OPTION: NH w/ Fred Lonberg-Holm

Berlin-based guitarist NH makes his Option debut with a set of solo music + a trio set with Chicago veterans FRED LONBERG-HOLM on cello and PHILLIP SUDDERBERG on drums. (Photo by Karl F. Deigenhart)

Nicola L. Hein (*1988 in Düsseldorf) is a guitarist, composer, philosopher, and soundartist.

As a guitarist he is mainly concerned about the search for new sounds on his instrument. He plays electric and acoustic guitar with or without preperations and tries to find new ways of playing the guitar within the context of Free Improvised Music and Jazz. He plays the guitar with his hands and plectrum but also with a lot of different objects: screws, rulers, iron wool, violin bow, abrasive paper, magnets and many other objects which are part of his musical vocabulary. The result is his very own world of sounds, which is using the rich potential of the guitar as a creator of sounds. The manual creation is a very important character of this sound world, which never gets distorted by the use of electronic effects.

As a composer he finds different ways of integrating philosophical ideas into music and to play music as a form of philosophy. In order to actualize itself the compositional work is always aimed at the improvising musician as a dialectic partner of the composition. From the interplay of these partners an aesthetic emerges that is based on the spontaneity of the performance and the setting of aesthetic action spaces alike.

From the ESS website