Jung Rigler Stratmann + Roach - Soundscape Duets
Wolf Stratmann - Soundscape Duets
On Sunday, October 12th, 2025, Jung Rigler Stratmann will perform at Reforesters Lab, weaving acoustic instruments, electronics, and field recordings into a shared sonic space. Inspired by the Deep Listening work of Pauline Oliveros and other philosophies of inclusive sound-making, the trio welcomes all sounds into the unfolding process, treating them as transformative material to shape in real time.
Connecting to their ongoing collaborations and to Stratmann’s work with Project Natural Sound, the performance will explore ways of embedding improvisation into the sonorities of wild and urban soundscape recordings played over the sound system.
Through this reflective creative approach to the biophony, geophony, and anthrophony of our planet and modern-day society, Jung Rigler Stratmann aims to guide listeners toward new insights about themselves and their connection to the world around them.
Sujae Jung - Synthesizer
Jane Rigler - Flute
Wolf Robert Stratmann - Bass
John Roach - Sound Engineer + FX
Artist: Wolf Robert Stratmann, Sujae Jung, Jane Rigler, John Roach
Wolf Robert Stratmann is a bassist and composer from Bielefeld, Germany. He studied Audio Design and Music Production at the SRH School of Popular Arts (hdpk) in Berlin and later jazz at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and The New School in New York City, where he studied among others with Buster Williams, Kevin Scott, Billy Martin, Steve Cardenas, Marko Djordjevic and Mari Rubio.
Wolf leads original projects, including collaborations with long-time creative partner Sujae Jung, with recent recordings released independently and on the New York-based label "29th Street Editions". Nowadays his work focuses on Contemporary Jazz and New Music. His latest creation "Project Natural Sound" explores possibilities to intertwine Quartet Improvisation with Soundscapes of wild as well as urban environments, ultimately aiming to guide listeners toward new insights about themselves and their connection to the world around them.
Recent collaborations include among others renowned artists such as Steve Cardenas, Marko Djordjevic, Axel Fischbacher, Ned Rothenberg, and Satoshi Takeishi, as well as the Visual Artist John Roach. Wolf was a recipient of the 2024 Living Jazz "Jazz Camp West" scholarship and recently completed his Master’s at The New School, where he received the Dean’s Award, recognizing him for his outstanding academic achievements.
More information: https://www.wolfrobertstratmann.com
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Sujae Jung is a pianist and composer from Busan, South Korea. She studied jazz piano at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and completed her Master of Music in Performer-Composer at The New School in New York City, where her work focused on blending Korean traditional music and nature with contemporary jazz.
Sujae leads original projects, including the collaborative Jung Stratmann project with bassist Wolf Robert Stratmann, as well as her past work as a sidewoman with bands WINDA and NA5. Recent releases include Bird of Luck, Live at 29th Street (29th Street Editions), and the Tree Huggers.
She has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Steve Cardenas, Marko Djordjevic, Axel Fischbacher, Ned Rothenberg, and Satoshi Takeishi. Sujae was also a recipient of the 2024 Living Jazz "Jazz Camp West" scholarship in California.
More information: https://www.sujaejungmusic.com
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Jane Rigler, flutist, composer and organizer of interdisciplinary events, draws her inspiration from nature, movement, languages, and dreaming. She is a certified Deep Listening® facilitator (Center for Deep Listening at RPI, Troy, NY), who offers inclusive and engaging multi-sensorial listening experiences worldwide (i.e., Spain, Germany, Ireland, France, Finland, Italy, Japan, etc.). As a performer and composer, she thrives at artist residencies like Civitella Ranieri, Montalvo, Ucross, and Harvestworks that promote her collaborative nature. During her US-Japan Friendship Creative Artist Fellowship (2009-2010), she studied Noh theatre and performed over 15 concerts in Japan. She explored Ireland on a Fulbright Award (2019- 20) teaching, studying, and composing. Her music is performed and recorded by other musicians around the world and you can find her music and labels such as Neuma, Tzadik, Porter, DewDrop, Sachimay, etc.
Formerly an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado (UCCS), she taught flute, computer music, sound art, and contemporary performance practice while organizing numerous interactive well-being events for her community, such as the “Arts & Resiliency Gathering” for which she was awarded an Arts Projects Grant from the NEA in 2023 through the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience. This journey has now led to collaborations with neuroscientists, and therapists, culminating in innovative programming that resonates with diverse audiences and communities alike. She facilitates experiences with her certification in Organic Intelligence©, developing restorative and system regulation techniques in all her work with sound, composing, and coaching.
More information: https://janerigler.com/
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Jung-Rigler-Stratmann weave genres and natural emergent procedures into their musical processes. Inspired by the Deep Listening work of Pauline Oliveros as well as other philosophies of inclusive sound-making, they welcome all sounds into the unfolding sonic process. Open, caring listening is a fundamental principle as they compose in real-time, considering all sounds as transformative material to play with and mold. Integral to their musical practise are prompt based compositions, graphic notation, as well as precisely attuned attention and a reflective creative approach to the biophony, geophony, and anthrophony of our planet and modern day society. Through their performance, this trio aims to guide listeners toward new insights about themselves and their connection to the world around them.
--- John Roach is an interdisciplinary artist with an unwavering interest in multisensory experience. His long art-making history includes sound installations, performances, platforms that harness the instability of the internet for collaborative noise-making, and works that utilize a variety of materials from glass, to beeswax to ceramics. Most recently he is focused on audio pieces that blend modes such as experimental music, radio art and documentary and can move flexibly between immersive multichannel installation and broadcast.
Roach’s work has been exhibited in venues such as BioBAT Art Space, UrbanGlass and NARS in Brooklyn, GlazenHuis Museum In Lommel Belgium, and RMIT Gallery in Melbourne Australia. He has performed at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, and 601 Artspace and Tonic on the Lower East Side (R.I.P). His fixed-media audio work has been featured on the Radiophrenia, On-Air On-Site, and Tsonami radio sound art festivals. His ideas, and many of the field recordings used in this performance, have been shaped by experiences in artists residencies such as Zion National Park in Utah, Uncommon Arts in Jackson Wyoming, Marble House Project, in Dorset Vermont, and The Tacoma Museum of Glass in Washington.
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Reforesters Laboratory is an experimental adaptogen cafe and sound clinic located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We utilize music – including spatial, sub-bass-centered, and organic instrumentation – along with breathwork, meditation, art, plant care and adaptogenic, nutritional foods + beverages to cultivate kindness—both physical and spiritual. We aim to create an environment that offers peace, space, and clarity, helping people understand the connections between themselves, their communities, and the world around them. To that end, we offer "pay what you can" ticket options on all events and classes.