The Cedar Presents
Franck Vigroux with ZETI
Tuesday, March 23, 2027
Doors 7PM | Show 7:30PM
Seated | All Ages
This show is part of The Cedar's New and Experimental Music Series, made possible in part by funding from New Music USA's Organization Fund and the hundreds of donors whose generosity helps sustain our programs each year.
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about this show
French composer, producer, and electronic experimentalist Franck Vigroux is an internationally recognized artist and a true icon of the live electronic music scene. His style is unlike any other: he treats sound as a physical material—sculpted, eroded, saturated, then stripped down—and blends industrial roughness with harmonic delicacy.
ZETI is a minimalist drone-artpop project by Margaret Stutt performing on accordion, piano, synthesizer, field recording and / or voice. They present interdisciplinary collective emotional processing and truth telling, exploration of nonduality, authenticity and openness to possibility.
Franck Vigroux
An internationally renowned artist, Franck Vigroux is a true icon of the live electronic music scene; his style is unlike any other: he treats sound as a physical material—sculpted, eroded, saturated, and then stripped down—and brings together a certain industrial roughness with great harmonic delicacy. For him, power never excludes nuance, and silence is just as effective as volume.
His new solo live set consists mainly of new material. More contemplative than his usual work, the set unfolds vast atmospheric layers, slow textures, and soundscapes that open up and let the listener lose themselves. These suspended spaces are traversed by pulses—rhythmic surges that emerge, build in tension, and then disintegrate. The concert unfolds through intersections: between the stretching of time and the urgency of the beat, between light and shadow, between organic matter and the machine.
A few pieces from his repertoire, reimagined for the occasion, serve as landmarks on this immersive journey. Alone with his electronic instruments, Franck Vigroux performs each evening a music of the moment—physical and sensitive—to be experienced as a journey.
ZETI
ZETI is a minimalist drone-artpop project by Margaret Stutt performing on accordion, piano, synthesizer, field recording and / or voice. They present interdisciplinary collective emotional processing and truth telling, exploration of nonduality, authenticity and openness to possibility. They are primarily interested in exploring elemental simplicity and the interconnectedness of individual and boundless forms.
Stutt gained public prominence with her project Pezzettino in Milwaukee and Brooklyn through a heavy touring and gig schedule and wide media coverage in the independent press and radio from 2008-2012. They suffered a mental health crisis in 2012 which included a 1.5-month state-level hospitalization which forced them to stop performing publicly indefinitely. Doctors told the family they may never work again and should explore disability services. They moved to Oakland the following spring for a fresh start and progressive community, and through grit, tenacity, a beginner’s mindset and vigilant intensive wellness discipline, they continued to release recordings “from the cave” between 2013-2020 that reflected gravitas, trauma recovery, integrative processing, experimentation and generative identity. This work gained accolades from national outlets including NPR All Songs Considered (2020) and charted nationally on independent stations (2018). With 16 albums released to date, they returned to public performance for the first time for a 10-minute activation of Abraham Cruvillegas’ Rastrojo sculpture at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2024 and returned to live performance with a sold out presentation at a jazz club in Milwaukee in 2026.
Stutt’s father was a disciple of Swami Rama in the Himalayan yogic tradition, which she also initiated into in 2002. She holds degrees in Art History and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her Zen practice is rooted in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki and she became lay ordained in 2024.
They released a benefit EP “Zero” and art print in the Fall of 2027 and are releasing “Form and Formlessness” on March 12 on their own imprint Kannon Records.