about
Marc Elsner and Kimi Recor are Berlin based artists and composers working at the intersection of sound, perception, and embodied experience. Their collaboration focuses on resonance as a sensory event, something that travels through air, body, and space.
Their first LP, i, begins a trilogy that continues with ii and iii. Each record grows out of their installation and performance series Resonant Spaces, created with visual artist David Becker. His work with light, vibration, and water reveals the physical patterns inside sound and forms the visual architecture of the project.
Resonant Spaces is a live, multisensory environment that shifts with each location. Using monochord, analog synthesis, voice, guitar, and convolution based processing, Marc and Kimi create sound fields that respond directly to the architecture around them. Every performance is shaped by the room, the moment, and the people within it.
Kimi’s practice centers on the relationship between sound, body, and attention. Her voice moves between grounded resonance and delicate overtone structures, guided by breath and emotional texture. Her approach draws from Pauline Oliveros and the practice of Deep Listening, which treats sound as something experienced with the whole body. She is also influenced by the patient harmonic worlds of Éliane Radigue and the focus on timbre and duration found in the work of Sarah Davachi. These artists form a quiet lineage that informs how she shapes tone, space, and presence.
Marc builds harmonic structures and dense tonal movements through layered vibration and frequency interplay. He has spent many years working with sound convolution, influenced by the research of Barry Truax, and has found the monochord to be an ideal instrument for exploring its spatial and harmonic potential. By combining convolution processes with the monochord’s spectrum, field recordings, and his guitar work, he creates immersive environments with a distinct sense of depth and clarity.
His collaboration with instrumentalist Bara Bensch produced a series of monochord recordings that form a central part of the Resonant Spaces sound world. Together, Marc and Kimi shape living sonic architectures that change with each performance. The recordings i, ii, and iii capture fragments of these states, traces of an ongoing conversation between sound and space.
Resonant Spaces invites audiences into a setting for listening, sensing, and remembering through vibration.
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