The first concert encounter between French experimental vocalist Isabelle Duthoit and the Sinkauz brothers took place in 2024 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, in the Gorgona Hall, with the audiovisual concert “Refractions”, inspired by Mallarmé’s avant-garde poem “A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance”, in collaboration with Vladislav Knežević.
The day before, they recorded the album “Circuit Breath”, released on vinyl by Kopaton Records. Fragments of the same album, re-edited by sound engineer Marijana Begović, were transformed into the experimental radiophonic work "Mallarmè sonore", which won this year’s prestigious EBU Palma Ars Acustica Award.
The “Circuit Breath” album promotion concert announces a new musical adventure of the three artists, where improvisation, electronics, and voice merge into a unique sonic organism.
Presale tickets are available at the price of €6.00 via Entrio system, while tickets at the entrance will be €10.00. Entrance is free for persons with disabilities, those over 65, and children under 16 years old.
Alen Sinkauz (HR) and Nenad Sinkauz (HR)
Alen Sinkauz and Nenad Sinkauz, composers, musicians and performers. They have been active on music scene since the mid-1990s. They graduated in musicology and ethnomusicology in Padua. They compose and design sound for feature and short films, music-stage, dance and theatre productions, as well as radiophonic, site-specific and multidisciplinary performances. In their compositional and performance work, they are interested in the dialogue between acoustic and electronic instruments, the hybridity of combining musical and theatrical principles in performance, and improvisation as a research tool for developing new performance formats. They collaborate with leading film and theatre directors, as well as visual and video artists in Croatia and abroad. They are recipients of five Golden Arena awards and a prize at the Croatian Film Days for original film music. They are founders of the band East Rodeo, with whom they have released three albums ("Kolo", "Dear Violence" and "Morning Cluster"), and of the audiovisual project Day of the Year, with which they released "309th Day of the Year – Live at Kino SC". They are co-founders of the impro big band CRI Orchestra, which brings together around twenty musicians from Croatia, and of the experimental trio Roj Osa, with whom they released the album "Azbestni krovovi" for Kopaton Records. They have performed at festivals, in clubs and galleries in the USA, Japan, across Europe and in Argentina. In 2010, they launched the international festival of experimental and improvised music Audioart in Pula.
Isabelle Duthoit (FR)
Isabelle Duthoit completed her clarinet studies at the CNSM in Lyon in Jacques Di Donato's class. She soon turned her attention to contemporary music, working with a number of composers. She then found her preferred medium in free improvisation. She has performed and collaborated with many artists on the international experimental scene, including Dieb13, Angelica Castello, Martin Tetreault, Franz Hautzinger, Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang, Naoto Yamagishi, Phil Minton, Luc Ex , Thomas Lehn, Lê Quan Ninh, Jacques Di Donato, Xavier Charles, Sophie Agnel and EriKm. She is a member of Hiatus, Système Friche, Where is the sun, Uruk and has performed at numerous festivals in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Russia, Europe and Japan. She has always been interested in the voice, and for nearly 20 years has been developing a unique and personal vocal technique - a language before language, a song rooted as much in the breath as in the cry.
