My name is Mona. I am a musician, mainly an improvisor. I play violin, viola, voice, electronics, and I compose. I was born in 1997 in the Reunion island, but I grew up in the Alps where I learned the violin and then discovered jazz when . I was immediately attracted by the creative potential that this music seemed to offer. I used this gateway to the world of improvisation.

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I studied at AMR, the Geneva's jazz club, then at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. My music is deeply influenced by the dutch impro scene. Then I moved back to Switzerland, where I felt I could develop my practice and I graduated from a master's degree at the Basel Music Academy (Open Creation, improvisation and electronic music). I played in original music projects , multimedia projects, as well as a theater play. Over the years, I developed an active refection on the cultural world and the place of improvisation in society as well as the responsibility of artists. My projects are often part of this refection and are close to the movements of European avant-garde free jazz, but they might also get lost in retro-futuristic science fction and travel inter spatially in the individual and collective imagination of worlds to come.

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Alongside my experiences as an artist in big cities and after my studies in Amsterdam, I went to Bretagne where I learned to sail on a 13 meters sailboat called LA LIMULE. It is from this very special experience that the idea to set up music sailing tours together with other musicians was born. The boat hosted five of these tours, and they all were unique in the experiences shared together with the band, the nature and the people of the sea.

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I am currently based in Geneva, I teach improvisation at AMR Jazz Club, and play in several projects such as  Killer Whales Music Theory, Saloperie, MERCALM, Oloma, Tier des Jahres, Children of Webern, Solaris, Improvising On Uranus, Musica Temporanea, and Tronco.

I am involve and active -as a curator and organizer- in two associations that promote improvised and experimental music in Geneva: AMR jazz club, and Arboretum Laboratoire de recherche artistique.

I feel inspired by Paul Motian, Nils Okland, The Necks, Donna Harraway, Misha Mengelberg, Sun Ra, Henry Purcell, Jen Shyu, Jon and Alice Coltrane, Evan Parker, Francois Villon, Ornette Coleman, Holger Czukay, Bob Ostertag, Dr N.Rajam, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Andrea Parkins (...)