The Cologne duo AVATAR CURATORS plays installative and visual music. Verena Barié, recorders & electronics and Rochus Aust, trumpets & spatial arrangement, invent expanded artistic dimensions. Together they weave an acoustic web that combines the genres of new music, minimal ambient and improvised installation. 2024 has taken them to New Zealand, Singapore, India and most […]

I have been on the board of the Cologne Society of New Music since 2021. Actively shaping the cultural life of Cologne’s independent scene through musical and artistic events as well as cultural-political commitment are important to me. VERORTUNG From February to November 2022, Dorothee Haddenbruch, Angelika Sheridan andVerena Barié is continuously working on the […]

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 […]