Zinc & Copper / Jasmine Guffond

Zinc & Copper is one of the few distinctly contemporary brass chamber music ensembles in the world. Their trademark sound fuses mood, modes, frequency, timbre and microtonality into a single harmonious whole. This unmistakable ensemble sound is characterised by the warmth of low brass, a fine harmonic richness of colour and extended playing techniques.
The trio was founded in 2005 by Robin Hayward and since 2014 consists of Hayward, Elena Kakaliagou and Hilary Jeffery. Their unique music is the result of many years of practical research into brass chamber music, just intonation and microtonality as a trio - and in collaboration with many composers, musicians and artists. Zinc & Copper show that contemporary music can be accessible and enjoyable, without losing integrity. With their unique ensemble sound, they succeed in making contemporary music accessible to a wide audience.

Live performances by Jasmine Guffond encourage deep, embodied listening, exploring sound as a physical force, felt through low-end frequencies and extreme dynamics that range from barely audible, to moments of intense volume. Guffond’s releases intuitively explore abstract sound as well as referencing traditional musical structures, aspiring to develop a musical language as much interested in sonic phenomena as the emotive power of music. Interested in the interplay between human and machine agency in electronic music making, extra-musical concepts also influence her aesthetic process. Her 2024 album Alien Intelligence explored themes of machine autonomy through Max/MSP programming and a Serge modular synthesizer, a process that questioned an assumed central position of human subjectivity in socio-technical assemblages. Her 2025 album Muzak for the Encouragement of Unproductivity, is a poetic inversion of Muzak’s traditional role in stimulating seamless productivity in the workplace.

Line-up: Jasmine Guffond

Arrangör: Zinc Copper