Anouck Genthon is a French, Geneva-based violinist, improviser, and ethnomusicologist interested in sound expressed through devices that integrate walking in situ. She develops her work based on the environmental conditions of sound propagation and perception. As an ethnomusicologist, she retains in her musical performance the traces of the Tuareg musicians she encountered during her fieldwork in Niger. She has collaborated before with Swiss pianist Jacques Demierre and French electroacoustic composer and sound artist Lionel Marchetti, and plays in the experimental Le UN ensemble.
aẓǝl, “air de violon” (violin tune), originates from an ethnomusicological research Genthon conducted between 2008 and 2012 in Niger, focusing on Tuareg music. Genthon discovered there the sound, playing technique, and the distinctive quality of the timbre of the anzad (and in
