Ignaz Schick, Anaïs Tuerlinckx, Joachim Zoepf

Ensemble A is not mere improvisation, but a collision between stubborn personalities and sound-worlds. Ignaz Schick slashes through the air with turntables, found objects and bespoke electronics- his collage method produces a brittle, fractured terrain, where nothing is stable for long. Across from him, Anaïs Tuerlinckx tears the piano apart - sometimes literally, dismantling timbre, attacking keys, then suddenly coaxing music-box lyricism from the chaos. Joachim Zoepf provides a thread - sometimes a reed’s quiet wail, sometimes a guttural snarl, or a thoughtfully spaced phrase that becomes the spine the others lean into or shake off. What sets this group apart is their refusal to build consensus - battles between cacophony and order play out in real time, with each musician alternately antagonizing, imitating, or undermining expectations. Every session feels like a negotiation - moments of delicate, chamber-like dialogue stretch on one track, only to be toppled by flurries of noise or industrial clang on the next. In all, Ensemble A sustains tension not through volume or velocity, but by putting three fiercely original improvisers in a room and letting their musical dialects evolve, overlap, and sometimes obliterate each other, until something startling emerges from sheer cumulative invention.