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Jonas Urbat is not just a tuba player - he is a sound researcher. He travels through Europe in a van converted into a studio, collecting sounds, experimenting with beats and improvising with musicians. In any case, discovering special things, characteristics and riches in his own environment and transforming them into sound is the basis of all his endeavours. This creation of value can be observed in real time on stage with Jonas. The tuba, otherwise often in the background, becomes the main protagonist with him: deep, powerful, surprising. When electronic distortions come into play, the frenzy is pre-programmed.
Biography
Based on his classical training at the HMDK Stuttgart, Jonas Urbat is looking for ways to use everyday environments as raw material for sound, composition and expression. Together with video artist Nicolas Haumann, he develops soundtracks of garages and factories in the "SoundWERK" project, which he transforms into electromechanical instruments - honoured in 2019 as a cultural and creative pilot by the BMWi. Under the name @InTubaWild, he meets musicians across Europe with his Studiovan. As co-founder of the Stegreif.orchester, he gained experience in combining classical composition, improvisation, space and movement. He also works with bands, ensembles and orchestras on the unification of artistic forms of expression through technology.
