Soundwalk Collective

Soundwalk Collective is an experimental sound collective founded by Stephan Crasneanscki in New York City (2000 – present), and joined by Simone Merli in 2008. The Collective currently operates in a continuously rotating constellation of sound artists and musicians. Their approach to composition combines anthropology, ethnography, non-linear narrative, psycho- geography, the observation of nature, and explorations in recording and synthesis. The source material of their works is always linked to specific locations, natural or artificial, and requires long periods of investigative travel and field work. Distinguished collaborators include American singer, songwriter and poet Patti 
 Smith, Ethiopian Jazz musician Mulatu Astatke, American photographer Nan Goldin and French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard. The Collective have also written original scores for contemporary dance choreographer Sasha Waltz. Soundwalk Collective have performed live and exhibited at cultural institutions including Opéra de Lyon, CTM Festival, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Barbican Centre, Berghain, Centre Pompidou, Mobile Art by Zaha Hadid in Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York; MUDAM, MuCEM, New Museum, Palazzo Reale in Milan, La Triennale, Funkhaus, documenta14, Manifesta12 and FOROF - Rome.

Photo by Nan Goldin.