Nicolas Buzzi

Biography

Nicolas Buzzi, born in Bern in 1987, currently works and lives in Zurich and Frankfurt.
Buzzi combines composition with performance practice in order to respond to specific requirements and possibilities of electronic music, a field that allows a rethinking of the role distribution predominant in western art music. Buzzi treats the instruments inherent ability to define and shape temporal processes as well as spatiality as a strategy to negotiate historical, cultural ballast.
His diverse practice includes works for ensemble, solo artists, music installations, performances, sound and music for theater and film, instrument making, mediation and sound direction, but especially also working in the collective and on the associated social constructs.
His work is and was presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale, at the Cabaret Voltaire Zurich, at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, at the HEK Basel, at the HKW Berlin, at the Istituto Svizzero, at Kampnagel Hamburg, at the Kanuti Gildi Saal Tallinn, at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Kunstmuseum Basel, Locarno Film Festival, NUS Museum Singapore, São Paulo Architecture Biennial, Schauspielhaus Zurich, Taylor Macklin Zurich or ZKM Karlsruhe.