- Event
- Concert
TURNS ECO/EXO: ELECTRIC ASHES
Louisa Palmi x Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Fri, March 27, 2026 7:00 pm CET
Louisa Palmi and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay use 3D sound technologies and sound processing to create immersive audio works that explore social phenomena – from transformation and infrastructure to technological oversaturation – through sound.
The new ECO/EXO cycle translates central areas of tension in the present into immersive sound spaces and combines ecological fragility with speculative, extraterrestrial perspectives. Both artistic positions use space as an active compositional element working with multi-layered electroacoustic processes. The concert contrasts two different approaches to material, perception, and time. Together, the works open up new perspectives of listening between body, environment, and imagination.
Artist Statement
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Earth to Earth
Louisa Palmi
The temporality of resonance and resistance of a place.
Being in a place requires time. Letting the place enter you.
We need a place for mourning.
I feel that something is taken away from me all the time. Being young today (maybe old too) is seeing how our future is slowly, for most of us, or fast, for some of us, taken away from us. It is to witness a future that is gradually eroded, through ecological, social, and existential loss.
It is taken away in many different ways leading to death in different ways.
For this we need to mourn. We need to mourn the current state of our planet, our societies, our world.Earth to Earth is a continuation of my ongoing musical series on death. In this work, the perspective expands toward ecological grief, addressing eco-anxiety and solastalgia, the feeling of being homesick while still at home, closely tied to climate change and the loss of ecological stability.
The composition is grounded in field recordings from my immediate surroundings in Tromsø, Northern Norway. Every day over the course of one month, I made recordings in the same area, gathering sonic material from the snow to capture its subtle, day-to-day transformations. Snow is one of nature’s most sensitive barometers of a changing climate; its sonic character varies dramatically with temperature and condition, allowing these small shifts to become audible. In this piece, I want these subtle changes to be heard as traces; fragile, temporary, and slowly disappearing.
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here and there, both, at the same time
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
In this performance, I am premiering new musical scenes, as well as remixing, extending, overlapping, and subverting some material from my previous multichannel pieces in situ, to bring them to life in ZKM’s Sound Dome. These exceptional listening conditions will give us, I hope, a perfect environment to explore the poetics of multiple densities of uncanny objects, found or synthetic. As they all cohabitate in many surreal spaces of various shapes and sizes, they will tell each of us a unique story, through their unexpected co-presence and dialogue.
