Samo Kutin & Pascal Battus – Living Bridges (Slo/Fra)

Samo Kutin: hurdy-gurdies, objects, acoustic resonators 
Pascal Battus: rotating surface, objects, cymbals 

Samo Kutin is an active multi-instrumentalist, known for his use of unconventional and self-made musical instruments and sound-making objects. One of the traditional instruments in his repertoire is also the Hungarian medieval string instrument hurdy-gurdy, which he can be often seen playing at the events of experimental and improvised music. In the field of free improvisation, he is intensively devoted to finding, discovering, and manipulating the various potentialities of the hurdy-gurdy. The extreme acoustic dimensions, from gentle noise to noisy drones, from soft blows to unbearable whimpers, he reaches through the preparation and amplification of the musical instrument, using both contact microphones and acoustic resonators.

He performs as a soloist and in a variety of improvised combinations (among others, a duo with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Lee Paterson, Martin Küchen, etc.) and ethnic ensembles at international festivals and various stages. He also creates music for fairy tales, animations, theater, puppet, and dance performances and runs workshops for children.

Sound artist, improviser, and composer, Pascal Battus have developed a practice that is more concerned with sonic gestures, listening, and the situation which determines them rather than with any particular instrument. Among other sound sources, he uses guitar pick-ups and rotating surfaces.  He has played throughout Europe and in the USA, Canada, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia… both solo and more frequently with other musicians. He often works with dancers and with performers from the plastic arts (video, lighting, sculpture…) and was co-inventor of Sonic Massages (les Massages Sonores).

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