OUT OF SIGHT –
Invisible Thoughts

Compositions by
Andrea Neumann und Hanna Hartman
Premiere: 27./28. June 2025.

fleder
fleder is inspired by Francisco de Goya’s etching ‘The sleep of reason gives birth to monsters’ from the collection Los Caprichos (1799).
All sounds used were recorded with indoor piano and voice.

Andrea Neumann has been one of the most important protagonists of the Berlin improv scene since the 90s. She plays with the inside piano she built for herself in various groups, including Femmes Savantes, Splitter ORchester and many more. She has been a professor at the Basel University of Music since 2020.

Umbra
Umbra – the part of the shadow where no straight line from the light source reaches, the core shadow. The umbra is the innermost and darkest part of a shadow, where the light source is completely blocked. UMBRA is based on sound recordings of bass instruments, Buchla-200 synthesizer and sound recordings from all over the world. With recordings of Matthias Bauer on double bass, Max Murray tuba and N. Andrew Walsh contrabassoon. The recordings where made in The Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin in 2025. Buchla- 200 recordings at Elektronmusikstudion EMS in Stockholm.with kind support from Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste.

Hanna Hartman is a Swedish composer. She composes for instrumental ensembles as well as electronic music and installations.
Her works are performed worldwide.
Hanna Hartman creates compositions from recordings she makes herself, which she removes from their original context so that they can be perceived in their purity, and she is interested in a hidden correspondence between the most diverse auditory impressions.