About Hugo & Nora:
Hugo Costa (alto saxophone ) and Nora Mulder (piano) approach free improvisation as a space for exploration, where each sound sparks new possibilities. Their interaction is rooted in deep listening, allowing intense bursts of energy to subtle fragile textures , constantly evolving dialogue—unpredictable, immersive, and alive.
about the X-static Tics:
The band started as an excuse to improvise with laptops. & maybe also to have an excuse to edit the stuff we played & to make radio. So through the years, The Static Tics remained at the core of the WORM radio (for url’s; scroll down) department, making radioplays, documentaries and radio magazines.
Using anything that we had on our hard discs; radiojams, fieldrecordings, studiorecordings, live improvs… The concept was that editing and being unspontaneous can be just as interesting as a live-concert; just the dynamics differ….
Except for curating the Radioplays series for WORM, (broadcasted on national radio 6, VPRO, Cafe Sonore) the Tics were quite active producing their own radioplays and sometimes making live-radioplays and of course, performing those.
Since some years ago the Tics (under the banner of worm, later worm/klangendum) were through the Rotterdam Poetry International Festival ‘matched’ with poets to make a ‘radioplay together; Usula Andkjaer Olsen (DEN), Yan Jun (CHINA), Saskia De Jong (NL) and Michèle Metail. This resulted in live performances on the festival and also recorded versions of the work for dutch national radio. Since then the two gentlemen started their own radioprogram about radio art on the concertzender(.nl) called ‘Dr Klangendum’ and started to do all kinds of radioprojects.
Henk Bakker (aka Bad Vibes) is a tall guy with glasses, he also plays the bass clarinet and does music for theatre and radio stuff. Lukas Simonis is not so tall , he also plays/played guitar in numerous legendary bands and makes twangy guitar melodies and film music.