murmur
concert series for experimental music
Doors: 20h00
Concerts: 20h30
Tickets: 15/20/25
Hirscheneck
Lindenberg 23
CH-4058 Basel
#16 THU, 24.9.26
WUKIR SURYADI (IND)
Titir on the Podium (Basel Edition)
"While global sustainability discourse is discussed in sterile rooms, a sound machine made of bamboo appeares in Basel as a podium sounding the alarm of urgency." Wukir Suryadi performs a radical deconstruction of symbols of power and technology. An instrument made entirely from bamboo, named the Sustainable Sonic Engine, is presented not merely as a musical instrument but is directly used as a political podium.
Flexible, hollow yet sturdy, bamboo is transformed into a 'machine' that generates sound responding to the reality of the world today. Adapted from the local Javanese tradition, the word 'Titir' refers to an intense rhythmic beat as a sign of communal danger. When this bamboo machine is scraped, plucked, and struck to produce a noisy, ancient resonance, it is no longer used to control the narrative or deliver bureaucratic speeches. Through the Sustainable Sonic Engine, Titir appears as a deliberate artistic disruption.
WUKIR SURYADI: titir
SANTOS SILVA/ AGUIRRE/ DUHSLER (PRT/CHL/CH)
Three figures in free improvisation and contemporary experimentation - Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva, Chilean guitarist Diego Aguirre Daz, and Swiss percussionist Samuel Dühsler - will perform together for the first time on the same stage.Bound by extensive international careers spanning avant-garde jazz, acoustic research, and cross-disciplinary collaborations with theater, poetry, and movement arts, this trio begins with no predefined structure, grounding their meeting in radical listening. Each musician brings a wide spectrum of sonic possibilities to fully immerse themselves in the present moment. Free of blueprints or scripts, the three players place themselves at the service of sound, letting the music speak for itself, illuminate the way, and embark - together with the audience - on an unrepeatable sonic journey.
Susana Santos Silva: trumpet
Diego Aguirre Zaldivar: guitar
Samuel Dühsler: drums
#15 THU, 28.5.26
HMOT (RU/CH)
HMOT, aka Stas Shärifulla is a Basel-based artist and researcher studying how listening shapes identity and memory. Working with both traditional instruments and computer music tools, Stas practices in performance, spatial sound and mixed media installation, open form composition, free improvisation, speculative sound fiction, soundwalks, and more. His main instrument is quray, a Bashqort open end-blown flute, whose traditional sound he augments with electroacoustics and extended techniques.
HMOT: quray, tashtawıq, electronics
https://hmotclub.bandcamp.com/album/there-will-come-gentle-rain
CARLA BOREGAS & MAURICIO TAKARA (BRA)
Both crucial members of the Brazilian music scene, Carla Boregas and M. Takara have been playing as a duo since 2018. Together their music is the result of an interplay between drums and synths, blending Boregas’s aether and warmth electronics with Takara’s jazzy improvised percussion, somewhere between abstract improvisation and propulsive rhythm. The landscape they present is real and vibrant, sometimes brash, sometimes beautiful, rarely bland or ambivalent, an organic layering of manipulated synthesizers, percussion and other acoustic sounds.
Carla Boregas: Synthesizers and electronics
Mauricio Takara: Drums and electronics
#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
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
Shabnam Parvaresh/
Sofia Labropoulou (IR/GR)
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