New, bold concepts and compositions from all genres of electronic and electroacoustic music were sought. The submissions selected by a jury will be released on five compilations by raster-media and make a statement as European Soundtrack 20–25.
On three evenings in September, October and November, two artists will present their live performances in venues dedicated to European avant-garde and visual arts, providing a fitting setting for this project.
September: Liveperformances by Slowfoam (Berlin) & Gellért Szabò (Leipzig)
Slowfoam - Madelyn Byrd’s work is rooted in hydrofeminism, neuroaesthetics, and uncanny interactions between ecology and technology. Their genre-spanning music moniker, Slowfoam, playfully and tenderly explores glitched-out, swirling soundscapes from drones, sparkling ambiance, fuzzy poetics, field recordings, and textural percussion. For the raster.open call soundtrack Europe 20_25 Madelyn Byrd applied with an excerpt from a longform piece titled 'We Inherit The Nearness.' The piece explores the quantum material shifts of various electroacoustics and field recordings as they are decomposed and alchemized anew. Sound sources were collected over the span of a year in Berlin, DE, Kyoto, JP, and Mylokopi, GR.
Gellért Szabò - Composer, conductor and instrumentalist Gellért Szabó studied electric guitar in Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik Weimar (2015-2020) under professor Frank Möbus. He is the founder and leader of Leipzig based orchestra for experimental music „Gellért Szabó’s Ideal Orchestra“, for which he conducts and composes. Tours with his solo program „RADICAL RADIO SHOW“ for electric guitar and two amplifiers. Concert tours had led him to many European countries and China. He was a Student of Frank Möbus, John Schröder, Ronny Graupe and Christian Kögel as well as for composition studies with Ulrich Kreppein and Stefan Schultze.
