Colin Hacklander is an avant-garde composer and percussionist with a background in post-tonal theory and electronic music who works primarily with the electronic musician Farahnaz Hatam with whom he leads the Berlin-based sonic entity, LABOUR. Together, their practice explores perception and social situations through digital sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, percussion, psychoacoustics, and sound for architectural spaces while fostering a heightened sensory awareness for the listener by promoting active listening, and recognising that acoustic space approaches one externally, yet remains primarily an internal space.

Recent Live Works (Selection)

2019 | Expanded Viewing I + II (Garden of Earthly Delights) for electronic music, 4 percussionists, Theorbo, and the Garden of Earthly Delights painting itself, with Isabel Lewis, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

2019 | Untitled (inwardness, juice, natures) for 10-channel sound, percussion ensemble, 2 drumsets, flute, violin, Qanun, and three large wireless speakers in motion via automobiles, with Isabel Lewis and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Sharjah Biennial 14, UAE

2019 | Activating the Gropius Bau, Sonically, for 33 percussionists, electronic music and piano, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

2019 | nine-sum sorcery, for voice, electronic music and percussion, Berlin Atonal)

2018 | next time, die consciously (بیگانگی), for 31 drummers, bass clarinet, and electronic music, Berlin Atonal

2018 | Stochastic Activation: Basler Trommeln for 20 snare drummers, Creative Time at Art Basel