About

Stefan Kägi – chair performer, lamellophone virtuoso, passionate computer musician, and federally certified squeaky pig tamer – studied at the Zurich University of the Arts.

In his artistic practice, the exploration of banana costumes and algorithms interact dynamically with each other. It ranges from classical and contemporary music on a variety of keyboard instruments, composition, improvisation, sound and graphic design, creative coding, music engraving, editorial work, song accompaniment, instrument building, to performance and theater.

The Heidenheimer Zeitung described his playing with the following words: "In keeping with the class-struggle pathos, Kägi played the piano extremely expressively, almost percussively, which was admittedly very impressive, but not always a painless experience for the human ear." He has performed at venues including the Tonhalle Zurich, the LAC in Lugano, the Gasteig in Munich, the Kaserne Basel, the Hyperlokal Zurich, on the Limmat, and at festivals such as the Dark Music Days in Reykjavik, the Zurich Festival, “Platz für andere Musik”, the Zeitfestivals in Zurich and Augsburg, the Domleschger Sommerkonzerte, the far Festival in Nyon, the #workoutjazz Madness and the #workoutjazz Marathon, and the Emser Bachwoche.

At Breitkopf & Härtel, he appeared as co-editor of a new edition of a work by Joachim Raff. Current projects include the Japanese HC techno band Candytoe, for organ and digital oscillators, the duo OHRABLÜATLER, the collective PHON3M, CODENAME Flechtenflöte, “The Reality of Dreams”, "What futures are you longing for?" and the duo TASAI. With a grant from the canton of Zurich, he developed horror instruments.