🌀 Volcano Trio - Gross/Hanousek/Marciniak
The Austrian–Czech–Polish trio was formed in Vienna. Gross (drums), Hanousek (alto saxophone) and Marciniak (electric guitar) use preparations and alternative articulation techniques in their playing. While remaining rooted in the tradition of European free improvisation, free jazz and contemporary composed music, each of them brings a distinct sound shaped by their place of origin.
｡𖦹 Emil Gross
Alias “El Milio the Stick” is an Austrian drummer working at the intersection of experimental music, rock, jazz, blues, free improvisation, rocksteady, and world music. He is involved in numerous projects and is currently based in Vienna, where he also works as a stage manager for the RSO and as a studio musician. Renowned as a powerful live performer, in recent years he has toured across Europe, the USA, and Morocco with musicians such as Joe Fonda, Oliver Lake, Paul Rogers, Mike Kindred, Abdeljalil Kodssi, Michael Jeffry Stevens, Richard Palmer James, and Anupriya Deotale.
｡𖦹 Radim Hanousek
Radim Hanousek is a Czech saxophonist who, as both performer and composer, focuses on various forms of improvisation, intermediality, and projects situated between jazz and contemporary classical music. He is a co-founder of the Norwegian–Czech jazz quartet NOCZ and the Prague Music Performance Orchestra, which focuses on the music of Anthony Braxton. Since 2013, Hanousek has led his own project Dust in the Groove, combining jazz, contemporary, and improvised music. He collaborates with musicians from around the world and is the dramaturg of the international festival FAUN – Explorations in Sound.
｡𖦹 Łukasz Marciniak
Guitarist, composer, and improviser. He is active in the band Trio_io, which focuses on contemporary chamber music. He is a member of the band El Topo, which explores the complexity of string instruments and the possibilities of percussion instruments and cymbals; a co-founder of Perforto—a duo of prepared piano and electric guitar—and of the trio Attack of the Mugatu (guitar, cello, and double bass). He is also a composer of music for film and performing arts. In his solo work and free improvisation concerts, he develops his own language of articulation. His collaborators include, among others, Mia Zabelka, Edith Steyer, Wojciech Brzoska, Marcello Busato, Johannes Nästesjö, Jaap Blonk, and Wilend Müller.
🌀 Marek Krajňák & Ondrey Zintaer
Marek Krajňák and Ondrey Zintaer will present a free-form composition focused on both guided and open improvisation. Working with a broad spectrum of aesthetics, the two musicians combine acoustic instruments with live electronics. The performance is rooted in a sensitive approach to sound and makes use of site-specific elements such as the acoustics and spatial layout of the venue.
｡𖦹 Marek Krajňák
Marek is primarily active as a composer in the field of experimental music. He is currently also a student of electroacoustic composition at JAMU. Beyond composing, he has long been active as a performer, focusing on experimental, electroacoustic, instrumental, and improvised music. In his work and performances, he often bridges the worlds of electronic and instrumental music, combining electronic and acoustic approaches to sound itself. He enjoys experimenting with various formats of the creative process and exploring different aesthetics. Overall, he focuses on inventive ways of working and, above all, on discovering and exploring the many possibilities of artistic perception. He sees composition and live performance as forms of expression, communication, and the connection of diverse worlds and narratives. Through his work, he aims to surprise, first and foremost, himself.
｡𖦹 Ondrey Zintaer
Ondrey Zintaer is a Slovak experimental musician and former music journalist. His work moves between drone, noise, field recordings, and free improvisation, combining electronic textures with wind instruments and occasional recitations of his own poetry. Recently, he has also been composing purely acoustic pieces. He has collaborated with groups such as Ničiteľ, Krajné Čierno, Otloukánek, with Japanese drummer Ryosuke Kiyasu, and the Italian–Slovak ZTB Trio. He is a member of the Bratislava Improvisation Orchestra and performed alongside Marek Krajňák in the ensemble Exiters. He completed a German–Dutch tour with the European Music Collective. Originally a music journalist and creator of the fanzine ZINTAER, he has turned to active music-making, often producing work that is deeply emotive and reflects feelings of despair and emptiness, as exemplified on the albums Anthroportrait and Spánok. At Christmas, he released his new album Sny.