ANDREA BURELLI, HILARY JEFFERY, ELENI POULOU, ZSOLT SŐRÉS, ANDRÉ VIDA — Ungarians and Long Tone Club

2 performances
Presented by YELLOW SOLO at R50
Ritterstrasse 50, 10969 Berlin
(Club room in the basement of the residential  building)

January 24, Saturday
Door opens: 8:00 pm
Starts: 8:30 pm
Donation-based admission: 10,-

Act 1: Ungarians – Zsolt Sőrés & André Vida / approx. 25 min

Ungarians is the duo of Zsolt Sőrés and André Vida that explores a shared denial of nationality and an exploration of a common cultural heritage. There is an enigmatic feeling of connection and displacement that we try to uncover through our music. The diaspora of Hungarian immigrants and refuges over the last century and the reality of a culture that develops in exile frames our explorations of musical identity. 

Act 2: Long Tone Club – Andrea Burelli, Hilary Jeffery, Eleni Poulou, Zsolt Sőrés, André Vida / approx. 35 min

Long Tone Club originates from a shared research process between Andrea Burelli  and André Vida, aimed at exploring an alternative approach to the fragility of sound, understood as a quality that can only unfold over time through a collective process and a shared meditative state. The work evolves through deep, mutual listening to each other’s musical flow, intertwining improvisational practices that seek to generate a dance (or balance) between tension and release within long, sustained tones. At Yellow Solo we present our work for the first time with an audience and the support of Zsolt Sőrés, Hilary Jeffery and Eleni Poulou.

ZSOLT SŐRÉS (also known as Ahad) is an experimental musician, composer, conceptual and sound artist, sound installation artist, intermedia artist, writer, (sound) art critic, acoustic ecologist, and an active, internationally known figure of Hungarian electroacoustic music since the early 1990s. Zsolt Sőrés lives and works in Berlin since 2021. Zsolt Sőrés has been dealing with the practice, aesthetics and philosophy of sound art for twenty years. 
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ANDRÉ VIDA is a saxophonist, composer and writer living in Berlin. He creates performance pieces developing presence through the materiality of sound, physical gesture and the moment. Vida performs widely as a soloist and has collaborated with a diverse group of artists from many creative disciplines.
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ANDREA BURELLI is an interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin, originally from Venice, Italy. She works as a composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist, visual artist, and radio host. In her current artistic practice, she explores the intersection between composition and expanded poetry, unfolding across vocal performance, electroacoustics, processed sonic material, analog sound synthesis and video. She engages with specific musical traditions while translating experimental compositional approaches and performative processes into a cohesive, personal and genre-defying musical language.
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HILARY JEFFERY has performed internationally in many settings including theatres, museums, jazz clubs, cathedrals, night clubs, festivals, dance studios, bars, cinemas, galleries, streets, forests and mountains. As well as composing Hilary plays trumpet, trombone, tuba, piano, electronics, and sometimes sings. His current projects include the brass trio Zinc & Copper, Etude (Ensemble Treffen Um Die Ecke), and an ensemble dedicated to the music of Philip Corner. The sense of silent space he experienced during a journey to the Sahara Desert in 1990 is a central and sustaining influence on Hilary’s work.
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ELENI POULOU has recorded and toured worldwide with many groups including The Fall and Shizuo, and is currently working with Wolfgang Seidel, Bomb Sniffing Dogs, and as ULR with James »Jeanette« Main. She hosts regular radio shows such as “Elope” on Cashmere Radio and “Kastra” on Movement Radio, and has appeared on Montezpress Radio, Rinse France, RTM FM, Noods Radio and NTS with Ono Tesla. Eleni also DJs, writes poetry, creates sound collages, composes music and makes zines with like minded artists such as Theresa Patzschke.
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Special thanks to Maya Schweizer, Clemens von Wedemeyer and to the residents of Ritterstrasse 50.