chirp.crush – Verena Barié and Sjoerd Leijten – have been creating soundscapes with recorders, guitars, unheard-of instruments and live electronics since 2017. Using breath as a sound generator, chirp.crush creates abstract narratives through multi-layered improvisational and compositional processes. chirp.crush are border crossers between experimental radio play, radio and sound art.
In November 2023, the CD indiscreet_dragons was released under the label TONKUNSTMANUFAKTUR in NRW.
Tracks 1, 3, 4, 6 were recorded in Trix Antwerp on 15-17.12.2022. Track 2 is a live concert recording at LTK4 Cologne for SOIRÉE SONIQUE #46 on 28.04.2021. Track 5 was recorded in a rehearsal phase in the Johanneskirche Köln-Brück on 03.09.2021.
The elements of natural and processed recorder sounds, synthesizers as well as voices and linguistic images from the world of radio waves and fantastic physical definitions by the author Stanislaw Lem form a wide, almost haptic landscape of the ether that is otherwise so hidden to us.
Using breath as a sound generator, chirp.crush – together with Markus Hennes/voice – creates abstract narratives through multi-layered electronic processes and electronic instruments.
chirp.crush see themselves as border crossers between experimental radio play, radio and sound art.
The ensemble was supported by two FEB-Ensemble scholarships (2021 & 2022) from the Musikfonds e.V., as well as by the Kunststiftung NRW and the NRW KULTURsekretariat as part of performances in LTS4 in the Lichtturm Solingen.
