Wed 13/5 20:00
Hypomaniac (ARG/FR/PT) • Concepción Huerta (MEX)

Hypomaniac is a compelling musical ritual rooted in the tradition of intense improvised music and free jazz. At the core of this tight international trio stands Argentinian saxophonist Camila Nebbia. The sonic worlds of acclaimed Mexican artist Concepción Huerta are at once intimate and expansive. Expect a deep, breathing, and living convergence of textures and sonic craters of overwhelming scale.

With an uncompromising focus on intensity, Hypomaniac weave a constantly shifting dialogue in which sound becomes matter, time collapses, and silence gains its own weight. The trio does not interpret compositions, but creates environments. Each set is a unique landscape of friction, collisions, and resonance. You can expect moments of crushing intensity as well as fragile, shimmering lyricism. Yet it’s not only about eruptive force and raw, untamed emotion. Within the volatility lies an extraordinary sensitivity to space and detail. Between eruptions, the music breathes, revealing microscopic structures, fragmentary melody, and multiphonics at the edge of audibility. Hypomaniac will premiere in the Czech Republic, with Divadlo 29 as their only stop on this European tour.

Camila Nebbia is originally from Buenos Aires and is now based in Berlin. She is a saxophonist, composer, improviser, visual artist, and curator. Her multilayered practice grows out of working with memory—both its construction and disruption—opening themes of identity, migration, and traces of remembrance. Her latest solo album una ofrenda a la ausencia (Relative Pitch Records) was described by NYC Jazz Record as a deeply personal and profoundly human statement, marked by an intense and passionate approach to jazz. She co-founded the independent label Lilaila, co-curates the interdisciplinary festival Guillotina in Buenos Aires, and runs the streaming concert series A Door in the Mountain. In Berlin, she curates the Disfigured Rivers series and contributes to the Future Bash Reloaded program. She has collaborated and recorded with leading figures of the international scene, including Marilyn Crispell, Michael Formanek, Tim Berne, Angélica Sanchez, Vinnie Sperrazza, and Susana Santos Silva.

Gonçalo Almeida is a Portuguese double bassist and composer based in Rotterdam. His work moves across projects ranging from modern jazz through free jazz and jazzcore to free improvisation. A deep grounding in improvisation and a continuous drive to push the boundaries of sound place him among the distinctive voices of contemporary European jazz and experimental music. He has shared the stage with key figures of the improvisation scene such as Ab Baars, Balázs Pándi, Chris Speed, Jasper Stadhouders, Luís Vicente, Rodrigo Amado, Susana Santos Silva, Tobias Klein, and Wilbert de Joode, among others. He is the founder and double bassist of Hydra Ensemble, Lama Trio, Albatre, and The Attic, and a member of Spinifex, The Selva, and the Luís Vicente Trio.

Sylvain Darrifourcq is a French percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and composer. Originally trained as a classical percussionist, he is now part of a generation of musicians naturally crossing genre boundaries, and a sought-after collaborator across scenes. He has worked with major figures of the French, European, and American music scenes, including Joëlle Léandre, Michel Portal, Tony Malaby, Joachim Kühn, Louis Sclavis, Marc Ducret, and Andrea Parkins. For over a decade he was the drummer in saxophonist Émile Parisien’s quartet. Alongside performing, he is also engaged in sound installations and collaborations with visual artists, choreographers, and writers.

Concepción Huerta is an acclaimed Mexican multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on sound as material, space, and memory. She moves with ease between sound design, installations, speculative field recordings, spatial concerts, and immersive sonic landscapes, exploring above all the relationship between listening, place, and emotional resonance. The result is a deep, breathing, and living convergence of textures and sonic craters of overwhelming scale. Her sonic worlds are both intimate and expansive: a dialogue between noise, silence, and what emerges in between.

Alongside her solo work, Concepción Huerta is also a member of Huerta Ensemble and the experimental group Amor Muere, where she performs with, among others, her long-time collaborator, cellist and vocalist Mabe Fratti.

www.concepcionhuerta.bandcamp.com
www.camilanebbia.com
www.sylvaindarrifourcq.com
www.gonzobass.wixsite.com
www.instagram.com/cncpcn

The event is presented as part of the Jazzconnexion 2026 and Electroconnexion 2026 projects, with financial support from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the Pardubice Region, and the City of Pardubice.

 

Pay-what-you-can admission: 200 CZK / supporter ticket 300 CZK.

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