Ecotonalities: No Other Home Than The In-Between
-OUS
Vinyl
2025
Soundscape
Sites between infrastructure and natural environments recorded with vibrational, airborne and electromagnetic microphones. Center piece of Luxembourg pavillon at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
tracing basalt in the onsernone valley
With Pablo Diserens
forms of minutiae / Vertical Music
CD and booklet
2025
Soundscape
Field recordings from the Onsernone Valley in Ticino (Switzerland), guided by the writings of Basalt — a geologist who believed sound leaves measurable traces in matter.
crying glacier
forms of minutiae
Vinyl
2025
Soundscape
Hydrophone and airborne recordings from a decade of visits to the Morteratsch Glacier in the Swiss Alps — an intimate portrait of melting ice and its intricate, ever-changing language.
Garden of Ediacara
-OUS
Vinyl
2024
Experimental Ambient
A musical eco-fiction set in the Ediacaran period, 600 million years ago — an ecosystem of soft-bodied creatures. Synthesized vocals, physical modeling instruments and microscopic field recordings.
Species Loneliness
-OUS
Digital
2024
Experimental Ambient
Muted songs haunted by eco-horror film aesthetics — a contemporary lament for vanishing species, woven with raw field recordings and degraded samples.
Flight of the Bumblebee II
With Patrick Kessler, Julian Sartorius and insects recorded by biologists
Unit Records
Double Vinyl LP
2024
Experimental / Field Recording
An homage to insects threatened by extinction. Side one: the slowest interpretation of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee blended with live insect signals. Side two: scientific recordings of insect vibrations.
Sonic Topologies
Compilation (curated by Ludwig Berger)
Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies Double Vinyl LP
2023
Sonic Research
Thirty sound artists, architects and researchers exploring the sounds of four sites in Zurich’s urban landscape — an empty reservoir, a botanical garden, a thermal bath and a lake.
photosynthetic beats
forms of minutiae
Vinyl
2023
Field recording
Underwater recordings of aquatic plants photosynthesizing in a bog pond in the Swiss Jura — oxygen bubbles creating polyrhythms.
Pseudo-Volcanic Voices
Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies
Digital
2022
Field Recording
Mud volcanoes near Mount Etna in Sicily. Each vent has its own unpredictable and unique voice, bubbling natural salty water, mud, gas and liquid hydrocarbons to the surface.
Buried Landscapes (Bodies of Water 3)
With Christophe Girot, Dennis Häusler, Johannes Rebsamen, Matthias Vollmer and Students of ETH Zurich
Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies
Vinyl and photo booklet
2022
Soundscape
Audiovisual documents from the hidden water infrastructure beneath Zurich — galleries carved into moraine, underground pumping stations, buried concrete reservoirs.
Dammed Landscapes (Bodies of Water 2)
With Christophe Girot, Dennis Häusler, Johannes Rebsamen, Matthias Vollmer and Students of ETH Zurich
Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies
Vinyl and photo booklet
2022
Field Recording
Audiovisual documents from hydropower dams in the Swiss Alps — monuments of modernity, recorded as the glaciers that feed them disappear.
Gotthard Transect
With Dennis Häusler, Johannes Rebsamen, Matthias Vollmer (concept)
Cecile Baumann, Geraldine Burger, Dimitri Häfliger, Laura Hunziker, Benjamin Müller, Giulia Remonda, Max Spett (recordings)
Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies
Double cassette & photo leporellos
2022
Field recording
Walking the alpine terrain directly above the world’s longest railway tunnel — a transect through the Gotthard range recording sound and image in four stages.
White Elephant
Gruenrekorder
Digital
2021
Field Recording
Beneath the tracks of Zurich’s main station lies an abandoned highway tunnel from the 1970s. An unedited recording from inside, with percussive sounds of an unknown source.
Struck Modernism: Figure X A
With Florian Dombois, Kaspar König, U5 and Vivian Wang
Dinzu Artefacts
Cassette
2020
Experimental
Live improvisation on the sculpture “Figure X A” (1975) by Henri Presset with gloves, mallets, superballs, sticks and stones. Concept by Florian Dombois.
Cargo
Canti Magnetici
Cassette
2019
Soundscape/Ambient
Steady motions between the Mediterranean Sea, Asian peripheries and Northern European expanses. Blurred traces of extraction, collection and distribution.
Inumaki, Esuzaki (Tree Music)
Vertical Music
Cassette
2019
Field Recording
Inumaki tree recorded with a contact microphone during strong wind in the forest of Esuzaki Island, Wakayama, Japan.
Melting Landscapes (Bodies of Water 1)
With Christophe Girot, Johannes Rebsamen, Matthias Vollmer, and students of ETH Zurich
Institute of Landscape Architecture
Vinyl and photo booklet
2018
Field Recording
Collective long-term documentation of the rapidly melting Morteratsch glacier in the Swiss Alps through underwater and contact field recordings, and analogue photography.
The Capacity of Things to Act
With Veronika Ehrensperger
Dinzu Artefacts
Cassette
2018
Experimental/Electroacoustic
Prepared harp and microphone. Entangled sonorities in the smallest human scale, where the vital materiality of things disturb stable relationships between cause and effect.
A year’s hours behind my father’s house
Impulsive Habitat
Digital
2014
Soundscape
One microphone, one year, under the roof of a house in Alsace — one minute recorded every hour, then distilled into four tracks tracing midnight, morning, noon and evening across all four seasons.
Mapping of Hypothetical Islands on the Scale of 1:1
Self-Released
Digital
2014
Electroacoustic
A digital image file played as sound, processed into variations. Not a landscape but a map of the land.
Cuyo
Sono Space
Digital
2014/2019
Soundscape
Between the arid steppes and mountains of Cuyo, Argentina, a fragile water infrastructure carves out fertile valleys and vineyards. The piece moves between the extremes of dry and wet.
1959
Self-released
Digital
2012
Electroacoustic/Radiophonic
Retracing the late mother’s voice through the rooms of a house. Moving between the fixed time of recordings and the fluid time of memory, sounding out the “theatre of the past constituted by memory” (Bachelard).