With his new album, Heilbronn-based composer, sound designer, and musicologist Lothar Heinle presents a fascinating selection of electroacoustic works that exemplify his artistic thinking. Heinle always shapes his music from reality: everyday noises, sounds of nature, instrumental micro-gestures, or vocal fragments become living sound objects that are transformed, alienated, and rearranged in digital space. Nothing arises from abstract technology—everything breathes, everything bears the traces of experience.
This aesthetic owes much to the influences of Georg Katzer and Diego Minciacchi, but also to his own deeply human philosophy of sound: music becomes chronicle, snapshot, condensation of time. Heinle sees himself as an observer and narrator whose works – whether meditative, eruptive, or subtly ironic – always refer to inner and social spaces of resonance.
The pieces collected on the album showcase his diversity: Tholos circles like an open rondo around granular sound particles and random radio signals; far … still weaves stretched soprano sounds into a poetic study of closeness and distance. Monotronie VII unfolds a spacious passacaglia from a throbbing ostinato, while attic poem forms a decaying fragment of sound memory from the composer's private archive material.
With paysage ouvert, a utopian yet fragile soundscape opens up, its alienated 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 processes.
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.
Programme
Lothar Heinle (*1965)
[01] Tholos (2021)
[02] far … still (2020)
[03] Monotronie VII (2016)
[04] attic poem (2014)
[05] paysage ouvert (2024)
[06] Quia non sunt III (2018)
[07] end | no end (2023)
Total duration: 71:40
Lothar Heinle, electronics
First recordings
Biographies
Lothar Heinle, born in 1965, lives and works as a freelance sound designer, composer, and musicologist in Heilbronn. Since 1991, he has been a freelance music critic for the daily newspaper Heilbronner Stimme. From 1995 to 2003, he was responsible for program editing and festival coordination at the International Piano Forum ...antasten... in Heilbronn.
While studying musicology, Lothar Heinle worked for the media department at the University of Tübingen in the field of event technology, where he curated the scientific film archive. He received important inspiration for his own compositional work from Ernst Helmuth Flammer, Georg Katzer, and Diego Minciacchi, among others.
Lothar Heinle realized electronic sound concepts for exhibitions by Vogelmann Prize winners Roman Signer (2008), Franz Erhard Walther (2011), and Thomas Schütte (2014) at the Heilbronn Municipal Museums and the Kunsthalle Vogelmann. His music has been performed internationally in Sweden (Midvinterfestivalen Pitea 2012), Italy (Italian Composers Forum Milano 2013), and Ukraine (International Music Festival Karkhiv 2014) . In 2014, he created the sound installation >stunde 0 / geh…denken< (hour 0 / go...think) for the 70th anniversary of the destruction of Heilbronn in the city's hall of honor. From April 24 to June 19, 2016, the sound installation quasi cinis was heard in the Marienkirche in Frankfurt (Oder), accompanying the exhibition brennend (burning) by the Heilbronn Artists' Association. >stunde 0 / geh…denken< zum 70. Jahrestag der Zerstörung Heilbronns in der städtischen Ehrenhalle. Von 24. April bis 19. Juni 2016 war die Klanginstallation quasi cinis in der Marienkirche von Frankfurt (Oder) zu hören, begleitend zur Ausstellung brennend des Künstlerbundes Heilbronn.
Since 2021, Heinle has been collaborating on a project basis with visual artist Karin Dorn-Tetzlaff (acousmatic spatial music for exhibitions as well as music for video works and exhibition films). In 2025, electronic performance on four evenings for the travel and exhibition project Old Man Odyssee by Heilbronn artist Peter Riek. Old Man Odyssee des Heilbronner Künstlers Peter Riek.
More information
Catalogue number: NEOS 12521
EAN: 4260063125218
