BOTH MORE AND LESS THAN ITSELF is a new collaborative project featuring Liz Allbee (trumpet), Kobe Van Cauwenberghe (guitars), Emilie Škrijelj (accordion, electronics), Tom Malmendier (drums, percussion), Marina Cyrino (flutes, objects), and Matthias Koole (guitars, no-input). The project begins with a collective residency in Berlin, including a recording and a premiere concert at Studioboerne45. The ensemble will then present two further concerts, one at Lokal Harmonie in Duisburg and one at the Meakusma Festival in Eupen. During the residency the musicians will develop a 60–80 minute set. A variety of collaborative strategies will be put into practice, using improvisation, different forms of notation or any other means necessary. The ensemble has an unusually wide instrumental range. The musicians will bring setups moving between acoustic sources, experimental amplification, electronics and preparations. The sextet grows out of a dense network of previous collaborations, with shared projects connecting many of the members. At the same time, some of them are meeting for the first time. These constellations have developed their own aesthetics and practices over time, with distinctive sound worlds and methods of interaction. These accumulated experiences and memories are brought into the sextet. The project is not simply a meeting of six individuals but also of the ensembles and histories they bring into the collective. Funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM).