Hawking Extended

Ignaz Schick - alto- and bari-saxophone, turntables
Gunnar Geisse - laptop guitar
Ernst Bier - drums, live-electronics
Hawking Extended are building obscure sculptural sound objects, risky, sometimes fragile and often eclectic. They allow themselves to touch musical taboos and walk on the thin line between 'Kitsch ', sharp electronics and refreshing anti-preset-music often resulting in a music which sounds like an acoustic science fiction film.

With Hawking Extended the two Berlin based musicians Ernst Bier & Ignaz Schick present their duo Hawking (formed in 2013) in addition with the Munich based composer, guitarist and live-electronics player Gunnar Geisse. Hawking normally performs entirely with live-electronic instruments – in Hawking Extended however additionally to the three different electronic set-ups the musicians also make use of their original acoustic instruments. The purely acoustic setting (saxophone, guitar, drums) is mirrored with the entire electronic display (Wave Drum/Electronics, Laptop, Turntable). The music consciously uses the tension between acoustic free improvisation, electro-acoustic music, noise and contemporary jazz and continuously oscillates between those different stylistic poles.

Hawking Extended are building obscure sculptural sound objects, risky, sometimes fragile and often eclectic. They allow themselves to touch musical taboos and walk on the thin line between „Kitsch “, sharp electronics and refreshing anti-preset-music often resulting in a music which sounds like an acoustic science fiction film. After a first concert in 2017 the trio has just recently spent several days in the recording studio in Berlin and will now present you the exciting new musical results in this concert.