Accordion
Ute Voelker is an accordionist who specialises in improvised music. In her music she explores the possibilities of her instrument. She creates sound architecture, which dissolves space and time while constantly finding new and surprising acoustic forms. She gives concerts regularly at international festivals for improvised music in Europe where she performs as a soloist or in ad-hoc positions.
Ute Völker is one of the founding members of the ensemble for new and improvised music, Partita Radicale, whose work ranges from the development of their own improvisational cycles through to silent-film music and working together with composers and theatre projects. For years Ute Völker has played in a duo with the flutist Angelika Sheridan. She also works in interdisciplinary projects together with visual artists, video film makers, actors, literati and performers. She is a member of the WIO (Wuppertaler Improvisation Orchester).
Among other places, her work is documented on the CDs Leuchtfische with Angelika Sheridan (valve records), Anthrazit Accordion solo (free elephant), baggerboot with Gottschalk and Jaquemyn (henceforth records), frutas azules with Partita Radicale (free elephant), Three Planets with Russell and Werchowski (EMANEM), Rumania today 3 with Partita Radicale (Sonoton).
Ute Völker studied accordion and harmony and counterpoint at the Wuppertal branch of the Musikhochschule Köln (Cologne Music School). She then went on to study musicology, German and phonetics in Cologne, Vienna and Paris. She lives in Wuppertal and works as a music teacher at the Musikschule Bochum (Bochum Music School).
Ute Völker appears on schraum 7 & 9.