Lothar Heinle - Lothar Heinle: Electroacoustic Works (2025)

With his new album, Heilbronn-based composer, sound designer, and musicologist Lothar Heinle presents a fascinating selection of electroacoustic works that exemplify his artistic approach. Heinle consistently shapes his music from reality: everyday noises, sounds of nature, instrumental micro-gestures, or vocal fragments become living sound objects that are transformed, distorted, and rearranged in the digital realm. Nothing arises from abstract technology—everything breathes, everything bears the trace of lived experience.

This aesthetic owes its existence to the influences of Georg Katzer and Diego Minciacchi, but also to its own profoundly humane sound philosophy: music becomes a chronicle, a snapshot, a condensation of time. Heinle sees himself as an observer and storyteller whose works—whether meditative, eruptive, or subtly ironic—always point to inner and societal spaces of resonance.

The pieces gathered on the album showcase his versatility: Tholos revolves like an open rondo around granular sound particles and random radio signals; far … still weaves extended soprano melodies into a poetic study of nearness and distance. Monotronie VII unfolds a sweeping passacaglia from a pulsating ostinato, while attic poem forms a disintegrating sonic fragment of memory from the composer's private archive material.

With paysage ouvert, a utopian yet fragile soundscape opens up, its distorted double bass sounds developing a multi-layered dramaturgy. Quia non sunt III, a deeply moving piece of mourning, transforms a personal loss into a haunting cry into the void. The album concludes with end | no end, created in collaboration with the artist Karin Dorn-Tetzlaff – a finely granular exploration of time, transience, and open-ended processes.


With paysage ouvert, a utopian yet fragile soundscape unfolds, its distorted double bass sounds developing a multi-layered dramaturgy. This album showcases Lothar Heinle as a distinctive voice in electroacoustic music: precise, poetic, technically masterful – and always committed to the breathing sound of life.