Berlin based, boutique record label Sonic Pieces is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. For the last one and a half decades the label has presented around 50 records which border between contemporary classical and avant-garde sounds. Monique Recknagel has been quietly curating and hand-crafting each release with focus on quality rather than quantity. During this evening she will present Deaf Center, the duo of long-term collaborators Erik K Skodvin and Otto A Totland, as well as French composer Sylvain Chauveau.

Deaf Center is seemingly never of the times and has gone in and out of hibernation through the years before appearing new with deeply personal works in the axis of ambient, contemporary classical and drone music. Since their beginning in the early 2000s they have created a cult following from releasing albums such as “Pale Ravine”, “Owl Splinters” and “Low Distance”. This is the first time they appear together on stage again since 2019.

Sylvain Chauveau has been releasing quiet and minimal compositions on various labels for more than two decades. Earlier this year he made his debut to the Sonic Pieces catalog with the album “ultra-minimal”, a live recording of a concert at Café OTO in London. In connection with that, Sonic Pieces also re-released his debut album “Le livre noir du capitalisme” from 2000, a melancholy milestone – and a precursor of what later would become the contemporary classical genre.