murmur
concert series for experimental music
Doors: 20h00
Concerts: 20h30
Tickets: 15/20/25
Hirscheneck
Lindenberg 23
CH-4058 Basel
#14 THU, 23.4.26 (Hirscheneck)
Jessie Marino (DE)
Jessie Marino is a Berlin-based composer, performer, and media artist. Her compositions and performances abstract ideas drawn from all stripes of popular culture and political discourse, girded by a definitively humanistic sensibility rife with equal doses of wit and pathos. Marino’s pieces score out sound, video, story, lighting, and staging, treating each of these elements as expandable musical materials. She transcends the conventional materials of composition to help audiences locate music in the most commonplace activities and relations.
Jessie Marino (DE): fiddle, FX
Czajka & Puchacz (DE)
Kaja Draksler (SI) & Szymon Gasiorek (PL)
The Slovenia based duo Czajka & Puchacz released their first, predominantly acoustic album Bivališča in July 2020, and followed up with a retro-avant-pop single Entschuldigung of their alter duo Kiebitz & Uhu a year later. Since their second release, which explored experimental songwriting within a field of existentialism and abstraction of daily life, the pair has continued exploring ways to merge instant songwriting with the aesthetics of European school of free improvisation and the idiom of musique concrete, resulting in their second albumFlapping in November 2025.
Kaja Draksler: prepared piano, keyboards, vocals and percussion
Szymon Gasiorek: drums, percussion, vocals and electronics
#13 THU, 5.3.26 (HIRSCHENECK)
Sylvain Haenen (BE)
el. guit, objects
Wassim Halal (FR / LEB)
darbuka/fx
After concert vinyls Set: 𝙹𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚊𝟹𝟶𝟶𝟶
#12 THU, 26.6.25 (at muwo)
(Lothringerstrasse 165, Basel )
Gaudenz Badrutt Solo (CH)
Palace is Gaudenz Badrutt’s second solo LP and released by Bruit in March 2025. Palace is composed and based on live material, field recordings and archive recordings from Badrutt’s collection. He playfully processes his own history, interweaving it with the unfamiliar and the newly played. For his solo performance PALACE, Badrutt undertakes a retranslation of the composition, takes it further, reconstructs and deconstructs it, reinvents it. A rich, symphonic palace music!
Gaudenz Badrutt – CDJ, modular sampler and oscillators, int. & ext. feedbacks, piano
Lise Barkas Solo (FR)
Bagpiper Lise Barkas plunges us into a world of sound that joyously combines the still-vibrant folklore of the bagpipes with modes of playing linked to experimental music. Haunting melodies appear and disappear, giving way to blown sounds, scratches, complex multiphonics and whistling. In this way, she reveals astonishing harmonic combinations in continuums of sound, redefining the notions of tradition associated with these instruments. Festival Archipel
Numerous maxims in voice-over. A syncopated montage of animated or still shots that follow one another without any apparent link, punctuated by sounds that are sometimes strident, saturated and brutally interrupted. It’s like a metaphorical plunge into the chaotic universe of primitive and historical times. […] Adieu au langage leaves you speechless. Viktor Kirtov, pileface.com
Lise Barkas - hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes
#9 THU, 13.3.25
Jean-Philipp Gross (FR)
At the crossroads of electronic and instrumental music, Jean-Philippe Gross develops a physical relationship with sound, playing with ruptures and acoustic phenomena.
In concert, he collaborates with Stéphane Garin (Dénombrement & Plan affine), eRikm, Clare Cooper (Nevers), Camille Mutel (dance), Jean-Luc Guionnet, Marc Baron …
Never locked into any systematism, Jean-Philippe Gross allows himself the extremes to take advantage of a wide field of possibilities and pays particular attention to the timbre, the grain and the quality of the sound, even rough. He works for dance, has composed for small ensembles (Dedalus ensemble, Phonoscopie).
From October 2001 to June 2009 he was engaged as a music program curator for Fragment (Metz, France). In 2019, he started the record label Eich.
Jean-Philippe Gross - electronics
TEMPORANEA QUINTET (CH)
Temporanea is a multifaced ensemble, spanning from duo to octet. It was created in Basel in 2023 by the wish of dealing with improvised music as well as with collective creation in a large collaborative setting. The band explores different possible relational combinations, seeking for a confrontational common path through improvisation and open compositions.
Corrado Cerutti - guitar/fx
Stefano Grasso - drums
Ignaz Khlobystin- flute
Timm Kornelius- bassoon
Sophie Oetinger - accordeon
#8 THU, 6.2.25
LEIB (CH)
Leib is a Swiss trio, consisting of Kevin Sommer (clarinet), Cyrill Ferrari (guitar) and Lukas Briner (drums). The band creates its music collectively, with the three musicians exhausting the repertoire of their instruments, expanding it with speakers and tape recorders, and blending their sounds into a new common sonic language. For four years Leib have been persistently researching their band sound, tinkering with new textures and sounds live and in rehearsal rooms, searching for ways to rethink improvised music. Recently their first LP "Mother Hologram / Sister Anagram" was released on the Argentinian label Neue Numeral.
Kevin Sommer - clarinet
Cyril Ferrari - guitar
Lukas Briner - drums
Two internationally renowned improvisers use the energy of the moment and bring us on a journey between the different styles of music they both represent. In their musical approach they use elements of Folk music from their countries of origin (Iran and Greece), as well as Contemporary and Experimental music.
Shabnam Parvaresh - bass clarinet, fx
Sofia Labropoulou - prepared kanun