One Evening – Two Artists, Two Perspectives on the Experimental
Simon Camatta and ErikM each present an independent solo set, offering the audience two radically different perspectives on the world of sound.
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Photo source: https://simoncamatta.bandcamp.com/
Simon Camatta (1976) is an internationally recognised improvisation and jazz drummer. He studied jazz at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Based in Essen, and is curating the JOE Festival 2025 at Zeche Carl (6–8 February 2026).
Simon Camatta breaks with conventional formats, creating evening-length improvised solo drum concerts and interdisciplinary work at unconventional venues. He performs in theatres, collaborates with independent dance companies and visual artists – for instance, in his project "Drums Meet Canvas". His album "This is not a Solo Record" features guest musicians and field recordings.
Having collaborated across the full spectrum of contemporary musical styles with a dazzling range of artists, Simon Camatta distills the essence of these experiences into a percussive, virtuoso performance on this evening.
ErikM (alias Erik Matt) is a French sound artist, electroacoustic composer and visual artist. For over thirty years, he has been developing an interdisciplinary practice that joins sound design, visual art, performance, and installation. His work, deeply rooted in an expanded ecology of sound, explores the subtle relationships between matter, perception, environment, and disruption.
Situated at the intersection of visual and audio art, his oeuvre spans electroacoustic performance, phonography, immersive installations, as well as acousmatic and radiophonic works. Whether manipulating raw sonic material or capturing the unheard elements of the living world, ErikM creates shifting, critical and intuitive listening environments – permeated by contemporary themes such as technological transformation, catastrophe, intimacy, and shared space.
In his project Idiosyncrasy, ErikM presents an electroacoustic performance that draws its sound sources in real time from freely accessible internet streams. The focus here is no longer on the stored sample, as in traditional musique concrète, but on the immediate, the accidental, the open.
This real-time organisation of sonic material connects the here and now with the distant world beyond the horizon. A fictitious cartography unfolds by means of these flowing, open sounds, drawing the listener into an abstract sonic world.
Location: MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur
Entrance fee: 15 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 12 Euro, free admission up to 21 years (inclusive)
Maria Portugal, drums [Brazil]
Not in the photo:
Gabby Fluke-Mogul, violin, viola [USA]
Paula Sanchez, cello [E]
Photo © H. Schneider
This concert is made possible also by the Federal Culture Prize Applaus, which Offene Ohren e.V. was awarded in autumn 2024.
John Edwards, bass [GB]
Alex Ward, clarinet, guitar [GB]
Mike Gennaro, drums [USA]
Photos © Mike Gennaro
Dieter Manderscheid, bass [D]
Martin Blume, drums [D]
Frank Paul Schubert, saxophone [D]
Photos © Hannes Schneider
Rudi Fischerlehner, drums [A]
Marta Warelis, piano [PL / NL]
Florian Stoffner, guitar [CH]
Photo © Dawid Laskowski
Location: MUG – Munich Underground at Einstein Kultur
Entrance fee: 15 Euro, members of Offene Ohren e.V. 12 Euro, free admission up to 21 years (inclusive)
The friends of improvised music of the Offene Ohren e.V. would like to thank the Kulturreferat München for its continuous help allowing to present improvised music in Munich.