Charlotte Hug
Voice, viola, live electronics, Son-Icons
Audio-visual, scenic, site-specific music performances
or acoustic solo improvisation for viola & voice
Conduction for improvising ensembles, choir or orchestra, space scores with son-icons or intermedia compositions see ABOUT
VIDEO CD Slipway to Galaxies & Reviews
(for more videos, interviews and music see Press & Media)
Alder - Hug
Noldi Alder violine, natural yodelling, dulcimer
Charlotte Hug viola, voice and Son-Icons
Audio-visual, experimental, and rooted in nature, as well as in Appenzell folk music.
Visual source rhythms are the score and inspiration for free, natural yodelling and improvisation.
VIDEO Noldi Alder
Blondy - Hug
Frédéric Blondy prepared piano
Charlotte Hug viola & voice
«Blondy and Hug are skilled improvisers, able to make split-second decisions in response to each other and to the overall flow of the music they are creating.» John Eyles, allaboutjazz
VIDEO CD Bouquet & Reviews Frédéric Blondy
Lonberg-Holm - Hug
Fred Lonberg-Holm cello
Charlotte Hug viola & voice
«Hug and Lonberg-Holm succeed in breathing new life into their instruments as they interrelate - not just as improvising musicians, but simply as two classic instruments, launching into a relationship where one rises to complete the life of the other, and vice versa.»
Raul d’Gama Rose allaboutjazz
CD Fine Extensions & Reviews Fred Lonberg-Holm
Minton - Hug
Phil Minton voice
Charlotte Hug voice & viola
Human voices from other worlds - future as well as primeval - and oscillating again and again with the viola. Rapturous, unique!
Phil Minton
Niggli - Hug
Lucas Niggli drums & percussion
Charlotte Hug viola & voice
Their imagination and communication skills are the key to a free, yet very precise improvisational music that knows no dogmatic boundaries. The result is a virtuoso, direct, and yet opulent music with the two most archaic musical instruments: the voice and the drum. A versatile, highly agile performance that gets right under your skin Renaissance of viola and violin: Charlotte Hug and the Italian jazz violinist Stefano Pastor reinvent their instruments - their music is a hybrid of new music and jazz.
VIDEO CD Fulguratio listen Lucas Niggli
Pastor - Hug
Stefano Pastor violin, Charlotte Hug viola & voice
Renaissance of viola and violin: Charlotte Hug and the Italian jazz violinist Stefano Pastor reinvent their instruments - their music is a hybrid of new music and jazz.
Stefano Pastor
Sharp - Hug
Elliott Sharp Guitar, clarinet, electronics
Charlotte Hug viola & voice, electronics
Both musicians contribute their very own respective musical-intellectual worlds. Wide, high energy fields open up.
CD Pi:k & Reviews Elliott Sharp
Wang - Hug
Beibei Wang percussion
Charlotte Hug viola & voice, live Son-Icons
Intercultural, musical-visual comprovisation with Son-Icons as the element which connects the musical notation of different cultures. Their duo «The Origin of Sounds and Signs» is a feast for the eyes and ears.
Beibei Wang
Wassermann - Hug
Ute Wassermann voice and bird whistles
Charlotte Hug voice and viola
As a duo, the sounds of two multidimensional performance and sound artists amalgamate, counterpoint, and vibrate to create a quartet as never heard before.
Ute Wassermann
Guy - Homburger - Hug
Barry Guy double bass, graphic notations, Maya Homburger baroque violin,
Charlotte Hug viola & voice & Son-Icons
Guy’s graphic notations and Hug’s Son-Icons contain within them a unique, formative, and visual potency for musical creation which is quite unparalleled. The scores can also be experienced in an exhibition. With the Baroque violinist Homburger as soloist and as a trio, the temporal horizon expands from Baroque music to the most current new creations of the moment.
Barry Guy Maya Homburger
Nicols – Kraabel - Hug
Maggie Nicols voice & tap dance, Caroline Kraabel saxophone & voice, Charlotte Hug viola & voice
Caroline Kraabel and Charlotte Hug share a vocal-musical elemental force with the vocal pioneer Maggie Nicols. Diva and clown, madness and profundity - everything is possible, but the performance is always authentic and original.
CD Transition & Reviews Maggie Nicols Caroline Kraabel
Ullen - de Heney - Hug
Lisa Ullen piano, Nina de Heney double bass, Charlotte Hug viola & voice
Originally from three continents, three sorceresses converge with their instruments. The three of them fly and breathe freedom!
CD Quarrtsiluni LISTEN Lisa Ullen Nina de Heney
TriOcular
Linda Bouchard composer and initiator of research on audio-visual software, Ocular Scores - live Strucures, François Houle clarinet, bass clarinet with live electronics, Charlotte Hug viola & voice with live electronics.
This audio-visual trio creates live immersive audio-visual spaces that playfully oscillate between digital and analogue space. Live performance, drawings and digital translation are developed interactively and transformed digitally. The audience is in the midst of this and experiences the creation of this work in real time through the senses.
VIDEO Facebook Linda Bouchard Ocular Scores – live Strucures François Houle
Stellari String Quartet
Phil Wachsmann violin, Charlotte Hug viola, Marcio Mattos cello, John Edwards double bass
«If there were stars in the world of free improvisation, then the members of this quartet would surely be among them - four very distinctive and fluent musicians, who also have the talent to work together to produce a fifth distinctive and fluent entity, namely an improvising string quartet.»
Martin Davidson EMANEM
VIDEO CD Gocce Stellari & Reviews CD Vulcan & Reviews LISTEN
Phil Wachsmann Marcio Mattos John Edwards
Further musical encounters and collaborations
Performances with musicians: Bruce Ackley, Susan Alcorn, Alison Blunt, Bruno Amstad, Knut Aufermann, Franziska Baumann, Cécile Broché, Leo Bachmann, Sarah Gail Brand, Patricia Bosshard, Boris Baltschun, Pascal Battus, Burkhard Beins, Steve Beresford, John Bisset, Frédéric Blondy, Jean Bordé, Andres Bosshard, John Butcher, Luc Cappozzo, Simon Camatta, Claudia Cervenca, Mariana Caravalho, Tom Chant, Lawrence Casserley, Viv Corringham, BJ Cole, Leonzio Cherubini, Xavier Charles, Lol Coxhill, Angharad Davies, Isabelle Duthoit, Rhodry Davis, Terry Day, Jacques Demierre, Phil Durrant, John Dierker, John Edwards, Harris Eisenstadt, Markus Eichenberger, Lisle Ellis, Lori Freeman, Simon H Fell, Milo Fine, Peter K. Frey, Alexander Frangenheim, Michael Formanek, Jacques Frosio, Paul Giallorrenzo, Malcom Goldstein, Andy Guhl, Barry Guy, Gunda Gottschalk, Annette Giesrigel, Frank Gratkowski, Guilhermo Galindo, Ivar Grydeland, Magnus Granberg, Joel Grip, Gerry Hemingway, Nina de Heney, Robin Hyward, Tim Hodkingson Reinhart Hammerschmidt, Erhart Hirt, Ludwig Hübscher, Franz Hauzinger, Willehad Grafenhorst, Maya Homburger Françius Houle, Sylvia Hallett, Anna Homler, Christoph Irmer, Peter Jacquemyn, John Kenny, Annette Krebs, Richard Jean, Sven-Ake Johansson, Christian Jormin, Joan Jeanrenaud, Charlotte Keeffe, Max.E.Keller, Hans Koch, Alexsander Kolkowski, Katarzyna Kuchnicka, Anna Kaluza, Thomas Korber, Caroline Kraabel, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Hyelim Kim, Carla Kihlstedt Chantale Laplante, Joke Lanz, Dominic Lash, Sue Lynch, Lè Quan Ninh, Thomas Lehn, Frantz Loriot, Urs Leimgruber, George Lewis, Sachiko M, EricM, Urban Mäder, Marcio Mattos, Fred Marti, Lou Mallozzi, Dirk Marwedel, Wade Matthews, Danny McCarthy, Diego Muné, Hanna Marshal, Magda Mayas, Rafal Mazur, Philippe Micol, Margarethe Meierhofer-Lischka, Matthias Müller, Günther Müller, Ulrich Müller, Hugh Metcalf, Phil Minton, David Moss, Ivo Nielsson, Steve Noble, Kjyell Nordeson, Andrea Neumann, Adrian Northover, Larry Ochs, Maria Portugal, Evan Parker, Eduard Perraud, Ulrich Phillipp, Joana Queiroz, Matilda Rolfsson, Maru Rieben, Jane Rigler, Alessandra Rombola, Blanca Regina, John Russel, Ed Reardon, Jon Raskin, Sue Schlotte, Doro Schürch, Marianne Schuppe, Christine Abdelour Sehnaoui, Irene Schweizer, Pierre Thoma, Mandhira de Saram, Saadet Türkös, Jean-Michel van Schouwbourg, Peter Schärli, Sharif Sehnaoui, Elliott Sharp, Lan Tung, Pat Thomas, Steven W. Tod, Roger Turner, Pat Thomas, Birgit Ulher, Els Vandeweyer, Martin Verborg, Hugues Vincent, Philipp Wachsmann, Adel Jing Wang, Alex Ward, Beibei Wang, Ute Wassermann, Dan Warburton, Marc Wastell, Jackie Walduck, Cristin Wildbolz, Christian Weber, Veryan Weston, Chris Wiesendanger, Georg Wissel, Hainer Wörmann, Christian Wolfarth, Tony Wren, Anmari Metsa Yabi Wili, Ingar Zach, Alfred Zimmerlin, Michael Zerang, Mia Zabelka, Bernadette Zeilinger, Matthias Ziegler
A selection of interdisciplinary artistic collaborations
Tanz & Choreographie: Julie Beauvais, Nunu Kong, Fine Kwiatkowski, Tina Mantel, Fana Tshabalala, PJ Sabbagha
Regie: Katharina Cromme, Heinz Gubler, Mélanie Huber, Frank Krug, Wolfgang Siuda, Jossi Wieler
Dramaturgie: Barbara Eckle, Mark Sattler
Lichtdesign: Christa Wenger Blendwerk,
Photographie & Film: Alberto Venzago
Live-Video: Andy Guhl, Lillevan, Juis Maurette, Götz Rogge,
Komposition: Linda Bouchard, Jose Lopés Montes, Martin Neukom, Heinz Reber, Mahmoud Turkmani
Literatur: Melinda Nadj Abonji, Christine Rinderknecht, Nadine Olonetzky
Bildende Kunst: Yannik Lambelet, Ruth Anderwald & Leonhard Grond, Victorine Müller
Kurator*in Galerist*in: Peter Fischer, Dorothe Freiburghaus, Barbara Marbot & Galerie da Mihi
Ensembles: SuperMusique Montréal, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Via Nova Chor München, Lucerne Festival Academy,
KIO Krakow Improvisers Orchestra, London Improvisers Orchestra, ONCEIM Paris
Wissenschaft: Schlafforscher Prof. Dr. Peter Achermann, Biologe Dr. Michael Grüter, Klangarchitektin Dr. Nadine Michèle Schütz, Glaziologe Dr. Leo Sold.
