Produced and exhibited as part of the 6th edition of Reverse Engineering at 90mil, Berlin 01/12/2023, Music For Estranged Speakers is a sound compilation that decouples the stereo field. The artists worked with the constraint that the speakers must be treated as separate entities and that the sounds must be hard-panned (i.e. located on either the L or R speakers). Listening through speakers is recommended.

All profits go to Klik, a charity that helps people with housing and social problems in Berlin.

Music for Estranged Speakers

@0171music

"As we tend to sing together in our music, the left/right separation was an inspiring way to push ourselves far apart, and write a song about two people who can't be together. We wanted the music to replicate this yearning that things could be different - pushing pointlessly against a brick wall of separation. In the end the voices fade but elements of the stereo field start to blend again. There is a kind of sad final rest."

Different House - Separating Makes It Clean

@user-434780077

"Dahlia Rebecca is a French multidisciplinary artist: music producer, visual artist, performer, and singer, she is currently studying at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Graduated from the Paris Conservatory, she mixes acoustic instruments, such as clarinet, violin, and cello with deconstructed music productions and field recordings. Last December she released her first solo project: Water For Aircrafts, an EP of four tracks thought like an electronic opera telling sentimental and dramatic ballads, the discovery of her intimacy as a romantic odyssey with lyrical flights. Her musical work is followed by a plastic and performative research around the construction and interpretation of a variety of characters building a sensitive visual universe."

Dahlia Rebecca - Poetry For The Ghost

@murrettumeri
@allisondata

"Composed on location in Wedding, Berlin, on the 20th of November 2022."

Angel Xenakis & Luminous -An Activist's Prayer

@unpersonuk

"The infamous ‘klang’ within the context of DJing refers to the occurrence of two mixed, out-of-sync rhythms that clash with one another. It is often perceived as a mistake, an unwanted, undesirable collision of unsyncopated beats. Klang (Between Two Rhythms) explores this sonic phenomenon, attempting to liberate the notion of clashing rhythms from its pejorative connotations. The work sees two evolving rhythmic patterns and textures (one for the left speaker, and one for the right speaker). The patterns mimic, klang, and interweave with one another creating a turbulent journey that situates the listener between the two rhythms, challenging them to find a space between the speakers where they can lock into a coherent groove or maybe embrace the jarring chaos by moving around the space. Physical space is used as a medium for pushing the cyclical essence of club music to intriguing extremes."

unperson - Klang (Between Two Rhythms)

@scorpcorp

"Halftime Show is an ethereal and emotive exploration of sounds and their half-time counterparts. The listener acts as the crossfader between an uptempo and downtempo version of the same song, where one side adheres to presence and syncopation, and the other towards space and sustain. The resulting effect is that the listener can experience a feeling of slowing down or speeding up as they traverse between each speaker in a room, choosing to groove to club-inspired rhythms, sink into drawn-out and ambient soundscapes, or freely find their own pace in the space in between."

Scorp Corp - Halftime Show

@agilitaet

"✲ vitality ✲ balance ✲ determination ✲ accuracy ✲ mind ✲ coordination ✲ dexterity ✲ intelligence ✲ reflex ✲ control ✲ strength ✲ resistance ✲ endurance ✲ piety ✲ morale ✲ - hard panned percussive hits alternating on both stereo channels with a simple melodic sequence on a 7/4 measure."

AGILITÄT - P-Space

@feverfeww

"The first intense sunlight of the year broke through the shrouds of winter and lit up the faces of friends, who soaked it up as much as they could. Birds sung, the first glimpses of nature were emerging. Glossy crocuses had already pushed through the grass near gravestones, moss glistened next to still cold silver lakes and I wanted to touch it all and whisper a mantra to new life. This track explores this feeling of cosmic spring. A lot of space is left open in the track as if waiting to be filled out, you being there amongst the sounds is enough to do that."

Feverfew - Cosmic Spring

@altoaria

"Alto Aria is the name of Aria Leth Schütze’s solo project. With the project, they investigate relations between acoustic and electronic sounds and focus on transformation and transition as a starting point in their music. The piece Do You See Me? has come to deal with being seen in the way you want to be seen, not having full control over this. This metaphorically is also, what is going on in the music - depending on where you stand, you’ll have different experiences of the piece."

Alto Aria - Do You See Me?

@robbie-mona

"I am an artist working through the mediums of sound, writing, and imagery - singing and writing in Robbie & Mona - excited by the stories that emerge in the 'instant-now' and from 'feeling-thoughts,' guided by sensation more than comprehension."

Mona Ellie - Fragmentations Of My Weather

@safejas

"Common Ground started with the idea that the two speakers are characters getting to know each other.  I thought a lot about who they were, what they wanted from each other, and what influence they had on each other. It’s a piece about exploring difference, about how friendships and relationships can sometimes reinforce our existing traits, but often require us to change.  In my experience, the latter is true of more meaningful connections.  I think my characters are curious about each other.  They interact with each other playfully, furtively at first before finding their way to common ground and celebrating it."