branches & bytes (Sofia Zaiceva & Andreas Trobollowitsch)

branches & bytes brings two contrasting sonic approaches into the same space: Digital sound programming meets mechanical-analog friction. Latvian sound artist Sofia Zaiceva shapes sound through code and algorithmic structures, while Austrian composer Andreas Trobollowitsch extracts raw, physical textures from branches and rotating wooden discs. Together, they create a hybrid soundscape in which opposites collide, intertwine, and dissolve into unexpected resonances.

For this edition of ORF musikprotokoll, the duo expands their practice and conceives of wood and code as parallel epistemes of resonance—each sphere revealing what the other alone cannot articulate. Through live spatialization, generative algorithmic processes, and physical interaction, Zaiceva and Trobollowitsch invite the audience to recalibrate their mode of listening and reflect on the proximity, density, and topology of materials.