Bosch brings Metaorganism Research to Life through Jazz
Loreen Sima Trio feat. Jakob Bänsch meet Thomas Bosch – Badisches Staatstheater, Kleines Haus
Last Sunday, Thomas Bosch joined a special event at the Badisches Staatstheather in Karlsruhe: Jazz and science came together as part of the Sustainability Weeks. The Loreen Sima Trio, featuring trumpeter Jakob Bänsch, joined forces with the scientist from Kiel University with a performance at the intersection of science and art, in particular a Jazz music evening.
More information: https://www.staatstheater-karlsruhe.de/programm/info/3875/
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We are all complex, multi-organismic beings comprising an enormous diversity of life forms: so-called metaorganisms. We are colonised by more microbes and bacteria than we have cells. What could bring this polyphony to life in a more sensory way than music?
Jazz trumpeter Jakob Bänsch, originally from Tiefenbronn near Pforzheim, is one of the most exciting young musicians in Germany today. The 22-year-old is studying in Cologne, tours across Europe and has already been awarded the ‘German Jazz Prize’. Together with the Loreen Sima Trio, he plays jazz standards such as ‘Footprints’ and ‘Body and Soul’.
Add to this, Thomas Bosch offered illuminating insights into his research, in which he describes every living being not merely as a distinct individual, but as a metaorganism – a polyphonic network of host cells and symbiotic microbes that function and evolve together. From an evolutionary perspective, microbes were here long before us. “Bacteria invented everything,” says Bosch. The first complex cells only came into being because microbes once cooperated with one another.
This realisation was even being transformed into art at the Badisches Staatstheater, when Bosch combined his research with jazz music in collaboration with the Loreen Sima Trio and trumpeter Jakob Bänsch. Science and music are intended to interact with one another. For Bosch, music is a way of making complex interrelationships emotionally tangible.
