Soundwalk Collective is the contemporary sonic arts platform of founder and artist Stephan Crasneanscki and producer Simone Merli.
Soundwalk Collective is the contemporary sonic arts platform of founder and artist Stephan Crasneanscki and producer Simone Merli. Working with a rotating constellation of artists and musicians, they develop site- and context-specific sound projects through which to examine conceptual, literary or artistic themes.
Evolving along multi-disciplinary lines, Soundwalk Collective has cultivated long-term creative collaborations with musician Patti Smith, late director Jean-Luc Goddard, photographer Nan Goldin, choreographer Sasha Waltz, and actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, among others. In doing so, their practice engages in the narrative potential of sound across mediums such as art installations, dance, music and film.
A unique artistic approach to sound ties together the different forms in which Soundwalk Collective work. Whether in original composition or the use of archival recordings, they treat sound as material that is both tactile and poetic. This allows them to create layered narratives that address ideas of memory, time, love and loss.
Their latest original score for ‘All The Beauty and the Bloodshed’ (dir. Laura Poitras) won the Golden Lion at the 2022 Venice Film Festival. In October 2022, they opened ‘Evidence’, a new exhibition with Patti Smith at Centre Pompidou in Paris that weaves an audio-visual journey from the work of French poets Arthur Rimbaud, Antonin Artaud and René Daumal.
Soundwalk Collective have performed and exhibited at a diverse range of arts and music institutions, such as Berghain, Centre Pompidou, CTM Festival, documenta, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Manifesta, Mobile Art Pavillion by Zaha Hadid and New Museum.
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Soundwalk Collective
Death Must Die
Marionette
12” LP, Digital
Soundwalk Collective
What We Leave Behind - Jean-Luc Godard Archives
The Vinyl Factory
12″ LP, Digital
Soundwalk Collective
What We Leave Behind - Remixes EP
By Ricardo Villalobos, Jan Jelinek, Petre Inspirescu
The Vinyl Factory
12″ EP, Digital
Soundwalk Collective
Transmissions
Dischi Fantom
12″ LP
Commissioned by documenta14
Soundwalk Collective
Original score to Sasha Walt'z 'Kreatur'
Dischi Fantom
12″ LP
Soundwalk Collective
Before Music There Is Blood
Including a rework by Max Loderbauer
Apollo Records
12″ LP, Digital
Soundwalk Collective & Jesse Paris Smith, featuring Patti Smith
Killer Road
Bella Union, Sacred Bones Records
2x LP, Limited Edition, CD, Digital
Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith
The Peyote Dance
Bella Union,
2x LP, Limited Edition, CD, Digital
Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith
Mummer Love
Bella Union,
2x LP, Limited Edition, CD, Digital
Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith
Peradam
Bella Union,
2x LP, Limited Edition, CD, Digital
Soundwalk Collective feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg,
AtomTM, Lyra Pramuk, Paul B. Preciado, Willem Dafoe
Lovotic
Analogue Foundation
LP, Limited Edition, Digital
Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith
Perfect Vision
Bella Union,
7x LP, Limited Edition, Digital
The Reworkings
Bella Union,
LP, Limited Edition, Digital