Release date: 5 June 2026
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This first portrait album devoted to Annelies Van Parys reveals a distinctive voice in contemporary European music. Drawing on spectralism, she builds luminous orchestral textures that unite timbral exploration with clear musical architecture and strong dramaturgy. 
Conductor Marit Strindlund notes: "I find Van Parys to be one of the most interesting contemporary European composers… a uniquely individual artistic voice is always shining through her music."

"There is something brilliantly strident about the music of Belgian composer Annelies Van Parys. A spectral composer - her musical structures are grounded in the acoustic properties of sound itself - Van Parys creates music that exudes a terrific power, both intellectually and emotionally. [...] A challenging but enormously rewarding disc." - Kate Wakeling - BBC Music Magazine *****

Annelies Van Parys
Antartica Records

Urgent times. Emergent futures.

EMERGENCE[Y] brings together artists, scientists, technologists, and collaborators to explore how we adapt to a world in flux. In an age marked by ecological collapse, technological acceleration, and social upheaval, adaptation becomes not only a biological imperative but a creative and ethical act. This Science Gallery Melbourne exhibition asks: how might we not only survive through change but emerge in a critically reimaged future?  

tele-present wind, created by artist David Bowen in collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory that uses data collected from the wind sensor on the Perseverance Mars rover.

The exhibition has been curated by Science Gallery Head Curator Tilly Boleyn, with input from a team of academic experts and young people.

David Bowen
Science Gallery Melbourne

Organism: In Turbulence
Solo concert with a century-old pipe organ prepared robotically to sound turbulent formations.

The organ is considered the epitome of musical order: an instrument of harmony, controlled breath, and “pure” tone. In Navid Navab’s work Organism: In Turbulence, this idea is radically expanded. The starting point is a century-old organ by Montreal instrument maker Casavant, which Navab saved from destruction and transformed into an experimental sound system. The pipes and pneumatic mechanics were modified and expanded with robotic actuators and ecological sensors. The organ now reacts to its surroundings and becomes part of a cybernetic cycle of air, material, and information. Navab thus continues a tradition in which machines are no longer just instruments, but become systems that can hear and react. Artists such as Nicolas Schöffer and Gordon Pask were already experimenting with such feedback loops between environment, technology, and sound in the 1960s.

Navab develops this idea into a living organism. The organ no longer sounds disciplined and monumental, but turbulent, rushing, and full of unstable overtones. The instrument leaves the sacred space of its history and becomes an open sound laboratory. Navid Navab was born in Tehran and lives in Montreal. As a musician, composer, and researcher, Navab moves between art, science, and experimental instrument making. For Organism + Excitable Chaos, Navab and Garnet Willis received the 2025 Prix Ars Electronica award in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category.

Navid Navab’s performance is supported by the Québec Government Office to Germany.

Navid Navab
Organism: In Turbulence
Blaues Rauschen
Free ticket

Sewing Machine Orchestra

Singer sewing machines, objects charged with collective memory and family histories, evoke a transfigured past brought back to the present and decontextualized. In Sewing Machine Orchestra, twelve domestic machines, collected and diverted from their utilitarian function, become the protagonists of a choreography orchestrated by computer and amplified by contact microphones.

Directly inspired by the performance with the same name, this installation reveals the sound and light potential of this familiar object. Unsettling in the agitation it generates, the work evolves in a crescendo of sound: like a polycephalic mechanical monster, the machines come to life with increasing intensity, filling the space with a low tone.

The omnipresent light accentuates the spectral effect of the installation. It transcends the overall choreography and casts the shadows of these ghostly objects, symbolically reanimating an industrial and domestic past. This hybrid work invites us to take part in an unsettling experiment on our links to collective memory and its materiality.

Martin Messier
Sewing Machine Orchestra
Baltoscandal 2026