The second episode of SOMA welcomes sound artist Ludwig Berger. In his compositions, installations and performances, the artist engages in the sonic dimension of the more-than-human world, enabling intimate and playful sonic encounters with plants, animals, buildings and geological entities. The audience is invited to lie down on the 18-channel transducer SOMA floor feeling the vibrations of glaciers, insects, and plants.

Nested in the BACKROOM of KRONE COURONNE, SOMA is a vibrating listening platform that accommodates the practice and research of sound artists through 2025. Built as a result of curator Kristina Grigorjeva’s research that investigates the emancipatory and transformative potential of different listening practices, SOMA invites to listen, linger, vibrate and hear collectively in a shared, plural, response-able and care-full context.

Ludwig Berger (1986, Zurich/Montreal) is a landscape sound artist, musician and educator. In his compositions, installations and performances, he enables intimate and playful sonic encounters with plants, animals, buildings and geological entities. In his musical work, Berger pro- duces sonic eco-fictions with processed and synthetic sounds. He studied electroacoustic composition at the University of Music Weimar and Musicology, Art History and Literature at the University of Eichstätt. He also holds a teaching certificate from the Center For Deep Listening. As a sound researcher and teacher at the Institute for Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich from 2015- 2022, Berger studied the sonic dimension of Japanese gardens, alpine glaciers and urban landscapes. He has composed sound and music for award-winning films and theatre pieces and curates the landscape sound festival Sonic Topologies and the experimental music label Vertical Music.

Technical support: Ivan Crichton
Carpentry: Laurens Dekeyser
Installation views: Fabrice Schneider