Discoveries Ensemble performing Rotationen by Klaus Kürvers at Kühlspot, Berlin.
Video recorded and produced by visual artist Linea.

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Hui-Chun Lin – cello, Ulf Mengersen – double bass, Matthias Müller – trombone, Klaus Kürvers – double bass, Uygur Vural – cello

The Berlin-based Ensemble Discoveries is a quintet with four string players and one trombone player. The music expresses various sounds with a wide range, from deep humming to high density sound sculptures. Ensemble Discoveries mostly performs free improvised music but also has its own repertoire of compositions and playing concepts.

Linea is a visual artist who often experiments with analogue techniques, glitch art and obsolete machines. She likes to collaborate with musicians to create audio-visual experiences, preferably in live settings. Her works are usually interactive, improvised and centered on feedback loops and optical effects.

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Music with Birds is an experiment in inter-species communication between the avian artist Kakaduu and the three instrumentalists Hui-Chun Lin (cello), Elo Masing (violin), Christoph Schwantke (8-string guitar).



Music with Birds is released as a double album on Creative Sources Recordings/Maybee Records, recorded during a private performance of two duets, which were developed from the practice of the three instrumentalists performing for Kakaduu over a period of two years.

The performance was made with the full participation of Kakaduu and took place in their Berlin Psiu-Psiu studio in early 2021.

During the release concert the three musicians will play two duos to and with the native birds around the gallery.



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Kakaduu has one of the most unique contemporary practices of environmental art in Europe, choosing to use mostly recycled material in creating artworks. They favour figurative wood sculpture, and often paint on a wide variety of materials.

Favourite media include wood, wood veneer, cardboard, and coconut shell; for painting they use recycled food.

Kakaduu has also dabbled their beak in music production...  morecreditsreleased July 23, 2022

Produced by Elo Masing, Hui-Chun Lin, Christoph Schwantke
Mixed and mastered by Dietrich Petzold
Ideological compass and artwork by Simon Tyszko
Photography by Manuel Miethe
Sleeve deatures details of artwork by Kakaduu: kakaduuart.wordpress.com

​2022-07-23 Hosek Contemporary, Berlin
CD Release "Music with Birds"

Elo Masing/ VIOLIN
Christoph Schwantke/8 -STRING GUITAR

Elo Masing/VIOLIN
Hui-Chun Lin/ CELLO

2022-07-21, 22 Session in Boddinstrasse

Wolfgang Schwabe - Qin
Lan Hungh - Percussion
Hui-Chun Lin - Cello
Emiliano Salvadore - Guitarre

2022-06-29 Live in Hosek Contemporary
Improvised & Experimental #138


Wolfgang Schwabe - Qin
Vincent Laju - Shakuhachi
Hui-Chun Lin - Cello


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Colin Black Photography