Noémi Büchi - Matter - 6 - Memorizing By Heart

Noémi Büchi - Matter - 2 - Screaming At Brutism

Paroxysm for Longform Editions by Noémi Büchi.
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LE114

Noémi Büchi is a Swiss composer and sound artist that creates electronic, symphonic maximalism. Her music is defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms and electroacoustic-orchestral abstraction. 

Büchi explores the potential of consonance and dissonance, contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption and playfully emphasizes irregularities, creating an expansive listening experience marked by detail and elevation. 

"My piece Paroxysm starts from a puristic dry rhythmic structure. The second part then goes into a fusion of rhythm and harmony. The question that preoccupied me was on one hand how these two main elements of music relate to each other and what shapes they can create together. On another hand I was preoccupied by how the listening behaviour adapts and changes to the compositional structure and sound events. 

The sound world in this piece is characterised by warm, dense, orchestral and at the same time by very filigree, dry, electro-acoustic sounds. I also used my own voice in interlaced harmonic shapes that are made rhythmic, giving the overall mood an almost sacral character. My voice appears fragmental and tries to assert itself in the complexity of the rhythm. Slowly everything degrades into polyrhythmic structures, with harmonic components taking the upper hand more and more. The listening behaviour is redirected here. The harmonies are repeatedly broken abruptly by the rhythm.

I work across genres in my music. Familiar elements from classical music, jazz, folk and also techno can be recognised. There is nature, and the outside world to hear, made of plastic, metal, wood, water and earth. The subject of matter continues to occupy me in my musical work, and I try to get as close as possible to the physical world through sound.

I’m very concerned about the method of reduced listening. It is a way of listening that focuses on the character of each individual sound shapes without carrying about their sources or meanings. Also, this kind of listening is about specifically picking out the individual elements, distinguishing them from each other, and understanding their relationship to each other. I cultivate a special interest in such listening techniques because on one hand I really appreciate to create structures that make sense to me in a very raw compositional understanding, and on the other hand these kind of techniques teach me to go within and focus with deep conscious concentration. It is very similar to meditation and trains and shapes our whole consciousness, and thus our connection to reality. At the end what interests me precisely how the listening behaviour changes according to the sounding event. I find it fascinating how sound guides us and how we unconsciously adapt our perception to the sound happenings. With deep listening, one can consciously focus on such phenomena and suddenly explore and get to know previously unexplored things about the unconscious. It is as if one gets to know oneself in depth during this process, like in a deep meditation."

Paroxysm

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Zavoloka & Noémi Büchi “Vidvaga”
To fight back the darkness with courage!

Released by I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free

Credits:
Music composed and produced by Zavoloka & Noémi Büchi.
Mixed and mastered by Noémi Büchi.
Cover artwork by Kateryna Zavoloka

SONG 14

2023
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composed and produced by Kateryna Zavoloka and Noémi Büchi 
mixed and mastered by Noémi Büchi
cover design by Kateryna Zavoloka

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VIDVAGA | by Zavoloka & Noémi Büchi

Podcast for Electronik Maintenant — Noémi Büchi

THE REAL IN A RAW STATE

“Art, directly or indirectly, is the expression of a conscious or unconscious metaphysical concern, and this is what makes it both valuable and depreciable, indispensable and superfluous. Its content is in this sense unclassifiable – whereas in today’s world everything is classified, evaluated and rated. We live in paradoxical societies, of anxiety, of occult forces and at the same time of ingenuity and aesthetic brilliance. In parallel with societal movements that refuse or question classical models, such as those of gender, patriarchy and social categories, art today is retreating from normative ideas and feeding on a new rational and moral freshness.

The subtle influence of these societal transformations engages contemporary musical research towards a dissolution of fixed models, while at the same time drawing inspiration from them. The beauty and strength of new ideas is to use the richness of possibilities and at the same time to escape from them. By amplifying reality through non-utilitarian works and activity, music makes us not understand it, but touch it. It is the profound expression of the mystery that defines our human condition and not a commodity to be bought and sold in the sense of the world of evaluation and classification. The pieces and interview excerpts chosen for this podcast reflect this paradoxical world that is both disturbing and exhilarating. They echo the density of the world with its violence, its decay, its fragility, but also its power, its ingenuity and its beauty. The overcoming of genres as well as the reappropriation of heterogeneous elements from classical music, jazz, film music, folk music, recall the complex thickness of the world through musical reminiscences belonging to the collective memory that awaken strange connections. A musical universe that touches the real in its raw state.”

— Tracklist:

Noémi Büchi - Improvisation I with Interview Extracts from „The Moderns“
Luciano Berio - Altre Voce (Extracts)
Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow - Stealing The Code
Kara-Lis Coverdale - X 4EWI
Luc Ferrari - Photophonie (Extract)
Tomat - Tomat - Una Tempesta È Una Tempesta È Una Tempesta È Una Tempesta Manuel de Falla - Danza Ritual del Fuego (Extract)
Ennio Morricone - Ti prego amami
Feldermelder - Indefinable Basement
Noémi Büchi - Paroxysm (Extract)
Feldermelder - H & E (Extract)
Maurice Ravel - Une Barque sur l’Océan (Extract)
Klara Levis - Ingrid Live at Fylkingen (Extract)
Furtherset - To Live Tenderly Anew
Infinite Body - Drive Dreams Away
Timothy Duval - Old Kent Road
Thomas Newman - Choking The Bishop
John Chantler - I Feel Summer About It
Noémi Büchi - REC 0005 [2021-08-09 172443]
Gustav Mahler - Symphonie Nr. 5, IV. Adagietto (Extract)
Éliane Radigue - Interview Recording
Éliane Radigue - L’île Ré-Sonante (Extract)
Maxime Denuc - Edo
Noémi Büchi - Improvisation

Podcast - Elektronik Maintenant - 2023

Album by Noémi Büchi, [Pre-mix], August 2023
Provisional Cover Artwork by Mirko Eremita, www.encor.studio

Can We Be Completely Transparent?

We Are Only Matter

Infernal Stability

Following her recent album 'Does It Still Matter', Noémi Büchi returns to -OUS with 'Liquid Bones', a five-track EP that interlaces sound and poetry, inspired by a verse written by her mother:

"In the heat
gesticulate elastically
their bodies
disappointing the desire to last."

With 'Liquid Bones', Noémi Büchi lays her focus on simplicity. 'Liquid Bones' marks a directional shift in Büchi's approach: while her previous albums put structure in the foreground and distinguished themselves through high density, the new material seems lighter and even playfully teases the listener with pop elements, albeit without loosing the conceptual depth that has carved out Büchi's singular position in today's musical landscape.
The piano, an instrument Büchi has been embracing for the better part of the past two decades, serves as a recurring theme on the five-track EP. Serving as a form-giving and shape-shifting instrument, Büchi extracts a diverse range of sounds: a leading motif, a voice-like element, percussive patterns, atmospheric textures. These are combined with minimal electronics, orchestral sounds, crisp digital textures and Büchi's signature method of punctuating the compositions with noise accentuations, thus creating a highly dynamic listening experience.
The closing track, finally, introduces Joséphine de Weck's poetic voice, adding an intimate layer to the EP. Actress and writer de Weck has been the 'face' of Büchi's current audiovisual live show, in which she grants a seemingly intimate view into the actress' mind. Their track 'Fair Enough' expands this collaboration to the next stage.
As a whole, 'Liquid Bones' continues Noémi Büchi's study of matter, form and structure. By examining their impermanence and transience, Büchi emphasises the temporary nature of being.

Noémi Büchi is a Swiss/French sound and sound artist that creates and explores the potential of cross-genre musical structures. Her music is defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms and electroacoustic-orchestral abstraction. She contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption and playfully emphasizes irregularities, creating an expansive listening experience marked by detail and elevation. 
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releases February 14, 2025

Written and produced by Noémi Büchi
Vocals on track 5 by Joséphine de Weck
Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer, Suoni Speziali (VFBM)
Graphic design by Sharon Ritossa

This is OUS054

Liquid Bones

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Noémi Büchi - Liquid Bones - 2 - Gesticulate Elastically

«Everything is in constant change.»
— Noémi Büchi

Following her recent album ‘Does It Still Matter’, Noémi Büchi returns to -OUS with ‘Liquid Bones’, a five-track EP that interlaces sound and poetry, inspired by a verse written by her mother, artist Marie-Christine Büchi:«In the heatgesticulate elasticallytheir bodiesdisappointing the desire to last.»With ‘Liquid Bones’, Noémi Büchi lays her focus on simplicity. ‘Liquid Bones’ marks a directional shift in Büchi’s approach: while her previous albums put structure in the foreground and distinguished themselves through high density, the new material seems lighter and even playfully teases the listener with pop elements, albeit without loosing the conceptual depth that has carved out Büchi’s singular position in today’s musical landscape.
The piano, an instrument Büchi has been embra-cing for the better part of the past two decades, serves as a recurring theme on the five-track EP. Serving as a form-giving and shape-shifting instrument, Büchi extracts a diverse range of sounds: a leading motif, a voice-like element, percussive patterns, atmospheric textures. These are combined with mi-nimal electronics, orchestral sounds, crisp digital textures and Büchi’s signature method of punctuating the compositions with noise accentuations, thus creating a highly dynamic listening experience.

The closing track, finally, introduces Joséphine de Weck’s poetic voice, adding an intimate layer to the EP. Actress and writer de Weck has been the ‘face’ of Büchi’s current audiovisual live show, in which she grants a seemingly intimate view into the actress’ mind. Their track ‘Fair Enough’ expands this collaboration to the next stage.As a whole, ‘Liquid Bones’ continues Noémi Büchi’s study of matter, form and structure. By examining their im-permanence and transience, Büchi emphasises the temporary nature of being.

Noémi Büchi is a Swiss/French sound and sound artist that creates and explores the potential of cross-genre musical structures. Her music is defined by a delicate synthesis of textural rhythms and electroacoustic-orchestral abstrac-tion. She contrasts rhythmic physicality with disruption and playfully emphasizes irregularities, creating an expansive listening experience marked by detail and elevation.

Written and produced by Noémi Büchi
Vocals on track 5 by Joséphine de Weck
Mastered by Manuel Oberholzer, Suoni Speziali (VFBM)
Graphic design by Sharon Ritossa 

Noémi Büchi - Liquid Bones - 3 - Their Bodies

Noémi Büchi - Liquid Bones - 5 - Fair Enough feat Joséphine de Weck

Noémi Büchi - Liquid Bones - 1 - In The Heat

Liquefaction - extended live version of „In The Heat“ (Liquid Bones) - is an electroacoustic study of form and structure, shaped by their impermanence and transience. Over 11 minutes, layers of electronics, orchestral textures, and digital elements dissolve and reform, creating a highly dynamic and immersive listening experience that is as delicate as it is forceful, where moments of tension and release continuously reshape the listening space.

Liquefaction is a music that takes its time — because time in music is not what we think we know.

credits: 
Music composed and produced by Noémi Büchi 
Mixing & mastering by Suoni Speziali
Cover photo by Jean-Marc Avila

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LIQUEFACTION

MIX Radio Raheem 23.4.25
Tracklist
1st Part - Noémi Büchi 

- Ryuichi Sakamoto - Grief
- Mica Levi - Intro
- Maria Teriaeva - Sayan - Organizational moments
- Tomat - Fire Creatures
- Arca - Urchin
- Gustave Rudman - River
- Ahi Ssan - Simulacrum II
- Loscil & Lawrence English - Cyan
- Sara Oswald & Feldermelder - Everything Vibrating is an Illusion

Mix NB x Corgiat 1st Half

I was almost there

Mix TRNSTN AUG25 pour Joséphine 
Tracklist

1. Timothy Duval - promise
2. Loscil & Lawrence English - Aqua
3. Erwan Sene - Smoke
4. Timothy Duval - awwwww
5. Furtherset - Tuning of Intuitions
6. Lyra Pramuk - Oracle
7. Tim Hecker - Joyride Alternate 
8. Heith - The Scrollkeeper
9. Timothy Duval - road
10. Léo Duplex - Resonant Tree I
11. Laurel Halo - Sick Eros
12. Nicolas Jaar - Folie à Deux
13. Timothy Duval - sleep
14. Chromacolor - Kisses and Winde
15. Erwan Sene - Mirama
16. Samuel Reinhard - Repetitons (for Three Pianos)
17. Tim Hecker - That world

Mix TRNSTN August 25

Release date: 14/11/2025 on Domizil, ICST, Zürich

The 10-minute electroacoustic piece "Reality is the shining of a gem through the chink of a door" is conceived like a painting, without linear progression, without climax, existing rather as a state of perception. Inspired by Francis Bacon’s dissociated bodies, the ambivalent longing for intimacy, and fragile silence, the piece shapes itself into a multi-layered sonic surface. It works with inner tension, voices, noises, and silence pulse beneath the surface, yet no gesture rises into a scream.
The work is conceived as a complex sound collage, built from fragmented recordings sourced from social media, with a particular focus on the human voice. It is not the content itself, but its presence, textures, proximity, and distance that are brought to the fore.

Chains of communication do not appear here as linear conduits of information, but as fleeting, porous spaces in which meanings blur and shift. The overabundance of data is not staged as overload, but as a dissociative state.

Reality appears through cracks, freed from the shackles of mental captivity, which is nourished by the “Passions Tristes” amplified by social media: envy, fear, hatred, absurdity, and pressure.

Reality is the shining of a gem through the chink of a door

Creating electronic and electroacoustic cross-genre music.

bookings: danilo@basemental.it

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