Mi, 15.10.2025, 20:00 Uhr

Hörbar: Dong Zhou / David Wallraf

Unfortunately Ignaz Schick will not be able to perform this wednesday. The Hamburg artist Dong Zhou will play instead! Dong Zhou Dong Zhou (no pronouns) is a composer-performer based in Hamburg. Zhou gained a B.A. in music engineering at the Shanghai Conservatory and an M.A. in multimedia composition at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. Zhou won several prizes, including the first prize in the 2018 ICMC Hacker-N-Makerthon, the finalist of the 2019 Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, and the Nota-n-ear Award 2022. Zhou had works included in the ‘Sound of World’ Microsoft ringtones collection and was commissioned by festivals and institutions such as the Shanghai International Art Festival, ZKM Karlsruhe, Stimme X Festival, etc. Zhou is currently a doctoral candidate in ICAM of Leuphana University, a member of Stimme X e. V. Zeitgenössisches Musiktheater Norddeutschland and Deutscher Komponistenverband Hamburg. David Wallraf David Wallraf is a noise artist and theorist from Hamburg. In their audio works they explore the acoustics of the uncanny: Field recordings, electromagnetic waves and obsolete audio technology are woven into soundtracks for the nightmare of 'capitalist realism'. Since 2013 they released about 80 solo works and collaborations. In February 2025, the tape album Crudeltá Necessaria will be released on Karlrecords. A collaboration with Jena Jang is due to be released on German tape label Econore in March. A recent interest has been live scoring of surrealist silent films, including works by Luis Buñuel, Maya Deren and Jean Genet. David’s dissertation on noise, the book Grenzen des Hörens – Noise und die Akustik des Politischen (Limits of Hearing – Noise and the Acoustics of the Political) has been published in German, an English translation is in process. https://davidwallraf.com/ https://davidwallraf.bandcamp.com/