RØYSUM / DÖRNER (DUO) & FLINN / BEYER (DUO)
Andreas Røysum – clarinet
Axel Dörner – trumpet
Stephen Flinn – percussion
Kriton Beyer – daxophone
17.05.2025
Doors: 7:30 p.m. // Music: 8:00 p.m.
The Røysum – Dörner duo has existed since 2017, and since then has played several tours in Norway, Sweden, Germany and Austria.
Andreas Røysum is a clarinetist and composer, based in Numedal in Norway, who most often would be referred to as working within jazz, improvised- and contemporary music settings.
He leads the Røysum Ensemble, and is part of groups like Marthe Lea Band, Miman and Nakama.
Røysum has also been playing in duo format with reedists Mats Gustafsson and Klaus Holm, accordionist Kalle Moberg, trumpeter Axel Dörner and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love.
The last year has seen him tour as a trio with bassist John Edwards and drummer Mark Sanders, as well as working on projects with poet Marvin Tate, and choreographer Marie Bergby Handeland.
Axel Dörner is a German trumpeter, pianist, and composer. Dörner studied piano in the Dutch town Arnhem (1988–89) and at the Music Academy in Cologne (1989–1996). From 1991 he studied trumpet with Malte Burba, and during his studies he collaborated with trumpeter Bruno Light as the Street Fighters Duo. The duo expanded to form the Street Fighters Quartet and the Street Fighters Double Quartet, with members including Matthias Schubert, Bruno Leicht, and Claudio Puntin. He formed the Axel Dörner Quartet with Frank Gratkowski, Hans Schneider, and Martin Blume, and played with saxophonist Matthias Petzold on the albums Lifelines and Psalmen und Lobgesänge.
Dörner has lived in Berlin since 1994 and is an integral part of the Berlin scene of new improvised and experimental music. Besides playing solo and in his trio TOOT (with Phil Minton and Thomas Lehn), he has played with artists such as Otomo Yoshihide and in groups such as Die Anreicherung (with Christian Lillinger, Håvard Wiik, and Jan Roder), Ig Henneman Sextet, Ken Vandermark’s Territory-Band, Hedros (with Mats Gustafsson, Günter Christmann, Barry Guy, and others), and the London Jazz Composers‘ Orchestra. A versatile musician, he is also able to work in idiomata such as bebop. He played on pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach’s album Monk’s Casino, featuring interpretations of the complete compositions of Thelonious Monk.
www.axeldoerner.org
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Stephen Flinn is an active composer, performer, and improviser currently based in Berlin, Germany. He performs throughout Europe, Japan, and the United States in contexts ranging from solo to large groups, supporting Butoh dancers, and various ongoing projects.
He has spent decades experimenting with traditional percussion, working with unusual sound sources, including self-made instruments and found objects to create distinct sounds and phonic textures, and using extended techniques for expressing himself in diverse musical settings.
He collaborated with like-minded, innovative sound artists as electronics player Steve Beresford, pianist Denman Maroney and trumpeter Nate Wooley.
“Stephen Flinn has an aptitude for creating momentum through nuance.”
~The Wire
www.stephenflinn.net
Kriton Beyer is a Greek-German musician and composer, who – as a performer and improviser – mainly works with the harmonium and the daxophone. He studied musicology in Greece where he collaborated with a variety of local music groups as well as musicians like Sakis Papadimitriou and Floros Floridis.
In 2004 he moved to Berlin, where he got heavily involved in the improvised music scene of the city.
Since then he has worked with many musicians like Phil Minton, Audrey Chen, Steve Noble, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Axel Dörner, Liz Kosack, Kresten Osgood, Tristan Honsinger, Tomomi Adachi, Richard Scott, Willi Kellers, Matthias Bauer, Antonis Anissegos, Olaf Rupp, Alexei Borisov, Els Vandeweyer, Harri Sjöström, Nicola Hein and Liz Allbee, dancers like Yuko Kaseki and visual artists like Akiko Nakayama. Kriton Beyer founded the “FRAGMENTATION ORCHESTRA“, is a member of the electroacoustic trio “uproot” and the ensembles “Redox Reaction” and FDBK EXPT.
In his work with the harmonium, Kriton Beyer uses both the natural sound of his instrument and “traditional” playing techniques as well as preparations, objects and extended techniques, while his daxophone play is characterized by a very personal musical and sonic aesthetic, and an unconventional technique, sometimes also supported by the subtle use of electronics. As an improvising musician, he has performed throughout Europe. His compositions are usually characterized by conceptualism.
Kriton Beyer has also conceived and commissioned the music software CinePrompt®, which was specially developed for the use for live musical performance and live recording to films.
Kriton Beyer also manages the record label “The Procrustean Bed”, dedicated to Experimental & Improvised Music.
www.kritonbeyer.com
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The Zwitschermaschine is a project space with a multi-disciplinary program and with an international appearance in sponsorship of Kulturpark 3000 e.V. and Second Collective e.V. that exists since April 2013.
In addition to visual artists, it is primarily artists from the fields of sound and media art who exhibit at the Zwitschermaschine. A consistent theme is the preoccupation with public space, urban space and architecture.
www.zwitschermaschine-berlin.de