61:34 min.
Hannah Todt, 2021

When welcoming guests whether for an aperitif or dinner, it is advisable not only to pay
attention to preparing the room visually and in terms of flavors and dishes, but to pay attention to the acoustic design of the evening.

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The right music can help create a relaxed atmosphere – especially if the guests are unfamiliar with one another and where silence proves uncomfortable.

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A room filled with simultaneous conversation has the same effect as music: the voices of dinner guests’ are the instruments like enveloping radio static as they fill the room with their own noises and create a pleasant atmosphere.

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It must be noted that choosing the right music is crucial.
The right music is the sound that covers the broadest possible consensus of
“good taste.” It is unobtrusive, forgettable and inconsequential.

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It does not steer the mood in a given direction but underlines the tenor of the event with its circumstances. Like odorless smoke in a room, it fills the dinner party where there was once a vacuum; unrecognizable music without any niche or genre.

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Photo: Jules Flamen

Quoting somewhere between Brian Eno's Music for Airports and Erik Satie's furniture music, Music for Hosting (2021) is a conceptually applicable mixtape for putting guests and hosts à l'aise.
The approximately sixty-minute composition is a conglomeration of sound sketches, unreleased songs and field recordings made in Brussels and is accompanied by a text work, a guide line for choosing the right music when hosting. Music for hosting was created as part of the group exhibition Chez Patrique, taking place in October 2021. The event Chez Patrique moves at the interface between dinner and exhibition, which in turn was the occasion for the creation of the work Music for Hosting, operating between mixtape and sound installation. The composition invites a global application in various hosting situations.

Music For Hosting

Remix for "again expressing things maybe", a performance by Vienna-based duo "maria mercedes" that premiered at tanzquartier in Vienna, May 2023.

photo: Marcella Ruiz Cruz

Hannah Todt - D.R.E.A.M. (Miley Cyrus Remix)

Excerpt from a 20min. sound performance at Manchester Space in Brussels (BE), 2023

Sound performance at Manchester Space (excerpt)

Sounds of bronze acorn hats

Audio contribution for Garage Radio
Part of the publication release show Entrance by Porto by Garage Show
MDF display, speakers, cd player, 22 audio contributions
Prosopopoeia, Vienna (AT)

Display: Lisa Sifkovits
Photo: Aaron Amar Bhamra

Unreleased songs by Hannah Todt (for Garage Radio)

Livesound and composition for SKINFOLD, a 2,5h performance by Mar* Szydlowska and Abigail Aleksander
Performed at Tanzquartier Vienna (AT), May 2025



SKINFOLD (excerpt)

Hannah Todt gathers five performers around a flute-like installation, whose tones can be explored and woven into a flowing sonic tapestry. Gradually, these tones merge into a collective composition, embodying the interplay of multiple lungs in sync and revealing the deep bond between breath, sound, and gesture. The work traces the abstraction of sound within space, as well as the fluid transitions between instrument and orchestra, note and melody, individual and collective. The installation itself functions as a modular composition, revealing its structure of airflow and tonal modules—where notes are inhaled, exhaled, held, stopped, or prolonged—and prompting a reconsideration of how we communicate, or even choose to withhold, in collective interaction.

Photo: Jules Flamen

One And Many Flutes (Het Bos, 01.11.2025)

you run around in a hamster's wheel
nowhere final, nowhere real

waiting so long in a dark room, no air
and in your dreams you see the universe

come, come
take me out today
come, come
live a new life everyday

karmakat

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