I compiled and released this collection on my label, Vonconflon. Nested features new works by artists exploring traces of the natural, the human, and the handmade within the synthetic. They are the insects and mice who have burrowed inside an ancient TV cabinet, tasting its circuits and wires. RNL contributes the track “Pourer and Solution,” alongside works by Tomutonttu, Rimarimba, Günter Schlienz, and others.

RNL created two sound pieces to accompany Brian Zegeer’s installation, Anxiety Engine and Inhibitor, for a closing event in the exhibition Hyphae. These pieces grew out of material we were developing for another collaboration, which is currently still unfinished. I’m very eager to return to it.

Life emerges, expands, mutates, breaks down.
It consumes, spawns, swells, and reaches out.
It tests, tries, and simply holds its space.

RNL released this full-length album on the Cosmic Winnetou label out of Stuttgart. The source material was recorded between 1990 and 2023 in Boston, Istanbul, Estoi, Herculaneum, Brandenburg, New York, and Berlin.

RNL created this piece for Bait/Switch Vol. 4 No. 2 in response to a creative prompt. It later found its place as the starting track on the album The Living Things. The interview and photos give a glimpse behind the scenes into RNL’s working methods.

RNL created six pieces based on transformations of field recordings for this film by artist Joe Nanashe. Contact appropriates utopian and dystopian imagery from popular culture alongside scenes from public city spaces and the artist’s personal life, in an attempt to understand and contextualize the COVID-19 crisis in New York City.

I created this piece for Bait/Switch Vol. 1 No. 2, in response to a creative prompt. The interview gives additional insight to my working methods.

“Looking back at these tapes—not only were they recorded through the air, on a boombox microphone held up to the earpiece of the phone, but also, I was doing sound on sound to layer them. It’s a superimposition—that space that I was in, my bedroom, and it’s late at night, and the air is there sort of multiple times.” “There was a very strong emotional quality to those original recordings. You just hear the sound of people not knowing.”

Conquering King Kong traces a path through mental states and thought patterns, an abstract audio film that unspools with the logic of a dream. From years of tape archives, I wove together sound spaces and objects from field recordings, found sounds, private performances, and endless analog and digital manipulation.

CEPH was a collaboration with artist Jörg Simon. We met in Frankfurt and felt a strong affinity for each other’s work, especially in our mutual use of collage. For this project, we applied that mindset to sound. We worked on it in Frankfurt, Istanbul, and Berlin. Jörg did the cover for this one. The album was mastered by A Very Big Cat in Istanbul.

RNL created quite a few early cassettes as private editions only. These collaborations and solo projects date back as far as 1990, capturing expansive explorations with tapes and performance. A reissue series is planned for eventual release.