ANEZ — 2012 to 2026
A complete archive of ANEZ work across music, performance, installation, and collaboration.
Belezna, Zala County, Hungary — summer 2026
In 2026 ANEZ founded MAMA's House, an annual open yard for sound art at grandma's old house in Belezna — bringing contemporary art to places where it is hard to reach. The first edition's centrepiece was the Solfeggio Tent: a six-channel sound installation in pink tulle with a sofa above a 40 Hz subwoofer, the prelude to the upcoming installation Solfeggio Path.
In development
A new musical project exploring the boundaries of composition: complex pieces created in real time from a single instrument — the voice of Anesz Szalai.
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin — Long Night of Sciences, June 2024
A live performance that retold a hundred years of the recorded voice. Zsolt Török played Róbert Gragger’s three-minute reading from 1924 on the touchscreen granular synthesizer he programmed for the Robert Gragger Retu(r)ned installation, while ANEZ improvised with voice and live electronics. The set evolved like the history of sound manipulation itself: bare snippets of the original first, then only the tape techniques of 1950s musique concrète, then effects, time-stretching and granular processing up to today. Between the pieces, Zoltán Demeter explained each historical step to the audience — and afterwards the visitors played the touchscreen themselves.
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin — 8 July – 18 October 2024
A sound and archival installation created by ANEZ and Zsolt Török (creative coder). The work brought the voice of Collegium Hungaricum's founding director, Róbert Gragger, back to life using his 1924 shellac recording, provided by the Lautarchiv der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin — loaded into a touchscreen granular synthesizer programmed by Török that visitors play themselves. Flagship of the CH100 centenary programme, curated by Zsuzsanna Petró.
Zönoteka Gallery, Berlin — Vorspiel / Transmediale, 25 January 2024
A live performance created in collaboration with Zönoteka art gallery and Zsolt Török (creative coder), presented as part of Vorspiel — the city-wide programme running alongside Transmediale festival in Berlin.
Vorspiel — Berlin · vinyl edition spring 2027
ANEZ's first fully improvised concert, recorded live at Vorspiel in Berlin. Two 1960s TV lamps, triggered by the voice and the instruments through a Max/MSP patch. Coming on vinyl in spring 2027, pressed by Hanaton in Zalaegerszeg. A turning point toward the work they make now.
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin — February 2022
An improvised sound performance on BAYZ speakers — a 360° speaker system developed by Hungarian engineer Zoltán Bay. A spatial listening experience designed around the architecture of the room and the physics of sound.
September 2022
June 2021
Written and produced during lockdown — an album of fog, distance, and interior space. The HAZE Remixes followed in 2022, inviting collaborators to dissolve the original further.
November 2016
December 2015
Tokyo — March 2014
Four concerts across Tokyo: Shinjuku Loft, Batica, Amp Cafe, and Forest Limit. At Amp Cafe, artist Mehico painted a large psychedelic work live on canvas during the set.
October 2014
Alongside the album release, ANEZ built a 3-metre tall A-frame paper sculpture — inspired by the form of the Megyeri bridge in Hungary but entirely its own object. Aluminium rods spike outward from its front and sides, each acting as a touch-sensitive conductor connected to a sampler loaded with song material. Anesz performed by touching the rods, turning the sculpture into a playable instrument and collapsing the roles of artwork, stage set and musical interface into one. Later shown as The Bridge at MOME, the Zsolnay Cultural Quarter in Pécs, and at the opening of the El Kazovszkij retrospective at the Hungarian National Gallery.
July 2014
December 2013
Szkéné Theatre, Budapest — November 2013
An experimental dance performance in collaboration with PSIX Project. Anesz performed on stage alongside two professional dancers, wearing a self-developed sensor-wired dress that translated movement into sound. Music composed and performed live by ANEZ.
April 2013 — Chi-Recordings
The English counterpart to MAVANAMA — the version the audience met. With tracks including Terrifying Mind, played live in Hungary and abroad, it was this record that placed ANEZ in the music scene.
October 2012 — with Eszter Márfi (piccolo flute) & Fanni Edőcs (cembalo)
A chamber music reimagining of ANEZ's experimental pop pieces, performed with classical musicians. Anesz designed handcrafted paper costumes worn by all performers, and created porcelain puppet-inspired makeup for the project — collapsing the boundary between music, costume design and performance art.
February 2012 — Self-released
ANEZ's debut self-released album. The beginning of everything.