Matthias Muche
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Matthias Muche is a trombonist and composer living in Cologne. He represents a generation of composer-performers for whom the distinction between jazz, improvised music and contemporary music no longer applies. He confidently draws on the diverse legacy of the avant-gardes of the 20th and 21st centuries - as a composer as well as a virtuoso improviser and performer.
His work focuses on interdisciplinary projects in music, theater, dance and video art, with which he has performed in over 50 countries.
After studying music at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Rotterdam and Cologne, he completed a postgraduate course at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and initiated the Frischzelle Festival for Intermedia Performance and Contemporary Art.
In his performances, he uses a wide variety of playing techniques: Recordings of language and soundscapes into the trombone, spatial expansion through external funnels, interactive computer graphics as synaesthetic perception or simply the pure, naked trombone.
Muche was awarded the WDR Jazz Prize 2021 in the improvisation category.
CD productions by his ensembles BONECRUSHER & TON were nominated for the German Record Critics' Award in 2022.
More information:
https://linktr.ee/matthiasmuche
His work focuses on interdisciplinary projects in music, theater, dance and video art, with which he has performed in over 50 countries.
After studying music at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Rotterdam and Cologne, he completed a postgraduate course at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and initiated the Frischzelle Festival for Intermedia Performance and Contemporary Art.
In his performances, he uses a wide variety of playing techniques: Recordings of language and soundscapes into the trombone, spatial expansion through external funnels, interactive computer graphics as synaesthetic perception or simply the pure, naked trombone.
Muche was awarded the WDR Jazz Prize 2021 in the improvisation category.
CD productions by his ensembles BONECRUSHER & TON were nominated for the German Record Critics' Award in 2022.
More information:
https://linktr.ee/matthiasmuche