On State Music, Laurent Güdel turns his fascination with classic electronic studios into a political instrument, folding EMS, KSYME, Radio Belgrade and Columbia CMC into a critical sound‑essay on funding, soft power and the uneasy bond between DIY dreams and state apparatus.
*2025 stock. 150 copies limited edition* A reinterpretation of the multi-channel sound installation Solo / Mute / Pan by Laurent Güdel and Olga Kokcharova, for which they had assembled sound material they had recorded on in and around the museum in a perfromative act. This sound piece between musical composition and sound art was presented on two floors of the Centre Pasquart/ in autumn 2022. (find more information here: https://www.pasquart.ch/event/solo-mute-pan/).
During the exhibition in Bie…
Sediment is an assemblage of field recordings made in the Swiss canton of Jura on a single day in August 2022. Jura's rock and limestone formations create a complex topology which hosts a diversity of sound spaces; human, more-than-human, geophonic, subterranean and extra-terrestrial. By walking and driving through this landscape curious pockets of activity are revealed to the listener. The layers of strata that make up Jura; earth, rock, forest, cables, pipes, factories, planes and radio towers…