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soil loop (Berlin)
soil loop (Berlin)

2025
soil ecologies, acoustic processing and generative synthesis

Five soil landscapes from local earth samples, foliage, and cultivated mycelium, creating miniature ecosystems for insects and plant life.

soil loop (field recordings)
soil loop (field recordings)

2025
spatial audio recordings

Field recordings from soil loop project at the Höxter Botanical Garden in June 2024, mixed in spatial audio (Ambisonics 7th Order).

soil loop (Botanic Garden Höxter)
soil loop (Botanic Garden Höxter)

2024
ecological research & sound installation

A sound installation for the Höxter Botanical Garden that uses acoustic signals from ground microphones to create an immersive and generative electronic soundscape.

pasos.resuenan
pasos.resuenan

2024
collaborative material investigation, performance and installation

A joint inquiry about the creative process, culminating in a devised performance in January 2024.

archived_
archived_

2023
mixed media documentation project

Ongoing archival research project into my audio and video documentation over a 9-month period between September 2021 and June 2022.

verse V
verse V

2022
trombone, sample and surface transducer

Mis pasos en esta calle / resuenan / en otra calle / donde / oigo mis pasos / pasar en esta calle / donde / Sólo es real la niebla — Octavio Paz

Pavilion (Excavation)
Pavilion (Excavation)

2021
collaborative performance project

Eight musicians become an archeological team on an excavation site, looking for traces of lost structures in the city.

Membrane
Membrane

2021
Sound installation, collaboration with Swantje Silber

A semi-permeable construction which plays with sonic and visual filtering processes. It stands as a counterpoint, reverberation and distortion of its natural environment.

seven verses
seven verses

2021
one or two trumpets (optional electronics)

An invitation for performers to explore the space and the dynamics of a performance situation. From seven verses and two performers, an infinite number of performance situations can arise.

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point line plane

2020
for 18 musicians

Approaching musical notation like a painter would a canvas, growing abstract forms from a palette of dots and lines.