Badrutt's Palace

Line-up: Gaudenz Badrutt fx/samp/synth/p

The electroacoustic composition Palace combines the autobiographical, the carefully preserved, the long forgotten and the accidentally forgotten with the spontaneity of rediscovery and reinvention. Badrutt weaves older archive recordings from his time as an Ives-playing pianist, field recordings, randomly rediscovered remnants and new material, but also scraps of his daughter's singing and piano playing into a symphonic density. The title Palace refers to the luxury hotel of the same name in the Engadine.

Badrutt (*1972) has been active in the field of experimental electroacoustic music for almost 25 years. Started as a pianist in the field of composed contemporary music, today the focus is on electroacoustic music: the occupation with the computer as an agile live sampling instrument as well as with electronic devices that are used as sound sources and transformers.