re:organ - Laboratory for new organ sounds
The Berlin-based Chinese composers Yiran Zhao and Lin Yang approach the organ not as a historical symbol, but as a complex sonic organism. The starting point of their work is the question of how an instrument shaped over centuries can be reimagined beyond familiar playing styles.
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Wanying Lin
In this project, the organ is understood as a physical system: pipes, manuals, mechanics, and wind supply appear as functional units of an organism whose relationships are re-examined. The composers analytically investigate these structures and transform them compositionally. Sound material is fragmented, rearranged, layered, spliced, and fused. Larger contexts, states, and processes emerge from individual sonic particles.
Electronics play a central role as an extension of the instrument's physical form. Electronic sounds and processes do not compete with the organ, but rather intervene in its structure, amplifying, shifting, and altering it. The familiar soundscape is expanded, superimposed, and refocused.
Thus, the organ ultimately appears both recognizable and transformed – not as a monument of music history, but as a living system whose sonic possibilities can be experienced anew.
Dates
September 2026
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