INFLUUT

Biography

INFLUUT is a duo from Switzerland playing electroacoustic jazz. The essence of their music takes origin in two opposite yet complementary approaches meet to explore instrumental harmonies and algorithmic synthesis. INFLUUT’s approach to composition leaves room for improvisation and electronically randomized sound events for building up a musical narrative that follows organic flows with a technological component.
Sometimes, the Robert Turner Collective from Switzerland provides the visual backdrop to INFLUUT’s sonic landscapes, creating a unified and immersive experience of post-jazz sound and algorithmically manipulated images.

INFLUUT’s creative work is initiated by a perpetual questioning about the world that comes after. What happens after apocalypse, war, pandemic or mass extinction? Machine encounters Nature in a strong yet subtle entanglement, achieving the renewal of natural fauna with electric bugs and mechanical automatons. A new cycle commence, like a vivid blow expanding the universe of possibilities. The duo invites for the unexpected, a voyage to be enjoyed by astral projection or on a flying carpet, experiencing various emotional states from still streams to explosive storms. Best serving live with quadriphonic surround soundsystem so the music can propagate in space for a truly immersive experience.

With a reputation that is slowly building up in Europe and Asia, INFLUUT pursues an innovative work.Their source of inspiration is mainly driven, among others, by Bohren und der Klub of Gore, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and John Butcher.

Nat Cilia is a multidisciplinary graduated professional artist. She participated as an actress, dancer, composer, and musician (piano, saxophone, voice) to various production, mainly in Switzerland, France and Spain, notably with the direction of Jean-Pierre Raffaelli, Roland Olbeter, Esterina Zarrillo and company La Fura dels Baus. She founded Ooops! Company, international company for corporal and visual theatre production alongside artist Kristina Orlovic with whom she created several productions (ooopscompany.com). She works now on her multidisciplinary creation INTUITO and electroacoustic jazz duo INFLUUT.

Daniel Maszkowicz is engineering research scientist in power electronics, curator for independent cinema, multidisciplinary performing artist, composer and producer. He is co-founder of electroacoustic jazz duo INFLUUT, primitive analogue electronics duo Biblioteq Mdulair, and performance collective SM Noise. His solo projects make use of digital synthesizers for multi-channel soundscapes. Nowadays, he works on algorithmic sounds and installations, enjoys Data Sonifcation with Python and SuperCollider, all with an approach that brings together science and art, letting speak both the engineer and the artist.

Tag: experimental, jazz, electroacoustic, post-jazz, introspective