
vinyl record out now as a limited edition of 50, signed by the artist
This limited edition record features the original music from Attune, the largest installation work by the artist to date, first exhibited in 2024 in the expansive Historical Hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof — Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin.
The music composed by the artist is captured here in its original recording — performed and recorded by Alexandra Pirici in her home studio before the exhibition, and arranged for release after its conclusion. This recording provides a unique form of documentation and insight into the creative process, while also offering a complete musical album experience.
As an exhibition — comprising active sculptures and choreography alongside live music —Attune explores various examples of self-organization, understood as the spontaneous emergence of order in both organic and inorganic matter. The work recognizes and celebrates a continuum between the animate and the inanimate, not only as metaphor but as scientific reality: in an imaginary landscape both archaic and futuristic, physical phenomena, chemical reactions and mineral formations structure themselves and perform alongside human bodies.
The work draws from Pirici’s ongoing interest in non-human forms of embodiment, which she has been engaging with for some time. In Attune, this interest expands to include non-living material configurations and their performativity. As the artist explains: “Contemporary science invites us to understand matter as active, capable of organizing and producing structure on its own, and biological life as a natural development of this material capacity. It allows us to imagine the world as a web of interconnections, with no rigid boundaries between the living and non-living. I wanted us to sing to and for this world, attuning to its dynamics and rhythms.”
The music — entirely composed of vocal pieces — reflects this process of attunement through multiple voices and polyphony. While the live singing in the exhibition features several performers, here all of the voices are performed by the artist herself, as she is rehearsing for and producing a form of the final sonic experience. Recorded without a metronome, the songs and their emerging rhythmic patterns softly oscillate, especially during polyphonic parts, depending on each voice’s organic performance while listening to, harmonizing and singing with one another: a constant shift between precision and compromise, pleasure and struggle, statement and dialogue.