Carl Ludwig Hübsch: Cartographies – Origines

Mapping improvised music in Quebec

A presentation by Productions SuperMusique, in partnership with Le Vivier, the Goethe-Institut and CALQ, as part of a composer exchange and Québec-Dresden workshop-residency.

This concert is the culmination of research and creative work by German composer and tuba player Carl Ludwig Hübsch during his residency in Quebec in the spring of 2025.

Hosted by SuperMusique, the composer meets up with new and improvised music from Quebec. From Montreal to Rimouski, via Quebec City, he rubbed shoulders with, played and discussed with instrumentalists from the Ensemble SuperMusique (ESM), the Grand groupe régional d’improvisation libérée (GGRIL), the Ensemble de musique improvisée de Québec (EMIQ) and Bakarlari.

These encounters enabled him to sound out their instrumental practices, to understand what kind of experience they would like to have, and to ask them how they thought a new work should ideally be “improvised”.

Aiming to reflect the diverse musical and geographical origins of these instrumentalists, he presents us with a work inspired as much by place as by social environment. A networked work that also incorporates elements recorded during his exchanges with the musicians.

Carl Ludwig Hübsch
As co-founder and composer of the Multiple Joy[ce] Orchestra, Carl Ludwig Hübsch has written numerous pieces for groups larger than the ESM. For him, composition becomes essential to realize musical events that could not be realized as easily by improvising, or vice versa, improvisation is particularly fruitful in producing events that could not be composed.