp.com/album/ev012-four-names-and-a-song

Doug Hammond’s music: https://youtu.be/4V97I53a9ps

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Community tickets | Public Programme

W139 changed their admission policy to explore a principle of solidarity in a new way: Pay-it-forward. This new move is part of a sustainable plan to create a diversity of funding sources for W139. When participating in an event a ticket costs €5, but you can pay €10, €15 or more to pay-it-forward, for someone in the community who also wants to see art or join events, but is less financially fortunate.

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