namu3
Namu3 has been described by German magazine Jazz Podium as “a musical amalgam whose presence is quite simply without parallel in the musical sphere, an improvised sonic landscape that adjusts our perception of collective improvisation in a new way”. A Namu3 happening is a direct experience of action painting in sound, through real time creation of noisescapes using acoustic classical instruments and found objects. Often seated in a circle in the midst of our listeners, we work in varied settings, whether with saxophonist Anna-Lena Schnabel at the legendary Bunker Ulmenwall, in interaction with video artists and dance or with historic mechanical looms in a 16th century museum ! Namu3 is joyous, contagious, violent, tender, enigmatic, exploring sounds from delicate near silences to brutal attacks and integrates a hugely diverse baggage from contemporary classical music through non-Western ritual traditions, Dada and death metal.