Mi, 15.04.2026, 19:30 Uhr

Hörbar: Apples to Apples (Album Release) Junya Fujita & Sasha Iliashenko

Apples to Apples is a debut album of studio improvisations by Junya Fujita and Sasha Iliashenko. They navigate the domain of abstract electronic sound using digital and analogue circuitry. The artists implement feedback, microtonality and rapidly morphing timbres, finding extremity in both the loud and quiet, the repetitive and random. Shaped by the aesthetics of play and failure, their unstable sounds attempt to build a syntax as the album unfolds. Existing in a constant restless dialogue where each reply slightly redefines the question, they take turns assembling a shaky structure made of beating drones, irregular rhythms and harsh textures. The utterances heard in the process create meaning, at times unserious or borderline ridiculous, and at others melancholic or sentimental. The album is titled after a 90’s board game, in which players get a set of nouns that they match to an adjective to create word combinations. The artists adapted the game for two people and played a round for each track, attempting to transcribe the abstract sounds into titles.