Hörbar: EMERGE / Louis d’Heudières

Louis d’Heudières will play new material from an upcoming album for harps, field recordings, synthesis and autotuned voice.

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

EMERGE will present his new album "leere" consisting of field-recordings of an abandoned mall. The field-recordings are re-worked and the set is played partly improvised using all the original samples, which are looped, mixed together and treated with effects.

Sascha Stadlmeier (b. 1977) has been releasing electroacoustic music with 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 very wide range of styles form an important part of his work. He has been touring Europe extensively and his music has been presented at many international festivals. While 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.