ANDREA BURELLI, WERNER DURAND, 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, whose work explores a shared rejection of nationality as a vibrational downbeat of identity while also exploring the sonic artefacts of common cultural heritage. The music inhabits an enigmatic space between connection and displacement, uncovering the emotional and psychic traces of belonging and exile. Ungarians’ discoveries have been developing over the last fifteen years from theatres in Budapest to house concerts in Berlin. 

Act 2: Long Tone Club – Andrea Burelli, Werner Durand, 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 between tension and release within long, sustained tones. Yellow Solo presents the piece for the first time with an audience and the support of Werner Durand and Zsolt Sőrés.

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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WERNER DURAND has been active as saxophone player since the late 1970s. After studies of both indian as well as persian flutes, he has created his own unique wind instruments since the mid 80s, based on just intonation. He collaborated with numerous composers and performers including Amelia Cuni, David Behrman, Luciano Chessa, Henning Christiansen, Catherine Christer Hennix, Anna Clementi, Ulrich Hohmann, Arnold Dreyblatt and many others.
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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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Special thanks to Maya Schweizer, Clemens von Wedemeyer and to the residents of Ritterstrasse 50.