F23M-12: Field With Figures No. 1–4 / Rush! is a distinctive entry in Another Timbre’s Berlin Series, sharing two worlds of experimental practice. In the first half, Christian Kesten and the late Mark Trayle create four pieces for voice and electronics. Kesten’s sound art blurs the line between vocal utterance and language: inhaled whispers, fricatives, murmurs, and spectral vowel shapes figure as events on a mutable sound field. Trayle’s electronics situate these gestures within shifting architectures - sometimes dry and close-mic’d, sometimes blurred or spaced in digital fog. The duo’s dynamic mobility invites comparison with tape collage, except every event occurs in real time, live and responsive, both conversational and abstracted.​

"Rush!", the album’s second side, spotlights Annette Krebs as a soloist - her signature approach to electroacoustic guitar augmented by objects, field recordings, and spatial placement. Krebs assembles flickers of guitar noise, sampled detritus, close-mic breathing, and found sound files into dense but constantly reconfiguring layers. She resists linear narrative, favoring instead the poetic arrangement of event and pause, attack and reverb, acoustic and digital. Her music lingers at the threshold where intention, accident, and memory converge. "Rush!" unfolds as a sequence of suggestive fragments, haunted by silences, setting the guitar against the world and inviting the listener into sonic micro-worlds.​​

The release as a whole thrives on contingency, presence, and an acute awareness of sound’s materiality. Both the duo and solo approaches trust in openness - the action of making and remixing sound as physical, immediate, and unresolved. F23M-12: Field With Figures No. 1–4 / Rush! stands as a vivid document of Berlin’s experimental scene and its ever-adaptive approach to sound, listening, and live art.