Tepih réunit quatre musiciens autour d’une instrumentation originale : vielle à roue, électronique, contrebasse et accordéon. Ensemble, ils développent une approche électroacoustique singulière, à la croisée de l’expérimentation sonore, de paysages évocateurs et d’un folklore imaginaire.
Le projet est né de la collaboration entre l’association suisse Bruit et l’association slovène Zavod Sploh, deux acteurs engagés depuis de nombreuses années dans le soutien aux musiques expérimentales et à l’improvisation libre.
Avec Šablona, leur premier album sorti le mois dernier, Tepih propose un univers sonore fait de superpositions : objets détournés, pulsations instables, mélodies fragmentées et textures électroniques chatoyantes coexistent et se répondent sans chercher l’unisson, créant une forme musicale organique et mouvante.
Les membres de Tepih sont actifs sur la scène internationale depuis de nombreuses années.
Gaudenz Badrutt et Jonas Kocher sont reconnus pour leurs performances électroacoustiques intenses et précises, et pour leurs collaborations avec des artistes tels que Hans Koch, Christof Kurzmann ou Kai Fagaschinski.
Tomaz Grom et Samo Kutin occupent une place centrale dans la scène slovène, multipliant les projets innovants aux côtés d’Axel Dörner, Irena Z. Tomazin, Lee Patterson, Jean-Luc Guionnet et bien d’autres. Tous quatre sont également membres du Šalter Ensemble, formation internationale active depuis 2017.
>> Artist’s Biographies
Gaudenz Badrutt is an electroacoustic musician working in the field of improvised and composed music. He studied classical piano. His electroacoustic music is characterized by an instrumental use of computer/live sampling and electronic devices. He also works in the fields of sound and video installation and musicology.
Gaudenz Badrutt is known as a solo performer, for his collaborations with Jonas Kocher (accordion) and Hans Koch (bass clarinet, clarinet, soprano saxophone), as well as one half of the electroacoustic duo Strøm. He is currently working on projects with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Frantz Loriot, Jacques Demierre, Francesca Naibo, Christof Kurzmann, Kai Fagaschinski, Ilia Belorukov, Urs Leimgruber, Alfred Zimmerlin and Daniel Studer. He has performed at the Festivals Zwei Tage Strom Zürich, Jauna Musika Vilnius, RingRing Belgrade, Music Unlimited Wels, Le Bruit de la Musique Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx France, Sanatorium of Sound Poland, Irtijal Beirut, Zwei Tage Zeit Zürich, Transmediale Berlin, Taktlos/Tonart Bern etc.
For his duo Strøm he was honoured with the Kulturpreis of the city of Biel/Bienne 2021. As performer and composer, he has received various other prizes and scholarships, including the Liechti Prize for the Arts 2017 and the London Studio Scholarship from the Landis & Gyr Foundation (2021 and 2022-23).
https://bruit-asso.org/gaudenz-badrutt/
Tomaž Grom is a Slovenian double bass player and one of the key figures in the remarkable Ljubljana music scene. He has also worked with some of the biggest names in free jazz music, such as Sonny Simmon, and more mysteriously fascinating figures like M-base drummer Doug Hammond. A recent frequent collaboration has been a duo with former Fushitsusha drummer Seijiro Murayama and trumpeter Axel Dörner. He regularly collaborates with Irena Z. Tomažin, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Zlatko Kaučic. Founder and artistic director of Zavod Sploh, an association dedicated to the production of music and performing arts, as well as to education and publication in this field. For him, music is a form of research, of unanswered questions, of the flow of ideas, of unpredictable situations. Improvisation offers him a space to lose himself, to make mistakes, to find original and intriguing solutions.
https://www.sploh.si/en/about-sploh/artists/tomaz-grom
Jonas Kocher (*1977) is a composer and accordionist with a strong focus on process-oriented works and improvisation. He performs in various ensembles, including a duo with Joke Lanz, a trio with Axel Dörner and Jacques Demierre, a duo with Gaudenz Badrutt, and a trio with Hans Koch and Frantz Loriot, as well as with the Šalter Ensemble. Over the years, Kocher has collaborated with artists such as Radu Malfatti, Irena Z. Tomažin, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Ilia Belorukov, Eiko Yamada, Christof Kurzmann, Michel Doneda, Kai Fagaschinski, Klaus Filip, Chiyoko Szlavnic, Joris Ruhl Xavier Charles and many others.
As a composer, Kocher’s works blur the lines between composed theatre, installations, and concert pieces. His performances as both an accordionist and composer have been featured at prominent festivals, including Festival Météo Mulhouse (2013, 2014), Le Bruit de la Musique (2018), Music Unlimited Wels (2019), Ring Ring Festival Belgrade (2019, 2023, 2024), Cerkno Jazz Festival (2012, 2017, 2023), Sanatorium of Sound Sokołowsko (2016), Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf (2019), Unerhört Festival Zürich (2018), Musik Festival Bern (2017, 2018, 2022), Umlaut Festival Berlin (2012), Festival Sound Around Kaliningrad (2018), Goethe Institut Improv Festival Moscow (2017), Biennale Zagreb, Irtijal Festival Beirut (2015), Izlog Festival Zagreb (2016), Sonic Circuits Washington (2013), Art Biennale Thessaloniki (2015), Biennale Venice (2020), SMC Lausanne (2012, 2021) and Québec Musiques Parallèles (2023), among others.
Kocher has been the recipient of several awards, including the Artist in Residence Scholarship at the Cité des Arts Paris from the Canton of Bern in 2004, the Canton of Bern recognition prize in 2010, and composition grants from the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia in 2012 and 2019. In 2020, he was awarded by the Liechti Prize for the Arts.
https://bruit-asso.org/jonas-kocher/
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 he 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.
He performs as a soloist and in a variety of improvised combinations (among others, duo with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Lee Paterson, Boris Baltschun, Daichi Yoshikawo etc.) and ethnic ensembles at international festivals and various stages. He also creates music for fairy tales, animations, theatre, puppet and dance performances and regularly runs workshops for children.
https://www.sploh.si/en/about-sploh/artists/samo-kutin
https://bruit-asso.bandcamp.com/album/ablona
Ce concert est co-réalisé avec le Périscope (Lyon) et soutenu par le projet européen (Better live)
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