Savant Flaneur is an avant-garde chamber collective working in sound, installation, and collaborative artistic practices on Treaty 1 Territory.  Led by Nathan Krahn and Gage Salnikowksi, their work has been presented at Nuit Blanche, send+receive, cluster festival of art, space(doxa, Real Love, Rainbow Trout Festival, Virtuosi Concert Series, and more. Previous collaborators include Canada's poet laureate Chimwemwe Undi, architect Joe Kalturnyk, Polaris Prize Winner Zoon, composers Yannis Kyriakides, Andy Moore, Liew Niyomkarn, Dasha Plett, and more.

From late night empty basement shows to performing for 20,000 people at the Museum of Human Rights for Nuit Banche, Savant Flaneur belongs equally in dive bars as in prestigious galleries.  Often referred to as “chamber punk,” Savant Flaneur expels the dichotomy between western art music and colloquial music scenes.  The goal looks to reconcile and adapt the concept of “Art Music” to a general public. 

Savant Flaneur’s compositions rely on elements of fluxus, chance, musical games, graphic notation, structured and free improvisation, prepared and non-traditional instrumentation, audience participation, process based composition.

Influenced by free jazz, minimalism, avant-garde, nu-metal, Gregorian chant, and pop.  Inspired by artists such as John Cage, John Bapp, Sarah Hennies, Swans, Anthony Braxton, Fire-Toolz, Henry Flynt, Sonic Youth, and Kali Mallone.  

Savant Flaneur is the idle virtuosi, ambivalent wunderkind, aimless and gifted.