Q&A by Artists

Sofi Paez: How does organising/ curating the festival affect your creative work?

We not only get to know interesting projects and wonderful new colleagues, but can apply lots of techniques in the context of the organisation. As curators who also compose and perform, the Q3Ambientfest always gives us new hope to keep going. We enjoy recognising the parallels between our own creative process and those of our colleagues, and to keep optimising the workflow in order, ultimately, to be able to direct a focus onto the music that’s free from distraction.

What’s a moment that surprised you?
Maybe not “surprising” but has the feel of a “musical epiphany”: after years of traditional academic study in classical music, at the first edition in 2017, diving into spontaneous improvisation with a fellow musician.

That was really an ultimate spark and that’s why it’s part of almost all of the concert formats that we curate – a moment that’s not captured on tape or film, but that stays in our hearts because it showed us that beyond all language barriers just the dialogue between instruments could and still can allow a personal communication…