Christina Kubisch – TUNING

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Christina Kubisch is a German, Berlin-based composer and audio-visual artist who belongs to the first generation of sound artists. She is best known for her sound installations and electro-acoustic compositions, which explore acoustic spaces and the dimension of time in the visual arts as well as the relationship between material and form in music.

TUNING collects three enigmatic and thought-provoking works of Kubisch from different periods of her oeuvre, all transforming sonic phenomena originally considered as “non-music” into compositions.

The first work is a collage of electromagnetic waves, voice, and abstract sound textures, “Gaming in Silence”, commissioned for the Sound Dome at ZKM Karlsruhe in 2023. Kubisch used the vintage rhythmic sound of computer games such as Asteroid, which had distinct analogue