CD-Release Sound_and_Experiment

_X_Lenbachhaus_Kunstbau

When:
Thu, May 14, 2026, 2pm–5pm

Free admission

Meeting point:
Atrium

When:
Thu, May 14, 2026, 2pm–5pm

Free admission

Meeting point:
Atrium

The CD SOUND_AND_EXPERIMENT_X_LENBACHHAUS_KUNSTBAU was created in the context of the exhibition of the same name, held in December 2025 at the Kunstbau of Lenbachhaus Munich, and features 99 contributions by participants in Sound and Experiment (Prof. Florian Hecker, Bayerisches Spitzenprofessurenprogramm, Academy of Fine Arts Munich).

As the long-format, multi-channel, site-specific compositions presented in the Kunstbau resist the constraints of conventional documentation, their source material is repurposed into new forms: edited, remixed and extended through spatial recordings and artificial renderings, and supplemented by previously unrealized compositions. This results in 99 new works, each with a standardized duration of 54 seconds, derived from 11 participants contributing 9 works each and determined by the technical limitation of 99 tracks per CD.

The pieces are not reduced documentary versions of the originals but autonomous works with their own precisely defined points of focus. While the exhibition privileged a slow encounter with durational pieces and spatial immersion, with sound unfolding across multiple channels within a specific architectural environment, the CD establishes a different mode of attention: distilled, compressed, and self-contained. 

Each 54-second track functions as a complete compositional statement, not an excerpt from a larger whole. This shift in format is not merely a practical consequence of the transition from installation to disc, but a productive constraint that generates new material and distinct listening conditions in its own right.

The short pieces can be heard linearly, in a fixed sequence, or in shuffle mode. With approximately 9.33 × 10¹⁵⁵ possible permutations, each listening experience is potentially different. The sequential order of the CD represents just one of many possible configurations. What remains constant in all cases is the material itself, along with the specificity and logic of works compressed into 54 seconds and realized in 99 versions.

The CD is accompanied by a 16-page booklet, including artists' statements, related visualizations and an introduction by Johannes Michael Stanislaus.

With contributions by Sofian Biazzi, focus baby, Daniel Gianfranceschi, Bruno Younes Haas, Jahy Hwang, Caroline Kretschmer, Bradley Leonard, Léa Manoussakis di-Bona, Maria Margolina, Camilla Metelka, and Vasilii Vikhliaev.

Available from May 14, 2026, online and at the Lenbachhaus bookshop.