Photographs by Yann Staffelbach

Each musician has a randomly chosen sheet of paper on which individual time codes are noted. In the center of the stage there is a clock, visible to all musicians. On each time-code the musicians can either: change the material, stop playing, start a new sequence or not play at all.

The musicians are free to choose their material themselves. Sometimes the changes can also be made in pairs or threes and sometimes even all together. They change instantly and even then always without really knowing who exactly is going to play at that moment. Unpredictability remains at the center of the performance.

All them Takes lasts one hour and is structured in three parts of 17 minutes each, interspersed with transitions, during which the musicians exchange their sheets, before the next cycle starts again, just as before but in a completely different and new way.


Puts Marie are Max Usata, vocals, drums, synth / Sirup Gagavil, guitar / Beni 06, Farfisa organ Igor Stepniewski, electric bass, flute / Tobi Schramm, drums

Jonas Kocher, composition, artistic direction
Gaudenz Badrutt, outside ear

Premiered on October 25 2021 at Das Institut in Zürich, CH