After both my parents died, I spent a last summer listening to my childhood home — the deer in the garden, the wasps in the attic, old family cassettes, and the vanished sounds that are only remembered.
SWR Kultur 2026
In the North Pennines during springtime, I spent days listening with Josephine Dickinson — a totally deaf poet, musician and composer. The piece traces where our different ways of hearing meet.
SWR Kultur 2025
Deep in the Onsernone Valley, Pablo and I found loose sheets of paper marked “Basalt” — notes by a queer geologist who fled the Nazis and disappeared in this remote Swiss valley. We put their philosophy of listening into practice.
With Pablo Diserens
forms of minutiae / Vertical Music 2025
Premiered at Eventi Letterari Monte Verità 2025
For the Luxembourg Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2025, I composed a piece from field recordings across Luxembourg — tracing a day of listening at the edges where human infrastructure meets living environments.
In collaboration with Valentin Bansac, Mike Fritsch and Alice Loumeau
For over ten years, I have been recording the Morteratsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps. It has become a presence with voice and agency — something close to a person.
New York Times Op-Docs / UNESCO & UN Headquarters / NY Climate Week / forms of minutiae, 2025
Documentary by Lutz Stautner
Insects in a meadow communicate through vibrations imperceptible to us. I composed a piece from local insect vibrations recorded by the biologist Juan, played on shakers hidden under the floor and behind the walls of the hut.
Klang Moor Schopfe 2023
With Juan José López Díez
What does it feel like to be inside a beehive? In this installation, I turned a barn into a life-sized resonating body of a colony, transmitting the vibrations of a living hive into the building’s structure in realtime.
I recorded an Inumaki tree (also known as buddhist pine) with a contact microphone during strong wind in a forest on a Japanese island. It sounded surprisingly musical.
Vertical Music, 2019
As a tribute to the endangered insect world, the project presents a loudspeaker orchestra with human and insect musicians in botanical gardens and other places.
On the outskirts of a Sicilian town, we recorded mud volcanoes bubbling away near Mount Etna. Each vent had its own unpredictable voice.
ETH Zurich, 2022 / Hyein Seo (Seoul) 2023
Over several years, we followed the path of alpine water — from the receding tongue of a glacier to the turbines of a hydroelectric dam and the reservoir chambers beneath Zurich. A trilogy tracing the metamorphosis of water in the Anthropocene.
With Fabian Gutscher, Dennis Häusler, Johannes Rebsamen and Matthias Vollmer (Institute of Landscape Architecture C. Girot, ETH Zurich)
