Radical Unintentionality

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Radical Unintentionality
Radical Unintentionality

Artists’ residencies are often aimed towards results in order to bulk up institutions’ portfolios. But what happens if the only goal is unintentionality? An essay inspired by a workshop in the OneBeat program.

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Photo: Raldie Young
Remix: Ailín Grad

I Listened, Therefore I Was

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I Listened, Therefore I Was
I Listened, Therefore I Was

Songs can entail memories about who we are. In an essay inspired by the OneBeat workshop «Everything Old is New Again», our writer reflects on the role of music as a source of one’s own biography.

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Photo: Sara González Salamanca
Remix: Ailín Grad

Entangled Thoughts: Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) & Albert Oehlen

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Entangled Thoughts: Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) & Albert Oehlen
Entangled Thoughts: Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) & Albert Oehlen

At Klang Moor Schopfe 2021, Philipp Rhensius created 12 experimental audio essays. Listen to a podcast inspired by the sound installation of Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) & Albert Oehlen.

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Photo: Markus Wicki

How to Disappear

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How to Disappear with Rie Nakajima
How to Disappear

At Klang Moor Schopfe 2021, Philipp Rhensius created 12 experimental audio essays. Listen to a podcast inspired by the sound installation of Rie Nakajima.

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Photo: Markus Wicki

Queering the Ears

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Queering the Ears
Queering the Ears

At Klang Moor Schopfe 2021, Philipp Rhensius created 12 experimental audio essays. Listen to a podcast inspired by the sound installation of A. Frei, Franziska Koch (OOR Saloon) in collaboration with Nelson Irsapoullé, Tracy September, and Vivian Wang Sommer.

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Number Sounds: Ryoichi Kurokawa

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Number Sounds: Ryoichi Kurokawa
Number Sounds: Ryoichi Kurokawa

At Klang Moor Schopfe 2021, Philipp Rhensius created 12 experimental audio essays. Listen to a podcast inspired by the sound installation of Ryoichi Kurokawa.

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Photo: Herbert Staub

Post-Euphoria – A Reincarnated Ruin: Part 2

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Post-Euphoria – A Reincarnated Ruin: Part 2
Post-Euphoria – A Reincarnated Ruin: Part 2

In part 2 of Guy Baron’s Norient series on his practice-based music research project «Post-Euphoria», he thinks about compositional strategies to interpret themes of recollection and reimagination.

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Quote: Guy Baron
Design: Ali Sayah
Photo: Hermine Patch
Sound: Guy Baron

Staying Creative Between Beauty and Chaos in Rio de Janeiro

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Staying Creative Between Beauty and Chaos in Rio de Janeiro
Staying Creative Between Beauty and Chaos in Rio de Janeiro

How Rio has shaped its music over the centuries and invented its future through the vision of artists, creators, and scholars.

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Design: Šejma Fere

Listening at the Threshold

Listening at the Threshold
Listening at the Threshold
Listening at the Threshold

What is real and what is imagined? In her text inspired by a Laurie Anderson lecture, our writer thinks of listening as a possibility to become a stranger to oneself.

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Design: Ali Sayah
Remix: Nicolas Castelli

2:36 PM Nairobi

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2:36 PM Nairobi
2:36 PM Nairobi

An experimental podcast full of samples from KMRUs music, and snippets from an interview conducted in his house in 2020, just before the COVID-19 Pandemic. Currently sound artist and experimental ambient musician KMRU lives in Berlin.

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Design: MR. LU*

Post-Euphoria – A Practice-Based Music Research: Part 1

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Post-Euphoria – A Practice-Based Music Research: Introduction
Post-Euphoria – A Practice-Based Music Research: Part 1

In a 4-part series, Guy Baron reflects upon the making of his album «Post-Euphoria». Utilizing practice-based research, he examines notions of nostalgia in relation to lost experiences and club music.

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Quote: Guy Baron
Design: Ali Sayah
Photo: Robert Bartholot
Sound: Guy Baron