Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory

There are many theories about the origins of music. One such theory maintains that the first song was a lullaby for children; another, that men began to make music in order to please the women. Hendrik Weber a.k.a. Pantha du Prince does not worry about such genealogies. For music is always already there, even without humans. On his new album, the producer and DJ, who lives in Berlin and Paris, claims: music slumbers in all matter; any sound, even silence, is already music. The mission, then, must be to render audible what is unheard and unheard of: black noise, a frequency that is inaudible to man. Black noise often presages natural disasters, earthquakes or floods; only some animals perceive this “calm before the storm.”

The idea for his new album, "Elements of Light", came to Pantha du Prince after hearing a carillon concert in Oslo in the Summer of 2010. He then started working with this instrument and collaborated with numerous other artists to produce the album he will present during the CTM Festival 2013.