Hörbar: EMERGE / Louis d’Heudières

Louis d’Heudières will perform new material from an upcoming album featuring harps, field recordings, synthesis, and autotuned vocals.

Louis d’Heudières is a sound artist, composer, and researcher based in Hamburg. Spanning live performance, installation, and writing, their work speculatively (re)imagines the pasts, presents, and futures of human and non-human music-making. It is characterized by stream-of-consciousness descriptions of recorded sound; pseudo-intellectual ramblings underpinned by halting instrumental pulses; speakers talking to floors; transcendental climaxes squeezed through MIDI timbres; paranoid associations between musical details and religious hegemonies; and decadent rituals pairing Wagnerian harmony with fine cheese.

EMERGE will present his new album “leere,” consisting of field recordings from an abandoned mall. The field recordings are reworked, and the set is performed partly as an improvisation using all the original samples, which are looped, mixed together, and processed with effects.

Sascha Stadlmeier (b. 1977) has been releasing electroacoustic music through his project EMERGE on international labels such as Drone Records, Tâalem, aufabwegen, and Frozen Light since 2001. He is a composer working at the intersections of musique concrète, drone, and noise. Collaborations with other musicians from a wide variety of styles form an important part of his work. He has toured Europe extensively, and his music has been presented at many international festivals. In addition to being a prolific composer and performer, Stadlmeier has also created various sound installations and a radiophonic composition for West German Radio’s renowned Studio of Acoustic Art.