Alen and Nenad Sinkauz

Alen Sinkauz and Nenad Sinkauz are composers, musicians, and performers. They both graduated in Musicology and Ethnomusicology in Padua. The Sinakuz brothers compose and shape music for feature-length and short films, musical, dance and theater shows, radio broadcasts, as well as site-specific, and multidisciplinary performances. They collaborate with prominent film and theater directors and visual and video artists in the country and abroad. They won five Golden Arena awards and prizes for original film music at the Croatian Film Days. Their artistic work, especially when playing live, is mostly oriented towards exploring unconventional musical forms, improvised and creative music, but their musical roots comes from the 90’ underground metal and punk scene. Through performance and composition, which are strictly connected in their work,  they are interested in a dialogue of acoustic and electronic instruments, hybridity of the connection of musical and theatrical principles in performance as the research landmark for new performing formats. In 2021 they started Kopaton records, label for experimental and creative music as a platform connecting musicians from Croatia and south east Europe. Currently they are involved in the experimental trio Roj Osa.In 2010 they started the International Festival of Experimental and Improvised Music Audioart in Pula (Croatia).Founders of the avant rock band East Rodeo with whom they released three albums and the audiovisual projects Day of the Year, Sicomat and Propulzor. They are co-founders of an impro big band CRI Orchestra which gathers around twenty musicians from Croatia. Founders of the artistic organization P137.