NOIJZU Swiss electroacoustic unit

PROJECT DOSSIER 17 December 2020

TABLE OF CONTENTS

3 Project Description 6 Documentation 10 Biographies 18 Musicians, Contact

1 2 PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Physical musicality is evoked by a habitat, which foreshadows diverse sound spaces. A musical examination focuses on recognition of domesticated and undomesticated sounds, ideologies, networking senses and physical entities. Each sound identifes itself, through varied behaviours.

Noizu is a Swiss electroacoustic unit, formed in late 2017 by Luis Sanz and Urs Heer. Noizu began as a noise duo, using voice, guitar, objects and drums, within this setup Noizu released two albums and participated in three compilations. By late 2018 the Chinese clarinetist Shuyue Zhao, resident in Bern, Switzerland, becomes part of the group. The new duo by Zhao and Sanz focuses on acoustic and computer-generated sonic entities. Noizu blends the bass clarinet with digital signals to produce contrasting acoustic dynamics, from minimal to extreme confrontational expressions, creating complex and hyperreal textures. Noizu's sound has been described as "a symphony of fragmented noise".

Zhao and Sanz have been experimenting with various artistic approaches to explore and challenge the limit of musical possibilities. Besides interpreting new compositions as a clarinetist, Shuyue Zhao has been active in improvisation since 2012. In 2018 she has expanded her artistic practice from acoustic clarinet improvisation to combinations of amplifed clarinet/bassclarinet and feedback-based electronic sounds. Luis Sanz has been working with video and abstract animations since 2010. In 2014 he included sound in his animations and began exploring electronic and computer music as well as extended techniques on turntables. The varied and diferent backgrounds have enabled them to explore new forms of artistic dialogue.

Noizu has performed across France, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Myanmar, Indonesia, Java, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand.

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Noizu, Asia Tour, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, February - March 2020

4 “A guide of Swiss Underground Experimental Music“ Buh Records and The Wire Magazine, October 2019

5 DOCUMENTATION

RELEASES

2019 A Guide of Swiss Underground Experimental Music, Double Vinyl, Buh Records, Peru and The Wire Magazine 2019 Atrofa Cerebral [PE] & Noizu, Split Cassette, Rotova Porojnina Records, Kiev Ukraine 2019 Noizu, Discordant Seeds, C20, Cruel Bones, Zurich Switzerland 2018 Noizu, 4 Way Split, CDr , Low Life High Volume, Berlin Germany 2018 Noizu, El Bien De Ser, C10, Rotova Porojnina Records, Kiev Ukraine

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2020 Le Pneu, Geneva Switzerland 2020 Asia Tour, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Java, Borneo, Singapore, Vietnam 2020 Esoteric Afairs, Raum Station, Zürich 2019 Plein Air à Voltaire Festival, Geneva, Switzerland 2019 Borderline Festival, Atelier Wolimierz, Dolnoslaskie, Poland 2019 Nula:Nula, Praha, Czech Republic 2019 w/ Ryosuke Kiyasu, Joel Gilardini, Maxime Hänseberger & Steve Buchanan, Ebrietas, Zurich Switzerland 2019 w/ Purpura, Dave Phillips, Mulo Muto, Svartvit, Umbo, Zurich Switzerland 2018 Adv3nt, Botanischer Garten, Bern Switzerland 2018 w/ Kazehito Seki, ..., Tzii, Radio Rabe, Bern Switzerland 2018 Tour w/ Soft Issues [Leeds, UK], La Maison De L‘enfer, Nancy France 2018 Tour w/ Soft Issues [Leeds, UK], Ebrietas, Zurich Switzerland 2018 Tour w/ Soft Issues [Leeds, UK], LoopHole, Berlin Germany 2018 Tour w/ Soft Issues [Leeds, UK], La Pointe Lafayette, Paris France 2018 Tour w/ Soft Issues [Leeds, UK], Autistic Campaign Festival, Rouen France 2018 w/ Purpura, Luis Alvarado, Duplex Walden, Geneva Switzerland 2018 Defbrylator Festival, Piwiarnia u Bossmana, Ostrów Wielkopolski Poland 2018 w/ Odal [NL], DOM, Łódz Poland 2018 w/ Diego Atucha [AR], Espace d‘exposition, Cinéma Salle Robert Kramer, HEAD Genève Switzerland

6 “Discordant Seeds”, C20, Cruel Bones, Zurich Switzerland, May 2019

7 Asia Tour, Noizu, Luis Sanz live at Ruang Gulma, Yogyakarta, Java, February 2020

8 “El Bien De Ser”, C10, Rotova Porojnina Records, Kiev Ukraine. June 2018

9 BIOGRAPHIES

SHUYUE ZHAO lives and works in Bern, Switzerland. [email protected]

Clarinetist, Sound-artist and curator Shuyue Zhao was born in 1990, China, currently based in Bern. Her musical interests have brought her playing the clarinets, piano, various instruments and electronic instruments. As a clarinetist, she interprets music from the old to the new along with Free Improvisation. After seven years of living in New York, where she completed her bachelor and master of music degree at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Mr. Charles Neidich and Ms. Ayako Oshima. In 2015, she began to study with Prof. Ernesto Molinari with focus on Bass and Contrabass clarinet at Hochschule der Künste Bern. During her studies, she worked as the assistant of Mr. Ernesto Molinari and won Eduard-Tschumi-Preis 2017 as the best diploma concert (Solist) for Specialised Master Diploma. In the same summer, she has won the frst prize of Concours Nicati. Her interests in historical performance has brought her collaborations with Juilliard415 and worked with Masaaki Susuki and Monica Huggett. As a new music fanatic, She has appeared in New York Philharmonic Biennial, Lucerne Festival, Darmstadt New Music Courses and Impuls Academy, she has worked closely with Helmut Lachenmann, Enno Poppe, Georges Aperghis, Phil Niblock and Richard Barrett. Her solo improvisation project qqq七呛七 has been broadcasted in NTS Radio. Her interpretation of Brian Ferneyhough "La Chute d'lcare" is released under NEOS Label. In 2017, Zhao was admitted to Master of Art Contemporary Art Practice(CAP) in direction Sound art at Hochschule der Künste Bern. In 2018 She joins Swiss experimental group Noizu as a member. In the same year together with Tizia Zimmermann, founded mm + tt, a Swiss noise duo. In 2018 together with Bern-based Visual/Sound-artist Luis Sanz, founded AMARUS, a platform for music and critical thinking. AMARUS is active in hosting lectures, workshops, public interventions and concerts in the city of Bern, Switzerland.

Education

2017-2019 Hochschule der Künste Bern, Master of Arts Contemporary Art Practice 2015-2017 Hochschule der Künste Bern, Master of Arts in Specialized Music, Performance ''Solist'' Diplom, Clarinet Bassclarinet, Prof. E. Molinari 2013-2015 The Juilliard School, New York, Master of Music, Clarinet, Prof. Charles Neidich 2008-2012 The Juilliard School, New York, Bachelor of Music, Clarinet, Prof. Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima

Teaching Experience

2016-2017 Hochschule der Künste Bern, Teaching Assistant of Prof. Ernesto Molinari

Prize / Competition

2017 1. Preis Wettbewerb Concours Nicati, Bern (16,000. fr) 2017 Tschumi-Preis, Hochschule der Künste Bern(12,000. fr) 2015 The Juilliard School Outstanding graduate prize 2006 1. Prize China National Clarinet Competition 10 Scholarship

2013-2015 The Juilliard School, Full Scholarship covering living cost 2008-2012 The Juilliard School, Full Scholarship covering living cost 2005-2006 Yamaha Asia Music Scholarship

CD Release

NEOS LABEL EAN: 4260063118258 James Wood - John Cage - Brian Ferneyhough Ensemble VERTIGO der Hochschule der Künste Bern Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain

Bands

Noizu MM+TT Secrétariat qqq七呛七- Miao Zhao Solo Project

Curator

Progr, Bern (Concert Serie "AMARUS")

Upcoming / Archive

2021 Rohrwerk, Grossmünster, ZÜRICH 2021 Solo project Miao Zhao, Festival Archipel, GENEVA 2021 Black Water LP Release, Dampfzentrale, BERN 2021 Rohrwerk, EPFL, LAUSANNE 2021 mm + tt, crAsh-test / crAsh-son, GENEVA 2021 "Animal Talking", mit Li Tavor, ZHdK, ZÜRICH 2021 Solo project Miao Zhao, Festival Archipel, GENEVA 2020 qqq七呛七, Artist Residency at Lyseloth, BASEL

11 2020 mm+tt, "It happens when it happens" , Umbo ZÜRICH 2020 Kreation mit Fabrizio di Salvo, IGNM, BERN 2020 Konzertreihe "AMARUS #8", Progr Raum 013, BERN 2020 "Blick in den Spiegel der Romantik", Reserviert 2020 "Blick in den Spiegel der Romantik", Kunsthaus PasquART, BIEL 2020 "Blick in den Spiegel der Romantik", Französische Kirche Saal, BERN 2020 "Blick in den Spiegel der Romantik", Einsiedeln Kloster, EINSIEDELN 2020 "Blick in den Spiegel der Romantik", Zug Kunsthaus, ZUG 2020 "Blick in den Spiegel der Romantik", Grenchen Konzertreihe, GRENCHEN 2020 Konzertreihe "AMARUS #7", Progr Raum 013, BERN 2020 MM+TT, Catenation, Dampfzentrale, BERN 2020 Luzern Festival, Luzern Festival Alumi ensemble, KKL, Luzern 2020 Secretariat, 9 Years Bourdache, LAUSANNE 2020 Secretariat, Festiwald, FRIBOURG 2020 Pain, Electroaccoustic Composition, ZÜRICH (online , Covid-19) 2020 Noizu, Sotu Festival, AMSTERDAM (online , Covid-19) 2020 Suspended Gestures, ZÜRICH (online , Covid-19) 2020 Rohrwerk, ZÜRICH (cancelled, Covid-19) 2020 Ensemble Lemniscate, Aufnahmen Ackermannshof, BASEL (cancelled, Covid-19) 2020 Ensemble Lemniscate, Moscow New Music Festival, MOSCOW (cancelled, Covid-19) 2020 Rohrwerk, EPFL LAUSANNE (cancelled, Covid-19) 2020 Festival Archipel, Clarinet solo performance, GENEVA (cancelled, Covid-19) 2020 Suspended Gestures, Martina Buzzi, ZÜRICH (cancelled, Covid-19) 2020 Noizu, Raumstation, ZÜRICH 2020 Transmission, MM+TT, Parzelle403 - Raum für Kultur, BASEL 2019 Ensemble Lemniscate, Ackermannshof, BASEL 2019 Ensemble Lemniscate, La Voirie, BIEL 2019 Ensemble Lemniscate, Helferei, ZÜRICH 2019 White Pulse Marathon, MM+TT, ZÜRICH 2019 MM+TT, Hyperlokal, ZÜRICH 2019 Soapbox013 Nr.3,Pakt, Progr, BERN 2019 Rohrwerk, ZeitRäume,Kunstmuseum, BASEL 2019 Noizu, Plein Air à Voltaire, GENEVA 2019 Noizu, Borderline Festival,POLAND 2019 Noizu, Nula:Nula, PRAHA 2019 Abschluss Performance CAP, qqq七呛七, HKB, BIEL 2019 MADNESS Nr.1, MM+TT, Workout Jazz, ZÜRICH 2019 Performance arts in Zürich, Noizu, Ebrietas, ZÜRICH 2019 Performance audiovisuelle, Cinéma Oblò, LAUSANNE 2019 Tonto & White Pulse & MM + TT, Schwobhaus, BERN 12 2019 qqq七呛七，Schoolbar, BEIING 2018 Radio Rabe, Noizu, BERN 2018 Scree fucking junk & Naked in the zoo, Schwobhaus, BERN 2018 Starling Murmurtation Nr.26, qqq七呛七, Loophole, BERLIN 2018 Durst&Frucht, Ensemble Proton Bern, Ballhaus ost, BERLIN 2018 Noizu, loophole, BERLIN 2018 Festival "Connecting pieces", Cabane B, Bümpliz, BERN 2018 "L'Immortelle Mort Du Monde" Performance, Kunstmuseum Bern, BERN 2018 Duo recital mit Hannah Walter, Gare du nord, BASEL 2018 Duo recital mit Hannah Walter, SMC, LAUSANNE 2018 Konzert ''Natur'',Collegium Novum Zürich,SRF Radiostudio, ZÜRICH 2018 Konzert ''home'' , Ensemble Aabat, Musikfest Bern, BERN 2018 Glashaus, Usinesonore Festival, Biel 2018 Konzert mit Ensemble Proton Bern, Dampfzentrale, BERN 2018 Qon Records, Ryosuke Kiyasu and Noizu. Bern 2018 Konzert Soapbox Pakt Bern, Progr, BERN 2018 Konzert Klangbang #17, Flattersschaft, BASEL 2018 Konzert Zurück in die Zukunft, Collegium Novum Zürich,Tonhalle Maag, ZÜRICH 2018 Konzert Pakt Bern, Makrokosmos, Ensemble Aabat, Progr, BERN 2017 Konzert Pakt Bern Flash! Mikrokosmos, Ensemble Aabat, Ehemaliges Swisscom Hochhaus,BERN 2017 Konzert Zeitmasse,IGNM Zentral Schweiz, Ensemble Montaigne, Lokremise, St. GALLEN 2017 Konzert Zeitmasse,IGNM Zentral Schweiz, Ensemble Montaigne, Chollerhalle, ZUG 2017 Konzert Zeitmasse,IGNM Zentral Schweiz, Ensemble Montaigne, Neubad, LUZERN 2017 Konzert GÉNÉRATIONS, Ensemble NEC, Centre Dürrenmatt, NEUCHÂTEL 2017 Specialised Master of Music Solist Abschluss Konzert, Ensemble NEC Yehudi Menuhin Forum, BERN 2017 Kontra Klang, Heimathafen Neukölln, BERLIN 2017 Acht Brücken- Musik für Köln, Theater im Bauturm, KÖLN 2016 Code Modern, Ensemble Blauereiter, MÜNCHEN 2015 Lucerne Festival Academy, LUZERN 2015 Kheir- Fantasy for Clarinet and Sinfonietta, New Juilliard Ensemble, Alice Tully Hall, NEW YORK 2014 New York Philharmonic Biennale, Axiom Ensemble. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NEW YORK

13 Noizu, Luis Sanz live at Rumah Rawa, Samarinda Borneo, March 2020

14 LUIS SANZ lives and works in Bern, Switzerland. [email protected]

Luis Sanz’s artistic work includes audiovisual pieces and computer music. Sanz explores synthetic sound, computer graphics and visual and physical audio experiences. His practice involves performance, installation, research and curation, as well as collaboration with artists in the felds of experimental music and visual arts. Sanz's work has been performed, exhibited and difused across Asia and Europe.

Education

2019 - 2021: Master Contemporary Arts Practice at Bern University of the Arts Switzerland 2001 - 2020: Continuous research and autodidact formation in sound and visual programming, psychoacoustics, synthetic sound, sonic morphology, noise music, custom instruments, sound poetry, extended techniques, free improvisation and visual and physical listening experiences. 2016 - 2019: BA Fine Arts at Bern University of the Arts Switzerland 2014 - 2016: Music and Media Art at Bern University of the Arts Switzerland

Workshops | Teaching Experience

2020 Teaching, Intern, MINT Betriebs- und Forschungspraktikum, Gymnasium Lerbermatt 2019 Custom Visual Instruments, M4Music, Zurich Switzerland 2015 Algorithmic Visual Composition, Generate! Festival, Tübingen Germany 2015 Algorithmic Audiovisual Composition, Taktung Festival, Zurich Switzerland 2014 Generative Visual Tools for Musicians and Visualists, M4Music, Zurich Switzerland 2013 Custom Software Interfaces for Real Time Visuals, Kif, Aarau Switzerland 2013 Custom Visual Instruments, Starkart Gallery, Zurich Switzerland 2013 Custom Visual Instruments, Centras Festival, Kaunas Lithuania 2012 Custom Visual Instruments, M4Music, Zurich Switzerland

Lectures | Panels

2016 STM~ Duality, Media Alps, Bettenburg Switzerland 2014 Custom Visual Instruments, Artist Talk, Art School in the University of Kassel, Germany 2014 Creative Code Meeting, Telenoika Headquarters, Barcelona Spain 2013 The No-Limits of Creative Programming, Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona Spain

15 Curation

2020 Amarus, Concert Series, Progr, Bern Switzerland

Residences

2016 MusicMakers Hacklab, CTM Festival, Native Instruments Headquarters, Berlin Germany

Exhibitions | Installations

2020 Transmission~, Parzelle403 - Raum für Kultur, Basel Switzerland 2019 Fragmented Animal, Group Installation, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal, Switzerland 2019 Harsh Silence, Acelera y cierra los ojos, Salón, Madrid Spain 2018 Unhörbares, Sound Walk, Cabane B Kunstraum, Bern Switzerland 2018 Unhörbares, Sound Installation, Cabane B Kunstraum, Bern Switzerland 2017 Social Interference, Design Festival, Berner GenerationenHaus, Switzerland 2016 Stm~ Intemporal, Berlin Atonal, Kraftwerk, Berlin Germany 2016 Autonomous Lethality, solo exhibition, Parzelle403 - Raum für Kultur, Basel Switzerland 2016 Harsh Silence, Royal Fish, Mensch & Maschine, Fantoche, Cinema Royal, Baden Switzerland 2015 Stm~ Duality, Design Festival, Videokunst Progr Bern Switzerland 2015 Stm~ Duality, DAF Festival, Geneva Switzerland 2014 Ilumina, Künstlerhaus - KunstKulturQuartier Nürnberg Germany 2013 Ilumina, Fabra i Coats - Art Factory, Barcelona Spain 2013 Ilumina, DAF - Musique et Performance, Geneva Switzerland

Releases

2019 A Guide of Swiss Underground Experimental Music, Double Vinyl, Buh Records, Peru and The Wire Magazine 2019 Atrofa Cerebral [PE] & Noizu, Split Cassette, Rotova Porojnina Records, Kiev Ukraine 2019 Thiula - Zwischenwelt [CH], C20, Cruel Bones, Zurich Switzerland 2019 Noizu, Discordant Seeds, C20, Cruel Bones, Zurich Switzerland 2019 Noizu, 4 Way Split, CDr , Low Life High Volume, Berlin Germany 2019 Berserk [HK]- Thiula, C20, MKUltra Productions, Taipei Taiwan 2018 Noizu, El Bien De Ser, C10, Rotova Porojnina Records, Kiev Ukraine

16 Research

2018 Electronic Music in Latin America [1956 - 1974], LiveInYourHead, HEAD, Geneva Switzerland 2017 BR41N.IO [The Brain-Computer Interface Designer Hackathon] at the Institute of Neural Engineering in Graz, Austria.

Selected Concerts | AV Performances

2020 Luis Sanz, Multichannel Performance, Gessnerallee, Zurich Switzerland 2020 Noizu, Asia Tour [Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam] 2020 Noizu, Esoteric Afairs Raum Station, Zürich Switzerland 2019 Noizu, Plein Air à Voltaire Festival, Geneva, Switzerland 2019 Transmission~, Live Cinema Festival, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy 2019 Noizu, Borderline Festival, Atelier Wolimierz, Dolnoslaskie, Poland 2019 Noizu, Nula:Nula, Praha, Czech Republic 2019 Thiula, Wunderkammer, Zürich Switzerland 2019 Thiula, Bruitisme Festival, Kochareal, Zürich 2019 Thiula, KinoTeatr Pop Zlotym Leszczem, Szczecin, Poland 2019 Thiula, Defbryllator Festival, Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland 2019 Ignite, ACT Performance Festival, HEAD, Geneva Switzerland 2019 Ignite, ACT Performance Festival, Dampfzentrale, Bern Switzerland 2019 Luis Sanz, Hablar Piedras, Espacio Espositivo, Madrid Spain 2019 Noizu, Umbo, Zurich Switzerland 2018 Noizu, Bonatical Garden, Bern Switzerland 2018 Noizu, Europa Tour [France, Germany, Poland, Switzerland] 2018 Stm~ Duality, Volumens, Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporánea, Valencia Spain 2018 Noizu, Espace d‘exposition, Cinéma Salle Robert Kramer Genève Switzerland 2016 We‘re not gonna talk, CTM Festival, HAU2, Berlin Germany 2016 Stm~ Duality, International Film Festival, Worm, Rotterdam Netherlands 2014 Stm~ Duality, Kasseler Dokumentarflm und Videofest, Kassel Germany 2014 Stm~ Duality, Circles of Light, Moscow International Festival, Moscow Russia 2014 Stm~ Duality, Lab1, Eindhoven Holland 2014 Stm~ Duality, Institut Hyperwerk, Basel Switzerland 2014 Stm~ Duality, Mapping Festival, Geneva Switzerland 2014 Stm~ Duality, Kornhaus, Zurich Switzerland 2014 Stm~ Duality, Telenoika Headquarters, Barcelona Spain 2014 Stm~ Duality, Künstlerhaus Nürnberg Germany

17 MUSICIANS

Shuyue Zhao Clarinet, Bass Clarinet [email protected]

Luis Sanz Computer Music, Electronics [email protected]

CONTACT

Noizu [email protected] 079 882 48 75

WEBSITE https://soundcloud.com/noizu https://noizu.bandcamp.com

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