When the World Went Out of Tune with Itself traces feminist legacies in experimental electronic soundtracks. Anchored in the groundbreaking collaboration of Delia Derbyshire and Elsa Stansfield, the program explores the collaborative, technological, and ethical dimensions of audiovisual practices from the 1970s to today. Through research, workshops, interventions, and new commissions, it asks what it means to sample, borrow, respond to, or honor the sounds of others across time. How can artistic legacies be activated without being appropriated? And how can intergenerational dialogue shape new forms of collaborative practices for the future? From October 2025 on, a series of interventions, workshops, listening sessions, screenings, and talks have set the tone for a final collective presentation at Approximation Festival. This collection features 3 different recordings from this process:

1: Alchemists of Sound: A documentation feature of Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow and Lilli Lake’s sonic intervention at Henry Moore’s Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points. 2: Artist Talk: Artists Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow, Venus Ex Machina, and Madelon Hooykaas in conversation with Linnea Semmerling on the occasion of the program. 3: Yonca Yildirim: The closing contribution by artist Yonca Yildirim, tracing the sonic exploration and mood of the program with her own language.

Alchemists of Sound

Documentation feature of Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow and Lilli Lake’s sonic intervention at Henry Moore’s Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Points in Düsseldorf’s Hofgarten. The intervention is inspired by Delia Derbyshire’s title theme for a BBC documentary feature about Moore, produced aroudn the time of the sculpture’s acquisition by the city of Düsseldorf in 1968. Drawing on Derbyshire’s techniques and the materiality of Moore’s bronze, the artists developed a site-specific performance using touch, vibration, field recordings, wax records, and sampled sound, combining live and archival audio.

The recording is followed by an artist talk at Deutsche Oper am Rhein with Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow, Lilli Lake, and Linnea Semmerling.

29:58 “I think in shapes not in words” / 35:09 “Sampling avant la lettre” / 37:29 “Materialität und Klang” / 47:10 “Das Klopfen von Henry” / 50:20 “Ich glaube es war Musik, oder?”