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Olivier Nussbaum

During his musical career, Olivier Nussbaum had already the opportunity to play with several jazz formations from duo to big band and also to collaborate in a multiplicity of multimedia creations. He had the pleasure to play with exeptional musicians, in Switzerland or abroad (France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria, England, Poland, Canada, Cuba), on stage or in studio, among others with the uncredible beninese Lionel Loueke, the canadians Charles Papasoff, François D'Amours, Jean-Pierre Zannella, the English Dave O'Higgins, the french Denis Leloup and Francis Varis, the yugoslavian Stepko Steve Gut,  the russian Arkaidi Shilkloper and the swiss Matthieu Michel, Jean-François Bovard, Teddy Baerlocher, Thierry Lang, Hans Koch, Matthias Ziegler...

He played in international Festivals like "Festival International de jazz de Montréal" (Canada), les "Euro Pop Days" from Freiburg im Brisgau (Germany), "le Festival International des Musiques Universitaires" - FIMU - from Belfort (France), The "Festival d'Avignon" (France), The "Francosonic Festival of London" (England) or the Havana International Jazz Festival (Cuba).

From 2005 Olivier Nussbaum is endorsed by the swiss bass and guitar maker Duvoisin Guitares, by the american bass and guitar maker J.-D. Lewis (Warrior), the swedish amplifier builder EBS, and the american strings builder GHS, showing an international recognition.

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Size

In 1984, Size is going in Dakar to work in studio. On the spot, he met Prince and Youssoun'dour and went on tour in Senegal and Mauritania. From 1997, he played in the european tour from the band A-Poetik  and played in the Montreux jazz festival thanks to the album "300'000 Km" distributed by Universal Musique. In 2003-2004, he leaves for Mexico and then for Japan where he composed two movies's music with sounds from those Cities. In september 2005, he went on tour in Germany with the band "Love Motel" to play in particular in the "Copop" of Cologne and in the "PopCom" of Berlin. In january 2006, he played for the Richard Greaves's exhibition in New York, and create in June 2006 the music for the movie  "Beyond the volley of the clones". in october 2006, he recorded the sounds of New York's streets for the project "The blue man". from january to april 2007, he composed the musics for the Breitling's worldwild publicities.

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Maïté Colin

From 1992, with Moreno Verioni, Maïté Colin realize museographics works. Together they conceive with the scientific collaboration of Luigi Boitani, the exhibition "La Bête, un regard croisé entre l'homme et le loup" in 1998. Then she works to the adaptation of this exhibition for Naturel Sciences Museum of Turin (Italy). She plays in video duo since 2003 with Michael Egger. They have played or collaborated with among others Gérald Zbinden (guitar), Wojtek Klakla (painting), Marcel Papaux (percussion), Ninh Lê Quan (percussion), and the fribourgeois's group Beautifuld Leopard. [ a n y m a ] is invited to reside in  "l'Art à Romainmôtier", in the Home Made "labor für musik und medien do-it-yourself sound electronic" project. In 2006 they are taking part in Home Made festival, in the "Villa Blanche", in La Chaux-de-Fonds,  in Kunstlerhaus S11 in Soleure (installations), in Walcheturm in Zürich and in Kunsthaus of Glaris (Installation and concert with Andres Bosshard).

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Michael Egger

Independant artist in Fribourg and collective [ a n y m a ] 's cofounder, he develops teaching support concepts for the Live-TV project with young and adults people. Since 2003, he is the technical video director for the "Belluard Bollwerk International" Festival in Fribourg, and since 2005 for the International Movies "FIFF" festival in Fribourg. Invited lecturer in the High School of Arts in Bern to talk about "Jitter" phenomenon, he directs programmation workshops and controllers's development workshops. He creates different hardwares et softwares, and conceives interactiv video installations and some video instruments like the Videobass (2003) and a virtual camera (2005). Guitarist and singer in different bands  like Obsidian (Sarah-Maria Bürgin, Stefan Baumann, Franziska Bürgin).

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