Annie Aries / Noria Lilt

It’s Not Quiet In The Void, by Annie Aries, takes you within the warm reaches of an expanse. Piercing you with softened shards of sound like sea glass, and high voltage threads woven into thick cord. Dawn, turning tangerine and bristling with potential.

Annie Aries aka Annie Rüfenacht is a Swiss-Philippine composer and musician based in Bern, Switzerland. She holds an M.A. in Music & Media Arts from Bern University of the Arts, and studied historical musicology at the University of Bern. In 2017, Annie lived in Berlin and studied in the program Popular Music History & Theory at Humboldt University, specializing in experimental practices within pop and club culture.

Since 2019 Annie has been a faculty member in the Sound Arts department at Bern University of the Arts. She has shown her works at Mis-En Music Festival in Brooklyn NY, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, ZKM Karlsruhe, IGNM Bern, International Computer Music Conference in Shenzhen, Gray Area San Francisco, Sonic Mountains Dampfzentrale Bern, among others. Annie produces music with her instrument, a modular, custom-made synthesizer and focuses on how her instrument fosters the interplay between generative musical approaches and improvised live performance. In her work she aims at a minimal, reduced, yet complex textural sound world. She combines contemporary electronica music with club and synthesizer influences with the experimental approach of contemporary and experimental music.

Noria Lilt has been immersed in a musical and cultural environment since her earliest years. Growing up in a musician family, she graduated as a Sound Artist from the Bern University of the Arts (HKB) in 2021. Heavily influenced by dance music and rave culture, thirsty for bass, breaks, and bleeps; Noria Lilt puts together a bursting mix of the most heteroge-neous electronic inspirations. From clubs to art centers and other live scenes, her practice oscillates between djing, live, composition and production, audiovisual installations, and multichannel pieces. Her production and composition process tends towards acousmatic and experimental music, with a delicate and unique sound design. TRNSTN RADIO co-founder, Kapitel Bollwerk resident DJ, SMEM coordinator: she is an important figure and an active member of the cultural, nightlife, and musical scenes of Switzerland. In all her facets, she presents powerful messages in a captivating hybrid universe.

Photo: Julien Chavaillaz