Hans Koch / Gaudenz Badrutt Duo

The bass clarinet player Hans Koch and the electronic musician Gaudenz Badrutt have collaborated on various musical projects for years. In 2011 they founded a duo that combines bass clarinet and electronics. Hans Koch (bass clarinet, saxophone, electronics) is mainly known as a member of the Hardcore Chambermusic Trio Koch-Schütz-Studer, but also as a soloist as well as for his collaborations with Phil Minton, Fred Frith, Paul Lovens etc. As a bass clarinet player he has developed a very personal style. The electronic musician Gaudenz Badrutt is mainly known as one half of the electroacoustic duo strøm (together with Christian Müller, electronics and bass clarinet), as well as part of the duo Jonas Kocher (accordeon) - Gaudenz Badrutt. His music is coined by a very instrumental use of computer/live sampling and electronic devices. The music of the duo Hans Koch-Gaudenz Badrutt stems from sparse musical material; creating pieces that live on lightness, denseness, fragility and humour.

CD 'Social Insects' on flexionrecords, 2012

'…Koch/Badrutt don't play easy pieces of music, far from actually, and intense listening is required, but once you get deeper into this some true beauty unfolds. Strangely wonderful difficult music.' (Vital weekly)

http://www.gaudenzbadrutt.ch
http://www.koch-schuetz-studer.ch/Biographie.do?id=1

shayne bowden
http://www.deterra8.com
http://inshayneinthemembraneous.blogspot.com
https://soundcloud.com/deterra/shayne-bowden-5
Shayne Bowden is an Australian who has been residing in western Japan for close to 15 years. In that time he has curated and produced numerous tours, performances, exhibitions, discussions, screenings and festivals for local and international artists and musicians. Bowden also works as an experimental musician in a solo capacity and also in various local bands. His solo work has recently moved from a focus on field recordings to minimalist power electronics. In 2013 Bowden plans a series of projects in relation to his research on landscape theory in Japan and Australia and also its relation to sensation and cinema.
In 2003 Bowden began the organisation deterra which is the alias he uses for his curatorial, recording and performance projects.