Šalter Ensemble is an international electroacoustic ensemble initiated in 2017 by Jonas Kocher in collaboration with Zavod Sploh Ljubljana and Izlog Festival Zagreb. It is composed of personalities from the Swiss and Slovenian music scene and from other countries depending on the editions.
The particularity of the project lies in the fact that the musicians composing the ensemble come from different practices such as free improvisation, jazz, traditional or classical music. The preparation time before a new creation serves as much to work on new compositions by the members of the ensemble as to redefine each time the sound identity of the group through an intense collective process based on listening. This way of doing things gives Šalter the means to create on the border between free improvisation and composition, with renewed sound and human possibilities in each creation.
Gaudenz Badrutt, electronics, Estelle Beiner, violin, Ilia Belorukov, saxophone, Tomaž Grom, double bass, electronics, Elisabeth Harnik, piano, prepared piano, Josef Klammer, drums, electronics, Jonas Kocher, accordion, Samo Kutin, hurdy gurdy, Alfred Lang, trumpet, Irena Z. Tomažin, voice
New works for ensemble from Jonas Kocher & Gaudenz Badrutt, Elisabeth Harnik and Tomaž Grom.
Artistic direction by Kocher & Badrutt, Harnik, Grom
