Duo

WISSEL&LYTTON … the MirroЯunit … DiG … WISSEL&NIES

WISSEL&LYTTON (D/UK)

-science friction of flow-
Paul Lytton, percussion 
Georg Wissel,(prepared) alto- and tenorsax 

WISSEL&LYTTON began collaborating as a duo in 2006 and since 
then merging their specific personal musical universes 
into an opalescent and ever unforeseeable flow of sounding 
ideas and imaginations.

Saxophonist Georg Wissel regards himself as a sculptor of 
compressed air and, in addition to extended saxophone playing techniques, uses a wide variety of 
utensils to prepare his instruments.
Whereas percussionist Paul Lytton arranges and brings to life his fundus of carefully 
selected sound generators from household and percussion on his 'table'.
WISSEL&LYTTON's set-up therefore has the character of an (acoustic) workshop.

The duo plays without predetermined concepts or hidden agreements.
All cards are played face up and the audience becomes equal witness of a highly associative artistic process.
Performing on the blade of the now with as much pleasure as attention and sensivity to sound.

WISSEL&LYTTON are not here to entertain you, but to stimulate your imagination.

They have been performing a.o. at „RingRing“ internationalnew music festival 2012 in Belgrade, Serbia. 
Lately the duo toured Germany and France in 2021.
listen on soundcloud: WISSEL&LYTTON 
watch on youtube: WISSEL&LYTTON at LOFT, Cologne

the MirroЯunit (D/AUS)

Tim O'Dwyer (prepared) altosax 
Georg Wissel (prepared) altosax  
two Altosaxophones,
two Improvisers and 
two Explorers, too

The MirroR unit represents the synergy and intricate level of communication that can only happen when two improvisers at the top of their game meet in concert. Technically the two alto saxophone players cover the whole gamut of conventional and extended sounds to be created on the instruments and cover a wide spectrum of approaches and styles in addition to a rich and subtle pallet of textures derived from their use of preparations– this is especially so in the case of Georg Wissel’s armoury of objects that have been meticulously researched over time to extend the sonic capacity of the alto saxophone. In turn, Wissel’s subtle colouring is met head-on by Tim O’Dwyer’s punchy articulated phrasing. TMU has been performing together since 2014 across Germany, South East Asia and Australia.
CDs: 'wind makes weather', creative sources, 2015
     'Sonic Rivers', FMR, 2021
listen on soundcloud: MirrorUnit
and Bandcamp: Sonic Rivers at Bandcamp

 

DiG

Dušica Cajlan, melodika, extended piano          
Georg Wissel (prepared) altosax
Improvised music 
Beside other concerts Dušica and Georg appeared 
along with visual Artist Irma Markulin in an 
collaborative installation/performance-project, 
playing Improvised music combined with chips of 
folksongs from the west balkans. 
Performances took place at Galerija HUB in Belgrade
and Galerie Moltkerei, Cologne, Festival Audio Art, 
Kraków 2017, Mini Resonare, Brussels 2019
listen on soundcloud: DiG   Tragovi
watch on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/111519750

WISSEL&NIES (D)

– Corpus Callosum

'electro sapiens' Joker Nies, bended sound devices,
Buchla and custom made synthesizers 
Georg Wissel (prepared) altosax
  
Due to a kind of an invisible corpus callosum both, 
Wissel and Nies, are capable to produce sounds 
referring as well to pure frequency and sound 
structures, as to a communicative and narrative approach
including bizar melodies. Clichés relating on the 
emotional or technical character of their instruments 
are getting obsolete. Beside lot's of club-gigs 
WISSEL&NIES performed at Kölner Musiknacht and Audio Art Festival in Kraków, Poland
CDs: 'Corpus Callosum', Acheulian Handaxe, New York, 2013
'Live at Bunkier Sztuky', Audiomat, Kraków, 2013
listen on soundcloud: WISSEL&NIES    Wissel&Nies