ŠALTER ENSEMBLE (CH/SLO/AT)Venerdì 5 Maggio 2023, ore 19:00
C32 - Forte Marghera, Via Forte Marghera, Mestre Venezia Ingresso gratuito Per Prenotare CLICCA QUI Evento Facebook QUI Live Arts Cultures vi invita al concerto di Šalter Ensemble, progetto internazionale che riunisce artisti provenienti da Slovenia, Austria e Svizzera. Al termine della residenza artistica (29 aprile - 5 maggio) presso gli spazi di C32 performing art work space, gli artisti presenteranno la nuova edizione del loro lavoro di composizione musicale nella serata di venerdì 5 maggio. Line-up 2023 Gaudenz Badrutt, electronics, Estelle Beiner, violino, Ilia Belorukov, sassofono, Tomaž Grom, contrabbasso, electronics, Elisabeth Harnik, piano, prepared piano, Josef Klammer, percussioni, electronics, Jonas Kocher, fisarmonica, Samo Kutin, ghironda, Alfred Lang, tromba, Irena Z. Tomažin, voce Nuove composizioni d'insieme di Jonas Kocher & Gaudenz Badrutt, Elisabeth Harnik and Tomaž Grom Durata: 60 minuti Direzione artistica: Harnik/Badrutt-Kocher/Grom Residenza artistica: dal 29 aprile al 5 maggio 2023, C32, Forte Marghera, Mestre Venezia https://www.transartists.org/en/air/c32 |
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Šalter Ensemble è un ensemble elettroacustico internazionale creato nel 2017 da Jonas Kocher in collaborazione con Zavod Sploh Ljubljana e Izlog Festival Zagreb. È composto da elementi della scena musicale svizzera e slovena e di altre nazionalità - in base all'edizione del progetto.
La particolarità del progetto risiede nella diversa provenienza di pratiche dei musicisti coinvolti nell'ensamble come improvvisazione libera, jazz, musica classica o tradizionale. Il tempo di preparazione precedente a ogni creazione è dedicato al lavoro sulle nuove composizioni da parte dei membri dell'ensemble e a ridefinire ogni volta l'identità sonora del gruppo attraverso un intenso processo collettivo basato sull'ascolto. Questa metodologia permette a Šalter di realizzare creazioni sul limite tra imporvvisazione libera e composizione, con suoni e possibilità umane rinnovate a ogni creazione.
Il lavoro di Šalter Ensemble è stato presentato a: Izlog Festival Zagreb (HR), Ring Ring Festival Belgrade (RS), Cerkno Jazz Festival (SLO), Ispod Bine Festival Split (HR), Zvokotok Concert Series Ljubljana (SLO), Usine Sonore Biel/Bienne (CH) and in Castelfranco Veneto (IT). È stato registrato dalla Radio Nazionale Croata e dalla Radio Nazionale Slovena. nel 2021 è stata prodotta una registrazione da Zavod Sploh.
Šalter Ensemble 2023 è prodotto da
Bruit Association (Biel/Bienne): www.bruit-asso.org
Zavod Sploh (Ljubljana): www.sploh.si/en
Association for New and Improvised Music (Graz/Austria)
Questo lavoro è stato prodotto con il supporto finanziario dell'Unione Europea. Le opinioni espresse nel lavoro non possono essere considerate come un'opinione ufficiale dell'Unione Europea.
La particolarità del progetto risiede nella diversa provenienza di pratiche dei musicisti coinvolti nell'ensamble come improvvisazione libera, jazz, musica classica o tradizionale. Il tempo di preparazione precedente a ogni creazione è dedicato al lavoro sulle nuove composizioni da parte dei membri dell'ensemble e a ridefinire ogni volta l'identità sonora del gruppo attraverso un intenso processo collettivo basato sull'ascolto. Questa metodologia permette a Šalter di realizzare creazioni sul limite tra imporvvisazione libera e composizione, con suoni e possibilità umane rinnovate a ogni creazione.
Il lavoro di Šalter Ensemble è stato presentato a: Izlog Festival Zagreb (HR), Ring Ring Festival Belgrade (RS), Cerkno Jazz Festival (SLO), Ispod Bine Festival Split (HR), Zvokotok Concert Series Ljubljana (SLO), Usine Sonore Biel/Bienne (CH) and in Castelfranco Veneto (IT). È stato registrato dalla Radio Nazionale Croata e dalla Radio Nazionale Slovena. nel 2021 è stata prodotta una registrazione da Zavod Sploh.
Šalter Ensemble 2023 è prodotto da
Bruit Association (Biel/Bienne): www.bruit-asso.org
Zavod Sploh (Ljubljana): www.sploh.si/en
Association for New and Improvised Music (Graz/Austria)
Questo lavoro è stato prodotto con il supporto finanziario dell'Unione Europea. Le opinioni espresse nel lavoro non possono essere considerate come un'opinione ufficiale dell'Unione Europea.
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Partners
Land Steiermark Kultur Stadt Graz Bundesministerium Kunst SKE Fonds GFÖM / AKM Alpen-Adria Allianz (AAA) Stadt Biel / Ville de Bienne Swisslos, Kultur Kanton Bern Fondation Nicati – De Luze Pro Helvetia Ministry of Culture of The Republic of Slovenia City of Ljubljana Jazz Cerkno Live Arts Cultures |
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BIO
Direttori artistici
Born in 1972, Tomaž Grom is a double bass player and author of various performances, sound installations and a long-term project iMstrument which consists of recorded sound and video sequences performed by different musicians developing their individual musical language and are part of wide improvised music scene. He has performed at festivals across Europe and North America, and has composed music for numerous theaters, contemporary dance, puppet performances and movies.
He understands music as a medium of communication rather than aesthetic pleasure. He wants to find reasons for making music. Uncompromisingly he prods at social norms. Music for him is a form of seeking, unanswered questions, flow of ideas, unpredictable situations. Composition is improvisation. Improvisations offers him space to lose himself, to make mistakes, to come up with intriguing solutions. In music, challenges invite thinking and open up new possibilities.
https://www.sploh.si/en/about-sploh/team/tomaz-grom
Born in 1970, Elisabeth Harnik is a pianist, composer and curator. She studied classical music and later - with Beat Furrer – composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria.
Performs with internationally recognized representatives of the contemporary jazz and improvised music scene in Europe and abroad such as Frank Gratkowski, Thomas Lehn, Harri Sjöström, Jaap Blonk, Joëlle Léandre, Fay Victor, Steve Swell or Elliott Sharp. She has a long-standing musical friendship with the Chicago free scene, for example, she is a sought-after playing partner of Ken Vandermark, Michael Zerang or Dave Rempis. As an improviser she works within an electro-acoustic inspired sound world, using specific preparations and extended techniques while pushing the limitations of her instrument. Her improvisations draw from physicality and introspection, intuitive playing and high precision. Harnik´s unique approach to her instrument as well as to improvisation and composition has led to many festival invitations such as Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon (AT), Nickelsdorfer Konfrontationen (AT), Artacts (AT), Music Unlimited (AT), Taktlos (CH), A L'ARME! (DE), Moers (DE), Concepts of Doing (DE), Visitations (BE), Audio Art (HR), Krakow Jazz Autumn (PL), Ad Libitum (PL), All Ears Festival (NO), Umbrella Music (US), SoundOut (AU) or Jazz na Fábrica (BR).
Her compositions are performed regularly at concerts and festivals for new music and she received a great number of rewards, most recently she held the Austrian SKE Publicity Award 2017 and the Andrzej-Dobrowolski-Composition Prize 2022 of the Province of Styria.
http://elisabeth-harnik.at/
Born in 1977, Jonas Kocher is an accordionist, improviser and composer. He studied at the Bern University of the Arts and received decisive impulses from Georges Aperghis, Ruedi Häusermann and Eric Gaudibert. His multiple interests and strong interdisciplinary thinking have led him to work all over the world and in a wide variety of contexts. From musicians such as Michel Doneda, Axel Dörner, Jacques Demierre, Irena Tomažin, Joke Lanz, Gaudenz Badrutt, Hans Koch, Bertrand Denzler, Christof Kurzmann and Radu Malfatti are among his regular collaborators. Jonas Kocher has a keen interest in processes, the search for unstable situations and improvisation. He creates sound performances and musical theatre musical theatre pieces, composes for ensembles (Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Ensemble Aabat Bern, Studio 6 Belgrade, CH.AU Vevey ...) and gives concerts. He has been invited to present his work at festivals such as Météo Mulhouse (F), Music Unlimited Wels (A), Cerkno Jazz Festival (SLO), Sanatorium of Sound Sokołowsko (PL), Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf (A), Unerhört Festival Zürich (CH), Musik Festival Bern (CH), Umlaut Festival Berlin (DE) Goethe Institut Improv Festival Moscow (RU), Biennale Zagreb (HR), Irtijal Festival Beirut (LIB), Sonic Circuits Washington (USA), Art Biennale Thessaloniki (GR), Biennale Musica Venezia 2020 (IT) ...
He was awarded a 6-month residency at the Cité des Arts Paris by the canton of Bern in 2004, he received the Recognition Prize of the Music Commission of the Canton of Bern in 2010 and received composition grants from Pro Helvetia in 2012 and 2019. Winner of the Liechti Prize for the Arts 2020.
www.jonaskocher.net
Gaudenz Badrutt has been active in the field of electroacoustic music for about 20 years. was originally a pianist in the field of contemporary classical music. His main activity is now that of an electronic musician who improvises and composes with the help of computers (especially live sampling) and other electronic devices. His work includes the duo with Jonas Kocher (accordion), the duo Strøm, the duo Social Insects with Hans Koch (bass clarinet, clarinet, soprano saxophone), which often becomes the Koch Trio, Kocher & Badrutt with Jonas Kocher, and the Trio with Jean-Luc Guionnet and Frantz Loriot. He also collaborates with Alfred Zimmerlin, Ilia Belorukov, Kai Fagaschinski, Christof Kurzmann, Toshimaru Nakamura, Morishige Yasumune, etc. He has also been performing more and more as a soloist in recent years. Gaudenz Badrutt regularly gives concerts in Switzerland and abroad, especially abroad, notably at festivals such as RingRing Belgrade, Jauna Muzika Vilnius, Music Unlimited Wels, Le Bruit de la Musique Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx, Mozg Bydgoszcz, Outernational Bucharest, Sound around Kaliningrad, Sanatorium of Sound Sokolowsko, Zwei Tage Zeit Zürich, Transmediale Berlin, Irtijal Beirut, Airegin Yokohama, Taktlos/Tonart Bern. He also creates sound and video installations and the music education application Memoreille. Among the many recordings he has made, we should mention in particular the solo LP Ganglions (2019). Gaudenz Badrutt has been the recipient of several scholarships and awards including the Foundation (2020), the Liechti Prize for the Arts, the Werkbeitrag Musikvermittlung (Office of Culture of the Canton of Bern) for the digital game Memoreille (2010), a Visarte Graubünden grant for a stay at the Cité des Arts Paris (2009) as well as the working grants the canton of Graubünden (2002 and 2010).
Gaudenz Badrutt is also musicologist. He completed his PhD "Ferrari hören" on the electroacoustic music of the French composer Luc Ferrari in September 2020 with the mention Summa cum Laude.
www.gaudenzbadrutt.ch
Musicisti
ALFRED LANG, trumpet
Born in 1968, trumpeter, composer
Lives in Styria, Austria
Studied classical music and jazz at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz
Works in different groups and bands, playing rock´n´roll, balkan and gipsy music, jazz, free jazz, improvised and experimental music
He is one of the most versatile trumpeters and collaborates with such diverse artists as Otto Lechner, Klaus Trabitsch, Sandy Lopičić, Andy Manndorff, Dieter Glawischnig or Ewald Oberleitner
Compositions with aleatoric poetry, poem-to-music generators, radio-art, graphic scores
Works also as an it-specialist
JOSEF KLAMMER, drums and electronics
Born in 1958, drummer, media musician, curator
Worked initially as a photographer, studied drums at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz
Since the mid-1980s he has been continuously working on the sonic expansion of his instruments and on researching and transforming the music potential inherent in the media
Works with a wide variety of ensembles playing new improvised electronic and experimental music
He received many prizes and art residencies such as the Outstanding Artist Award (Austrian Ministry of Art and Science), the Electronic Award of the ELAK Vienna (with Klammer&Gruendler Duo), the Artist Residency at ZKM Karlsruhe or most recently the 2015 Award of Distiction / Prix Ars Electronica
Josef Klammer composes for theater, exhibitions, sound installations, radio, TV and movies in Austria and abroad
http://klammer.mur.at
ESTELLE BEINER, violin
Born in 1979, the violinist Estelle Beiner studied at the Conservatory of Neuchâtel. She plays in various orchestras and for the past ten years she has been a member of the ensemble Le Moment Baroque, playing on historical instruments. She is also a member of the Orchestre Le Grand Eustache in Lausanne.
Her untiring curiosity has led her for some time to the field of improvised music, contemporary music, jazz and pop. She regularly plays with musicians such as Lionel Friedli, Hans Koch, Jacques Demierre, Jonas Kocher, Gaudenz Badrutt, Marina Tantanozi, Erik Truffaz or Christophe Calpini.
She is currently playing with the septet of the jazz singer Sarah Buechi and with Christophe Calpini and strings. She had the chance to play in the legendary Joyful Noise Orchestra of Biel (2017 and 2022), an ensemble composed of Swiss musicians renowned on the improvised music scene.
She has performed in venues and festivals such as: Moods Zürich, Jazz Festival Willisau, Schaffhauser Jazz Festival, Les Folles Journées in Nantes and Tokyo, TheaterHaus Stuttgart, The International Music Festival of Algeria, Théâtre du Jorat in Mézières, The Cully Jazz Festival.
She teaches at the Ecole Jurassienne et Conservatoire de Musique (EJCM) in Delémont since 2015.
ILIA BELORUKOV, saxophone
Ilia Belorukov is a musician from Saint Petersburg, Russia. He works in the directions of improvised, noise and electroacoustic music. He’s widely collaborating with local and foreign musicians and performers. Ilia practices an experimental approach of sound extraction on alto saxophone, using modular synthesizer and other instruments. His works were released on labels such as Clean Feed, SOFA, Moving Furniture, Astral Spirits, Notice Recordings, Raw Tonk, Mikroton and many others. He is one of the founder of the label Intonema and was one of curators of the label Spina!Rec. He is organizer of events in Saint Petersburg and Russia and was co-organizer of the Teni Zvuka and Spina!Fest festivals. He writes reviews for Jazzist and notes about music as musicworm in Telegram channel.
https://belorukov.blogspot.com/
SAMO KUTIN, hurdy gurdy
Samo Kutin is an extremely active multi-instrumentalist, known for his use of unconventional and self-made musical instruments and sound-making objects. One of the traditional instruments in his repertoire is also the Hungarian medieval string instrument hurdy gurdy, which can be often seen in playing at the events of experimental and improvised music. In the field of free improvisation, he is intensively devoted to finding, discovering and manipulating the various potentialities of the hurdy gurdy. The extreme acoustic dimensions, from gentle noise to noisy drones, from soft blows to unbearable whimpers, he reaches through the preparation and amplification of the musical instrument, using both contact microphones and acoustic resonators.
IRENA Z. TOMAŽIN, voice
Irena Z. Tomažin is a dancer, choreographer, performer, vocalist, singer and improviser, strongly present on the local and international scene. As a musician she made her name with solo project iT, project for voice and Dictaphones, where she uses forms of songs, sound poetry, spoken word, theatre, text and performance. The project took her on the path of deconstruction of voice which she deepens as an improviser, solo artist or in various groups and collaborations, where she went further with exploration of sound and noise of the voice, textures and in-between spaces of voice, body and bodily mechanics. She performs solo or in collaborations with various musicians.
Production and international coordination
Since 2005 Špela Trošt is a production manager for Sploh institute (www.sploh.si), for art production and publishing and an artistic director for performing arts. Working for Sploh she co-created more than 50 projects: music series, festivals, performances, intermedia productions, music releases and workshops. The programme of Zavod Sploh in cooperation with several organizations from Slovenia, Europe and USA involved more than 170 musicians, performers and dancers from the world.
Since 2002 she is a production manager for a platform for research, development and production of contemporary performing arts Via Negativa (www.vntheatre.com).
From 2003 to 2009 she was a producer for searching project of acting art Studio za raziskavo umetnosti igre (workshops and performances). Between 2004 and 2005 she worked as a production manager on MASKA (www.maska.si), organization engaged in publishing, production of performances and education in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
https://www.sploh.si/en/about-sploh/team/spela-trost
Direttori artistici
Born in 1972, Tomaž Grom is a double bass player and author of various performances, sound installations and a long-term project iMstrument which consists of recorded sound and video sequences performed by different musicians developing their individual musical language and are part of wide improvised music scene. He has performed at festivals across Europe and North America, and has composed music for numerous theaters, contemporary dance, puppet performances and movies.
He understands music as a medium of communication rather than aesthetic pleasure. He wants to find reasons for making music. Uncompromisingly he prods at social norms. Music for him is a form of seeking, unanswered questions, flow of ideas, unpredictable situations. Composition is improvisation. Improvisations offers him space to lose himself, to make mistakes, to come up with intriguing solutions. In music, challenges invite thinking and open up new possibilities.
https://www.sploh.si/en/about-sploh/team/tomaz-grom
Born in 1970, Elisabeth Harnik is a pianist, composer and curator. She studied classical music and later - with Beat Furrer – composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria.
Performs with internationally recognized representatives of the contemporary jazz and improvised music scene in Europe and abroad such as Frank Gratkowski, Thomas Lehn, Harri Sjöström, Jaap Blonk, Joëlle Léandre, Fay Victor, Steve Swell or Elliott Sharp. She has a long-standing musical friendship with the Chicago free scene, for example, she is a sought-after playing partner of Ken Vandermark, Michael Zerang or Dave Rempis. As an improviser she works within an electro-acoustic inspired sound world, using specific preparations and extended techniques while pushing the limitations of her instrument. Her improvisations draw from physicality and introspection, intuitive playing and high precision. Harnik´s unique approach to her instrument as well as to improvisation and composition has led to many festival invitations such as Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon (AT), Nickelsdorfer Konfrontationen (AT), Artacts (AT), Music Unlimited (AT), Taktlos (CH), A L'ARME! (DE), Moers (DE), Concepts of Doing (DE), Visitations (BE), Audio Art (HR), Krakow Jazz Autumn (PL), Ad Libitum (PL), All Ears Festival (NO), Umbrella Music (US), SoundOut (AU) or Jazz na Fábrica (BR).
Her compositions are performed regularly at concerts and festivals for new music and she received a great number of rewards, most recently she held the Austrian SKE Publicity Award 2017 and the Andrzej-Dobrowolski-Composition Prize 2022 of the Province of Styria.
http://elisabeth-harnik.at/
Born in 1977, Jonas Kocher is an accordionist, improviser and composer. He studied at the Bern University of the Arts and received decisive impulses from Georges Aperghis, Ruedi Häusermann and Eric Gaudibert. His multiple interests and strong interdisciplinary thinking have led him to work all over the world and in a wide variety of contexts. From musicians such as Michel Doneda, Axel Dörner, Jacques Demierre, Irena Tomažin, Joke Lanz, Gaudenz Badrutt, Hans Koch, Bertrand Denzler, Christof Kurzmann and Radu Malfatti are among his regular collaborators. Jonas Kocher has a keen interest in processes, the search for unstable situations and improvisation. He creates sound performances and musical theatre musical theatre pieces, composes for ensembles (Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Ensemble Aabat Bern, Studio 6 Belgrade, CH.AU Vevey ...) and gives concerts. He has been invited to present his work at festivals such as Météo Mulhouse (F), Music Unlimited Wels (A), Cerkno Jazz Festival (SLO), Sanatorium of Sound Sokołowsko (PL), Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf (A), Unerhört Festival Zürich (CH), Musik Festival Bern (CH), Umlaut Festival Berlin (DE) Goethe Institut Improv Festival Moscow (RU), Biennale Zagreb (HR), Irtijal Festival Beirut (LIB), Sonic Circuits Washington (USA), Art Biennale Thessaloniki (GR), Biennale Musica Venezia 2020 (IT) ...
He was awarded a 6-month residency at the Cité des Arts Paris by the canton of Bern in 2004, he received the Recognition Prize of the Music Commission of the Canton of Bern in 2010 and received composition grants from Pro Helvetia in 2012 and 2019. Winner of the Liechti Prize for the Arts 2020.
www.jonaskocher.net
Gaudenz Badrutt has been active in the field of electroacoustic music for about 20 years. was originally a pianist in the field of contemporary classical music. His main activity is now that of an electronic musician who improvises and composes with the help of computers (especially live sampling) and other electronic devices. His work includes the duo with Jonas Kocher (accordion), the duo Strøm, the duo Social Insects with Hans Koch (bass clarinet, clarinet, soprano saxophone), which often becomes the Koch Trio, Kocher & Badrutt with Jonas Kocher, and the Trio with Jean-Luc Guionnet and Frantz Loriot. He also collaborates with Alfred Zimmerlin, Ilia Belorukov, Kai Fagaschinski, Christof Kurzmann, Toshimaru Nakamura, Morishige Yasumune, etc. He has also been performing more and more as a soloist in recent years. Gaudenz Badrutt regularly gives concerts in Switzerland and abroad, especially abroad, notably at festivals such as RingRing Belgrade, Jauna Muzika Vilnius, Music Unlimited Wels, Le Bruit de la Musique Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx, Mozg Bydgoszcz, Outernational Bucharest, Sound around Kaliningrad, Sanatorium of Sound Sokolowsko, Zwei Tage Zeit Zürich, Transmediale Berlin, Irtijal Beirut, Airegin Yokohama, Taktlos/Tonart Bern. He also creates sound and video installations and the music education application Memoreille. Among the many recordings he has made, we should mention in particular the solo LP Ganglions (2019). Gaudenz Badrutt has been the recipient of several scholarships and awards including the Foundation (2020), the Liechti Prize for the Arts, the Werkbeitrag Musikvermittlung (Office of Culture of the Canton of Bern) for the digital game Memoreille (2010), a Visarte Graubünden grant for a stay at the Cité des Arts Paris (2009) as well as the working grants the canton of Graubünden (2002 and 2010).
Gaudenz Badrutt is also musicologist. He completed his PhD "Ferrari hören" on the electroacoustic music of the French composer Luc Ferrari in September 2020 with the mention Summa cum Laude.
www.gaudenzbadrutt.ch
Musicisti
ALFRED LANG, trumpet
Born in 1968, trumpeter, composer
Lives in Styria, Austria
Studied classical music and jazz at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz
Works in different groups and bands, playing rock´n´roll, balkan and gipsy music, jazz, free jazz, improvised and experimental music
He is one of the most versatile trumpeters and collaborates with such diverse artists as Otto Lechner, Klaus Trabitsch, Sandy Lopičić, Andy Manndorff, Dieter Glawischnig or Ewald Oberleitner
Compositions with aleatoric poetry, poem-to-music generators, radio-art, graphic scores
Works also as an it-specialist
JOSEF KLAMMER, drums and electronics
Born in 1958, drummer, media musician, curator
Worked initially as a photographer, studied drums at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz
Since the mid-1980s he has been continuously working on the sonic expansion of his instruments and on researching and transforming the music potential inherent in the media
Works with a wide variety of ensembles playing new improvised electronic and experimental music
He received many prizes and art residencies such as the Outstanding Artist Award (Austrian Ministry of Art and Science), the Electronic Award of the ELAK Vienna (with Klammer&Gruendler Duo), the Artist Residency at ZKM Karlsruhe or most recently the 2015 Award of Distiction / Prix Ars Electronica
Josef Klammer composes for theater, exhibitions, sound installations, radio, TV and movies in Austria and abroad
http://klammer.mur.at
ESTELLE BEINER, violin
Born in 1979, the violinist Estelle Beiner studied at the Conservatory of Neuchâtel. She plays in various orchestras and for the past ten years she has been a member of the ensemble Le Moment Baroque, playing on historical instruments. She is also a member of the Orchestre Le Grand Eustache in Lausanne.
Her untiring curiosity has led her for some time to the field of improvised music, contemporary music, jazz and pop. She regularly plays with musicians such as Lionel Friedli, Hans Koch, Jacques Demierre, Jonas Kocher, Gaudenz Badrutt, Marina Tantanozi, Erik Truffaz or Christophe Calpini.
She is currently playing with the septet of the jazz singer Sarah Buechi and with Christophe Calpini and strings. She had the chance to play in the legendary Joyful Noise Orchestra of Biel (2017 and 2022), an ensemble composed of Swiss musicians renowned on the improvised music scene.
She has performed in venues and festivals such as: Moods Zürich, Jazz Festival Willisau, Schaffhauser Jazz Festival, Les Folles Journées in Nantes and Tokyo, TheaterHaus Stuttgart, The International Music Festival of Algeria, Théâtre du Jorat in Mézières, The Cully Jazz Festival.
She teaches at the Ecole Jurassienne et Conservatoire de Musique (EJCM) in Delémont since 2015.
ILIA BELORUKOV, saxophone
Ilia Belorukov is a musician from Saint Petersburg, Russia. He works in the directions of improvised, noise and electroacoustic music. He’s widely collaborating with local and foreign musicians and performers. Ilia practices an experimental approach of sound extraction on alto saxophone, using modular synthesizer and other instruments. His works were released on labels such as Clean Feed, SOFA, Moving Furniture, Astral Spirits, Notice Recordings, Raw Tonk, Mikroton and many others. He is one of the founder of the label Intonema and was one of curators of the label Spina!Rec. He is organizer of events in Saint Petersburg and Russia and was co-organizer of the Teni Zvuka and Spina!Fest festivals. He writes reviews for Jazzist and notes about music as musicworm in Telegram channel.
https://belorukov.blogspot.com/
SAMO KUTIN, hurdy gurdy
Samo Kutin is an extremely active multi-instrumentalist, known for his use of unconventional and self-made musical instruments and sound-making objects. One of the traditional instruments in his repertoire is also the Hungarian medieval string instrument hurdy gurdy, which can be often seen in playing at the events of experimental and improvised music. In the field of free improvisation, he is intensively devoted to finding, discovering and manipulating the various potentialities of the hurdy gurdy. The extreme acoustic dimensions, from gentle noise to noisy drones, from soft blows to unbearable whimpers, he reaches through the preparation and amplification of the musical instrument, using both contact microphones and acoustic resonators.
IRENA Z. TOMAŽIN, voice
Irena Z. Tomažin is a dancer, choreographer, performer, vocalist, singer and improviser, strongly present on the local and international scene. As a musician she made her name with solo project iT, project for voice and Dictaphones, where she uses forms of songs, sound poetry, spoken word, theatre, text and performance. The project took her on the path of deconstruction of voice which she deepens as an improviser, solo artist or in various groups and collaborations, where she went further with exploration of sound and noise of the voice, textures and in-between spaces of voice, body and bodily mechanics. She performs solo or in collaborations with various musicians.
Production and international coordination
Since 2005 Špela Trošt is a production manager for Sploh institute (www.sploh.si), for art production and publishing and an artistic director for performing arts. Working for Sploh she co-created more than 50 projects: music series, festivals, performances, intermedia productions, music releases and workshops. The programme of Zavod Sploh in cooperation with several organizations from Slovenia, Europe and USA involved more than 170 musicians, performers and dancers from the world.
Since 2002 she is a production manager for a platform for research, development and production of contemporary performing arts Via Negativa (www.vntheatre.com).
From 2003 to 2009 she was a producer for searching project of acting art Studio za raziskavo umetnosti igre (workshops and performances). Between 2004 and 2005 she worked as a production manager on MASKA (www.maska.si), organization engaged in publishing, production of performances and education in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
https://www.sploh.si/en/about-sploh/team/spela-trost
