In the five-track album “Volumes”, Tobias Lanz continues his explorations of drones, beat frequencies, and spatial interrelations. Through a radical focus on minimalism, harmonic relations and shifts in timbre become principal events rather than side effects. Like in hypnagogic sleep, the state of the in-between becomes the main destination. As the album slowly unfolds to the listener, layers are superimposed, and a fleeting temporality is established - only to dissolve again into the micro rhythms of beat frequencies. In this album, sound waves are conceptualized as volumes of air, interfering with each other, inhabiting space, and building tensions and harmonies as they’re confronted with their coexistence.

Composed by Tobias Lanz
Mastered by Rea Dubach
Artwork, photos and text by Tobias Lanz

Supported by Stadt Burgdorf, Kultur Stadt Bern, Swisslos – Kultur Kanton Bern & Burgergemeinde Bern

CRTTR, 2025

Tobias Lanz - Surrendering to Rest

CRTTR is a creature of many faces: superstar, trickster and failed poet. It slips through the cracks, its cells dividing, mutating, and reassembling in an endless cycle. Every now and then shedding its skin as it seeks new spaces to grow.

And just when you think you’ve figured it out, it changes again. CRTTR is an artist collective based in Bern that hijacks radio waves, transforms cultural spaces, and works with sound and images. We curate exhibitions, organize concerts, host radio shows, and publish selected experimental sound and printed works. CRTTR thrives on collaboration, moving playfully through different genres. It’s a space where artists, musicians, storytellers, designers, and curators meet and experiment together.