Joachim Kühn & Trummerschlunk

Playing Probabilities

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Joachim & Klaus

If we are part and product of chance, should we play with it?

Having worked together for many years as musician and sound engineer, two improvisers break out of their comfort zones. Piano icon Joachim Kühn and electronica experimentalist Klaus Scheuermann alias „Trummerschlunk“ explore the potential of the unlikely: a collaboration across generations, genre boundaries, and long established professional roles.

Arriving at Kühn’s balearic hide-away, Scheuermann tapes a contact microphone onto the Steinway piano frame. Initial irritation gives way to fascination as the first feedback loop between the traditional instrument and the custom-made modular synthesizer hits Kühn’s headphones.

After three days of improvisation, they find themselves with over six hours of recorded music that engages but never confines itself to free jazz, techno, ambient, and the kind of cinematographic soundscapes that animate your favorite David Lynch film. This record condenses their meditations on the theme of chance and probability into five songs, to which bass player Tom Berkmann later adds low end gravity.

“Playing Probabilities” is an invitation to venture beyond our comfort zones and counter crisis paralysis, especially now, in this moment of all-encompassing change.

out 31.07.202, act music

κρῑ́νω, krī́nō is out!

I am very happy to announce, that my new EP is finally out and will be available vinyl only for a while.

Here are some links for mailorder:

https://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/trummerschlunk-krino-631858?p=496BUE

https://www.deejay.de/Trummerschlunk_kri%C2%B4no_LEMME002_Vinyl__346870

https://extendandplay-records.com/Trummerschlunk-kr%C4%ABn%C5%8D/release/13043250

https://www.juno.co.uk/search/?facet%5Blabel_facet%5D%5B0%5D=lemme+france&hide_forthcoming=0

κρῑ́νω, krī́nō

means to judge, to decide in ancient Greek and refers to a turning point, potentially implying fundamental transformation. It is the etymological root of our contemporary concept of crisis, which carries predominantly negative meaning.

In the borderlands of force and choice the difference between utopia and dystopia is reduced to a matter of degrees. We must reconsider how we approach what we don’t know, how we create an-“other” when our sense of continuity and safety is shaken and our comfort zones assume new geographies.

κρῑ́νω, krī́nō is out!

I am very happy to announce, that my new EP is finally out and will be available vinyl only for a while.

Here are some links for mailorder:

https://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/trummerschlunk-krino-631858?p=496BUE

https://www.deejay.de/Trummerschlunk_kri%C2%B4no_LEMME002_Vinyl__346870

https://extendandplay-records.com/Trummerschlunk-kr%C4%ABn%C5%8D/release/13043250

https://www.juno.co.uk/search/?facet%5Blabel_facet%5D%5B0%5D=lemme+france&hide_forthcoming=0

κρῑ́νω, krī́nō

means to judge, to decide in ancient Greek and refers to a turning point, potentially implying fundamental transformation. It is the etymological root of our contemporary concept of crisis, which carries predominantly negative meaning.

In the borderlands of force and choice the difference between utopia and dystopia is reduced to a matter of degrees. We must reconsider how we approach what we don’t know, how we create an-“other” when our sense of continuity and safety is shaken and our comfort zones assume new geographies.

krī́nō

(vinyl, lemme records, feb. 2019)

κρῑ́νω, krī́nō

means to judge, to decide in ancient Greek and refers to a turning point, potentially implying fundamental transformation. It is the etymological root of our contemporary concept of crisis, which carries predominantly negative meaning.

In the borderlands of force and choice the difference between utopia and dystopia is reduced to a matter of degrees. We must reconsider how we approach what we don’t know, how we create an-“other” when our sense of continuity and safety is shaken and our comfort zones assume new geographies.