Extract of an article published in "Le Courrier"

" Name: Vincent Hänni. Born in 1972 in Genecy in the Geneva countryside. Mid-sized, brown hair, blue eyes. Professional Occupation: Full-time polyvalent instrumentalist. Particularity: Works in the shadows. (...) Vincent Hänni is a brilliant artistic partner. He is well-learned and highly sensitive. In other words, precious. (...) His name appears often but he remains a mystery - the best kept secret on the Geneva scene. (...) "When I discovered electricity I became hooked", explains Vincent Hänni, feverishly. "The effects, the sound turned upside down and distorted, this anomaly: a saturated signal contains a huge amount of harmonies. We don't find that in classical music, where the interpreter tries to reproduce the sound as perfectly as possible". The obsession with the lucky accident never leaves this Genevan. (...) Whatever could have captured the young musician's ear in such a way? "The materiality of sound". An abstract concept? On the contrary, "the physical confrontation with the sound". With its unfathomable mysteries too(...) "
RODERIC MOUNIR (english translation)