Angstmachine | composition series

Angstmachine | composition series

Premiere announcement: “The Calm Before the Storm“, TO)pot 2026 Festival of Radical Soundwalks, “Walking with Silence”, production: Cona, venue: Cukrarna…

My practice is grounded in sound, and I often include tactile, olfactory and visual elements to make spatial experiences more visceral in an attempt to trigger empathy and ecological awareness in listeners. I love to work with small listening communities that gather in a site-specific outdoor soundwalk or a multichannel or ambisonic exhibition or performance space that allows for deep listening. During field recording, I connect to the environment by shifting attention to the diversity of sound events in an acoustic atmosphere. In this interplay of spatial perception of sonic occurrences, I experience an aesthetic, emotional, empathic, or even spiritual connectedness to things, and I wish to share this affinity and understanding of dark ecologies with others. My sound is often microtonally tuned and appeals to those who enjoy demanding frequencies. I find inspiration in posthumanist philosophy, which proposes a cultural shift to non-anthropocentric sensitivity in the environment, free from reliance on binaries or exclusions. I ask myself, what stories do the voices of others tell? Do they possess musicality, and can humans experience kinship with them?