Nicolas Kummert
Jazz & Pop
Master's
Moving Sounds for a Hybrid World
It is my passion for sound that made me the musician I am. It is also the motivation for my return to school, 20 years after my first Master Degree in jazz saxophone, and for choosing to research the expressive possibilities of hybrid electroacoustic sounds.
Why would someone in love with acoustic sounds research electronic modulation? Someone convinced that every subtle variation the instrumentalist performs, every parasite vibration is actually what turns sound into Music?
I believe in hybridity over purity.
I believe electronic modulation opens new possibilities to reflect our increasingly electrified lives. The digital solitude of a vocoder, the introspective uncertainty of a stuttering granular delay have something to offer to my saxophone…
My task is to create my own modulation schemes which will expand the expressive possibilities of acoustic instruments without betraying their specificities and flattening them into yet another synthesizer.
Nicolas Kummert (saxophone, electronics)
Alexander Pielsticker (prepared piano)
This page was last updated on June 14, 2023