02 Apr 2026 ・ 20:00 ・ Club Wakuum

Tetrao Tetrix – Badrutt Guionnet Loriot

It’s about affinity and it’s a trio. A trio made up of two altos of two different species, to the nearest half-tone. One is made of strings, wood, and horsehair, the other is made of metal, reed, leather, and plastic. The third point of the triangle is mainly made of electrons and membranes. It’s a matter of infinity, but there are three of us. Elective affinities & electrical affinities. What to say about an upcoming music? It is improbable. Attention to the details: extreme. Tension at all. On purpose, without design. Rubbing, blowing and membranes, alone in the center of the cauldron. All with silence probably. And at least once, the maximum without prior prohibition. Probably, at least. There’s noise, too.
There will be…and in a triangle.

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Tetrao Tetrix with
Gaudenz Badrutt – electronics (Switzerland)
Jean-Luc Guionnet – alto saxophone (France)
Frantz Loriot – viola (France/Switzerland)

Gaudenz Badrutt (electronics & computer) began his career as a pianist in the field of contemporary classic music. Since more than 15 years he works as an electronic musician in the field of improvised, experimental music. He is mainly known as part of the duo Jonas Kocher (accordion) – Gaudenz Badrutt and the duo with Hans Koch (bass clarinet), as well as one half of the electroacoustic duo Strøm. Badrutt’s music is coined by a very instrumental use of computer/live sampling and electronic devices. He is further occupied in the fields of electronic composition and sound & video installation. Gaudenz Badrutt works on current projects with Ilia Belorukov, Christof Kurzmann, Kai Fagaschinski, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Frantz Loriot, Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre, Alfred Zimmerlin and Daniel Studer and has further collaborated with Andy Guhl, Strotter Inst., Norbert Möslang, Bryan Eubanks, Stefan Thut, FM Einheit, Alexandre Babel et al. Concerts at home and abroad, including at the Festivals RingRing Belgrade 2019, Music Unlimited Wels (At) 2018, Le Bruit de la Musique Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx (F) 2018, Sound Around Kaliningrad 2017, Sanatorium of Sound Poland 2016, Spinafest St.Petersburg 2016, Irtijal Beirut 2015, SwissMusicDays Belgrade 2013, Zwei Tage Zeit Zürich 2012, Transmediale Berlin 2009, Zoom in Bern 2008, Taktlos/Tonart Bern 2006.
Gaudenz Badrutt lives as a freelance musician in Biel/Bienne (Switzerland).
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Born in Lyon in 1966, Jean-Luc Guionnet is a French alto saxophonist and organist of improvised music and free jazz, as well as a visual artist, performer and composer of electro-acoustic music. Jean-Luc Guionnet studied visual arts and electroacoustic music with Christine Groult, Michel Zbar and Iannis Xénakis. A multi-instrumentalist (alto & soprano saxophone, organ, piano), he has improvised and experimented in the field of electroacoustic music with Eric La Casa, Eric Cordier, Pascal Battus, Edward Perraud, Frédéric Blondy, Sophie Agnel, André Almuro, Olivier Benoit, and the groups Schams, Synapses, Calx, Phéromones and Hubbub. Passing from a very physical approach to playing and breathing, to a work on the spatialization of sound, through complex sound devices.
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French-Japanese violist and improvisor, Frantz Loriot (*1980) performs solo and is active in a number of international ensembles, working mainly through improvised music practices. He often contributes to interdisciplinary projects related to dance, theatre, image and poetry.
As performer, Loriot is interested in pushing his viola to the extreme. He explores its most subtle and unexpected sounds. Loriot has developed a textured and tensed sonic language through his interest to experimental, electronics music and his objects manipulating experiences. He constantly tries to push himself and his music towards ever wider horizons. Loriot performs regularly around the globe (Europe, USA, South America, Japan & Middle East) and has been invited as artist in residence by different festivals, venues and ensembles. Loriot is involved in organizations of musical events since the mid 2000s and is today one of the curators of the Zurich based improvised music festival Zwei Tage Zeit.
After having lived in Paris and New York City, Frantz Loriot relocated in Zürich (Switzerland).
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