Blanko 2025

Once a year, Ensemble Phoenix Basel invites experimental musicians with a rather non-academic background to collaborate. These artists come from areas such as noise, free improvisation, sound art, etc. An exciting combination of the young Chinese performer and sound artist Yiran Zhao, who lives in Berlin, and the experienced British all-round musician Barry Guy and his double bass is planned. Both will conceive and curate one half of the concert each.

Yiran Zhao is a Berlin-based composer and performer.
She is the musical director and composer of the experimental music theater group “OBLIVIA”, based in Helsinki. In her work she combines different forms of expression - music, performance, light, visual arts and other media. Since her arrival in Europe, she has been working intensively with the physicality of performance, using the human body and objects as compositional material.

Barry Guy is an innovative double bassist and composer whose creative diversity in the fields of jazz improvisation, solo recital, chamber and orchestral music is the result of an unusually broad education and a great desire to experiment - borne by his deep devotion to the double bass and the ideal of musical communication.

With

Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Yiran Zhao, Barry Guy

Program

Yiran Zhao (*1988): «Negative Space C – 寻» for ensemble (2025, premiere, commissioned by EPhB)
Barry Guy (*1947): «M.B.’s Breakout» (2025, premiere, commissioned by EPhB)

Info

Concert introduction with the composers and Christoph Bösch at 19:00.

Duration

90 minutes, with break

Prices

CHF 35.-/25.-/15.- (free choice at the box office or in advance)
Free admission applies to persons with residence permit N, F or S. / CHF 5.- students of the Hochschule für Musik FHNW and the Musicology Seminar of the University of Basel / CHF 10.- members Colourkey and children under 12 years.

Links

→ Barry Guy
→ Yiran Zhao
→ ensemble-phoenix.ch