In my improvised solo drone trombone performances I make use of extended playing techniques such as split tones and multiphonics in combination with electroacoustic elements. This half hour long performance evokes different imageries. At first, a shepherd's horn reverberates in the Alps. Standing with his back to the rising sun, the shepherd warns others of an impending storm. In other moments, a freighter ship, illuminated by a lighthouse, emerges from dense fog, its signal horn resounds across the sea. At times, echoes of alarm sirens haunt through a desolate landscape, though there is no one left to be warned. 

Opening the 40th edition of Belluard Bollwerk Festival in Fribourg CH, the 22.06.2023


While oscillating between these sonic landscapes, this performance evokes feelings of dread, doom and inescapability accompanied by a shimmer of serenity. With this constantly evolving work I interpret and address how symbolic anthropogenic communicative sounds extend outward and become their own object within a spatial environmental context.


At Bad Bonn, 10.09.2022