Michaela Turcerová is a musician and composer originally from Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, currently based in Copenhagen. She plays the alto saxophone and composes in the fields of open scores, (non) conventional notations, conceptual ideas, minimalism, and electroacoustic relationships, regularly exploring the use of physical space in performance.
She leads the ensembles Ÿumum and doudouši, and also develops her solo project IN FLUX, focused on a modified alto saxophone and rotating amplification devices. She is a member and composer in the groups ALAWARI, TING, and Wolfskin Ensemble, collaborating with various experimental and improvised European music groups.
Trained in classical composition and classical saxophone at the Academy of Performing Arts in Banská Bystrica, she continued her studies in jazz in Prague before obtaining a Master’s degree at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen.
Her musical practice, influenced by both popular traditions and underground experimental scenes, aims to reveal new sonic spaces through breath, material, and the physicality of the instrument.
Playlist: – Pancrace – CSO – The Fluid Hammer (Penultimate Press, 2019) – Jonáš Gruska – Volanie – Spevy (self-release, 2017) – Iannis Xenakis – IV Mélanges – Pliéades (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 akazéhé – Burundi: traditional music (Ocora, 1968/2015) – Pre Vietnamese Music – Tribal Music of the Highland People (Calebass-Khene / Knboat) – Music of Vietnam (Folkways Records, 1965) – Tambourinaires de Bukirasazi – Tambours royaux “Ingoma” – Burundi: traditional music (Ocora, 1968/2015) – Alvin Lucier – Braid (2012), from Works for the Ever Present Orchestra (Black Truffle, 2020) – Lucie Páchová – Uvnitř – Krandzhilitsa (Skupina, 2023) – Adrián Demori – Kvarteto – movement 1 (canon) – Žiadba (Another Timbre, 2019) – Michaela Turcerová – fi-hoi polloi – alene et (mappa editions, 2024)
A broadcast from INA-GRM – Translation and dubbing by Spencer Bambrough.
