Carte Blanche

Zurich accordionist Tizia Zimmermann and Lucerne guitarist Manuel Troller have worked together in a variety of contexts and constellations, and as part of Zimmermann's Carte Blanche series this will the first time they perform as a duo. Both are interested in the perception and understanding of time, in slowly developing musical material, in long-form improvisation that attempts to suspend time and can patiently expand in all possible directions and depths.
Accordion and electric guitar - a combination with which Troller and Zimmermann search for new sonic worlds with their shared fascination for ambiguity, for harmonic fields that generate warmth and are at the same time subtly broken again and again, for fragility as well as power.

Using acoustic and electronic instruments, the three protagonists of jazz-based improvised music develop a discourse on the possibilities of contemporary interplay in historical instrumentation. Concepts and ideas from different geographical and temporal origins are transformed into new organising principles that enable the ensemble to harmonise seemingly disparate musical elements. Delicate counterpoint and prancing polyrhythms sound effortlessly alongside raw towers of sound, vehement chord clusters and simple vocalism.