Pierce Warnecke is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of experimental music, digital and video art. His practice explores the effects of time on matter – modification, deterioration, and disappearance – moving between sound, image, and physical material to recontextualise familiar forms. Through contrasts of scale and intensity, he examines the limits of human perception.

Warnecke has presented performances and installations at Rewire, Mutek, GRM, ZKM Karlsruhe, ManiFeste, CTM Festival, Elektra, KW Institut, La Biennale Némo, Sonic Acts, Martin Gropius Bau, MAC Montreal, Gray Area, Scopitone, LEV Festival, Semibreve, SXSW, FILE, and more. Since 2011, he has co-curated the emitter micro label and festival with Kris Limbach and Seiji Morimoto, and since 2020, Le Signal Festival with Louis Laurain.

Between 2017 and 2019, Warnecke composed several audiovisual works for the Institute for Sound and Music’s Hexadome project, and from 2015 to 2020 was associate professor at Berklee Valencia’s Master in Music, Production, Technology and Innovation programme. His music has been released on raster, Room40, and Contour Editions.

Photo credit: Jean-Baptiste Garcia