Workers Union is a young international project (Germany, France, Colombia), born in the beginning of 2018. Bringing together 6 people from completely different historical and musical backgrounds, it aims to create a very particular structure in which each member can evolve individually as well as in relation with its „coworkers“. The result is a large sound palette, expressing some aspects of today’s music in it’s brightest diversity. Written music, improvised music, „classical“ contemporary music, jazz, rock, noise, „minimal“ music, etc.: those labels don’t make sense anymore in this global project, which tends to create a moment in which all notions of hierarchy and genre disappear. Only the musicians’ capability stays a constant in this „de-genring“ act: virtuosity and joy of playing are the point of convergence of all those different musical happenings.
Workers Union thinks and writes music for itself, as well as it uses music from others. Still, every performed piece is an act of reappropriation. Reappropriation through own sounds and ways of playing. The moment’s energy finally decides on the taken freedom and on the paths to follow (or not). The group is to be thought as an organic entity, always evolving, without definitive form. It is a material ready to be transformed by each player wanting to create a new structure. The number of people being involved in it is not relevant, as long as the work focuses on a collective, shared expression.
Workers Union has no boundaries, and tries to get over the academical image of „modern music“. Any formal component of a „classical“ concert is banned from the performance, and the proximity with the audience is the key for a successful performance, in which every listener and player should feel involved at a same degree, both being part of an active experience, a common piece of work.