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Matthias Muche
TROMBONE ALONE |
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Solo BELLER |
08:43 |
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Solo GLEITER |
11:45 |
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Solo QUATER |
10:58 |
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Solo BUTTER |
09:22 |
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Solo GLOCKEN |
08:07 |
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| About the album |
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TROMBONE ALONE brings together five solo works by Cologne-based composer and trombonist Matthias Muche, laureate of the WDR Jazzpreis 2021, that define a central concern in his artistic practice. Encounters and collaborations with Ray Anderson, George Lewis, Vinko Globokar and Anthony Moore have greatly influenced his mode of working.
From the practice of embodied sound the trombone emerges as a spatial and physical instrument. Sound arises from breath, resistance and resonance, taking shape as a tangible presence in space.
The music unfolds through time, density and acoustic interaction, shapes listening as an active and shared experience.
Through acoustic and electroacoustic extensions — altered air paths, objects and speakers placed inside the instrument — sound is redirected into the trombone’s body and transformed into a sound sculpture.
All works have also been recorded in expanded ensemble versions by BONECRUSHER, an ensemble of twelve trombones and percussion, and some have been released with col legno in 2021. But the solo form remains their nucleus: the concentrated original in which body, instrument and space converge. |
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| Matthias Muche |
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Matthias Muche is a composer and trombonist based in Cologne. His artistic work centers on the trombone as a spatial and physical instrument. Rooted in embodied sound practice, he develops compositional structures that explore the relationship between body, space and time.
Originally a student of jazz at the Amsterdam University of the Arts and Codarts Rotterdam, and later of contemporary chamber music at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, Muche combines improvisational sensitivity with structural precision. He completed postgraduate studies at the Cologne Academy of Media Arts (KHM), which deepened his fascination with sound as spatial and conceptual practice.
Solo performance forms the core of his artistic work. On the basis of this focused practice, larger ensemble constellations evolve — most notably the BONECRUSHER ensemble, for which several solo works have been expanded into spatial formations for trombones and percussion. Even within these expanded contexts, the bodily acoustic presence of the instrument remains central.
In 2021 he was awarded the WDR Jazz Prize (Improvisation). His work unfolds between composition and performance without adhering to fixed genre categories, grounded instead in the continuous exploration of resonance, time and spatial listening. |
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