Zeitkratzer is one of the most important ensembles for contemporary music in Germany. These unique crossover artists fuse contemporary music and pop-avantgarde, interpreting Morton Feldman, John Tenney, Schönberg's Pierrot, Stockhausen and John Cage. The ensemble of 12 surrounding the Berlin composer and pianist Reinhold Friedl scratches at the norms of time. Zeitkratzer interprets the term contemporary music in its own individual way and 'shakes the chains of notation' by accentuating the new.

Joint projects with artists including Lou Reed, Jim O'Rourke, Fennesz, Alvin Lucier, Terje Rypdhal, Keiji Haino or Merzbow have shown Zeitkratzer's knowledge of improvisation, electronics, minimal music, rock, pop, noise and folklore. Besides numerous recordings for European radio stations (WDR, SWR, Ö1,...) the ensemble has made itself at home on European festival stages and continue to release music on their own label Zeitkratzer-Records. They have also been 'Artist in Residence' at the Volksbühne Berlin, Huddersfield, Maerzmusik, Donau Festival, Vienna Modern, Zagreb Biennale, in Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Norway, Spain and Budapest.

For C3, Zeitkratzer will present a program with two elements: the first presents instrumental versions of pieces from the Polish Radio Experimental Studio, established in 1957 and one of the first institutions of that kind in the world. The second presents arrangements by gender-activist Terre Thaemlitz, also known as DJ Sprinkles, whose wide range of styles include electro-acoustic computer music, club-oriented deep house, digital jazz, ambient, and computer-composed, neo-expressionist piano solos.

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