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As listeners will soon notice, Portuguese composer Luís Salgueiro (1993) moves with ease between philosophy and music — two territories that, in his work, often mirror one another. In this episode, we join him in a quiet exploration of how thought becomes sound and how language shapes what we hear, while listening to a few fleeting excerpts from his own music.
Do we still have the courage to speak about music?

credits: Parroting [2025], soundscape // Wolf Town [2020], for saxophone quartet | Quatuor de saxophones Quasar // Expeletives censored with snippets from
mir nichts, dir nichts [2024–5], for small ensemble | ars ad hoc

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After the summer break, we return with composer Ludger Brümmer (Werne, 1958) as the guest of the first episode of the 2025/26 season. Like many composers, Brümmer cannot resist speaking about music — yet he does so in a uniquely compelling way. The former director of ZKM shares insights into his approach to sound: the role of structure and intuition, space as narrative and as a field for exploration, as well as the possibilities of physical modelling. In this episode, we are invited to immerse ourselves in his sonic universe and the ideas that shape it

credits: La cloche sans vallees [1992], acousmatic composition // The gates of H. [1993], acousmatic composition // Spheres of Resonance [2015], acousmatic composition // Falling [2020], acousmatic composition // between twilight [2019], for 4 or 5 midi Pianos
Look @ CDs Sonic Patterns or Spheres of Resonance by WERGO / Spotify / AppleMusic.

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