electroacoustic post jazz
INFLUUT (Nat Cilia – saxophone & voice, Daniel Maszkowicz – electronics & synthesis) is a duo from Switzerland playing electroacoustic jazz. The essence of their music takes origin in two opposite yet complementary approaches meet to explore instrumental harmonies and algorithmic synthesis. INFLUUT’s approach to composition leaves room for improvisation and electronically randomized sound events for building up a musical narrative that follows organic flows with a technological component.
Sometimes, the Robert Turner Collective from Switzerland provides the visual backdrop to INFLUUT’s sonic landscapes, creating a unified and immersive experience of post-jazz sound and algorithmically manipulated images.
INFLUUT’s creative work is initiated by a perpetual questioning about the world that comes after. What happens after apocalypse, war, pandemic or mass extinction? Machine encounters Nature in a strong yet subtle entanglement, achieving the renewal of natural fauna with electric bugs and mechanical automatons. A new cycle commence, like a vivid blow expanding the universe of possibilities. The duo invites for the unexpected, a voyage to be enjoyed by astral projection or on a flying carpet, experiencing various emotional states from still streams to explosive storms. Best serving live with quadriphonic surround soundsystem so the music can propagate in space for a truly immersive experience.
With a reputation that is slowly building up in Europe and Asia, INFLUUT pursues an innovative work.Their source of inspiration is mainly driven, among others, by Bohren und der Klub of Gore, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and John Butcher.
Their first ever composed piece ostĭum is constructed as an organic movement in five parts. It lets room to improvisation and electronically randomized sound events for building up a music narrative that follows cycles that may be found in nature. The final part is the calm after the storm. The relaxing melodies bring a soft and self-healing hypnosis putting the confused souls down to sleep. As dusk becomes night, the insects wake again and crawl down around the floor and the trees. This piece has been composed for The International Symposium on Spatial Sound Art in Seoul in 2019 and has been presented on a 24 channels sound system as a world premiere for INFLUUT.
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SHOWS
- January 31st 2023 Misterioso Jazz Club, Institute of Incoherent Cinematography, Zürich CH
INFLUUT plays Walter Ruttmann’s OPUS I-IV, event - June 2nd-25th 2022 Renaissance, Le Commun, Geneva CH
INFLUUT presents audiovisual multichannel installations Tāne’s Garden, Renaissance, 12-Tones’ Amanacer and NFT collections 12-Tones and 132-biTones, Amanacer video, Renaissance video - March 11th 2022 RöstiBrücke 2022 – Electroacoustic Cabaret, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich CH
INFLUUT plays for translinguistic national exchange RöstiBrücke, INFLUUT on Roestibruecke - December 2021 – INFLUUT chandelier Polska Tour 2021
Electroacoustic Post Jazz duo INFLUUT on Tour in Poland in two versions: INFLUUT live stereo and INFLUUT multichannel set with 16 channel immersive soundsystem based on small speakers - → December 4th, Kolonia Artystów, Gdańsk PL
INFLUUT multichannel with visuals by Robert Turner Collective - → March 7th, U n i c o r n Klub Chmury, Warszawa PL
- → March 8th, 19 Rzek, Łódź PL
- → March 9th, Klub Mózg, Bydgoszcz PL
- → March 10th, FORMA / FORMA – CK Zamek, Poznań PL
Video stream from iconic place, stream - November 28th 2021 Daniel Maszkowicz & Nat Cilia @ Shiny Toys Festival, ringlokschuppen, Mülheim an der Ruhr DE
live show on multichannel installation featuring 20 channels soundsystem setup - November 14th 2021 ONO, Bern CH
live performance show case, event - July 27th 2021 Hors Normes Festival, Le Pont CH
live performance in quadriphony - June 24th 2021 SHIMMERING Festival, Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva CH
live performance - June 19th 2021 Fête de la Musique, Le Zoo – L’Usine, Geneva CH
live performance with algorithmic visual effects - May 27th-30th 2021 Ambiance Sonores, MAH – Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva CH
live performance on 16-channel sound installation April 2021 – INFLUUT ASIA TOUR 2021
post-jazz explosion and chandelier album release tour in Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Macau, Seoul
CANCELLED due to COVID-19, replaced by three ONLINE Events- → Live stream from Soup, Tokyo (JP) – 10th April 2021
- → Make Music Hong Kong! (HK) – 12th June 2021
- → Guia Fest! Macau (MO) – 20th June 2021
- March 24th 2021, chandelier release – Live Radio Cave 12, Geneva CH
live radio performance - December 30th 2020 – ONLINE – INFLUUT with Robert Turner Collective, Kolonia Artystów, Gdańsk PL
live performance with algorithmic visual effects, stream - July 13th 2020 – Secret Venue, Geneva CH
live performance - June 20th 2020 – Fête de la Musique – Pirate Party Secret Place, Genève CH
open air show introducing new composition Elevator Song April 4th 2020 – CANCELLED Hors Normes Festival, Le Pont CH
live performance in quadriphony- March 2020 – INFLUUT ostĭum release ASIA TOUR 2020
post-jazz explosion and album release tour inMacau,Hong Kong, Taipei, Hsinchu, Tainan, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Omiya, Yokohama, Tokyo andSapporo(cancellations due to Covid-19 outbreak) - →
March 1st, Guia Experimental, Live Music Association, Macau MO
replaced by double Live Stream Show Connecting Geneva and Macau INFLUUT, FASLANE - →
March 6th, Twenty Alpha, Honk Kong HK - → March 7th, Lacking Sound Fest, Taipei TW
- → March 8th, Jiang Shan Yi Gai Suo, Hsinchu TW
- → March 11th, 182 Art Space, Tainan TW
- → March 12th, Socrates, Kyoto JP
- → March 15th, environment 0g [zero-gauge], Osaka JP
- → March 17th, Public Bar Rootz, Hiroshima JP
- → March 18th, Spazio Rita, Nagoya JP stream
- → March 19th, Hisomine, Omiya JP
- → March 22nd, El Puente, Yokohama JP
- → March 24th, Pollinate 5, Kagurane, Tokyo JP
Audiovisual collaboration with Fuyama Yousuke, video - →
March 26th, Sound Crue, Sapporo JP - February 22nd 2020 – ostĭum release party, Urgence Disk, l’Usine, Geneva CH
Release show of INFLUUT’s first album ostĭum - February 16th 2020 – ostĭum pre-release party, Sinestesia, Barcelona ES
Release show of INFLUUT’s first album, event - December 19th 2019 – INFLUUT plays the Sonic Tree – Forde – l’Usine, Geneva CH
live performance with spatialization on the Sonic Tree – 16 channels sound installation by Daniel Maszkowicz, event - December 14th 2019 – Unko Demonia – l’Écurie, Geneva CH
with 2M2 (Mei Zhiyong, Maxime Hänsenberger), crève chien, dj’s Chaotic Behaviors & Nure Onna - December 10th 2019 – 2M2/INFLUUT/ADRIEN HIRSBRUNNER – Bad Bonn, Duedingen CH
From China to Switzerland. Electroacoustic & Experimental Noise Jazz, event - November 17th 2019 – The Kyiv International Biennial 2019 – Black Cloud, VCRC (Visual Culture Research Center), Kiev UA
Live showcase of original piece Black Cloud, seminar and workshop on Data sonification with SuperCollider by Daniel Maszkowicz, event - September 6th-8th 2019 – INFLUUT WORLD PREMIERE, International Symposium on Spatial Sound Arts, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul KR
Live presentation of debut piece ostĭum with spatialization on a 24 channels soundsystem, seminar on Data sonification with SuperCollider by Daniel Maszkowicz, video extract - September 1st 2019 – Spoutnik Open Air, l’Usine, Geneva CH
Public open-air reharseal before Seoul premiere
BIOGRAPHY
Nat Cilia (Nathalie Cecilia Pierrehumbert) brings the breath with her saxophone and contact microphones. She combines complex rhythmic patterns with subtle melodic phrases ranging from slow doom jazz to free and spontaneous composition. With loops, delays and spatial effects, the pure saxophone voice is combined together with surrounding screeches and howlings.
Nat Cilia is a Swiss/Spanish multidisciplinary graduated professional artist. She participated as an actress, dancer, composer, and musician (piano, saxophone, voice) to various shows, mainly in Switzerland, France and Spain, notably under the direction of Jean-Pierre Raffaelli, Roland Olbeter, Esterina Zarrillo and company La Fura dels Baus. She founded Ooops! Company, international company for corporal and visual theatre production alongside artist Kristina Orlovic with whom she created several productions (Libre & Orphic). She works now on her multidisciplinary creation with her own company INTUITIO.
Daniel Maszkowicz (Daniel Siemaszko) works with SuperCollider, bringing together digital generators and synthesizers for multi-channel soundscapes. He merges brainwave frequencies with binaural effects, and low frequency beats with psychoacoustic synthesis, creating intense yet introspective atmospheres stimulating some auditory sensory meridian response.
Daniel Maszkowicz is a power electronics engineer, music composer, cinema curator, film producer, and performer from Geneva, Switzerland. He is co-founder of electroacoustic duo Biblioteq Mdulair, co-founder and producer of performance collective SM Noise, founder of SZKMD production for cinema sound design and experimental music. His solo project Kosmoscore (a.k.a Générateurs, Cosmos, Cosmic Sleep) takes several forms, from short and intense live concerts to long hypnotic marathon sleep performances. He is tutoring about SuperCollider and Data Sonification through internationally recognized seminars and workshop, and presented several algorithmic sound installations.