Anesz Szalai & Zoltán Demeter
Live-improvised experimental electronic music, sound installations, and art spaces — from Budapest and Berlin to the Hungarian countryside.
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Drawing from improvisation, sound design, and the language of space — ANEZ works at the threshold where sound becomes meaning.
ANEZ is Anesz Szalai and Zoltán Demeter: a Hungarian experimental electronic duo formed in 2011, with a decade of performances across Europe, Japan, and the USA. Their work spans live electronic improvisation, sound installation, film composition, and contemporary dance — always rooted in the idea that music is a living, reactive process.
Recent
2026 — ongoing
A live performance experiment: one human voice, transformed in real time. Anesz Szalai's voice is the sole source of sound — looped, layered, and reshaped live by Zoltán Demeter's reactive sound engineering into a fully improvised piece. No samples. No pre-recorded material. Everything you hear is built from scratch in the room, in the moment. Each performance is unique and unrepeatable.
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2023 — Forspiel Festival, Berlin
Recorded live at Forspiel Festival in Berlin — ANEZ's first fully improvised concert captured as an album. Giant TV lamps from the 1960s responded directly to the music, their light controlled entirely by the sound being made in the room. Plural marked a turning point: away from composed material and toward the radical openness of total live improvisation that now defines their experimental electronic music practice.
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The Place
MAMA's House — Open Yard of Sound Art is an annual event built around transforming the place: new sound installations rise in the yard, and musical, literary, visual, and solo performances move through the house and garden. It's grandma's old house in a small village in south-west Hungary, Belezna — one ANEZ has been working on for years, letting the building and the yard grow into their own form of self-expression through design.
This year's centrepiece was the Solfeggio Tent, a multichannel sound installation built around solfeggio frequencies — an experimental sound therapy spot that pulled visitors in as active participants in the sound rather than passive listeners.
ANEZ closed the evening with an improvised set built entirely from manipulated human voice, shaped live and never to be repeated the same way twice. Earlier, Fatime Songoró gave a solo performance, weaving fragments, memory, and live saxophone into an intimate, shared piece.
Belezna, Zala County, Hungary
An annual open yard — first edition by invitation, opening to a wider audience next year.
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About
ANEZ was formed in Hungary in 2011. Anesz Szalai is a singer, electronic music producer and sound designer. Zoltán Demeter is a bass player, sound designer and music producer. Both have extensive backgrounds in composition and performance, with classical and jazz training — a foundation they have spent years deliberately unlearning in favour of radical improvisation.
Based in Berlin for a decade, they performed across Europe, Japan, and the USA. Their output spans studio albums, live electronic performance, film composition, and contemporary dance — including releases on Chi-Recordings and Mamazone Recordings, and appearances at festivals and venues across Central Europe. They are now building a new chapter rooted in the Hungarian countryside.
ANEZ has been described by Recorder Magazine as "the flagships of the intellectual electronic music scene" — a reputation built on a practice that refuses fixed forms. Their experimental electronic music has been featured at events in Berlin's underground circuit, including the Forspiel Festival, and written about by international press and labels including 2419 Record Label and Katarkombe Berlin.
"Wonderfully futuristic — tech, but with a soul, electronic but with melody. Kind of like Björk in a jet plane with Kraftwerk and Aphex Twin."Simon Sixsmith — 2419 Label
"The flagships of the intellectual electronic music scene."Recorder Magazine
"A skillful experimental duo with a symbiotic bond of experimental sounds, visuals and theatrical sceneries."Katarkombe Berlin
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