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Born 1961 in Nuremberg, she studied the visual arts, which still have an important influence on her music -
for example the abstract painting in its materiality or the Fluxus-movement with its affinity to music. As a visual artist
she works recently on drawings, environments and graphic works on polaroids
Since moving to Hamburg in 1982 she has been involved in free improvisation, co-founding a musicians collective,
- dance-projects and solo-performances,
played often in occasional / once-only groupings with many of the European improvisers.
Current music projects include :
PUT - trio with Ulrich Phillipp and Roger Turner, the trio with Jürgen Morgenstern and Martin Klapper, and EIO -
European Improvisation Orchestra (with Tim Hodgkinson, Albert Markos,Victor Nubla, Martin Klapper, Krzysztof Knittel,
Raymond Strid, amongst others)
Festival appearance include :
Noiseburger 2 - Hamburg, Canaille Festival - Frankfurt, Suoni & Sounds - Portoferraio International Art Center of
Italo Bolano, Rote Fabrik - Zürich (radio broadcast) and Jazzfestival Schaffhausen (with 65 : Dorothea Schürch,
Marianne Schuppe, Hannah E. Hänni, Stevie Wishart, Claudia Ulla Binder, Co Streiff, Robyn Schulkowsky) HumanNoise
Congress - Wiesbaden, Konstanzer Jazzherbst, International Festival of Contemporary Music - Warsaw Autumn 98 (radio and
tv-broadcast), LEM Festival - Barcelona, Szünetjel Festival - Budapest ( with Tim Hodgkinson, Albert Markos, Johannes
Bauer, John Edwards, Rhodri Davies, Dieter Ulrich, and Söres Zsolt), Jazzfestival Hannover
Organiser of:
Real Time Music Meeting, an annual improvised music event - with two venues and ten musicians playing in ad-hoc-groupings.
recordings:
Air Mail - with Wolfgang Ritthoff, percussion
HumanNoise Congress #7, #8, #9, CD-R and booklet
Umlaut : with PUT - the trio with Ulrich Phillipp, double bass and Roger Turner, drumset & percussion
CD with the trio with Martin Klapper and Jürgen Morgenstern
Birgit
Ulher
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