S+I PREMIERE: STURMHERTA – “Riii” (2025)
RESi, is the culmination of over a year and a half of live performance-based experimentation. The album revolves around the use of resonators to shape and evolve minimalistic sound sources into rich and complex auditory experiences. STURMHERTA begins each piece with a simple element—be it a sine wave, a bass drum sample, or even the ambient silence of a room captured through a microphone. From this humble starting point, he employs a wide array of resonating tools, including digital effects like comb filters and feedback-laden choruses, as well as physical objects such as metal surfaces and drums. Even the room acoustics and the naturally occurring feedback of amplified microphones become integral components of the compositions.
Through meticulous control of these elements, STURMHERTA crafts a dynamic interplay between rhythm, texture, and resonance. The resulting tracks are immersive sonic environments where the boundaries between source and effect, intention and accident, are constantly shifting—offering listeners a meditative yet unpredictable auditory journey.
Linz based Daniel Haas aka STURMHERTA is a sound artist and experimental musician whose work delves into the boundaries of resonance, minimalism, and sonic complexity. His practice is rooted in exploration and experimentation, using both digital and physical resonators to transform simple audio inputs into intricate soundscapes. STURMHERTA’s approach often blurs the lines between digital synthesis, physical acoustics, and the natural behavior of feedback, resulting in performances and recordings that are as much about process as they are about the final sound.
phonon~ is an association focusing on all shades of marginal electronic music mediated through events, releases, workshops & research. Association is aiming to support and contribute to the growing field of spatial audio, implementing quadraphonic, octophonic and Ambisonic speaker arrays at the events. Based in Usti nad Labem since 2017 the association is operating through multiple ways of organising educational laboratories, promoting local & international experimental music artists through collaborative projects and co-organising exhibition projects & conferences. Collective worked on events with the Faculty of Art & Design in Usti nad Labem, public hall Hraničář, National House in Ústí nad Labem, The Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, NGO & offspaces like Punctum or Loblhof & Artgrund.
phonon~ is an association focusing on all shades of marginal electronic music mediated through events, releases, workshops & research. Association is aiming to support and contribute to the growing field of spatial audio, implementing quadraphonic, octophonic and Ambisonic speaker arrays at the events.