Jonas Engel, Matthew Ryals, Niloufar Shiri and Fan-Qi Wu

The quartet first met during Art Omi: Music 2025, where a spontaneous musical encounter revealed a striking common ground in sound and aesthetics. Drawn together by an immediate resonance, they began this new collaboration with the urgency of something that felt inevitable.

Bringing together pipa, kamancheh, saxophone, and modular synthesizer, their music explores microsound, texture, and noise through improvisation. Acoustic timbres merge with electronics, cassette manipulations, and extended techniques, creating a fragile yet visceral sound world. Their practice embraces unpredictability and the intimate details of sound as a space for connection and discovery.