Katharina Schmidt is a percussionist, composer, researcher and radio host. A frequent collaborator, her artistic portfolio includes film music, sound art installations, and radio pieces as well as multichannel compositions. After years of playing drums and piano in various bands, her solo work is influenced by indie, experimental, and improvised music.

The pieces experiment with emergent harmonies, rhythms created by interferences between sine waves, and textures abstracted from field recordings. They were created within the framework of the artist-in-residence programme at the ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe. During my residency. Katherina worked on a multi-channel composition for their concert space and the original version of the first track was spatialised for their concert hall's array of 47 speakers. A stereo mix of that piece was produced and paired with another track based on the material gathered during the residency.

The resulting work is quiet and meditative, but manages to draw out tensions present in the simple close harmony to create rich evolving textures.