Ensemble Phœnix Basel

Once a year, EPhB invites experimental musicians with a rather non-academic background to a collaboration. These artists come from areas such as noise, free improvisation, sound art, etc. An exciting combination of the young Chinese performer and sound artist Yiran Zhao, who lives in Berlin, and the experienced British all-round musician Barry Guy and his double bass is planned. Both will conceive and curate one half of the concert each.

Yiran Zhao is a Berlin-based composer and performer. She is the musical director and composer of the experimental music theatre group OBLIVIA, based in Helsinki. In her work she combines different forms of expression – music, performance, light, visual arts and other media. Since her arrival in Europe, she has been working intensively with the physicality of performance, using the human body and objects as compositional material.

Barry Guy is an innovative double bass player and composer whose creative diversity in the fields of jazz improvisation, solo recital, chamber and orchestral music stems from an unusually wide-ranging education and a great desire to experiment – fuelled by his deep devotion to the double bass and the ideal of musical communication.