Cate Hops / Grandmothers favourite

9.5.2026 19h30 Einlass
Cate Hops
Grandmothers favourite (CZ/AT)

Cate Hops
is a Berlin based anthropologist, curator and sound artist. Throughout her artistic practice her ideas reflect space as a social practice. Her performances unfold as electro-acoustic experimental sound pieces and ambient scapes. She works with everyday objects, hacked toys, effected voice, and radios which she loops, layers on top of each other and transforms them into an ephemeral sonic space. She is a co-founder of the Fem*noise network and has collaborated with artists such as JD Zazie, Jena Jang, Leila Mnekbi, Mia Zabelka, Munsha and many others. She presented her work on different stages in Europe and at artist residencies in Austria, Estonia, Germany, Senegal, Taiwan, and Tunisia.

Grandmothers favourite (CZ/AT)
Post modern sudoku jazz

Line-up:
Jakub Švejnar – Drums, no-input mixer
Daniel Bierdümpfl – Guitar, synth, FX

To mistake is the only chance for something new to happen and therefor isn’t a mistake.
Unrehearsed, impolite, unwashed, charismatic, vicious sounds from the pit.
Instant compositions. The naive glorification of improvising the new.
Grandmothers favourite is an experimental music Project which aims to fill the void in between free improvised music, Jazz, Noise, modern creative & composed music.We are here to gather, not to divide. The Duo is constantly seeking for interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange on an international level. ​​

Daniel Bierdümpfl
…is an Linz - Austria based interdisciplinary Artist.
Daniel is a former luthier of plucked & bowed string instruments, he studied time based & interactive media arts at the Kunst Universität Linz (AT) and works as a free lance artist in the fields of music, performance, theater, choreography, poetry, film & photography. He was nominated among five other finalists for the Oe1 Jazz scholarship 2023 as well as one of six finalists I AM ABROAD 2024 Open Call (New European Project for Free Improvisation Artists) Vienna AT. He is the head of programming & production for Raumschiff Linz with a focus on contemporary, improvised and off-genre music & performance.

Jakub Švejnar
is a drummer, percussionist and improviser.
Born in Zlín in 1995, he started playing the drum set at the age of 13 and moved to Prague to study at the conservatory of Jaroslav Ježek.
During his studies, he developed a more experimental approach to playing and moved towards free improvisation, which became his main focus.
Apart from the drum set, Jakub uses various percussion, objects, no-input mixer and voice.
He’s an up-and-coming player on the Prague improvisation and jazz scene and is member of bands such as Jungle Debris, Grandmothers Favourite, Pudlax, Uthando, Pátra/Švejnar and Dust In The Groove. He premièred new-music compositions with ensembles/composers: Dust in the Groove (Michal Wróblewski – Game no.5), PMP Ensemble (Anthony Braxton – Trillium X), Petr Hora - The Theatrical Stroll of a Diamond Spider, Elia Morreti (Once Enea Stuck a Seed In My Ear), Timotheé Quost (A Tool Is A Tool) and also collaborates with performance and dance theater ensembles – Špatné divadlo, Me-Sa Company and Divadlo Continuo.