Still – Fold by KMRU and Aho Ssan – two leading voices in contemporary experimental music – is conceived as a sonic landscape shaped by a silent shift, a world where the event has vanished, yet its vibrations continue to resonate. The piece does not seek to describe what happened, but explores what remains: traces, after images, and unstable signals that move between presence and disappearance.

Drawing inspiration from the way filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul reveals overlapping layers of the visible and invisible, and from the haunting atmospheres of Todd Hido’s photographs, Still – Fold drifts as a territory in suspension. Sound oscillates like a substance emerging, folding, and dissolving, as if the landscape were trying to recall its own contours. The piece is created specifically for the Acousmonium multichannel sound system.

Co-commissioned by INA grm Sonic Acts in the framework of Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action.
Premiere: 28 February 2026 at Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 in Amsterdam, NL.

Aho Ssan and KMRU participated in Sonic Acts’ Spatial Sound Residency in 2025, where they developed their commissioned work. The residency programme is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Cultuurloket DigitALL, Mondriaan Fund, and is part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.