Psychic Liberation Night: Lisa Ullén + Jiyoung Wi

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Psychic Liberation (PL) is a label founded in 2013, originally run by Miguel Alvariño under the name Primitive Languages as a cassette and record store project in New York City. Since 2019, Nick Klein has operated it solo from the EU under the title Psychic Liberation. 

The concert series of the same name takes place in the Kuppelhalle with changing guests.  

Lisa Ullén
Lisa Ullén is one of Sweden’s most influential pianists in the free jazz and improvisational scene, as well as in contemporary music.

I make music that does not really belong to any known genre, but shifts between, through and outside various idioms — jazz, new music, and more — until a distinct genre nevertheless emerges. This is music that stems from an experience of not really belonging to anything, of being in between identities and traditions; music that makes use of melodic and rhythmical fragments but refuses to settle within expressions that already exist – Lisa Ullén 

Born in Seoul, Ullén grew up in the northern part of Sweden. In 2018, the Swedish Radio awarded Ullén the prestigious Jazz Composer of the Year. She shares time between Berlin and Stockholm.
 

Jiyoung Wi
Jiyoung Wi will present a performance that frames improvisation as a form of ‘negative virtuosity’, emphasizing the dynamics between control (and its failure), chance, and the continual redefinition of physical limits. Jiyoung Wi (she/her) is a musician/improviser and fiction writer floating between Rotterdam and Seoul. 

Her polarized practice explores narrative possibilities in non-image-based mediums. She has developed a series of ‘sound fiction’ works focusing on the tentative reciprocity between sound and text. As a self-punitive improviser, through her negative virtuosity and risk-taking gestures, she confronts the thresholds of sonic immediacy.
 

Saturday, January 17
Kuppelhalle
Doors: 7 pm / Start: 8 pm
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