Isidora Edwards & Vinicius Cajado · Duthoit / Sinkauz / Sinkauz
Freitag, 24. Oktober 2025 · 20:00 Uhr
Isidora Edwards is a London-based cellist, improviser and PhD researcher from Chile. Moving between thresholds that include the acoustic, amplified, and processed cello and electronics, her musical language questions epistemologies of time, listening, freedom, and pleasure. Her solo and collaborative performances with fellow improvisers have been presented in a vast number of festivals and venues around Europe, Latin America and the US. She was trained as a classical cellist at the Universidad Católica de Chile, and was awarded scholarships by the National Research and Development Agency of Chile (ANID) to pursue an MMus in Creative Practice (2019-2020) and a Practice-Based PhD in Music (2020-2024) both at Goldsmiths University of London. https://www.isidoraedwards.com/home
Vinicius Cajado is a musician from São Paulo, Brazil. His music makes use of silence at the same volume and pace that makes the use of harsh noise. He blends storytelling, minimalism, maximalism, spectral music, avant-garde and contemporary Brazilian music concepts into a super fast reactive playing. Using improvisation and deep listening also as a form of empathy, exchanging views, ideas, and reinventing himself from the first till the last note played on stage. Vinicius has received different accolades across the globe such as “debut record of the year” by the New York City Jazz Record for his first solo recording Monu, and also has been prized with additional honors for most unique and creative playing at the international society of bassists in Europe. His recent release Storm Dance (Not Two Records) with the legendary bassist Joëlle Léandre is described as “ a stunning, powerful and meaningful addition to the lineage of improvised duo bass recordings. https://www.vinicajado.com
Isabelle Duthoit / Alen Sinkauz / Nenad Sinkauz
The first concert encounter between French experimental vocalist Isabelle Duthoit and the Sinkauz brothers took place in 2024 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, in the Gorgona Hall, with the audiovisual concert Refractions, inspired by Mallarmé’s avant-garde poem A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance, in collaboration with Vladislav Knežević. The day before, they recorded the album Circuit Breath, released on vinyl by Kopaton Records. Fragments of the same album, re-edited by sound engineer Marijana Begović, were transformed into the experimental radiophonic work „Mallarmè sonore“, which won this year’s prestigious EBU Palma Ars Acustica Award. The Circuit Breath album promotion concert announces a new musical adventure of the three artists, where improvisation, electronics, and voice merge into a unique sonic organism.
Alen Sinkauz and Nenad Sinkauz are composers, musicians, and performers. They both graduated in Musicology and Ethnomusicology in Padua. The Sinkauz brothers compose and shape music for feature-length and short films, musical, dance and theater shows, radio broadcasts, as well as site-specific, and multidisciplinary performances. They collaborate with prominent film and theater directors and visual and video artists in the country and abroad. They won five Golden Arena awards and a prize for original film music at the Croatian Film Days. Their artistic work, especially when playing live, is mostly oriented towards exploring unconventional musical forms, improvised and creative music, but their musical roots comes from the 90’ underground metal and punk scene. Through performance and composition, which are strictly connected in their work, they are interested in a dialogue of acoustic and electronic instruments, hybridity of the connection of musical and theatrical principles in performance as the research landmark for new performing formats.
In 2021 they started Kopaton records, a label for experimental and creative music as a platform connecting musicians from Croatia and south east Europe.Currently they are involved in the experimental trio Roj Osa.
In 2010 they started the International Festival of Experimental and Improvised Music Audioart in Pula (Croatia). Also they are founders of the avant rock band East Rodeo with whom they released three albums and the audiovisual projects Day of the Year , Sicomat and Propulzor and co-founders of an impro big band CRI Orchestra which gathers around twenty musicians from Croatia. Founders of the artistic organization P137.
www.audioartfestival.eu, https://soundcloud.com/dayoftheyear-av-collective
Isabelle Duthoit completed her clarinet studies at the CNSM de Lyon in Jacques Di Donato’s class.
She soon turned her attention to contemporary music, working with a number of composers. She then found her preferred universe in free improvisation. She plays and collaborates with many artists on the international experimental scene Dieb13, Angelica Castello, Martin Tetreault, Franz Hautzinger, Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang, Phil Minton, Luc Ex , Thomas Lehn, Lê Quan Ninh, Jacques Di Donato, Sophie Agnel , Steve Heather, Andy Moor, EriKm Katharina Klement … She is a member of Hiatus ensemble, Système Friche, Where is the sun, Uruk and plays in many festivals in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Russia, Europe, Japan.
Always interested in the voice, over the past 20 years she has developed a singular and personal vocal technique.
A language before language. A glossolalia. A song rooted as much in breath as in cry.
She works regularly with dance and theater. She created the music for « Celle qui habitait la maison avant moi » by poet Rasha Omran, first performed in Cairo and then in its French premiere at Festival IN d’ Avign graphic novel artist Jean Marc Troubs, they invented the Portrait-Chanté, project for one person. In January 2020, she created a project « Libelle », which introduces her graphic work (drawings, photos, self-portraits) into her creation.
Isabelle Duthoit was a resident at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, Japan, in 2008, studying Noh theater, Bunraku recitation and iaido.
With Jacques Di Donato She co-directed the Fruits de Mhère festival for 10 years, and taught clarinet at the CRD D’Evry until 2013. From 2014 to 2019 she led voice workshops at the Théâtre des Quinconces l’Espal scène Nationale du Mans.
With Franz Hautzinger, she programmed the Paysages d’écoute festival at the same theater. Since 2018, with Jacques Di Donato and Nicolas Nageotte, she has organized and programmed the Bords de Mhère concert series.
But where exactly is Isabelle Duthoit’s voice coming from? Is it from the belly, from the throat? Is it possible that vocal cords can produce such sounds, that a body is capable of emitting such superhuman raucousness – and without the slightest amplification? We thought we’d heard it all, but no: Isabelle Duthoit still manages to open up radically new horizons, to unleash other elements. We’d heard of water, we’d heard of fire: there’s something at once mineral, earthy and woody in the sounds and situations she unfolds before our eyes, joining gesture to non-speech – at this point I’m on the side of the stage, watching her in profile, and it seems to me I’m seeing dance as much as calligraphy or Japanese theater. It’s an uninterrupted display of vocal fireworks, always subject to a deep, telluric breath, the sole master of the drama, which literally takes you by the guts. Isabelle Duthoit’s mastery, total control of her vocal resources and almost oriental discipline are equally astonishing: she seems capable of doing anything, a supernatural and profoundly natural presence. Her concert leaves the audience speechless, as if they have never stopped breathing with her. (by David Sanson)