The MINTON–BEYER DUO is like a study of the phenomenon of the voice using two different instruments: the human voice and the daxophone.

Phil Minton, perhaps the most famous and notorious vocal artist in free improvisation, is known for his remarkable extended vocal techniques, which encompass the entire spectrum of human expression: from simple breathing, murmuring, grumbling, and whispering to whistling, belching and gasping, screaming and moaning – from shrill highs to rumbling lows, everything is at his disposal. And all this is always paired with an extraordinary, unique presence and an absolutely unfiltered expression.

On the daxophone, on the other hand, the imitation of human and animal sounds and speech patterns seems to have been built into the nature and character of the instrument. Compared to other instruments, it seems very easy to imitate animal sounds and voices on the daxophone, from birdsong to grunting, roaring, croaking, bellowing, quacking, chattering, cooing, and chirping of various animal species. All of this has been well researched and tested in practice by Kriton Beyer in cross-species communication with his daxophone as an instrument, and is also audibly processed in the musical dialogue in this duo's work.

Acoustically, despite the speed, variability, and richness of the musical information, the sound of this duo is simple, clear, unambiguous, and direct, and thus very intimate and never artificial. The two voices complement each other equally, without one ever obscuring the other; they move somewhere between the animalistic and the human, sometimes comical and grotesque, sometimes subtle and fragile, in an intuitive musical exchange between two multifaceted voices of different natures.