AVA RABIAT, a multidisciplinary artist born in Gdańsk and based in Berlin. Her work across sound, experimental electronic music, visual arts, production and costume design for film and theater.

With her second album Szał Wirtualnych Ciał (Frenzy of Virtual Bodies), Ava Rabiat shifts the focus from the introspective interior space of her debut outward—toward an analysis of human existence in the context of virtual bodies and machine logic.

The album explores the relationship between human and machine—not as opposites, but as a structural entanglement. Human behavioral patterns repeat like programmed loops; emotions appear as unstable yet calculable patterns: encoded and algorithmically readable.

The sonic architecture of Szał Wirtualnych Ciał reflects these themes through its composition. Field recordings as direct quotations of the world meet computer-generated sounds. Voice and breath mark the organic element, yet they are transformed to a point where the boundary between human expression and machine language becomes blurred.

Ava Rabiat uses Polish as an emotional reference space, interspersing it with English, code language, and technical terminology. This linguistic hybridity becomes an expression of a fragmented identity. Szał Wirtualnych Ciał is neither technological utopia nor digitalization dystopia, but maps a state between analog and digital, between organic presence and virtual projection.

Gentle Hum is the second duo album by Berlin-based electronic music artists Ah! Kosmos and Hainbach. Following their 2023 debut Blast of Sirens, the 14 pieces see Başak Günak and Stefan Goetsch work with non-musical instruments capable of creating experimental music to haunting and melancholic effect.

Their patient and careful excavation of textures and tones treats noise and hum not as incidental artefacts, but as integral, living elements of the sonic realm. The intricate interplay of the rhythms and sounds of test equipment, analogue synthesizers, occasional piano accompaniment, and even processed vocals provide the soundtrack to a journey through in-between states and suspended time.

Live: Gentle Hum will be performed live at MUTEK Montréal, 29 August 2026.

Through spontaneous phone recordings, Hara Alonso amplifies the unnoticed aspects of everyday life — escuchar la cotidianidad — creating a sort of sonic autobiography. Music of Many Nows is a wandering journey that transforms all the details and subtleties of the mundane into a complex and meditative sonic poetry. It suggests a different way of inhabiting the present, bringing you closer to the multitude, potential, and diversity of what usually goes unnoticed in our daily lives.

Like a field recording notebook, she portrays the environments where she walks, works, or simply exists: a church choir rehearsal listened through the window, a found out-of-tune piano, the fountains of Granada, the rain. These disparate moments are woven into a single, resonant now.

The album features collaborations of cellist Lia Kohl ("A Second is a Choir") and electric guitarist Helga J ("Another Period of Time").

The title track and lead single from the second Ah! Kosmos & Hainbach album — a first glimpse of the duo's patient excavation of textures and tones from test equipment, analogue synthesizers and piano.

The debut album Elektro Erotyk by AVA RABIAT, a multidisciplinary artist born in Gdańsk and based in Berlin. Her work across sound, experimental electronic music, visual arts, production and costume design for film and theater.

AVA RABIAT explores sound as a bridge between inner experience and outer reality. Feeling at home in melancholia, AVA creates an honest mirror of the self through deep, dark sound. Elektro Erotyk presents an uncompromising journey through emotional expression, where intuition takes the lead and conventional formulas are abandoned.

The compositions on Elektro Erotyk are crafted through a deliberate blend of processed field recordings, analog and electronic composition techniques, and voice. This process allows AVA to transform everyday acoustic experiences into deeply personal expressions and structured sonic landscapes.

Polish, AVA's mother tongue, serves as the primary language throughout the album — a deliberate choice to explore her origins and emotional vernacular. The melodic qualities and sonic characteristics of spoken Polish become instruments themselves, with words valued as much for their sound as for their meaning. Breath becomes an instrument connecting inner and outer worlds.

True to its title, Elektro Erotyk embraces the erotic dimension of composition — found in the unity of mind and body, in moments of excitement and elation, and in intimate contact with one's own self. The erotic emerges not merely as a sexual force but as a deep life energy — a creative power that drives artistic expression. Elektro Erotyk represents the introspective first chapter of AVA Rabiat's planned trilogy — a deeply personal sonic journey that invites listeners to turn their senses inward.

touch•me•not emerges as a reflection on the corporeal relationship between the skin and the surrounds — a surface, the ocean, a dried flower. Hara Alonso's album delves deep into our approach to sensoriality as bodies and sentient beings, by refusing to operate a discrimination of species. In that sense, it invites us to forget the tyranny of the visual, the lineal and the logic and pay attention to the haptic, evoked through a touching sound. It raises the question about the place we inhabit in a world that is weeping to be reenchanted and touched.

Accompanied by the percussions of Ryan Packard, the double bass of Ville Bromander and Ellen Söderhult's voice, Hara Alonso weaves a loom composed of halos of harmonies, field recordings, Juno 6 and prepared piano.

A single featuring countertenor Steve Katona. For the song version, Hammâmiye was re-amplified inside the hammam itself to retain the rich acoustic resonance of the space, designed by Mimar Sinan.

The first album by Ah! Kosmos and Hainbach: Blast of Sirens is the first album by Ah! Kosmos and Hainbach. A darkly shimmering blend of ambient and dramatic structures, carved from the wild oscillations of vintage science equipment, faded Italian synths and tape processed noise. Held together by a sparse piano tones, the record explores a world in uproar, where moments of calm clash with choirs rising over storms of synthesized sounds.

‘Bluets’ LP was composed between Berlin and Istanbul as a collaborative work by two female composers.

Between 2020-2022, both composers translated their feelings of separation. Through the songs of Bluets, Günak and Kayıkçı reflect on moments and places where they could not be bodily present. They explore the concept of closeness and comfort in sorrow. Since distance magnifies the people and things you miss most, the album ‘Bluets’ became a multifaceted experience and a recollection of memories that rescue the heart when everything is torn to pieces.

In the composition phase, Günak cut, ripped familiar sounds, and they recorded noisy soundscapes that present both artists’ personal histories and connected each of them to ‘comforting’ sounds that they can’t access. Field recordings of Kayıkçı’s father’s machinery atelier and chaotic Istanbul soundscapes are used to create a feeling of familiarity. These personal memories are woven with the texture of dreamscapes and distant soundscapes, like melting glaciers and waterfalls, to reinforce the notion of distance.

credits

All songs written and performed by Başak Günak & Büşra Kayıkçı Produced by Ah! Kosmos

Piano by Büşra Kayıkçı Synthesizers, beat programming, voice, bass guitar, additional percussions by Başak Günak: Cello by Judith Hamman Bass Clarinet by Shabnam Parvaresh Percussion on 'Bluet' by Maysun

Piano is recorded in Istanbul Bass Clarinet, Synthesizers, Percussions, voice are recorded in Berlin FUU Studios

Field recordings taken by Büşra Kayıkçı from Kayıkçı machinery atelier on January 16, 2022, Istanbul Field recordings taken by Başak Günak from melting glaciers & waterfalls on September 3, 2021, Vatnajökull

Premixed by Başak Günak Mixed by Emre Malikler (1,5,7), Emre Nişancı (3,6,8,9,10), Başak Günak (2,4)

Mastered by Mark Dobson, CODA Mastering (UK)

Original Artwork by Büşra Kayıkçı

We are a group of sound artists who have come together to unify their sound and raise their voices against the violence and wars causing so many to endure unthinkable atrocities right now. This is our voice against the bombing of children's hospitals and maternity wards and forcing people to leave their homes. This is our voice against the violence.

All profits from this compilation will go to the following funds supporting the people who are affected by war: Voices of Children (Ukraine) and Medical Aid for Palestinians. Thank you for adding your voice against the violence.