It’s about affinity and it’s a trio. A trio made up of two altos of two different species, to the nearest half-tone. One is made of strings, wood, and horsehair, the other is made of metal, reed, leather, and plastic. The third point of the triangle is mainly made of electrons and membranes. It’s a matter of infinity, but there are three of us. Elective affinities & electrical affinities. What to say about an upcoming music? It is improbable. Attention to the details: extreme. Tension at all. On purpose, without design. Rubbing, blowing and membranes, alone in the center of the cauldron. All with silence probably. And at least once, the maximum without prior prohibition. Probably, at least. There’s noise, too.
There will be…and in a triangle.
The trio Tetrao Tetrix with Gaudenz Badrutt (electronics), Jean-Luc Guionnet (alto saxophone) and Frantz Loriot (viola) met for the first time at the Biel/Bienne-based “Joyful Noise” encounters in December 2018. Very quickly, the three agreed on a formal and sonic understanding, giving the trio a distinctive sound, combining and interweaving different sonic aesthetics, from electroacoustic to acoustic improvised music. The musicians continued their musical journey in 2019 and met again in February 2020 for a residency at Instants Chavirés in Montreuil (France). The trio has developed and asserted its sonic and musical identity through a persistent practice of improvisation linked to the question of form, while integrating concepts that guide improvisation and arranging the three historically marked instruments to create unexplored sound fields.