End of Text
End of Text (ETX) is the name of the artistic collaboration between Ludvig Elblaus and Luc Döbereiner. ETX explores themes around collective compositional strategies, analog and digital sound synthesis, musical interfaces, improvisation, network music, musical data and complex adaptive systems in music.
ETX perform and compose music as a duo. As part of the ETX Recording Series, they perform with rotating third members, both human and non-human, in a distributed trio setting.
ETX Recording Series
End of Text is a music series hosted by Luc Döbereiner and Ludvig Elblaus. For each episode, a third guest is invited, thus forming an ever changing trio. Each installment in the series is assembled from material that is either freely improvised or composed to some degree. The guests are most often human performers, but the third member can also be something else, like a generative system, an electro acoustic object, or a space.

The hosts are usually located in Berlin, Vienna and Stockholm, and the invited guests usually connect from a third location. As such, the project aims to extend the idea of a networked ensemble and regards the members of each trio as part of a feedback network. While the guests join with all kinds of instruments, Döbereiner and Elblaus are constructing custom software and hardware instruments that specialize in coupling, i.e. the ability to listen to the other two members of the trio and produce an output that to some degree translates some characteristics of the incoming music to the systems' own musical output.
Each episode explores new ways of connecting the three instruments so that changes in one affect the others, in an explicit attempt to blur the boundaries between the instruments, giving rise to an emergent musical collective.

The recording sessions are not filmed, only audio is captured. There is no talking or other extra musical communication during the session, only music.

End of Text is free to listen to. All episodes are published on Bandcamp where they can be both streamed and downloaded in compressed or uncompressed formats, without cost. Our lates episodes can also be played from this page. Finally, ETX can also be streamed from several streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music. If you want to be sure not to miss an episode, we suggest you sign up to our mailing list below or follow us on Bandcamp.
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Latest episodes
ETX010 — Hanns Holger Rutz
 
Hanns Holger Rutz, Mellite, Graz.
Luc Döbereiner, SuperCollider and modular synth, Berlin.
Ludvig Elblaus, SuperCollider and modular synth, Stockholm.
Recorded on 2022-12-07
ETX009 — Ji Youn Kang
 
Ji Youn Kang, Electronics, The Hague.
Luc Döbereiner, SuperCollider and modular synth, Berlin.
Ludvig Elblaus, SuperCollider and modular synth, Stockholm.
Recorded on 2022-12-15
ETX008 — Liz Allbee
 
Liz Allbee, Inpet Trumput, Berlin.
Luc Döbereiner, SuperCollider and modular synth, Berlin.
Ludvig Elblaus, SuperCollider and modular synth, Stockholm.
Recorded on 2022-05-12
ETX007 — Daniele Pozzi
 
Daniele Pozzi, Strip feedback FM Synthesizes, Graz.
Luc Döbereiner, SuperCollider and modular synth, Berlin.
Ludvig Elblaus, SuperCollider and modular synth, Graz.
Recorded on 2022-10-24
ETX006 — Martin Lorenz
 
Martin Lorenz, amplified small percussion, Berlin.
Luc Döbereiner, SuperCollider and modular synth, Berlin.
Ludvig Elblaus, SuperCollider and modular synth, Stockholm.
Recorded on 2022-02-26
ETX005 — Liz Allbee
 
Liz Allbee, Inpet Trumput, Berlin.
Luc Döbereiner, SuperCollider and modular synth, Berlin.
Ludvig Elblaus, SuperCollider and modular synth, Stockholm.
Recorded on 2022-04-06
ETX004 — mesh
 
mesh, recurrent digital sound synthesis system
Luc Döbereiner, SuperCollider and modular synth, Berlin.
Ludvig Elblaus, SuperCollider and modular synth, Stockholm.
Recorded on 2022-01-18
ETX003 — Martin Lorenz
 
Martin Lorenz, modular synth, Berlin.
Luc Döbereiner, SuperCollider and modular synth, Berlin.
Ludvig Elblaus, SuperCollider and modular synth, Stockholm.
Recorded on 2022-01-24
ETX002 — Liz Allbee
 
Liz Allbee, Inpet Trumput, Berlin.
Luc Döbereiner, SuperCollider and modular synth, Berlin.
Ludvig Elblaus, SuperCollider and modular synth, Stockholm.
Recorded on 2022-02-28
ETX001 — David Pirrò
 
David Pirrò, henri, Graz.
Luc Döbereiner, SuperCollider and modular synth, Berlin.
Ludvig Elblaus, SuperCollider and modular synth, Stockholm.
Recorded on 2022-02-22
Performers
Luc Döbereiner
Luc Döbereiner is a researcher and composer of instrumental and electronic music from Berlin. He studied at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. His work is concerned with compositional models, algorithmicity, non-standard sound synthesis, improvisation, materiality and complex systems in musical composition and sound art. His music has been performed by numerous ensembles and soloists in Europe and he has published his scholarly work in journals such as Computer Music Journal, Organised Sound and Contemporary Music Review. He has been a guest lecturer at the Bern University of the Arts and a visiting researcher at the Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield. He teaches at the University of the Arts, Berlin and is Professor of AI in Composition and Sound Synthesis at the University of Music Trossingen.
www.doebereiner.org
Ludvig Elblaus
Ludvig Elblaus is an artist and researcher working primarily with computational materials to create acoustic and electronic music, sound art, audio-visual installations, museum exhibits as well as contributions to collaborative larger works in several traditions, e.g. opera, theatre, and dance.

His artistic practice explores generative tools, complex systems, modelling as an artistic practice, the site-specific, emergence, and experiential aspects of very slow and drawn out temporal structures and deep listening.
www.ludvigelblaus.com
David Pirrò
David Pirrò is a sound artist and researcher based in Graz, Austria. His works include interactive compositions and sound installations as well as audiovisual and electroacoustic pieces in which performative and spatial aspects are central. Departing from a radical inclusive point of view, he seeks ways of composing by which the work of art is constructed through mutual interaction of the agents involved in its performance.

Instrument: henri - llvm based sound synthesis and dynamical systems numerical integration environment
www.pirro.mur.at
henri on GitHub
Liz Allbee
Liz Allbee is a composer-performer and improviser who works with the imaginarchic potential of sonic material. She performs most often on self-designed quadraphonic trumpet, electronics, trumpet and voice. Her work encompasses electro-acoustic composition, spatialization, improvisational strategies and instrument creation, with an ear towards embodiment and extension.
www.lizallbee.net
Martin Lorenz
Since 1999, Martin Lorenz has worked as a percussionist, electronic musician and composer on the contemporary and experimental music scene. He is the founder of the record label Dumpf Edition, which he curates together with Luc Döbereiner. Martin Lorenz creates instrumental music and media specific works such as sound installations, analog video works and compositions for hand cut vinyls. This focus on the medium characterizes the approach to the modular synthesizer. As a percussionist, Martin Lorenz works with composers such as Annesley Black, Antoine Chessex, Hugues Dufourt, Edu Haubensak, Bernhard Lang, Lula Romero and Alfred Zimmerlin, whose works he premiered. In recent years, Lorenz has researched, reconstructed and performed the chamber music compositions of the American pop avant-gardist Arthur Russell.
www.martinlorenz.ch
mesh
mesh is a digital sound synthesis system for complex recurrent audio networks. For this recording a small randomly connected synthesis graph was created. It consisted of Kuramoto, Nosé-Hoover, FitzHugh–Nagumo, and van der Pol oscillators as well as one perceptron.
audiomesh on GitHub
Daniele Pozzi
Daniele Pozzi is a sound artist and researcher based in Graz, Austria. He mostly composes sound installations and plays improvised electronic music in which sound is conceived as a material relational element. Daniele often works with self-made hardware and software, and he is interested in the intertwinement of technical development and aesthetic reflection. He is a doctoral candidate at the doctoral school for artistic research (KWDS) of the Univeristy of Music and Performing Arts Graz with a project on feedback experimentation in computer music and sound art.
www.danielepozzi.com
Ji Youn Kang
Ji Youn Kang is a South Korean composer, performer and sound artist based in The Hague. She achieved her Master’s degrees in Sonology from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and in Composition from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Most of her pieces have been composed for both traditional and non-traditional instruments ranging from works for solo instruments to large orchestral pieces. One of her main interests lies in researching the relationship between musical and physical spaces that she has been exploring with a variety of multichannel systems such as the Acousmonium and wave field synthesis systems. Her pieces have been commissioned by and performed in many venues and festivals, including La Biennale di Venezia, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Time of Music, Sonic Acts, International Film Festival Rotterdam, SICMF, MPyC and Synthèse. Currently, she is teaching at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague.
www.jiyounkang.com
Hanns Holger Rutz
Hanns Holger Rutz is an artist, composer and researcher in the field of sound and digital art, with focus on sound and intermedia installations, and live improvisation. He studied computer music and audio engineering at the TU Berlin, worked at the Studio for electroacoustic Music Weimar, DE, and obtained a PhD in computer music from the University of Plymouth, UK. As Senior Postdoc at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG), AT, he led and leads the FWF-funded artistic research projects 'Algorithms that Matter' (2017–2022) on algorithmic experimentation in sound practices, and 'Simultaneous Arrivals' (2022–2025) on novel forms of intermedia collaboration. He is Professor for Artistic Research at the Gustav Mahler Private University for Music (GMPU) Klagenfurt, AT.
www.sciss.de