Composer and performer Floy Krouchi questions the sound material of her instrument, the fretless bass. Passionate about microtonality, the depth of bass frequencies and the meditative capacity of sound, she draws inspiration from indian music and the Rudra Veena (traditional Hindustani instrument) to probe the potential of the fkbass, the hybrid bass augmented by the electronics she designed, and the new gestures and body performance it implies. Exploring the bare bones of low frequencies, in the torpor of oscillations, a relationship to silence unfolds and takes the audience to the very edge of sound, inside time, into the swirls of an “electronic raga”.

With the participaton of Floy Krouchi

Floy Krouchi is an artist and electroacoustic composer, working within the realm of sound performance and composition. She conceptualises instruments such as the FKBass, an augmented bass with integrated sensors and Sonic Totem an interactive sculpture- which she performs in interventions, concerts and performances. She conceived sound dispositives and pieces from research into music, history and anthropology and often works on themes related to borders, identity, hybridity. After founding the female ensemble Mafucage along the transiberian from Moscow to Pekin in 1995, she has worked, performed and exhibited- solo or in collaboration- in India, Europe, US, China and the Middle East .

Wednesdays of sound and body 2024 builds on the proposals of: