Koenraad Ecker (BE)
Koenraad Ecker is a Belgian sound artist and researcher based in Berlin. He is fascinated by the dialectic interplay between the acoustic environment and the social relations contained within it;
by the magic of the ordinary and the ordinariness of magic. He’s worked with artists like Lord Spikeheart, James Ginzburg, Sara Persico, Ina Christel Johannessen, Yannick Jacquet and Ben Salisbury. Since 2021, his work has been moving towards an artistic practice that might be called sonic archaeology, a practise that combines oral history, field recording and archival research. His work has been heard at leading music festivals such as CTM Berlin & MUTEK; in squats, techno temples and plushy opera houses ; at renowned art institutions such as ZKM (Karlsruhe) and Akademie der Künste (Berlin) ; in series like Black Mirror (Netflix) and on music labels like Subtext, LINE & Opal Tapes. His work has been nominated for the Ars Electronica prize (2016) and won the Radiophrenia Prize for Radio Works (2021). He has taught or given workshops at the Universität der Künste (Berlin), Liszt Academy (Hungary), Nyege Nyege Studios (Kampala), KHM (Köln) and has spoken at numerous ethnomusicological academic conferences.