Archive from before summer 2023
Upcoming and recent:
6 January 2025: Boat Ting, with Poetry Quartet. Sofia Vaisman Maturana (cello); John Edwards (double bass); Rowland Sutherland (flutes). “Premières Impressions”, by Henri Michaux.
Photo of poetry Quartet at The Horse by Hadjukino.
18 December 2024: release of duo CD with John Edwards, Sparrow Dance.
15 December 2024: release of Live at The Vortex July 2024 by ONe_Orchestra New. Two sets of large-group improvisation, free, devised, conducted, instructional… always original, always other. Our best yet!
5 December 2024: Cafe Oto, London, with Zhuyang Liu (Guzheng). Supporting Shovel Dance Collective.
24 November 2024: Cambridge Jazz Festival, with N.O. Moore (electric guitar).
23 November 2024: Lumière Cinema, French Institute, London, with John Edwards (5-6PM)
16 November: Two Ship, Hastings, with Simon Camatta (percussion)
14 November 2024: Vortex Jazz, London, with Maggie Nicols (voice, piano, taps) and Simon Camatta (percussion); support from recorder duo Teresa Hackel and Eiko Yamada.
November Soundtrips tour: duo with John Edwards, joined by local improvisers for second set!
1 November 2024: Bunker, Bielefeld
2 November 2024: Parzelle in Depot, Dortmund
3 November 2024: Black Box im Cuba, Münster
4 November 2024: Ort, Wuppertal
5 November 2024: Altelier Dürrenfeld/Geitel, Köln
6 November 2024: Dialograum St. Helena, Bonn
7 November 2024: Villa Post der VHS, Hagen
8 November 2024: Zeche Altstaden, Oberhausen
9 November 2024: Theatremuseum, Düsseldorf
10 November 2024: Kunstmuseum, Bochum
11 November 2024: Lokal Harmonie, Duisberg
6 October 2024, Jazz Rumours, London, with ONe_Orchestra New
13 September 2024, Gallery 1412, Seattle, with Suzie Kozawa, Carol J Levin, Amy Denio.
6 September 2024, Divfuse Gallery, London, with John Edwards.
30 August 2024, Bråk, London, with Cath Roberts.
13 August 2024, Glenn Miller Cafe, Stockholm, with Per Åke Carliot Holmlander‘s Quartet.
19 July 2024, The Horse Improvised Music Club, with The Poetry Quartet (Kraabel, Rowland Sutherland, Sofia Vaisman Maturana, John Edwards). Featuring two poems by Yoshihiko Hogyoku.
14 July 2024, 13h00, IKLECTIKA, at Colour Factory, with The Horse.
13 July 2024, St John’s Waterloo, Sound Flows Through Us. Part of the Waterloo Festval 2024.
11 July 2024, Kri EP launch, with Kri, Saori, Barbie Mukoda, Lisa Elde, Paula Riofrio.
10 July 2024, 19h45
ONe_Orchestra New
The Vortex
11 Gillett Square
London, N16 8AZ
https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/one_orchestra-new-2
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Audre Lorde
Improvised music, like so much in patriarchal societies, is lopsided and lacking, formed mostly by one sort of people and excluding or deforming the other sorts.
Music needs listeners. Listeners need music that reflects ALL the experiences. Jazz, contemporary music, and improvised music were all overwhelmingly male-dominated from their instigation; ideas of what constitutes “good ” music are still almost completely formed in traditions dominated by men – as in every realm, women and “other” genders too often succeed only on condition that they adopt those traditions. This all-pervasive pressure impoverishes art and every domain it touches, as well as constraining artists who are women (or “other”).
ONe_Orchestra New is seeking to forge new tools/ideas for free large-group IMPROVISATION – not (necessarily) just for women artists, but for anyone who wants to play, listen, hear and see the world in new ways.
6 July 2024, Curious Ear, St Margaret’s, Manchester, with the Curious Ear Orchestra.
29 May 2024, Flim Flam, Ryan’s Bar, Stoke Newington, with Nathan O. Moore (CK standing in for Sue Lynch).
25 May 2024 (2.30PM), Curious Ear, St Margaret’s, Manchester, with Khabat Abas.
5 May 2024, ExRotaprint, Berlin, Kantine Musik with Bex Burch and friends… five hours of music and food from a shifting cast, in and with the listeners!
Photo by Yvonne Schmedemann
3 May 2024: release of duo recording, Alive, for Martin Davidson, by CK and Veryan Weston.
28 April 2024 (14.00), Thrive Cafe, Cambridge, with Nathan O. Moore.
14 April 2024, Cafe Oto, London: Launch of On Dizziness, trio CD with Maggie Nicols and Charlotte Hug.
12 April 2024, Labor 519, Kunsthaus Essen, InterInter evening with Simon Camatta and guests, including a duo with the great bass flautist Angelika Sheridan!
11 April 2024 Oval Office Bar, Bochum, with Simon Camatta and Salome Amend.
28 March 2024, Forest Gate Improvisation, The Cider House E7 0JN, with Cath Roberts.
17 March, Mopomoso, Vortex Jazz Club, with Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser, Sue Lynch, Maggie Nicols, Marilza Gouvea.
8 March 2024, 7PM-9.30PM, Chapel of King’s College London, Strand Campus! Tickets available via Eventbrite only; no tickets on the door.
ONe Orchestra New, composed of women, trans and non-binary people, invites you to join us for an improvised music performance on Friday 8 March!
Since distinctions between people are too often used to justify unequal treatment, and as subjects of this unequal treatment ourselves, the source and foundation of our music is rooted in the belief that our equality springs from our shared humanity. We assert that all instruments, all musical education/cultures, and all sounds are different, but fundamentally of equal worth. We believe it’s possible to challenge roles, hierarchies, rules, and conventional trajectories through our collective musical practice.
How can we make the most of our differences—in how we pay attention, in our ways of listening and uttering? How far
can we go into difference?
Our improvising together transmutes our histories and sounds into music.
Tickets available via Eventbrite only; no tickets on the door.
4 March 2024, Duo at Boat-Ting with Alex Ward (electric guitar)
3 March 2024, duo with Khabat Abas, Jazz Rumours, London.
28 January 2024, Duo performance with Veryan Weston (piano) at Cafe Oto, 28 January 2024. This came together at short notice as part of a celebration of the life and work of Martin Davidson, co-instigator of the important improvised music label Emanem (“unadulterated new music for people who like new music unadulterated”), on which our Kraabel/Weston CD, Five Shadows, was released. Martin was a stalwart supporter of improvised music for decades, as well as a good listener, kind friend and inspiring political activist.
emanemdisc.com/index.html
Our duo, titled ALIVE, for Martin Davidson, has been released here
27 January 2024, 14h00-15h30, solo performance and talk on improvisation at the excellent Project DIVFUSE space in Hackney, London E5.
20 January 2024 sees a trip to Zürich to play with ONe_Orchestra New at the Institute of Incoherent Cinema, accompanying silent serial Les Vampires!
10 January 2024, Kraabel/Vaisman Maturana/Ksendzovska will perform as part of celebrations and adieux to the unforgettable Iklectik Horse.
16 November 2023 at Ryan’s Bar, Caroline Kraabel/ Sofia Vaisman Maturana as part of:
4 November 2023, from 5PM, FREE at London’s Iklektic Art Lab: Radio Art Zone book launch, celebrating the release of Sarah Washington’s book on the mammoth Radio Art Zone project (see archive). A dozen sonic events throughout the evening. Playing at 18h15: Caroline Kraabel/ Sofia Vaisman Maturana/ Rowland Sutherland.
Autumn 2023: Second CD by Transitions Trio (Kraabel/ Maggie Nicols/ Charlotte Hug), On Dizziness, released on Creative Source. Launch scheduled for 14 April 2024 at Cafe Oto. (Photo by Alex Ward)
September 2023: OTO-Moers Quartet (Kraabel/ Bex Burch/ Simon Camatta/ Raïssa Mehner) rehearses (at The Vortex) and performs at Cafe Oto. (Photo by Scheemann)
August 2023: two duos (Kraabel/ Khabat Abas; Kraabel/ Pat Thomas) plus trio perform at Cafe Oto to launch whats wrong, duo CD by Kraabel and Thomas: individually hand-made sleeves and complete, un-altered improvisations. Also celebrating duo release by Abas/ Kraabel, 5 Communiqués.
July 2023: ONe_Orchestra New, large improvising orchestra set up by Kraabel and Sofia Vaisman Maturana, and comprised of trans/non-binary people and women, performs at Cafe Oto, including pieces by Kraabel, Damsel Elysium, Sue Lynch, Emily Shapiro, Dee Byrne and many more! (Photo by Adrian Northover)
July 2023: Caroline Kraabel takes part in group exhibition, Traces, in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, exhibiting a piece called The Private Grave of UK Public Wealth.
