SYNKOPEN

SYNKOPEN is a platform for thinking in motion. The series is dedicated to the radical contemporary issues of 21st-century music—fast-paced, edgy, fragmentary. Here, composers, philosophers, theorists, and artists write about the unfinished, the contentious, the now. Somewhere between essay and manifesto, a space emerges where thinking becomes resistance and music is renegotiated as a social practice. A series for everyone who wants to know what is happening—and what might come.

Book Cover: Gap Trap Laugh

Gap Trap Laugh

What happens when music criticism itself becomes art? Ty Bouque’s SYNKOPEN essay, “Gap Trap Laugh,” explores Liza Lim’s music, feminist philosophy, and the power of speculative thinking—radical, poetic, and thought-provoking.

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Book Cover: UNDERPLANET

UNDERPLANET

What happens when sound becomes a material force? UNDERPLANET combines experimental sound art with decolonial philosophy and ecology—and offers a radically new perspective on the relationship between sound, the Earth, and politics.

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Book cover: Where should I turn…

Wohin soll ich mich wenden…

What happens to art when it loses its spiritual dimension? Thomas Grötz explores the connection between spirituality and contemporary music—a thought-provoking SYNKOPEN essay on transcendence, the philosophy of culture, and the future of aesthetic experience.

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Book cover: Structuring the World Queerly [?]

Die Welt strukturieren queeren [?]

Structuring the world queerly an essay on compositional thinking beyond music. Eloain Lovis Hübner understands composition as a transdisciplinary practice of structuring, opening and queering the world.

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Book Cover: Where Does the Music End?

Wo hört die Musik auf?

Peter Kraut explores in 100 paired reflections the limits of music between listening experience, theory and philosophical irritation.

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Book cover: The Objective mind

Der objektive Geist

A radical manifesto on art as an autonomous form of thought propositions in verse of striking clarity.

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Book cover: This is not music

This is not music

Magdalena Zorn examines why sound has become the great metaphor of late modernity between resonance, spirituality and the desire to hear the world as unity.

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