 Antoine Läng Born in 1975, Antoine Läng is an artist, vocalist living in Geneva. Antoine Läng's work is mostly directed towards experimental and improvised music, centered on the plasticity of the human voice, according to the materials and rhythms inherent in the breath. His search for organic expression links the raw voice to the body and its fleshly mechanics. As he transforms sounds into electroacoustic matter, a human presence emerges, pre-verbal, within the physical limits of the instrument which orient the performances towards an expression of the body by itself, in a vertigo where abstraction sound joins the trance. This approach is declined according to the collaborations (currently Babeleon, duQtuç, Insub Meta Orchestra, Giallo Oscuro, Cortez, ARFI, Olga Kokcharova, Jason Kahn, Louis Schild or Anouck Genthon) where he articulates an important part of his work around the raw voice and the extended vocal apparatus, by means of augmented techniques and various acoustic devices (megaphone, amplification or electronic processing), with performances in various contexts (music venues, festivals, art galleries, industrial facilities, and natural environments such as forests and mountains) in Switzerland and abroad. As an extension to his artistic activities, Antoine Läng works as a curator for the Akouphène festival and Les Bains des Pâquis in Geneva. He is also part of INSUB, a collective whose associative activities focus on the development of the experimental music scene in Geneva and Switzerland.
Jason Kahn
Born 1960 in New York, Jason Kahn is a musician, artist and writer. He has lived in As an electronic musician, guitarist, vocalist and percussionist Kahn collaborates with many Swiss and international musicians in the context of free improvised music. He has also composed numerous electro acoustic pieces and graphical scores written for specific groups and musicians. His work can be heard on over two hundred solo, collaborative and compilation releases. Kahn's installations and interventions have been shown in museums, galleries, art spaces and public sites in Switzerland and around the world. 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 written work has appeared in books, magazines and as liner notes to many audio publications. He has published four books documenting his own work: "In Place," (2015); "Space Text Sound," (2017); "Voice and Sky," (2018) and "Infinity Suite" (2020). Kahn's other activities include sound pieces for radio, film, dance and theater. He has also designed numerous CD, LP and cassette covers. Kahn has performed and exhibited work in the United States, Europe, Argentina, Australia, Egypt, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Russia, Turkey, Singapore, South Africa and Taiwan. Kahn’s work has been supported through various grants, residency programs and cutlural prizes, including a Pro Helvetia Composition Grant (2003), a Werkjahr Prize for Musik from the Arts Council of Zürich (2006), Pro Helvetia Residencies in Kairo (2006), Delhi (2010) und China (2016), a US-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship Program Residency in Kyoto (2012), a grant von from the Swiss Bundesamt für Kultur / Kulturfonds for the Installation Unheard Switzerland (2014) and a Freiraum Grant from the Kanton of Zürich (2016). Kahn’s sound installation "We'll Walk in the Rays of a Beautiful Sun" was chosen for exhibition at the Swiss Art Awards 2016.
In 2011 Kahn started the Editions imprint to publish his own recordings and writings.
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