Q3Ambientfest CLOT Magazine
Our next mixtape comes from duo Brueder Selke, East Berlin-born, Potsdam-based, polyinstrumental composers Sebastian and Daniel Selke and also curators of the Q3AMBIENTFEST in Potsdam (Germany). The festival, taking place at the beginning of June, is a musical happening that brings together established and emerging artists from various genres and diverse origins.
Sebastian and Daniel Selke became well-known as an award-winning cello-piano duo under their pseudonym CEEYS. Throughout the work that has come from this long-term collaboration between the two brothers who grew up on the other side of the Berlin Wall, the essential elements are encounter and exchange.
The independent Q3A, invite open-minded music lovers to discover a wide, contemporary sound spectrum. Each year, Brueder Selke invite artists to meet on a common, physical stage, and, with performances that range between academic avant-garde and accessible pop, develop a kind of cinematic music that holds a mirror up to and makes audible the eclectic architecture of the world-famous Filmstadt Potsdam, with its neoclassical palaces and socialist brutalism.
The buildings where the brothers grew up gave Q3A its name, which is the abbreviation for Querwandbau, a type of Plattenbau that was very common in the GDR. Coincidentally, the first edition of Q3A took place in the year that marked the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution.
Q3A focuses less on headliners and sees itself as a complement to the local cultural scene. Thus the constellation of the artists is itself the highlight, bringing with it spontaneous, improvised collaborations with Brueder Selke.
The 2023 edition will feature analogue and virtual performances by Jakob Lindhagen & Vargkvint, Dirk Markham, Julia Reidy, Alex Stolze & Ben Osborn, Austarda, Sofia Paez, Laura Cannell, Grand River, Mabe Fratti, Yair Elazar Glotman & Johannes Malfatti, Brueder Selke, Sergio Díaz de Rojas & Cedric Vermue, Villemin, Will Samson, Ben Osborn, Hélène Vogelsinger, Tim Linghaus and Simon Ansing.
Aiming to expand on traditional playing techniques, artists will combine classical instrumentation with electronic. A visualization of the curators staging moving still lifes in Potsdam will also be screened, which will be scored live by some of the sets.
In this mix, Brueder Selke have mixed smooth and silent with bright and intense pieces, inviting open-minded music lovers to discover today’s contemporary composers and performers featured on Q3A.
Tracklist:
1 Jakob Lindhagen - They Were Never Really There
2 Vargkvint - Fyr
3 Dirk Markham – New Joy
4 Julia Reidy - Imminently
5 Alex Stolze - The Rucksack Song
6 Austarda – suis moi
7 Sofi Paez - Preludio
8 Laura Cannell - Dried Hands Pluck the Stems
9 Grand River – Gold
10 Mabe Fratti - El Trabajo Será Nuestro Final
11 Yair Elazar Glotman - A Mirror
12 Johannes Malfatti - ornament i
13 Brueder Selke – QP (hidden)
14 Sergio Díaz De Rojas - Flores de Papel
15 Cedric Vermue – We Came And Left
16 Villemin - Sirens
17 Will Samson - Arpy
18 Ben Osborn – The Fire
19 Hélène Vogelsinger - Game B
20 Tim Linghaus – Mother, Hurricane
21 Simon Ansing - If Only I Had An Elevator
22 CEEYS – Opal Glass
