This audio collage was created to accompany the sculpture “Shelter” by visual artist Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb. The collaboration was presented as part of the group exhibition Nature Body, which took place at the Altes Automatenwerk in Stuttgart-Feuerbach from December 14, 2025 through February 7, 2026. “Shelter” was assembled from tree branches collected from the forest in […]
Two hours of recent listening, including reissued classics from the cassette underground and lo-fi sounds from across time and space, running the gamut from unlistenable to transcendent. Follow the links below to hear more. Playlist Start Time | Artist | “Title” | Album | Label (Year) 0:00 | Frieder Butzmann | “Tonight’s Musik” | Vertrauensmann Des Volkes | Zensor […]
Photo by Yinyin Ma I performed as If / When at the Sunny High Club in Stuttgart – Bad Cannstatt on Friday March 21. The set was made of mostly new sounds I’ve recorded over the last couple of years, including field recordings, synthesized sounds, and moments captured from web-based shortwave radio. While preparing, I […]
A collage of recent listening, featuring obscure articulations, corroded tapes, twee beats, artists as musicians, a chorus of bells, solitary late night doodles, fuzzed loops, and chance meetings.
For several years now, I have been intending to start an imprint for releasing the results of projects I’ve completed. The forced solitude of the COVID-19 pandemic last year provided the time and inspiration to finally get started. I am pleased that today marks the launch of Smooth Space Editions. Smooth Space Editions is intended […]
I recently presented my installation Who’s the Dummy? as part of xCoAx 2019, the 7th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X. This was the second time mounting the project, following its November 2018 debut at the generate!_lab Festival of Electronic Arts in Tübingen. FIND COMPLETE DOCUMENTATION OF THIS PROJECT HERE.
Schatten-Licht was an exhibition of objects and paintings by Uschi Lux, accompanied by a site specific sound installation by Chris Williams. The installation was shown in the World War II-era bunker beneath the Martinskirche in Stuttgart, Germany from May 24 – June 8, 2019.
NEW: FOR DOCUMENTATION OF THIS PROJECT, PLEASE GO HERE. I will be taking part in the generate!_lab festival in Tübingen, Germany on November 10, 2018. You’re invited! (Scroll for full description.) “Who’s the Dummy?” A multimedia installation about puppets and propaganda in cooperation with the generate!_lab Festival for Electronic Arts 2018 http://festival.shedhalle.de 10. November | […]
NEW: CLICK HERE FOR DOCUMENTATION OF THIS PROJECT. On Saturday, October 14, I will be debuting a new solo alias called If/When and present an installation and live sound performance called “Pigments” at the Kunstraum 34 in Stuttgart. The event is taking place in coordination with a city-wide cultural event called Stuttgartnacht and as part of […]
On this night 13 years ago I was at the Trash Bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, celebrating the release of Your Words, Bought and Sold, the only proper CD that my big, loud rock band at the time, The Sick Passengers, ever finished. This was long before “digital albums” came along, and so we never got […]