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Aetherine
Experimental cello and viola
Recorded at Funkhaus Berlin, Aetherine stays close to its source — cello and viola at their most exposed — while also pushing those same recordings into slowly evolving textural soundscapes built for cinematic work and expressive sound design. Franziska Aigner on cello, Beatrix Curran on viola. Two players whose collaborative practice became the starting point for something considerably stranger. Recognisably strings but only just — granular pads, harmonic beds that shift before you notice they've moved, and somewhere underneath it all, the feeling of two performers in a room together, doing something they couldn't quite repeat.
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Behind the scenes
Recording Aetherine
About the instrument
Circular bowing, microtonal clusters, harmonics pushed to the point of fragility. The performances were recorded with transformation in mind — textures chosen specifically because of how they'd behave once processed.
Spectral resynthesis and granular reconstruction do the rest, pulling the original material apart and putting it back together in ways that retain the detail of the source — bow pressure, tone color, the small physical decisions players make — while arriving somewhere noticeably different.
