em guide ellen arkbro: “i love making sound in a room and having people there to experience it”
The Swedish composer, musician and sound artist Ellen Arkbro is known for her very precise productions, for which she works with both Just intonation and Meantone tempering. So far she has released four albums, “For Organ And Brass” (Subtext, 2017), “Chords” (Subtext, 2019), “I Get Along Without You Very Well” (together with Johan Graden, Thrill Jockey, 2022), “Sounds While Waiting” (W.25th, 2023), in the spring 2025 her collaboration with Microtub (Robin Hayward, Martin Taxt, and Peder Simonsen) will be released: “Clouds for Three Tubas”. In the run-up to the performance by Arkbro and Microtub at this year’s CTM Festival, Ellen Arkbro and Thomas Venker chatted via Zoom.
noies chimären jasmina al-qaisi: psycho-somatic scores with jess aszodi
In her third and last Chimäre, author Jasmina Al-Qaisi searches for where her voice rests. Lead by artist Jess Aszodi she goes on a journey to look for it in various locations in her body: memory, pain, inheritage, language, resistance, breath and soil.
noies chimären jasmina al-qaisi: cuchicheo* with nicole l’huillier
Jasmina met with Nicole L'Huillier in her studio in Berlin. All the utterances that they shared together are mixed in a co-writing process readable, visible and audible in the following article. The wires, silicones and conductors whistle various versions of world-sensing. While grasping, they lose frequencies and they melt the difference between emitting and receiving between devices and themselves.
