Markus Sieber's 'Chambers' came together across three days at Berlin's Funkhaus with no revisions permitted and no instrument off-limits, built entirely on the conviction that intuition knows more than planning does.
The innovative composer discusses 'Broadsides,' an electroacoustic project set in the American South that treats traditional instruments as loaded cultural objects while pushing back against regional homogenization.
The Berlin-based composer's album 'Domschatzkammer' refracts instruments through one another, slows a Bach chorale beyond recognition, and transforms the harp into an emotional outlet shaped by catastrophe.
The experimental cellist discusses her ambient album 'Just Like Any Other Day (어느날): Background Music For Your Mundane Activities', a four-year project born from isolation that turned memories of Korean cinema and cheap-sounding synthesizers into companionship for daily living.
A UNESCO World Heritage site built during Lebanon's optimistic 1960s but abandoned during civil war becomes the unlikely studio for 'Sphaîra,' an experimental sound artist's most ambitious work.
Operating in self-imposed exile, Colin Self turned night into studio and meditation into medium, emerging with 'r∞L4nGc'—an album that speaks in secret tongues to commune with departed souls.
On 'Rewilding,' old poems and rare instruments mix with the natural acoustics of historic spaces, creating music that questions our grip on the past—and the past's grip on us.