heterophenomenological

[release] soliloquy synthesis

Soliloquy Synthesis is out now on Penultimate Press: https://penultimatepress.bandcamp.com/album/soliloquy-synthesis-2

Bernd Schurer (born, Zurich, 1970) is a sound artist, researcher, and composer of electronic music living in Berlin for the last 18 years. 

Schurer is one the absolute pioneers of extreme computer music amongst other mischievous and radical online activities in the nascent days of the internet. 

In a long running and somewhat confrontational practice Schurer has explored physical and psychological experiences through computational formalization processes.

Soliloquy Synthesis was created in anticipation of his father’s passing. 

The composition was presented in front of an intimate audience at the NNOI festival in Zernikow, Brandenburg, Germany, July 2025. A week after the anticipated event transpired.

Under twinkling stars and flickering fires, what was it good for? A game. 

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credits

released March 26, 2026

Music by Bernd Schurer.
Mastered by Rashad Becker.
Cover Painting by Mark Harwood.