Duration
9.5.25, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Westgalerie
Admission
15 € regular | 12 € reduced | Free admission with “365 Live”
Info
The legendary Munich-based Limpe Fuchs creates her own instruments as part of her durational and unpredictable performances.
Limpe Fuchs is a pioneering German musician and composer, known for her experimental approach to sound and her unconventional use of instruments. For over 40 years, she has explored “no formalism” improvisational sound and visual performance using handmade instruments and sound sculptures. She works with a wide range of materials, from granite to wood, to create new sounds, as well as traditional instruments like the viola, drums, and flutes.
After studying classical piano and violin in Munich, as well as percussion with Hans Holzl, she was influenced by composers such as John Cage and Murray Schaefer. In the 1960s, she founded the music group Anima-Sound with her then-partner, the sculptor Paul Fuchs, and became a central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scenes.
“Paul and I were born into a broken world and wanted to leave all traditions behind. [...] This idea of starting from zero formed the core of our artistic practice and was the basis of our instrument construction. This construction began during one of Paul’s sculpture workshops at our house, when we asked: What material makes sound? Stones? Metal? Wood?” – Limpe Fuchs (Limpe Fuchs with Cammisa Buerhaus, The Brooklyn Rail)
After leaving Anima-Sound, Fuchs continued her solo career, creating intense, immersive performances that combine music, performance art, and sound exploration. “Sound and movement are the main principles of my work,” she explains in It’s Psychedelic Baby magazine. In her improvisations with other musicians, new ways of playing emerge, created through new emotions, and stored in the musical memory.
On the first evening of her TUNE residency at Haus der Kunst, Limpe Fuchs will present Listen to the Sound Disappearing, performing with four pendulum string instruments, a serpentinite stone Lithopone, viola, voice, percussion, and hard wood parquet, together with Tina Raithel and Gundis Stalleicher.
On the second evening, she presents Trio Improvisation, a concert with Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and musician Pit Holzapfel. Prior to this, there will be an artist talk with Limpe Fuchs and Hanna Bächer at 6 pm.
Please purchase your ticket online in advance.
