The concert will take place on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at 8 PM, featuring the trio Badrutt – Guionnet – Loriot, composed of electronics artist Gaudenz Badrutt (CH), saxophonist Jean-Luc Guionnet (FR), and violist Frantz Loriot (JP/FR). Their performance will be followed by a solo set by guitarist Eric Arn (Primordial Undermind) (US), and the evening will conclude with a joint improv session featuring musicians from Zagreb’s improvisation scene.
Tickets can be purchased via Entrio or at the entrance.
Badrutt, Guionnet, and Loriot first met at Joyful Noise in Biel/Bienne in December 2018. They quickly found a mutual understanding, particularly in terms of sound, shaping a distinctive trio aesthetic that blends different musical expressions. Their collaboration continued with a creative residency at Instants Chavirés in Montreuil, France (February 2020), a legendary venue for avant-garde and experimental music. The trio has developed its sonic and musical identity through persistent improvisational practice, integrating structured concepts and arranging three historically significant instruments to explore uncharted sonic territories. After a pandemic-induced break, the trio reunited in the fall of 2022.
Gaudenz Badrutt (Electronics)
Gaudenz Badrutt began his career as a contemporary classical pianist but has spent over 15 years as an electronic and experimental musician. He is widely known for his duos with accordionist Jonas Kocher, clarinetist Hans Koch, and as a member of the electroacoustic duo Strøm alongside electronic artist Christian Müller. In addition to performing and composing electronic music, he creates numerous sound and video installations. Currently, he is working on projects with Ilia Belorukov, Christof Kurzmann, Kai Fagaschinski, Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre, Alfred Zimmerlin, Daniel Studer, and others. He is based in Biel/Bienne (Switzerland) and performs regularly both nationally and internationally.
Jean-Luc Guionnet (Saxophone, Piano, Organ)
Jean-Luc Guionnet is active in free jazz and improvised music but also works as a visual artist and electroacoustic composer. He studied visual arts and electroacoustic music with Christine Groult, Michel Zbar, and Iannis Xenakis, later collaborating with artists such as Eric La Casa, Eric Cordier, Pascal Battus, Edward Perraud, Frédéric Blondy, Sophie Agnel, André Almuro, Olivier Benoit, and bands like Schams, Synapses, Calx, Phéromones, and Hubbub.
Frantz Loriot (Viola)
Besides his solo career, French-Japanese violist Frantz Loriot is highly active in numerous international improvisation ensembles. He frequently participates in interdisciplinary projects involving dance, theater, video, and poetry. By exploring his instrument, Loriot produces the most subtle and unexpected sounds, not just from the viola itself but also from objects he manipulates. He has developed a unique, textured sonic language, which he expresses through improvised, experimental, and electronic music, continuously pushing its boundaries into uncharted horizons. Loriot regularly performs across Europe, the USA, South America, Japan, and the Middle East, and after living in Paris and New York, he is now based in Zürich.
Eric Arn (Guitar – Primordial Undermind)
This week's Impronedjeljak will also feature a solo performance by Eric Arn (US), guitarist of the cult avant-rock band Primordial Undermind. Active for nearly four decades, his band creates music that spans a wide poetic range: from intense, distorted psychedelia to free improvisation and abstract, voluminous drones. Since moving from Austin, Texas, to Vienna in 2005, Arn has performed solo and collaborated with Cam Deas, Stefan Kushima (Cruise Family), Bernadette Zeilinger, Outer Vertex, Vienna Improvisers Orchestra, and NENUVI Orchestra of Marco Eneidi.
His debut solo album, Points of Fissure, was released on Feathered Coyote Records (2013), and he has also released a live recording with Kushima and Wouter Jaspers (Templates – KSV label by Tom Smith) and a live session with Tom Greenwood (JOMF) and Stefan Kushima as Free Radical Theories (U-sound tag album).
Eric Arn is clearly becoming something of a guitar virtuoso. – Michael Wehunt, Foxy Digitalis
Eric Arn has decided to explore the more avant-garde side of his musical mind. Arn… evokes memories of the current crop of acoustic guitar impresarios, Steffan Basho-Junghans and Harris Newman – Jeff Penczak, Foxy Digitalis
Eric moves through vast style fields with absolute surety. He can generate massive drone-throbs that would make even that old crank Fahey smile. He can play with sound sheets in a way that moves even deeper into experimental realms. He can play acoustic fantasia sprawls that would have made Fahey swear... One of our fave guitar wranglers. Somewhere between Renbourn & Chadbourne. – Byron Coley
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