9:00 PM Friday, September 23

Annette Krebs / Eric Leonardson Duo
Aaron Zarzutzki / Brent Gutzeit Duo
Brian Labycz / Daniel Fandino / Jim Baker Trio
Annette Krebs / Julia Miller Duo

Annette Krebs studied music and concert guitar in Frankfurt/Main, and has lived in Berlin since 1993. She has worked intensively in the crossover area between improvisation and composition, exploring the possibilities of the prepared guitar with regard to sound, structure, noise, the mixing of materials, and space.

Reviewed in 2002, “…Krebs makes miniature aural gestures, delicate shapes that disappear almost as quickly as they emerge. Using electronic processing and a variety of contact mikes, which she arranges on different parts of the guitar to amplify physical actions instead of string vibrations, Krebs paints wonderfully alien squiggles, swooshes, and splatters. She pays no heed to melody or harmony, and her pieces never really resolve—they just start and then, eventually, they just end. Rotophormen (Charhizma, 2000), recorded with electronics manipulator and prepared-piano player Andrea Neumann, is metallic yet gentle: muffled clanging, milky hissing, brittle scraping, and resonant pinging drift in and out, sometimes cutting off abruptly, sometimes decaying into the ether. Even when joined by a group of like-minded players—including trumpeter Axel Dörner, tuba player Robin Hayward, and saxophonist Alessandro Bosetti, on last year’s Phosphor (Potlatch)—Krebs performs with an identifiable delicacy.”—Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader