Soundwalk Collective

The six compositions on Soundwalk Collective’s new album, It’s All Breaking Apart, are based on field recordings from Berlin clubs, particularly Berghain, blended with additional sounds processed through modular synthesizers, ambient noise, fragments of conversations, and new vocal performances, both sung and spoken. The album features collaborations with Anika, Gudrun Gut, Elvin Brandhi, and Nina Kraviz. The opening track, The Crowd, is a collaboration between Soundwalk Collective and legendary artist Nan Goldin, composed specifically for her n.b.k. Billboard project The Crowd, Paternò. This public art installation was displayed in Berlin’s public space in 2022. Goldin, a long-term collaborator of the duo, also provides the album’s cover image with her eponymous work.

Soundwalk Collective is a contemporary sonic arts platform of Stephan Crasneanscki and Simone Merli. Working with a rotating constellation of artists and musicians and filmmakers like a. o. Nan Goldin, Jean-Luc Godard, Laura Poitras and Patti Smith, they develop site- and context-specific sound projects through which to examine conceptual, literary or artistic themes. They also composed the original score for Laura Poitras’s Golden Lion-winning documentary film, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), about Nan Goldin.

Soundwalk Collective have performed and exhibited at a diverse range of arts and music institutions, such as Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Onassis Foundation, Athens; documenta 14, Athens and Kassel; New Museum, New York; Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Georgia; Volksbühne Berlin.