segment 19 – FLUME, the next step of my contribution to the FLOW project by Cities and Memory and the Universities of Padova and Würzburg. I added a video and a live part to segment 19 – FLUME and premiered it as segment 19 – FLUME audio-visual composition live iteration at Klangzeit-Werkstatt festival by Gesellschaft für Neue Musik / GNM Münster at music-conservatory Münster, GER, May 16th 2026.
Segment 19 – FLUME investigates the acoustic behavior of a regulated river segment through a post-cinematic audiovisual compositional approach. The piece originates from a field recording made inside the concrete tube of a fish pass, where water striking the walls produces a narrow resonance between A and B♭. This unstable microtonal field becomes the structural centre of the work. Granular and spectral processes, sine tones, and slowly drifting accordion drones performed on two slightly detuned instruments reorganise the recording into an evolving acoustic space.
The video has its origins in massively processed false-color satellite images of the area. The aim was to transform the wide view from space into the way from the river basin through the narrow concrete tube under this dammed part of the river Lech near the municipality of Scheuring / GER. Rather than depicting the site, this video-composition amplifies its latent resonances, pressure, and spatial constraints.
Segment 19 – FLUME also exists in a live iteration, where a third accordion performs live alongside the fixed video-composition.