lecture-performance Das Arbeitende Konzert/ The Working Concert
With his project “The Working Concert”, Christopher Dell brings together his many musical, compositional, aesthetic and research interests. In this lecture, Dell will explain the background and approaches that determine “The Working Concert”. “The Working Concert” is an open, discursive performance format by composer and musician Christopher Dell. The works in these concerts are composed […]
Verleihung Hessischer Jazzpreis
Verleihung des Hessischen Jazzpreises 2022 an Christopher Dell PreisträgerkonzertDell – Lillinger – Westergaard Laudatio: George E. Lewis, Columbia University, New York Christopher Dell, VibraphonChristian Lillinger, SchlagzeugJonas Westergaard, Bass Bei Dell „liegen expressive Virtuosität und ein feines Gespür für den Bandsound, rhythmische Abstraktion und die Kunst der perfekten harmonischen Phrasierung manchmal nur Mallet-Schläge auseinander“, heißt es […]
New essay Unsettling Planning Practices
From Accommodation to Dwelling in Hamburg” together with Dominique Peck, Anna Richter and Bernd Kniess, in: Tihomir Viderman, Sabine Knierbein, Elina Kränzle, Sybille Frank, Nikolai Roskamm, Ed Wall (Eds.) “Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations” published by Routledge in their City and Urban Planning series. From 2015-2018 I had the privilege to work as […]
Stadt_formen Konferenz
In 2022 I had the pleasure and honor to participate the second time in the jury of Projektfonds Urbane Praxis. The Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis supports artistic and cultural projects in publicly accessible spaces that deal with urban space and society in Berlin. We see public space as a meeting place, as well as a […]
Uli Kempendorff Field
6.12.2022 Galerie OKRO, Chur 9.12.2022 Musikerhaus, Basel Uli Kempendorff sax Christopher Dell vibes Jonas Westergaard bass Peter Bruun drums
DLW & Maneri “Monuments”, enw
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Das Arbeitende Konzert/ The Working Concert” Revision IX Video
Revision IX of the work group “Das Arbeitende Konzert/ The Working Concert” at the Loft, Cologne is now available on YouTube. The 3 sets include different Formblocks and the premiere of the compositions “Topology Extended I” and “Hyperbole Extended I”. Das Arbeitende Konzert (AK) / The Working Concert is a performative installation work focused on concerts and […]
Piazza Spinelli at Kunsthalle Mannheim
Saturday, 15.10.2022, 2 p.m. How do we live? An excursion to the Spinelli FreiRaumLab in Käfertal. Walk and talk in the framework of the exhibition “Urban Nature” by Rimini Protokoll. excursion starting 1:20 p.m. at the main entrance of the Kunsthalle Mannheim, then set off together or on site at 2 p.m. in front of […]
SDLW Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Stefanovich-Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard Tamara Stefanovich piano Christopher Dell vibraphone Christian Lillinger drums Jonas Westergaard bass 11.10.2022, 20:00 | Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Ensemble 5 Zürich
recording at Powerplay Studios, Zurich Heinz Geisser – percussion Fridolin Blumer – double bass Reto Staub – piano Robert Morgenthaler – trombone feat. Christopher Dell vibraphone Ensemble 5, from left to right Robert Morgenthaler, Fridolin Blumer, Heinz Geisser, Reto Staub. Over the past decade the working band around Swiss percussionist & composer Heinz Geisser […]