Anita Neukirch
is a music and sound composer
based in the Rhein-Main area, Germany.
While she studies Cultural Anthropology and Media Education at the University of Mainz, she seeks to understand societal phenomena, such as digitisation with its promising but also alien aspects of the
human experience.
As she has a keen interest in immersive art forms, such as installation, sound and music, she uses digital and analogue producing techniques to shape harmonic textures. Within this terrain, she is exploring corelational agencies of various matter to evolve her
compositional capabilities.
She is usually looking for creative entanglements with other artists and cultural creaters to realise interdisciplinary projects, whereby she takes part in melting her musical and technical knowledge with keyboard instruments, cables and modules into journeys
open to explore.
fotography by Renée Nesca
Her EP
« SPECULATIVE TEMPLES »
is currently still in production.
At its core, this project endeavors an interpolation between ancient and present times. Since the Renaissance, ancient times have become an object of humanist speculation. Neukirch has investigated concepts of Self-care and Stoicism in ancient greek philosophy that nowadays reveal their power as an ancient remedy that helps to navigate through the chaos of the digital age with its surplus of information and its myriad conspiracy theories.
Based on this awareness, she aims to trigger ruptures through creating sonic spaces to offer sensual experiences for reflection. As speculative as these spaces are, as solid shall be their navigational agency that offers a fortress against the
chaos of digitisation.
Within her practise, she explores repetitive material in its static and fluid forms as well as its evoking immersive effects. She delves into techniques of minimal music and modular synthesis and blends them with kinds of etherealness. She composes with self-patched sets of oscillators, vocal textures and modulating sequences that form holding patterns to invite the contemporary spiritual seeker to
states of contemplation.
get some first impressions by clicking below
all vibes, vocals and visuals produced by Anita Neukirch