NIKOLA LUTZ

YONX

Duo YonX

César Bernal - double bass
Nikola Lutz - saxophone, video

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2018
As part of the German-Chilean project Freund Stein / El amigo piedra, Nikola Lutz (Stuttgart / Germany) and César Bernal (Valparaíso / Chile) meet in the ensemble fra(c)tura. Despite the physical distance, they form the duo YonX. The central ensemble concept is the exploration of the space between composition and improvisation.

2019
Tour Germany, Chile and Peru with compositions by Remmy Canedo and Fernando Munizaga as well as improvisational encounters. YonX publishes improvisations with double bass / saxophone and the very rarely played sarrusophone and performs at the opening of the concert series out of the box in the town hall Leonberg.

Improvisation
sarrusoyonx

2020
A CD is produced under the name fra(c)tura, in which the duo record the composition El perro amarillo by Nikola Lutz. Due to the pandemic, analog projects cannot take place, but with the production remote, procedures for online collaboration are created instead. YonX is developing the two video pieces remote I and remote II, published in a live stream together with international live improvisations and a discussion forum with speakers from Germany, Peru and Chile on the SKAMventskalender platform.

remote I
remote II

2021
YonX takes part in the festival My Behavioral Surplus with SpamScore (composition - Carlos Hernandez, video - Shaotong He) and t://h://e://y:// are listening (composition - Veronica Reutz Drobnić).

SpamScore
t://h://e://y:// are listening

2022
onX receives a grant from the Musikfonds for the MadMap project with film recordings and site-specific research in Berlin, Stuttgart and Hildesheim as well as performances in Stuttgart and Bremen. YonX develops a multimedia approach, with Nikola Lutz appearing with live video and film works. The reflections from the MadMap project expand the working style of YonX in the long term. Publication of the interactive 3D space yonx_madmap with the software nota:

https://nota.space/?user=ola&room=yonx_madmap
https://n ota.space/?user=ola&room=yonx_madmap_berlin

Presentation of the online space yonx_madmap on 17.07.22 in the living archive of open working methods in the documenta archiv in Kassel.

Tour in Chile, Mexico and the USA with concerts at the Festival Darwin Vargas, the Ciclo de música electroacústica in Valdivia, the Festival Expresiones Contemporáneas in Mexico City and concerts and workshops at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

https://nota.space/?user=ola&room=yonx_madmap_documentation

Release of the CD YonX with works by Fernando Munizaga, Remmy Canedo, Nikola Lutz and improvisations by YonX.

https://nota.space/?user=ola&room=yonx_publications

2023
Performance cont.act # 1 as part of the project mem.cont.act 28.4.23 Stuttgart

cont.act #1

Scholarship from the City of Munich at Villa Waldberta in Feldafing
Production Der Lateinamerikanische Kontrabass / The Latin American Double Bass Feldafing 09/15/23
Development and presentation of MadMap_Waldberta with the project parts 2 nocturnos (video), habitar el verde / das grün bewohnend (installation) and MadMap-Waldberta live (audiovisual live performance) Feldafing 09/22/23
Video production of pieces by composers Sebastián de Larraechea, Claudia Alvarado and Enrique Schadenberg Balbontín
Premiere of Doug Falk - Secret Piece # 4 - Surprise Me! Munich Luise Kultur 09/21/23

MadMap_Waldberta
2 Nocturnos
habitar el verde part I
habitar el verde part II
habitar el verde part III

2024
The series YonX audiovisual sundays launches on YouTube, where YonX regularly posts videos
Tour in Chile with residencies in Ritoque and Rari

Tour in Germany, production zek#3, collaboration with Lukax Santana, workshop and concert Free Masha - now! at the HMDK Stuttgart

2025
The YonX audiovisual sundays series runs in January/February on YouTube
Series continues as YonX audiovisual summer sundays in June/July on YouTube
Release of music by Axel Retif on the cd Broken Sands / Tagma Records (TAG008)
YonX and Lukax Santana—release of the virtual cd zek on the label viajero inmóvil

improvisation

video

live performance

multimedia

nota

music

double bass

saxophone

YonX live in Stuttgart, Foto: Frank Post

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