Duration
12.9.26, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Auditorium
Admission
Free admission
Info
Friday, 11.9., 8 pm
TUNE. Florian Hecker presents Natural Selection live
Saturday, 12.9. 5 – 7pm
TUNE. Roundtable with Florian Hecker, Maya B. Kronic, Vincent Lostanlen and Michael Newman (Free Admission)
Saturday, 12.9. 8 pm
TUNE. Joint listening of “FAVN”
Florian Hecker (1975, Augsburg) works with synthetic sound, the listening process, and the audience's auditory experience, to create installations and performances. At stake in the work is how sound is received, processed, and transformed by the listening body, inviting audiences to engage with composite sonic environments that question the nature of perception and listening itself.
For Tune, from 4.9. – 14.9.26, Hecker presents “FAVN”, a thirteen-channel sound piece in the Westgalerie. “FAVN” unfolds as an automated performance, tracing the blurry boundaries between reality and imagination, sensory perception and hallucinated events. Evoking notions surrounding late-19th-century psychophysics and the quantification of the senses, “FAVN” follows Debussy in sonically reincarnating the protagonist of Stéphane Mallarmé's 1876 poem L'après-midi d'un faune.
On Friday, 11.9.26, Hecker performs new work in relation to his latest release Natural Selection live, and on Saturday 12.9.26, a roundtable featuring computer music researcher Vincent Lostanlen and philosopher and editor Maya B Kronic, will take place to discuss the rich ideas Hecker’s work explores and generates, followed by a group listening session of “FAVN”.
Florian Hecker works with synthetic sound, the listening process, and the audience's auditory experience. Recent exhibitions and performances include “FAVN”, Terraforma EXO, Milano, 2025; “TEMPLEXTURES”, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany; “FAVN”, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, CA, USA; “Formulations As Texture — Horizontal and Vertical Crossings”, Simian, Copenhagen, Denmark (all 2022) and “Resynthesizers”, Equitable Vitrines, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2021). In addition, Hecker has an extensive discography, including: Natural Selection (PAN, 2026); NORMIFICATION (Diagonal, 2025); Resynthese FAVN (Blank Forms, New York, 2024) and many more. Hecker has been professor of "Sound and Experiment" at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Bayerisches Spitzenprofessurenprogramm) since 2024.
Maya B. Kronic (she/her) is a writer, translator, and editor. Maya writes on philosophy, art, technology, and culture, is the founder-editor of independent UK publisher Urbanomic, and has worked with a number of artists developing cross-disciplinary projects, as well as translating innumerable essays and various book-length works of French philosophy by figures including Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Éric Alliez, and François Laruelle. She is the co-author, with Amy Ireland, of Cute Accelerationism (2023). Her research interests include: accelerationism, the ethics of intensity, subjectivity and the earth, the cute and the supernormal, Deleuze and mathematics, and transphoria.
Vincent Lostanlen is a scientist at CNRS, the French national center for scientific research, since 2020. In 2015, while a PhD student at École normale supérieure, under the supervision of Stéphane Mallat, he developed an algorithm for sound analysis and synthesis, known as time-frequency scattering. This algorithm has served in Florian Hecker's FAVN as well as other computer music pieces and sonic installations.
Michael Newman is a writer and curator who is Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published numerous essays on modern and contemporary artists as well as thematic essays that combine philosophy and art history on the wound, the horizon, contingency, memory, nonsense, the anti-portrait and boredom. He was co-curator with Kate Macfarlane of the exhibition “FIGURE/S: Drawing After Bellmer” at The Drawing Room, London (2021). In 2024, he curated a three-part exhibition at Large Glass, London, which included a work by Florian Hecker, titled After Mallarmé. He is co-director of the Drawing Centre for Humans and Machines at Goldsmiths.
TUNE 2026 is supported by Unitel Musikstiftung.