Works

Audio Essays, field recordings, audiovisual works, experimental sound / electronic music, film sound, and writing through sound.

Archive (selected, 1999–2023)

• 2023 · Research exposition (doctoral thesis overview; sound) Sonic Peripheries: Middling With/In the Event
  About this exposition

  Presents select parts of the doctoral dissertation of the same title. The full thesis (2019) is available via Leiden University Scholarly Publications →

  Offers a non-linear reading experience through a range of materials — including artifacts from research events and experimental chapters (e.g., Experimenting Sound/Non-Sound).

  View on Research Catalogue →

• 2022 · Playlist (fictioning; podcasting) Schizopodcast: Podcast is a Podcast is a Podcast — Sample Episodes
  About Schizopodcast and this playlist

  Commissioned as part of Material Girls (2021); developed as a rhizomatic podcasting version in collaboration with Pablo Ruano.

  Text: P. Klusmeyer · Sound design & field recording: P. Klusmeyer · Web coding: P. Ruano · Dialogue: P. Ruano & P. Klusmeyer.

  The project is no longer accessible online. This playlist was compiled for an artist’s talk at Galerie Harold, Bremen. The opening track illustrates the way listeners originally encountered the generative work — beginning with the introduction and continuing through short episodes that changed over time.

  Further details on the project on Research Catalogue →
• 2019 · Archive (doctoral thesis materials) Sonic Peripheries: Online Addendum
  About this audiovisual platform

  A resource for otherwise inaccessible media, presenting supplementary case-study materials from the doctoral thesis — and offering a tactile, sensuous encounter with the artworks and outcomes of this research.

  Visit here →

• 2016 · Works on paper and playlist (research-creation; field recordings) How is Nature
  About this work

  Set of 51 cards (each 4 × 2.25 in.), graphite on paper, analog–digital process, with box and audio via QR code (or listen to Untitled 1–14 via playlist below).

  Presented in Reflections on Art: From the Site Lines of Nature, Catwalk Art Residency Event, September 17, 2016.

  Exhibition notes →

  

  
• 2010 · Live radio (sound; research-creation) Mapping out the Sonic Unconscious
  About this broadcast

  Broadcast on Soundart Radio 102.5 FM, University College Falmouth, Dartington Campus.

  Part of the OPEN PROCESS residency at Dartington Gallery, with participation from Ariane Delaunois, David Strang, Joe Scarffe, and Sebastian Hau Walker.

  Duration: 60 min.
  A radio program combining discussion and sound works emerging from the search for the sonic unconscious.

  
• 2008 · Cinema for the ears (spoken word; experimental sound) Permanent Fragments
  Notes

  Episodes 1–10 (13:38 min total): 01 Decon (0:14) · 02 Ghost Rider Song (1:04) · 03 Lakeview Drive (0:58) · 04 Thanks to Ayler (0:41) · 05 Desert (1:18) · 06 Ghost Rider B-Movie (1:27) · 07 Dreamtrip (1:01) · 08 Sigh (0:52) · 09 Ghost Rider Trip (3:18) · 10 Raindance (2:50)

  Exhibited in Not Berlin and Not Shanghai, Nanning (China), 2008.
  Project notes →

  
• 2006 · Soundtrack (Lichtwelten, 4:16 min) Lichton
  Notes

  Film: Kim Collmer · Soundtrack (Lichton): Petra Klusmeyer

  Exhibited at Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa (USA), 2007.
  
• 2004 · Soundtrack (Windräder, 3:11 min) Wie der Wind die Zeit vergaß
  Notes

  Film: Rebekka Brunke · Soundtrack (Wie der Wind die Zeit vergaß): Petra Klusmeyer

  First showing at Subspace Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2002.
  
• 2002 · Album (PK005) Pandora’s Box: Variations
  Notes

  This experimental electronic work revisits and reshapes material from the earlier Pandora’s Box. Through recombination and reprocessing, it explores alternate forms that emerge from the same source.

  Pandora’s Box: Variations was remastered in 2025.

  
• 2001 · Album (BOXCD014) Untitled Split / Oil on Water · Pandora’s Box
  About this release

  Olivia Block — Oil on Water (19:54) · Petra Klusmeyer — Pandora’s Box (19:57)
  Released on BoxMedia · Numbered edition of 200

  Source material was exchanged, reprocessed, and composed into two distinct works.

  Presented at REM: terra cognita?, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, 2004.
  Review: Risse im System →
• 2001 · Album (BOXCD012) Simmer / Karnevalsmaske
  About this release

  Petra Klusmeyer — Karnevalsmaske (07:41)
  Released on BoxMedia · CDr edition of 200 with hand printed covers

  Compilation featuring artists from Chicago’s experimental and electronic scene.
• 2000 · Album (PK004) Duplikat 00
  About this release

  Exhibited as part of Multiples at NFA Space & Bodybuilder Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, 1999.

  Duplikat 00 was remastered in 2025.
• 1999 · Album (Microwave) A Manual by Various / BwO
  About this release

  Petra Klusmeyer — BwO (04:07)
  Released on Microwave Recordings (Frans de Waard), sublabel of Staalplaat, Amsterdam

  Re-release on Bandcamp in 2021.

  Review: Vital Week 208 →
• 1999 · Album (Microwave) Pre_next_pop
  About this release

  Released on Microwave Recordings (Frans de Waard), sublabel of Staalplaat, Amsterdam

  Re-release on Bandcamp in 2021.

  An interrupted drone-ambient album that emphasizes sound quality over rhythm. The interruptions form part of an integrated soundscape, shaping a work that resists easy categorization and gestures toward a style of its own.

  Review: Vital Week 225 →
• 1999 · Album (PK001/002/003) Trilogy
  About this release

  Glitch meets electroacoustic composition, with inflections from Celan’s poetry, Deleuze’s philosophy, and Bergman’s cinema. First presented as MFA thesis at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999.

  Trilogy was remastered in 2025.