Two violas, two voices, two classically trained musicians—performers, improvisers, and composers—who don’t settle into any one genre but simply plunder its resources, and before you can pin them down, they’re already on their way to new horizons. They explore musical traditions just as much as they invent them on the fly.

Jelena Popržan, a fixture on the Austrian music scene for over a decade, is considered one of the country’s most versatile and adaptable musicians. With her well-stocked toolbox of experimental playing, preparation, and vocal techniques, Flora Geißelbrecht transforms herself and her viola into a meta-instrument that feels equally at home in jazz, folk, and contemporary music.