Fazer digressões muitas vezes significa ir de cidade em cidade como um vendedor de aspiradores, tentando vender o seu produto: o mesmo espetáculo, o mesmo discurso, um calendário apertado.
Tocar, comer, dormir - seguir em frente.
O que muitas vezes se perde neste processo são os verdadeiros pontos de contacto com as pessoas, os músicos e a cultura do local onde se está.
Collaborative Touring é uma tentativa de romper com este sistema.
Em vez do formato de concerto estabelecido, auto-contido e exclusivo, emerge um conceito de digressão aberto - um que não apenas permite o encontro, a experimentação e a abertura, mas é construído sobre elas.
Durante um período de um mês, viajo para outro país e envolvo-me intensivamente, com antecedência, com os artistas baseados lá.
Alguns deles convido para se apresentarem ou gravarem comigo pela primeira vez. Estas colaborações não são um programa de apoio, mas uma parte integral da digressão.
Os artistas convidados são apresentados aos espaços em conjunto comigo, e idealmente os concertos realizam-se nas suas respectivas cidades.
Cada espetáculo torna-se assim único, específico do local, e moldado pelas pessoas envolvidas.
Espaços abertos criam um público aberto.
Um público aberto permite música livre.
Collaborative Touring não entende a digressão como apresentação de um produto, mas como um processo coletivo — aberto, localizado e em diálogo com os acontecimentos locais.
— Daniel Bierdümpfl
"Touring often means going from city to city like a vacuum cleaner salesman, trying to sell your product: the same show, the same speech, a tight schedule.
Playing, eating, sleeping - moving on.
What is often lost in the process are real points of contact with the people, the musicians, and the culture of the place you are in.
Collaborative Touring is an attempt to break open this system.
Instead of the established, self-contained and exclusive concert format, an open touring concept emerges - one that not only allows encounter, experimentation and openness, but is built upon them.
For a period of one month, I travel to another country and engage intensively in advance with the artists based there.
Some of them I invite to perform or record with me for the first time. These collaborations are not a supporting program, but an integral part of the tour.
The invited artists are presented to venues together with me, and ideally concerts take place in their respective cities.
Each show thus becomes unique, site-specific, and shaped by the people involved.
Open venues create an open audience.
An open audience enables free music.
Collaborative Touring does not understand touring as product presentation, but as a collective process — open, situational, and in dialogue with local scenes."
- Daniel Bierdümpfl
Daniel Bierdümpfl ( AT ) + José Lencastre ( PRT ) + Alvaro Rosso ( URY )
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Daniel Bierdümpfl is an Vienna - Austria based interdisciplinary Artist.
Daniel is a former luthier of plucked & bowed string instruments, he studied time based & interactive media arts at the Kunst Universität Linz (AT) and works as a free lance artist in the fields of music, performance, theater, choreography, poetry, film & photography. He was nominated among five other finalists for the Oe1 Jazz scholarship 2023 as well as one of six finalists I AM ABROAD 2024 Open Call (New European Project for Free Improvisation Artists) Vienna AT. He is the head of programming & production for Raumschiff Linz with a focus on contemporary, improvised and off-genre music & performance.
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José Lencastre is celebrated for his versatility and innovative approach to jazz and improvised music.
Over the years, he has become a pivotal figure in the vibrant Portuguese improvised scene, known for his ability to seamlessly navigate various musical genres within the contemporary creative music idiom.
https://www.joselencastre.com/
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Alvaro Rosso
Moved by an interest for uruguayan (his home country) popular music and jazz, Alvaro began playing the electric bass, but soon turned to the double bass, starting his studies at the University School of Music of Montevideo, making contact with classical music and the basic technique of the instrument. The interest in learning and deepening his knowledge of the double bass takes him to France, where he continued his studies. Also in France, having classes with professors like Stephan Olvia or Jean-Marc Foltz, Alvaro begins developing his interest in contemporary language and free improvisation. After a master’s degree in Spain focused in the double bass’ contemporary repertoire, extended techniques and experimentation, he moves to Portugal, where he currently lives and works.
https://alvarorosso.bandcamp.com/
