Dániel Váczi Glissonic Trio
Glissonic is a completely new wind instrument family, invented by Dániel Váczi, developing with Tóbiás Terebessy since 2016. The main novelty is that instead of tone holes it uses a longitudinal gap or slot on the tube of the instrument. The two sides of the slot are covered with magnetic foil which attract a magnetized ribbon on top. The ribbon is fixed on the upper end, stretched and lifted up from the lower end as a string on a violin. You can push down the ribbon anywhere, it will seal up perfectly above it, so you can produce any note in the pitch continuum. It can be played with eight fingers of the two hands or by sliding one finger up and down. The glissonic system can be used on all kinds of wind instruments: flute, whistle, clarinet, saxophone, oboe etc. The first model is the glissotar, based on the Hungarian tarogato, which is a single-reed instrument with a conical wooden body.

The program of Daniel Vaczi’s Glissonic Trio revolves around the glissonic instruments that Vaczi has invented. His partners in this are two pillars of the Hungarian free and experimental jazz scene, Máté Pozsár, with whom they also play in the Decolonize Your Mind Society, and Zsolt Sárvári Kovács, with whom Dániel has been playing in various formations for twenty-five years.

Dániel Váczi
is a saxophone player, composer, inventor and researcher of musical instruments and games. Born in 1972, Budapest.

He founded his jazz trio in 2001. It became a quintet called Multet in 2009. He developed a “Reticular Music System” which is both a music theoretical approach and a technique for composing and improvising on the other. His invented a new woodwind family: the Glissonic.

Daniel Vaczi is one of the most exciting, multi-talented and versatile musicians of the Hungarian music scene. An inventor of instrument-families (Glissonic) and logic games (Urobo), composer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist, he explores and pushes the boundaries of classical, contemporary and jazz. He composes music for different formations, player piano/organ etc… As a musical theorist he invented a new musical system called ‘reticular’, meaning grid-like in which the pitch of the note is connected to its position in time; a kind of spacetime in music. With his musical groups they discover and search for the unity of strict compositions and free improvisations, using the toolkit of contemporary classical music and modern jazz.