Michaela Turcerová is a musician and composer from Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, currently based in Copenhagen. She plays the alto saxophone and works in the field of open scores, (non)conventional notations, conceptual ideas, minimalism, and electroacoustic relationships, often exploring the use of physical space in performance.
She leads the ensembles Æumum and doudouši and also develops her solo project IN FLUX, centered around a modified alto saxophone and amplification devices. She is a member and composer in the groups ALAWARI, TING, and Wolfskin Ensemble, collaborating with various formations from the European experimental and improvised music scenes.
Trained in classical composition and classical saxophone at the Academy of Performing Arts in Banská Bystrica, she furthered her studies in jazz in Prague before earning a Master’s degree at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory of Copenhagen.
Her musical practice, influenced by both popular traditions and underground experimental scenes, aims to reveal new sound spaces through breath, material, and the physicality of the instrument.
Playlist: – Pancrace – CSO – The Fluid Hammer (Penultimate Press, 2019) – Jonáš Gruska – Volanie – Spevy (self-released, 2017) – Iannis Xenakis – IV Mélanges – Pléiades (1979) by the DeciBells Percussion Ensemble (Genuin, 2019) – Lappish Joik Songs from Northern Norway – Qarja (The Crow) (Folkways Records, 1956) – Lappish Joik Songs from Northern Norway – Anna Sofia Mienna (Folkways Records, 1956) – Bujumbura – Salutaton akazé (Burundi: traditional music) (Ocora, 1968/2015) – Pre Vietnamese Music – Tribal Music of the Highland People (Calebass-Khene/ Knboat) – Music of Viet Nam (Folkways Records, 1965) – Tambourinaires de Bukirasazi – Tambours royaux “Ingoma” (Burundi: traditional music) (Ocora, 1968/2015) – Alvin Lucier – Braid (2012), excerpt from Works for the Ever Present Orchestra (Black Truffle, 2020) – Lucie Páčová – Uvnitř – Krandzhilitsa (Skupina, 2023) – Adrián Demoč – Kvarteto – movement 1 (canon) – Žiadba (Another Timbre, 2019) – Michaela Turcerová – fi-hoi polloi – alene et (mappa editions, 2024)
A production of the INA-GRM – Translation and dubbing by Spencer Bambrough.
