NEW ALBUM
Album release: BLACKOUT with The Interstring Project. Releases on Friday, July 4, 2025.
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BLACKOUT is a sonic journey on acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and electric bass. The instruments are played using fishing line, violin bows, files, cymbals, metal brushes, electric screwdrivers, and more. The album starts purely acoustic and ends purely electric, manifesting all kinds of unexpected sound constellations along the way.
Written and produced by The Interstring Project. Recorded by Sebastián Zuleta at Ebinger Haus. Edited by Sebastián Zuleta and The Interstring Project. Mixed by Sebastián Zuleta. Mastered by Laurens Grossen for Motormusic Mastering. Art Direction by Christopher Katzenberger. Artwork by Fabian Schober.
bois mort
photo: Matthias Fugel
bois mort (dead wood) is a solo performance with acoustic guitar, objects and live-electronics.
A sonic journey through the instrument and its material in search of the natural in music and the musical in nature.
The guitar is reduced to its essence: a wooden box with resonating strings.
Robert Menczel - acoustic guitar, live-electronics, composition
Sander Saarmets - co-composition (Driftwood)
Giorgos Stavridis - sound
Kai Lietzke, Julian Seiler - video
Selected Performances
Pure Electroacoustic (Innsbruck 2023)
Cosmic Playgrounds (Esslingen 2023)
Hosek Contemporary (Berlin 2021)
Ruido Vírico (Barcelona/Stream 2021)
collapsar
photo: CNSMD de Lyon
Composition and performance for COLLAPSAR, a choreography for three dancers and two musicians by Léa Ferec-Pourias.
COLLAPSAR is a scenic and choreographic creation that confronts the notion of "reality", questioning space and time surrounding us.
Choreography - Léa Ferec-Pourias
Composition, electric guitar - Robert Menczel
Bass clarinet - Mélanie Vibrac
Dance - Sara Andrieu, Elena Lecoq, Lisa Martinez
Selected Performances
Diamant d'Or Strasbourg (2023)
WhatSup Festival Lyon (2021)
Opéra de Lyon (2019)
blackout
photo: Mostra Sonora Sueca
BLACKOUT is a concert show for five guitarists collectively composed and staged by The Interstring Project.
A wild and electrifying collage of classical guitars, metal riffs, techno beats and soundscapes with audio-reactive light and live projections.
The Interstring Project
Matthias Arbter I Phileas Baun I Florin Emhardt
Robert Menczel I Marius Schnurr
Artistic Direction - Robert Menczel
Composition, lights, performance - The Interstring Project
Visuals - Fabian Schober
Selected Performances
Festival Mostro Sonora Sueca Spain (2023)
Kapuziner Kreativzentrum Ravensburg (2023)
Kartonagenfabrik Birk Trossingen (2023)
title photo: Gregory Massat