Berlin-based sound artist, composer and experimental turntablist Ignaz Schick, together with his Vietnamese friends, players, performers and composers, will hold a workshop on electronic music at the German cultural center Goethe Institut in Hanoi on Sunday, March 3, starting at 8 p.m.

The workshop will be held at the Goethe Institut on March 3 - PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE ORGANIZER

The event will feature rehearsals, discussions and performances of both compositions and improvisations by the invited participants, according to the Goethe Institut.

Ignaz Schick visited Hanoi two years ago during his research trip through various South East Asian countries. He met well-known artists in the city, held a workshop with young local musicians, and premiered a graphic score piece written especially for traditional, modern and even self-built instruments.

The collaboration was so successful that the Berlin Arts Council decided to support this second trip. For this event, Schick has invited the same musicians from the last time but also added some new faces.

As a child Ignaz Schick learned to play saxophone after meeting Don Cherry and then received composition lessons from Josef Anton Ried and at the Academy of the Arts Munich. In Berlin, he has been a major figure for electro acoustic music.

Schick has made tours worldwide, received numerous scholarships, and collaborated with renowned musicians such as Mwata Bowden, Don Cherry, Douglas Ewart, Limpe Fox, George Lewis, Toshi Nakamura, Charlemagne Palestine, Akira Sakata, and Martin Tetreault. In 2018, he received the prestigious scholarship for the Cultural Academy Tarabya in Istanbul.

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