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Expected Release Date: 05-June-2026 – This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.
Clear Coloured Vinyl incl. Booklet in silk screened pvc sleeve
Sound fragments unfold across Zurich, making loss, memory, and cultural change physically and acoustically perceptible. In The Rhythm of Design, Zurich-based fine arts duo Michael Meier & Christoph Franz explore urban displacement and its impact on the local music scene.
Focusing on six venues that have disappeared or are under threat, the artists collected materials on sitewood, metal, and other architectural elementsand, with the support of professional instrument builders, transformed them into six musical instruments. Six artists and groups connected to these spacesnamely Kalabrese, Tobibi Ferrari-Bienz, Rafal Skoczek, Lucien Badoux & Jeremy Sauter, Nicola Kazimir, and Dualismeach composed a piece for them, forming the basis for site-specific performances in September 2025. Rather than performing as an ensemble, the worksranging from experimental funk and punk to kraut, noise, and droneunfolded simultaneously in spatial fragments at the original locations. Only through movement and listening across the city did the composition emerge as a whole. The work was realized in collaboration with the City of Zurich, Art in Public Space (KiR).
Eight months after the original performances took place, the pieces are released via Switzerland-based publishing platform Prsens Editionen. The recordavailable as a limited-edition coloured vinyl with a special artwork, as a digital album, and for streamingcarries the fragmented sounds of Zurich into a new form of collective memory, extending the work beyond its original locations as a lasting document of urban transformation.
* Edition of 300 clear color vinyl
* Special artwork feat. silk-screen printed plastic sleeve and an extensive booklet, designed by award-winning graphic design studio A Language, Melina Wilson and Martin Stoecklin
* Published by Prsens Editionen
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