Tetrao Tetrix is the free improv meets sound art trio of three experienced and innovative sonic explorers – Swiss electroacoustic musician Gaudenz Badrutt, French alto sax player Jean-Luc Guionnet, and French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot. The three musicians first met at the Swiss, Biel/Bienne-based Joyful Noise encounters in December 2018, and immediately agreed on the distinct aesthetics of the trio, blending and interweaving different sonic sources, from Badrutt’s experimental electronics (he uses internal feedbacks, oscillators, and modular live-sampling) to Guionnet and Loriot’s acoustic, free improvised music.
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