workshops and concert
Jan 28 2026_7.30pm_Neue Aula
Folkwang Universität der Künste
Campus Essen-Werden
Free Entry

The Next Generation Series-VI is a collaborative project between hand werk and init-i2: Association for New Music and Contemporary Art, based in İzmir, Turkey. In several project phases starting in July 2025, four new works by selected young composers were developed together with the ensemble. The resulting compositions were performed and presented at the İzmir New Music Days-VI on October 12, 2025. In January 2026, the composers will come from Turkey to Essen. They will present their works in workshops and a concert with us at Folkwang University of the Arts.

Program_

Ceren Ünver_ On Creatures of the Lyrical Oddness (2025)
Azra Kaya_ an oracle’s tale (2025)
Emir Ekberzade_ Narduqan (2025)
Kaan Selcuk_ scribe (2025)

hand werk
Daniel Agi_ Flute
Heni Hyunjung Kim_ Clarinet
Moritz Koch_ Percussion
Jae A Shin_ Violin
Niklas Seidl_ Cello
Thibaut Surugue_ Piano

Generously supported by the Goethe-Institut International Koproduktionsfonds, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Goethe-Institut İzmir, and the Austrian Cultural Forum.
We would like to thank Günter Steinke and Folkwang University of the Arts for our cooperation.

_with Annesley Black
concert series by hand werk
September_30_2025_8pm_ Alte Feuerwache, Melchiorstraße 3, 50670 Köln
October_5_2025_5pm_Musikhochschule Münster, Ludgeriplatz 1, 48151 Münster

This “Grand Evening” will be curated by Canadian composer Annesley Black. The focus will be on works with internal, multidimensional contradictions that are audible in both the tonal and temporal structure of the music. We invited her to curate an evening for us.
Annesley Black has a particularly profound knowledge of repertoire, which has grown steadily through her many years of teaching at the music academies in Frankfurt, Würzburg, and Graz, as well as through her work with the SWR Experimental Studio and as chair of the German Society for Electroacoustic Music. At the same time, her own music, which repeatedly addresses movement and physicality and thus naturally integrates extra-musical elements, has long been on hand werk's wish list.

Program_
Annesley Black_ Smooche de la rooche II – Variations on a theme by Hazel Meyer (2007) for three athletically inclinded percussionists
Szymon Kałużny_ die Stille ist nicht mehr (2025) Fl, Kl, Vl, Vc, Pno
Yu Kuwabara_ 5 images in nomine (2018/19) Fl, Kl, Vl, Vc, Pno, Sz
Sergi Puig Serna_ Raum der Natur (UA) Vl, Vc, Pno
Luxa Mart*in Schüttler_ GIER (2011) for Cl, Pno, Perc, Vc, 

curated by Annesley Black

hand werk
Daniel Agi_ Flute
Heni Hyunjung Kim_ Clarinet
Moritz Koch_ Percussion
Jae A Shin_ Violin
Niklas Seidl_ Cello
Thibaut Surugue_ Piano

Pablo Garretón_ Sound design

Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW, Kulturamt of the City of Cologne as well as Kunststiftung NRW.The concert in Münster will be supported by GNM Münster.

Accessibility
Means of transport/path to the venue and the venue itself are accessible for wheelchair users. There is a barrier-free toilet in the foyer (stage). Please find more information on the website of our location Alte Feuerwache, see here.

workshops and concert
22_November_2025
11-18h
Alte Feuerwache Köln

with Yuri Landman

The Home Swinger is a 12 string electric string instrument.

Yuri Landman presents a Do-It-Yourself workshop whereby participants will leave with a finished Home Swinger instrument as well as a strong understanding of its structure and workings. The difficult soldering part will be taken care of by Yuri. Participants require no special skills and the difficulty of the process has been compared to building a piece of IKEA furniture!

In advance of the workshop Yuri will prepare the component parts of the instrument for the participant to use in construction. 
These include: 4 pieces of ready shaped wood in the required sizes and predrilled with holes, easy to employ machine heads for the strings, one pickup (good quality, equal to Fender), an on/off switch, a jack output, a few screws, bolts and nuts and some metal for the bridges, as well as two sets of strings.

Interested?
Schedule: 11am-6pm (with break)
Participation Fee is 150 EUR/person which includes all material!
Please register at info@ensemble-handwerk.eu

Yuri Landman (*1973) is a musician and an inventor of musical instruments. Based on prepared guitar techniques, he built his first instrument in 2001 to solve the inaccuracy of instant preparations. He has build experimental for acts such as Sonic Youth, dEUS, Melt-Banana, Rhys Chatham, Ex-Easter Island Head, Half Japanese, Kaki King and others. 
Besides performing and inventing instruments, his main co-activity is giving instrument building courses and lectures. Since 2009 he has given over 200 DIY-instrument building workshops in Europe and the US at music festivals, music academies, art academies, concert venues and art spaces. In 2012 Yuri Landman and Bart Hopkin published Nice Noise, a book about string preparations and extended techniques for guitar. In the same year he started his band Bismuth with Arnold van de Velde as well as doing solo performances. In 2017 he was commisioned by the sound art org iii to develop the motorized sound art installation Helicopters.Institutes such as MIM (Phoenix), Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, WORM, Extrapool, Radiona, Matrix, Sonoscopia own collections of his instruments. Articles about his work have appeared in Pitchfork, The Guardian, CNN, Libération, El País, Frankfurter Algemeine, and many others.

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The Home Swinger is a 12 string ‘third bridge’-zither. The ‘third bridge’ technique is a famous sound effect developed by Glenn Branca and adopted and popularised by Sonic Youth (the effect is to a smaller degree present in a Jaguar and a Jazzmaster, the plucking behind the bridge kind of atmospherical sounds).
Artists who own a Home Swinger are Micachu, The Luyas, These Are Powers, David Holmes, A Place To Bury Strangers, Ice, Sea, Dead People, The Go!-Team, Action Beat, Jay Malhotra (Kate Nash), We vs. Death, Zoppo, Thread Pulls, Signe Tollefsen, Susies Haarlok, Kapitan Korsakov, At No Bikini Beach, Jad Fair, DAAU, Ex-Easter Island Head, Foot Village and Wu Fei.

Gefördert vom Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft sowie der Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.