" is a musician, artist and writer. He was born 1960 in New York and grew up in Los Angeles. He re-located to Europe in 1990 and is currently based in Zürich.

As an electronic musician, vocalist and drummer Kahn collaborates regularly with many musicians, both in improvised settings and in the context of graphical scores which he composes for specific groups.

Kahn has exhibited his installations in museums, galleries, art spaces and public sites internationally. These works focus on the idea of space: the conceptual and physical juncture points, its production and dissolution, and our relation to it as a political, social and environmental medium.

Kahn's other activities include sound pieces for radio, film, dance and theater. He has also designed numerous CD, LP and cassette covers. As a writer, his work has appeared in books, magazines and as liner notes to many audio publications.

Performing regularly around the world, Kahn has given concerts throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia, China, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey and South Africa.

In 2011 Kahn started the Editions imprint to publish his own recordings and writings."

"Vincent Millioud - violin

MUSICAL ORIENTATIONS

Classical Music, Jazz, Folk Music. Each music form influences another. The sound of classical music, the pulsation of jazz and the folk music's freedom.

STUDIES

Born in Switzerland in 1983, Vincent MILLIOUD starts to play the violin at the age of six. He receives a classical music education at the Conservatory of Neuchâtel (CH) and gets attracted by improvisation and Jazz. In 2011 he obtains a "Master of Performance in Improvised Music" and a "Minor in Classical Music" at the Bern's University for the Arts (CH).

Vincent MILLIOUD plays in Switzerland, Russia, Palestine, Holland, Israel, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Egypt, Libanon, Greece, Finland, Sweden, Scotland, Portugal, USA, ..."

"Bo Wiget: born in Wattwil, Switzerland in 1971 and studied classical cello in Austria at the Feldkirch Academy. Cello, composition, performance

Bo Wiget is a musical frontier worker. After classical cello training, he began to be interested in rock, jazz and, above all, improvised music in 1989 and became self-taught with composition. At the same time, his interest in stage art increases. He composes numerous radio drama music and receives composition and editing assignments for various ensembles (Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, Staats- und Domchor Berlin, Lautten Compagney, Argovia Philharmonic and others). Bo Wiget works as a theater musician at the Neumarkt Zurich Theater, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Freiburg Theater, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Staatsoper Berlin, Volksbühne Berlin, Staatstheater Hannover, Staatstheater Darmstadt with artists such as Meg Stuart, Christoph Frick and Stefan Kaegi.As a cellist, Bo Wiget performs with classical musicians, jazz and rock musicians as well as with improvised music. Among other things with Lautten Compagney Berlin, his chamber ensemble Tolkar, who mainly plays song arrangements, or with musicians such as Luigi Archetti (several CDs and award-winning videos, performances), Oli Bott, Iva Bittovà, Dominik Blum, Andrea Chudak, Christof Dienz, Hans -Joachim Irmler (Faust), Margareth Kammerer, Wolfgang Katschner, Simon Lenski, Lucas Niggli, Zeena Parkins, Martin Schütz, Selah Sue, Taku Sugimoto, Saad Thamir, Christian Weber, Michael Wertmüller and many others. Concerts and festival appearances take him all over Europe and to Japan.

Numerous performances with the performance duo Both Messies with Andreas Müller, as well as with dancers, poets and actors such as Eva Brunner, Martin Engler, Christian Filips, Antonija Livingstone, Isabelle Menke, Monika Rinck, Raphael Urweider.Various teaching assignments at the ZHdK Zurich, Academy of Performing Arts Ludwigsburg and at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen."

Christian Weber: Doublebass, composition, electronics. Born in Zürich/Switzerland

1990 discovery of the Doublebass
1993-96 studies at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz
1995-98 studies at the Bruckner Conservatory Linz with Adelhard Roidinger
1998 studies with Ernst Weissensteiner, Vienna
2000-06 operative and artistic management of the WIM Zürich
2000- music for film & theater, soundinstallations
2001 grant from the city of Zürich; composition commissioned by ProHelvetia
2003 Zürich culture award (Werkjahr)
2004- extensive touring all over the world
2007-13 guest lecturer at the University of Berne
2013- lecturer at the University of Lucerne



regular appearances

Sudden Infant, ensemble für neue musik zürich, Christy Doran's Bunter Hund, Die Welttraumforscher


festivals
Druga Godba (Ljubliana), Jazzfestival Zagreb, Jazz Meeting TelAviv, Jazz-Meeting Jerusalem, Jazzfest Wiesen, Hörgänge Wien, Jazzfestival Schaffhausen, AMR Festival (Geneva), Ice On Fire (Kuwait), Festival de Jazz Grenoble, Jazzfest Wien, unerhört!, Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, Uncool Poschiavo, Jazzfestival Mulhouse, Wien Modern, Moers Festival, LEM (Barcelona), Jazzherbst Konstanz, Taktlos, Vision Festival (NYC), FIMAV (Victoriaville), Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, Umbrella Festvial Chicago, Jazzfestival Willisau, Jazzfestival Belgrade, Fri Resonans Trondheim...


toured in
Switzerland, Austria, Germany, England, Ireland, Poland, Israel, China, Taiwan, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia, Kuwait, Croatia, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, Japan, Russia, USA, Canada...


works/worked with
Lina Allemano, Bruno Amstad, Tim Barnes, Johannes Bauer, Ludwig Bekic, Han Bennink, Claudia Ulla Binder, Jeb Bishop, Andres Bosshard, John Butcher, Antoine Chessex, Gene Coleman, Collegium Novum, Lol Coxhill, Chris Dahlgren, Tim Daisy, Jacques Demierre, Bertrand Denzler, Robert Dick, Roberto Domeniconi, Michel Doneda, Christy Doran, Paul Dunmall, Markus Eichenberger, Ellery Eskelin, Peter Evans, Kai Fagaschinski, Pierre Favre, Peter K Frey, Charles Gayle, Gegenklang, Michael Griener, Andy Guhl, Uli Gumpert, Boris Hauf, Franz Hautzinger, Stefan Heckel, Gerry Hemingway, Gerhard Herrmann, Charlotte Hug, Ben Jeger, Russ Johnson, Jason Kahn, Vera Kappeler, Mazen Kerbaj, Hans Koch, Ritsche Koch, Jonas Kocher, Tomas Korber, Peter Kowald, Jesse Kudler, Joachim Kühn, Oliver Lake, Joke Lanz, Urs Leimgruber, Tony Levin, Werner Lüdi, Paul Lytton, Rudi Mahall, Phil Minton, Norbert Möslang, Michael Moser, Jon Mueller, Günter Müller, Simon Nabatov, Lucas Niggli, Noid, Evan Parker, Dave Phillips, Simon Picard, Wolfgang Puschnig, Christian Reiner, Wolfgang Reisinger, Paul Rogers, Roger Rotor, Olaf Rupp, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Julian Sartorius, Eric Schaefer, Philip Schaufelberger, Matthias Schubert, Willem Schulz, Irène Schweizer, Christine Sehnaoui, Sharif Sehnaoui, Elliott Sharp, Martin Siewert, Markus Stauss, Steamboat Switzerland, Michael Jefry Stevens, Co Streiff, Michael Thieke, Dieter Ulrich, Tom Varner, Colin Vallon, Walter & Sabrina, Matthew Welch, Chris Wiesendanger, Bo Wiget, Michel Wintsch, Stephan Wittwer, Nils Wogram, Christian Wolfarth, Michael Wollny, Nate Wooley, Katsura Yamauchi, Raed Yassin, Otomo Yoshihide, Michael Zerang, Matthias Ziegler, Alfred Zimmerlin, Philip Zoubek...