Myself and Laura Weber presented some documentation from HOFFNUNG 3000 and talked a bit about the thoughts behind the festival and what happened there. This years Pixelache Festival had a focus on how space in cities can be reclaimed/occupied by the communities that live their.

Workshop for SVAMP at Asbestos in helsinki where we rehearsed and performed some of my graphic scores.

“SVAMP is a regular meeting place for people (musicians and non-musicians) to improvise sound and music together and try out various exercises, games, examples and experiments. And to just play freely. And most of all, to listen.” SVAMP, Helsinki

HOFFNUNG 3000 was a festival for music, art and theory in Berlin initiated by BLATT 3000 together with KLANGKELLER. It was an experiment in social, artistic and theoretical collaboration. HOFFNUNG 3000 did not have any curatorial themes, instead we asked one main question: How do we organise ourselves in our social, artistic & theoretical communities?

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Super festival organised by Cath and Dee at LUME, I performed with Sloth Racket and the LUMEkestra, who also played a new composition of mine.

The second Sloth Racket album ‘Shapeshifters’ is out now :-)

3 day residency at Platform5 in Beppu. We worked together as a group in the space and constructed what turned out to be somewhat like a sound and image play area ;-) it was quite a unique experience for all of us I think, with very little discussion we inhabited the space together and allowed different events and pieces to emerge over time.

During our tour of Japan me, Otto Willberg and David Birchall had the chance to play and record with Toshimaru Nakamura at the legendary imporov record store Ftarri in Tokyo. The recording from the gig should be out on Raw Tonk in the very near future.

OUT NOW ON SLIP :-) OUT NOW ON SLIP :-) OUT NOW ON SLIP :-) OUT NOW ON SLIP :-)

OUT NOW ON SLIP :-) OUT NOW ON SLIP :-) OUT NOW ON SLIP :-) OUT NOW ON SLIP :-)

A series of 3 compositions written in response to V3K festival and published in BLATT 3000.

v3k_aempfen v3k_araoke v3k_nowing each other

Part of a series of 3 text based compositions exploring body and mind processes. Written in response to V3K festival and published in BLATT 3000.

Part of a series of 3 text based compositions exploring body and mind processes. Written in response to V3K festival and published in BLATT 3000.

Part of a series of 3 text based compositions exploring body and mind processes. Written in response to V3K festival and published in BLATT 3000.

The second workshop at VERANTWORTUNG3000, this time we wrote three new pieces in smaller groups and performed them the next day. One piece was based on copying in pairs, another on voting for the ending with balloons and the last on body contortion and release.

One of the two workshops I ran at VERANTWORTUNG3000 festival at an old farm building outside of Berlin. this session was really special, somehow very ritualistic, we listened to a full recording once in the bar afterwards and then due to accidental deletion it was lost forever. This video is all that’s left, the audio from it was later released :-)

While having a brilliant time at V3K me and Mio (aka Soramamewww.soramame.co.uk) made these videos and exhibited them in the residency under-stair area.

This is a composition for trio, or multiple trios, first performed and developed with Laurie Tompkins, Suzie Whaites and Otto Willberg. The idea is to have a process for making graphic scores, rather than a singular definitive score, which will then be interpreted in predefined ways ways during performances. In this first series the focus is on communicating your interpretation of the score to your fellow performers in a very immediate and spontaneous way. The parameters you’re working with are public/private and voice/object.

KLANGKELLER is a night I founded in Berlin in 2016, the first season of 10 events happened between April and December of that year. We are lucky to be located at K77 which is a cooperative house with it’s history in the artist squats of the 80s & 90s. A team of us manage the events, and each night has 3 slots which performers can freely sign up for. This first season featured:

#001 Laurie Tompkins and Susie Whaites

#002 Richard Scott, Lan Cao, Gregor Siedl and Adam Pultz Melbye

#003 Klaas Hübner, Laurie Tompkins and Susie Whaites

#004 Casey Moir, Gregor Siedl, Samuel Hall and Sam Weaver

#005 Dale Gorefinkel, Peter Farrar, Richard Scott and Julia Reidy

My first ever attempt at writing words and having them published… big thanks to the Berlin based BLATT crew for letting me have a go. You can see some of the text here as well as the composition I’m writing about. Or of course, you can order the magazine itself (which I would of course recommend).

Very happy to have my debut solo record released on Manchester label Tombed Visions. It was recorded expertly in my basement in Macclesfield by Jon Tippler. Here are a few words people have said about it:

“Solo” reviewed by Daniel Spicer, The Wire, 2015

“Andreae delves into an impressive vocabulary of skilfully controlled overtones, rapid keypad flutters and fragile harmonics, glistening like filaments held up to the light.”

“Solo” reviewed by Paul Margee at Louder Than Noise, June 2015

Sam Andreae plots a new course for the saxophone in this album of solo improvisations

Residency with Mio Ebisu and performance with Matilda Rolfsson and Pip. Here’s a nice review of the event.

A graphic composition for large improvising ensemble exploring small units of repeated material and displaced interactions. With this piece I was interested in putting up barriers to challenge the usual formal patterns which occur when larger ensembles improvise together. The very natural desire to mimic and find mutual consensus is challenged with arbitrary mental processes.

This was a one month residency at The Penthouse where David Birchall and myself made lots of fun experiments with transducers all over the building, a 60m long piano wire, radio microphones and beer can speakers. Mio Ebisu collaborated with us by painting 120 20cmx30cm artworks for the long corridor space.

I went on a residency at STEIM in Amsterdam in 2012 to work on a solo saxophone setup which used feedback, Peter Blasser instruments, Crackle Box and some Arduino stuff. It become part of what I used on my later solo recordingswww.samandreae.com/releases/.

This is my old website, I archive it here for posterity.