aaron rosenow

hcmf // moers XN Concert 2025
I was hounered to be part of the new XN Creative-Workshop-Concert at moers festival in cooperation to Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

XN Creative-Workshop-Concert was a measured perforance of studied abstraction and third stream improvised music. Welsh improvising stalwart Angharad Davies, sawing away at the violin, was joined by four talents from the world of academic credential, Verena Barié with her extraordinary four-foot-long recorder that looks like it’s made out of Roblox, Adrian Thieß minimalistic on trumpet and bloopy electronics, with Aaron Rosenow’s textural drums, and Carolin Schnabel’s plosive vocal utterances. One of the few concerts to successfully grapple with the festival theme of “Stille” (silence), absent of jazz language, languouring in deep stasis and pure abstraction more silent than silence itself, with a portion of the concert conducted in complete darkness.