Chris Abrahams: pipe organ
Sabine Vogel: flutes
next concert:
15.10.2025
Französische Kirche Potsdam
Charlottenstraße 55-58
14467 Potsdam, Potsdam
https://www.reformiert-potsdam.de/Franzoesische%20Kirche%20am%20Bassinplatz%20P…↗
Time: 19.30 h
Unfortunately, the church is not wheelchair accessible.
In their duo Kopfüberwelle, Australian pianist Chris Abrahams (The Necks) and Potsdam flutist Sabine Vogel offers up explorations of both differences and similarities between the flute and organ. One instrument is fixed whilst the other is free to travel the space of the hall. One instrument is made up of a single pipe that, unmodified, can be manipulated in an infinite number of ways whilst the other is made up of many pipes that can be manipulated in a very limited number of ways. Both instruments use the flow of air to “sound” and can create microtonal sonorities that at times tend towards vocalisations. Sometimes it is difficult to tell one from the other. On this evening, Chris Abrahams will play the unique baroque organ in Potsdam at the Französischen Kirche in Potsdam, and Sabine Vogel will play various flutes, some of which are polyphonic.
Chris Abrahams and Sabine Vogel have been playing for many years together. They performed at festivals like Mona Foma festival in Tasmania, NOWnow in Sydney intersonanzen festival in Potsdam, Frim Syd in Malmö.
They have two releases:
• kopfüberwelle
Sabine Vogel: flutes
Chris Abrahams: pipe organ
absinth records
release date: September 2012
absinth records
also available at bandcamp
• Berlin Series No.4 split Disc,
1. ‚luv’ by sabine Vogel – composed with material from solo work and some duo recordings with Bennett Hogg within Landscape Quartet
2.’kopfüberwelle – live’
Chris Abrahams – pipe organ, Sabine Vogel – flutes Improvisation recorded live at the NOWnow festival 2012 at the Paddington Church, Sydney
release: Another Timbre (2014)