CONTAGIOUS
LIVE – morphine records (DE/JAP, based in Berlin, DE)
TECH RIDER CONTAGIOUS 2024
Biography
Contagious is a compelling blend of avant-garde experimentation and electronic music.
The trio was founded by two innovative voices from the Berlin improvisation scene (Andrea Neumann and Sabine Ercklentz) and Mieko Suzuki, a skilled and creative DJ and musician who has been performing in venues and festivals for a long time.
Contagious is one of the most forward thinking, mind-melting projects to hit the electronic music scene. Intense and powerful, yet rooted in a tradition of shaping and forming in the most creative ways, all built within a sound structure of immediate composition and improvisation. Andrea Neumann on her self-developed, transportable Inside Piano, applies feedback processes to simple piano strings and sometimes sends them to Mieko Suzuki’s processing rig, where she uses her own pre-recorded sounds and her skills on the turntables, while Sabine Ercklentz’s trumpet sounds shoot through this same processing system. Together, the three musicians communicate in compositional logics and futuristic structures in which fragile sonic textures and impulses become monumental.
It is no coincidence that the pieces on the first Contagious album (released in 2019 on Morphine Records) were named after hermaphrodites from the animal world. Neumann, Ercklentz and Suzuki interact like a living creature, transcending binary opposites and ambivalent in the best sense of the word: very enigmatic and very alive.
Sabine Ercklentz — trumpet, electronics / Andrea Neumann – inside piano, mixer / Mieko Suzuki — turntable, electronics
Selected Concerts since 2018:
Villa Concordia, DE-Bamberg | Xciting Festival, DE-Stuttgart | Zwingli Kirche, DE-Berlin | Exploratorium, DE-Berlin w/ Butoh dancer Yuko Kaseki | Zodiak Festival, DE-Berlin | A L’Arme Festival, DE-Berlin | Teatro Bairro Alto, PT-Lissabon | Contagious [De-Constructed] at Bergamo Stereo, Hamburger Bahnhof & CTM, DE-Berlin | Morphine Showcase at Berghain, DE-Berlin | “Heroines Editions” City of Women Festival, SI-Ljubljana | Contagious [De-Constructed] at Bergamo Stereo, Ruhr Triennale, DE-Bochum | SeaNaps Festival, DE-Leipzig | Hellerau Tanzkongress, DE-Dresden | Kiezsalon, DE-Berlin
