Leonie Strecker is a German, Vienna-based composer and sound artist whose work focuses on notions of presence, absence, and the connections between memory and experience. She uses concrete, synthetic, and instrumental sounds to evoke ambiguous meanings, creating listening experiences that reflect individual perception and collective dynamics.
Chroma is Strecker’s debut album, adapting the philosophical chrôma concept of pure shimmer of appearance that never settles into a thing, and questioning whether it belongs to the object or to the subject. The five pieces, all performed by Strecker, are devoted to the unstable, liminal state of things, to the wavering states of sound, to layering and veiling, to emergence and disappearance, to the slow shifting of what is heard and what is almost heard, and to
