Mademoiselle Plume Rouge

Swiss duo created in 2018 by Stéphane Augsburger (electric guitar, sampled voices, effect pedals, loopers) and Frédéric Minner (electric bass, soprano saxophone, effect pedals, loopers). "Both musicians have known each other and collaborated in various musical projects over the past 20 years. In 2018 they decided to launch a new project and after several months of searching and experimenting, the duo decided to move away from the pure free improvisation they were playing in order to develop more constructed musical forms. During this time they performed several shows across Switzerland. In the winter of 2021, they were offered a residency by the City of Geneva at the venue La Cave 12 to record their debut album Junkie Movie Music, on which they employ different compositional techniques like themes, quartal harmonies, atonalism, drones, riffs, works on textures and timbers, and clusters. These techniques draw their inspiration from composers such as Luciano Berio, György Ligeti, or Helmut Lachenmann but also from traditional Japanese music, contemporary jazz (Craig Taborn, Dave Liebman, Bobo Stenson), New-York avant-garde music from the 1980s-1990s (John Lurie, no-wave, John Zorn), and experimental doom (Sunn O))), Boris)."