With Live At Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Grischa Lichtenberger distills the art of sound into forty minutes of fiercely organized chaos. Recorded in the unique space of the Pino Pascali Museum in Polignano a Mare and released by Hermit Records, the album is a study in constructive friction—mechanical pulses and ferrous textures recurring, splintering, and coalescing in real time. Lichtenberger's palette draws from the imaginary of Russolo and Brinkmann, yet forges its own path: rhythm and abstraction in an endless handshake, frequency as sculpture, and every crackle a gesture or a mark. This release, limited to a black vinyl edition and including original music and artwork conceived over more than a decade, is purposefully an object as well as a document. No digital footprints, just a testimony pressed in the grooves—an encounter with matter, with noise, with control. Here, listening is not passive; it is as much a process as the performance itself, alive with tension and raw poetics.

"An abstract painting with expressionist hues and futurist echoes, a mix between action painting and informal art: this is the first impression from Grischa Lichtenberger's live performance recorded at the Pino Pascali Museum in Polignano a Mare. The artist, based in Berlin, makes the rhythms creak, cuts them with a laser, weaves imaginative harmonic coils, smoothes with electric razors and draws figures with echoes and industrial clangs. Then he uses ferrous materials that, with a precision lathe, are abraded and cause sparks. Suddenly steel springs fall to the ground, generating a cascade effect. In the distance, you can hear the roar of speeding cars and the ringing of bells. Lichtenberger pulps, compresses, dilates, mixes, electrifies, heats up, liquefies: he does all this in just less than forty minutes, treating the sound material with violence, transforming it from time to time, shaping it and succeeding in the arduous task of controlling its effects. It is as if Luigi Russolo, Alva Noto and Thomas Brinkmann were closed in a workshop on the edge of a highway, parodying the famous definition of techno." - Giosuè Impellizzeri

Grischa Lichtenberger (born May 16, 1983 in Bielefeld) is a German artist and musician working in the fields of electronic music, installation, multimedia, and visual art. His music exists at the uneasy intersection of abstraction and tactility, a body of work that mutates in real-time, bristling with the erratic energy of a hard-drive on the verge of collapse, crowing a memento mori. Since his emergence on Raster, Lichtenberger has carved a singular path through digital music, rendering technological debris into delicate latticeworks of sound. His approach is, at its core, an exploration of the symbolic structure of music as a physical, yet deeply humane manifestation. Tracks unfold like jagged blueprints, with rhythms that collapse and reassemble in asymmetric grids. His use of fractured, hyper-detailed percussion calls to mind the late-period experiments of Autechre, but where Booth and Brown stretch into alien elasticity, Lichtenberger retains a tensile rigidity, sculpting his sound from raw immediacy. Yet beneath the digital brutalism, there's a sensitivity to decay, to the fragility of memory encoded in corrupted data streams.