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Ulher - Wassermann

Photo: Gunnar Lettow

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radio tweets

Ulher - Wassermann

  • Birgit Ulher — trumpet, radio, objectsTrompete, Radio, Objekte
  • Ute Wassermann — voice, bird whistles, objectsStimme, Vogelpfeifen, Objekte

Radio Tweets are sound accomplices. Birgit Ulher projects radio sounds into the trumpet, which thus becomes both transmitter and receiver. She uses everyday objects, as well as metal sheets that she holds in front of the trumpet´s horn, thus creating multiphonics and split sounds. Ute Wassermann masks her singing with bird whistles, jaw’s harp, objects and various microphones and creates a hybrid vocal instrument with oscillating timbres, dissolving into a sound world of birds, electronics, machines and fragmented language. The timing and timbre of both musicians complement each other perfectly in their uncompromisingly coordinated but alway surprising improvisations.

‘Radio Tweet finds imaginary birds in full flight’. – Julian Cowley, The Wire

‘One can do nothing else but listen closely to this music and be sucked into the sound world of these two musicians. Open up your ears and mind and something beautiful will unfold…. Excellent work’. – Frans de Waard,  Vital Weekly

‘Simply put, these women can’t fail; and indeed, they didn’t….At the same time it remains entirely comprehensible, funny, and utterly gratifying for the ears’.  Massimo Ricci, touchingextremes

 Radio Tweets treten seit über 15 Jahren auf. Radio Tweets sind Klangkomplizinnen.

Timing und Klangfarben beider Musikerinnen ergänzen sich in ihren kompromisslos aufeinander eingestimmten Improvisationen auf perfekte Weise.

Trompete und Stimme werden mit verschiedenen Objekten präpariert: Birgit Ulher projiziert mit Lautsprechern Radioklänge ins Innere der Trompete, die so gleichzeitig zu Sender und Empfänger wird. Sie verwendet Milchschäumern und anderen Alltagsgegenständen, sowie Metallbleche die sie vor den Trompetentrichter hält und damit Multiphonics und aufgesplittete Klänge erzeugt. Ute Wassermann maskiert ihren Gesang mit Vogelpfeifen, Mirliton, Maultrommel und  Miniperkussion und erzeugt ein hybrides Stimminstrument mit multiphonen und oszillierenden Klangfarben. Der Stimmklang löst sich auf in eine Klangwelt von Vögeln, Elektronik, Maschinen und fragmentierter Sprache.

‘Radio Tweet finds imaginary birds in full flight’. – Julian Cowley, The Wire

‘One can do nothing else but listen closely to this music and be sucked into the sound world of these two musicians. Open up your ears and mind and something beautiful will unfold…. Excellent work’. – Frans de Waard,  Vital Weekly

‘Simply put, these women can’t fail; and indeed, they didn’t….At the same time it remains entirely comprehensible, funny, and utterly gratifying for the ears’.  Massimo Ricci, touchingextremes

related press

  • Outer Limits Review Section
    CD review radio tweet
    Julian Cowley — The WIRE
    Print
    2016
  • Ute Wassermann / Birgit Ulher - Radio Tweet
    Massimo Ricci — Touching Extremes
    Online Article
    2016
  • The Sound Projector
    Bird on a Wire
    Ed Pinsent
    Online Article
    2015
  • CD radio tweet
    Jean-Michel van Schouwburg
    Online Article
    2016
  • CM Magazine
    Ilia Belorukov
    Online Article
    2016
  • CD radio tweet
    Petr Slaby — His Voice
    Online Article
    2016

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releases

  • Radio Tweet
    Ulher & Wassermann

    Creative Sources

    2015

  • Kunststoff
    Uhler & Wassermann

    creative sources 017

    2004

selected performances

  • Borderline Festival
    2022
    Onassis Stegi — Athen
  • Festival Bruit de la Musique
    2019
    Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx
  • radio tweets
    2019
    Zoglau:3 — Taubenbach
  • Offene Ohren
    2017
    MUG im Einstein Kultur — München
  • TonalÁtonal
    2017
    Casa del Lago — Mexico City
  • Tempo Reale
    2017
    Frittelli Arte Contemporanea — Florence
  • radio tweets
    2017
    Platfon — Basel
  • radio tweets
    2017
    Cave12 — Genève
  • Katarakt Festival
    2017
    Kampnagel Fabrik — Hamburg
  • NRW Soundtrips
    2016
    Köln, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Essen, Wuppertal, Münster, Bochum, Duisburg
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