The international trio ³√‾ of pianist Rieko Okuda (Japan), trombonist Matthias Müller (Germany), and percussionist Samuel Hall (Australia) plays freely improvised music that sounds as if it had been composed thanks to the formal awareness of the individual musicians. Large formal arcs with a simultaneous detailed interlocking of the individual voices create a homogeneous sound. Sensitive interaction creates an acoustic space in the realms of a sound poetry that is open on all sides.

Rieko Okuda is a pianist and a composer from Japan. She began to play Classical music at the age of 3. After she graduated from the college, she moved to USA to study Jazz music. She fell right into the Jazz scene in USA, performing with some of the great American Jazz musicians. A couple of years later, she got interested in Free Jazz and Improvised music while she was in Phliladelphia. She performed with the great improvisers such as Marshall Allen (from San Ra Orchestra). Her interests in Improvised music led her to move to Berlin. Also, she satrted to collaborate with contemporary. In 2017 and 2018, she got the residency in Elektronik Music Studio (EMS) in Stockholm, Sweden. This residency experiences inspired her to Electro-Acoustic field, and she started to invite the electronics to her piano solo pieces. Her first Electro-Acoustic solo album „Paranorm“ was integrated chains of microphones and speakers to create feedback ringing overtones. These overtones are also amplified and make waving melodies or almost dancable rythmic patterns over cloud of sounds. In 2020, she has gotten the residency in Visby International Centere for Composers (VICC) to extend her experience, and find more possibilities to create various sounds and composition techniques.

Matthias Müller began playing the trombone at the age of 10 in the local brass choir. He later studied jazz trombone at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, where he also took his first steps into improvised music. In 2004 he moved to Berlin and has since been regularly playing with internationally recognized improvisers such as John Edwards, Mark Sanders, George Lewis, Johannes Bauer, Jeb Bishop, Tobias Delius, Olaf Rupp, Sofia Jernberg, Eve Risser, John Butcher, Nate Wooley, Axel Dörner, and many more. He is a member of the 21-piece improvising ensemble, “Splitter Orchester“, and was also a member of the “German-French Jazzensemble“ under the direction of Albert Mangelsdorff. In addition, Müller is also active in the field of contemporary music and writes music for theatre and dance pieces. He has toured Africa, Asia, Australia, North America and many countries in Europe, having played on numerous festivals, and released more than 50 CDs of his own projects, including a number on his own label „MaMüMusic“. His playing style is characterized by an extraordinary range of unconventional and partly self-developed techniques which stretch the boundaries of sound and improvisation while staying true to the musical process.

Samuel Hall is a drummer, percussionist and interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin, Germany. Engaging the meeting points of electro-acoustic and acoustic music through extended technique, electronics, object and drum preparation. Informed by a strong improvisational language, his music draws on a deep sonic palette that investigates evolving musical structures, timbres, and sound systems. As an interdisciplinary artist, Hall has worked with painters, dancers and visual designers creating interactive multi-layered works that challenge the norms of performance. Working extensively in the Berlin Echtzeit Musik scene and beyond, Hall’s recent projects include; Soap Tongues, Sundogs, Antares, Pitch Shifting Group, S P O I L E R, and has been collaborating with artists such as; Satoko Fujii, Guido Kohn, Julia Reidy, David Murray, Lucio Capece, Emilio Gordoa, Liz Kosack, Tristan Honsinger, Aviva Endean, Judith Hamann, Sam Dunscombe, Bryan Eubanks, Sophia Salvo, Axel Dorner amongst many others. Hall has toured regularly through Europe performing in many contexts in a wide variety of venues and festivals including Berlin Jazz Fest and the Jazztopad festival in Wroclaw, Poland. Regularly hosting the afterhours sessions at Jazztopad, Hall has collaborated with some of the biggest names in jazz and improvised music including; Hamid Drake, Michiyo Yagi, Sylvie Courvoisier, Jamie Branch, JB Lewis, Shabaka Hutchings, Brad Mehldau, Naissam Jalal, Maria Grand amongst many others.