Spark Gap brings together two idiosyncratic, experimental trumpeters.
Birgit Ulher is a German, Hamburg-based composer and sound artist who has developed a range of extended playing techniques and preparations for the trumpet, allowing her to craft a unique language centred around sound, focusing on its microtonal aspects, fragmentation, and spatial dimension. She works with the trumpet, radio, metal sheets, and everyday objects to produce electronically resonant sounds using purely acoustic means, and is deeply intrigued by the relationship between silence and sound.
Nicolas Collins is an American, Berlin-based composer, educator and scholar (he wrote the books Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, Routledge, and Semi-Conducting: Rambles Through the Post-Cagean Thicket, Bloomsbury). He uses homemade electronic circuitry with his trumpet
