Die Zusammenarbeit von Markus Eichenberger und Daniel Studer begann 1998 im Domino Septet von Markus Eichenberger welches 2001 seine Fortsetzung fand im Domino Orchestra. Das Resultat ist zu hören auf der CD Concept for Orchestra, erschienen auf dem Label EMANEM im Jahr 2003.
2010 startete das Duo als «Working Band» und veröffentlichte 2018 die CD «Suspended» auf HatOLOGY. Danach wurde das Duo in einzelnen Projekten zweimal erweitert zum Trio (mit Michael Vorfeld und mit Axel Dörner) und zum Quartett mit Tiziana Bertoncini und Magda Mayas.

Improvisation assumes a fresh experience, an unfamiliarity with what is to come, a disruption of expectations. How much more intense and disorienting the experience becomes in the music of Markus Eichenberger and Daniel Studer. Each one has an impressive résumé of musical adventures, but as a duo their music expresses special qualities and asks challenging questions. Suspended offers no customary structures, no consistent prototypes; the titles are not instruc- tions, illustrations, or explanations. Manipulating an abstract dialect of sounds, many of them in the grey area between recognizable pitch and expressive noise, they initiate a system of relationships that allows – requires – the listener to participate in the spontaneous search for meaning.
Art Lange (Liner Notes)

concerts:

Eichenberger-Studer with guests:
with Tiziana Bertoncini (vl) and Magda Mayas (p)
23.09.2022, 20:00, Werkstatt Marius Buck, Großherzog-Friedrich-Straße 95, 66111 Saarbrücken
24.09.2022, 20:00, Cuba, Münster (www.blackbocx-muenster.de)
25.09.2022, 15:30, Alte Kita, Hasselwerderstr. 22a, 12439 Berlin
26.09.2022, 20:00, Galerie Schneider, Wilhelmstraße 17A, Freiburg im Breisgau
with Harald Kimmig (vl)

12.12.2021, 20:00, Mullbau, Luzern (www.mullbau.ch)
13.12.2021, 20:00, Kunstraum Walchetrum, Kanonengasse 20, Zürich (www.walcheturm.ch)

with Axel Dörner (tp)
25.02.2020, 20:00, FIM Basel, Gerbergasse 30, Basel (www.fimbasel.ch)
27.02.2020, 20:00, ŠKUC Gallery, Stari trg, Ljubljana (FriForma/KUD Mreža)
28.02.2020, 20:00, Offene Ohren, München (D), (www.offeneohren.org)
29.02.2020, 18:00, Schlosserei Nenniger, Grubenstrasse 29, Zürich

with Michael Vorfeld (perc)
02.02.2020, 17:00, Schlosserei Nenniger, Grubenstrasse 29, Zürich

Different concerts since 1998, also with the Markus Eichenbergers Domino Orchestra.

press:

cds:

see CD Suspended, hatOLOGY 748, 2018.

liner notes:
Improvisation assumes a fresh experience, an unfamiliarity with what is to come, a disruption of expectations. How much more intense and disorienting the experience becomes in the music of Markus Eichenberger and Daniel Studer. Each one has an impressive résumé of musical adventures, but as a duo their music expresses special qualities and asks challenging questions. Suspended offers no customary structures, no consistent prototypes; the titles are not instruc- tions, illustrations, or explanations. Manipulating an abstract dialect of sounds, many of them in the grey area between recognizable pitch and expressive noise, they initiate a system of relationships that allows – requires – the listener to participate in the spontaneous search for meaning.(excerpt)
Art Lange
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cd reviews:

…Eichenberger and Studer intend every gesture — from surgically firm to next-to-angry — as if they wished to show us that a musician's humanity must necessarily result from the correspondence of accuracy and intuitiveness. Inside the interaction — even when it's just whispered — there is always something that sings.
Massimo Ricci, The Squid's Ear, 2018
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…Overall, it's an endeavor linked with bursts of firepower and ever-so-subtle musings to instill a variety of unlikely contrasts and highly experimental discourses.
Glenn Astarita, AllAboutJazz 2018
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Les Suisses Markus Eichenberger (clarinette en si, clarinette basse) et Daniel Studer (contrebasse) forment depuis huit ans un duo dont l'exigence musicale est servie par une maîtrise instrumentale parfaite, doublée d'une écoute mutuelle à la qualité rare. Musique de chambre exigeante, les sept titres dont est composé Suspended (qui forment, de facto, une suite) voient, au souffle du clarinettiste, répondre le geste parfait de la main ou à l'archet, du bassiste. On avance ici dans un espace vaste, mais traversé sur la pointe des pieds et à la merci du moindre défaut d'attention de l'un ou l'autre. Capté en studio, Suspended porte bien son titre: la musique, dans son surgissement, semble y tenir miraculeusement en équilibre.
LeVif 2018

…Suspended est un modèle qui refuse de suivre un itinéraire balisé et détermine son esthétique et ses ambitions au fil des secondes. Vive l’improvisation libre !
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Orynx 2018
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Familiarity and its inverse foreign intrigue are concepts integral to Suspended, a timely aural document of the musical partnership between Swiss clarinetist Markus Eichenberger and his countryman/colleague bassist Daniel Studer.…"
Derek Taylor, Dusted Magazine 2018
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