ABOUT
Konrad Black is a composer, music producer, and performer based in Berlin. In recent years, his practice has expanded to include compositions for electro-acoustic instruments, film and installation work, sound design, sound art, and performance.
In addition to producing music under the Konrad Black moniker, he collaborates as a composer and producer with the group There In Spirit (alongside visual artist Jeremy Shaw) and with Colombian artist Poison Arrow. His visceral and immersive sound design has featured prominently in major conceptual installation works, including Shaw’s Phase Shifting Index, currently on view at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof through 2025, and The Quantification Trilogy (comprising Quickeners, Liminals, and I Can See Forever).
Konrad has also contributed original compositions and sound design to Colombian artist Natalia Escobar’s three-channel video installation Las Traviesas and French artist Sergei Rostropovich’s When the Lights Go Out and This Corrosion. His current projects include composing and producing the sound for Spanish artist Efrén Mur’s volumetric audiovisual installation It From Bit, which premiered on December 5, 2024, and runs until March 9, 2025.
Other notable projects include serving as the game audio director and sound designer for Balenciaga’s Afterworld, a full-scale video game developed for their Fall '21 campaign; consulting with Berlin’s SUB on sound system design for Travis Scott’s Utopia album launch; and co-writing and co-producing For Electra, a collaboration between the music group Pierce With Arrow and New York-based perfumer FOLIE à PLUSIEURS, which included a bespoke scent released along with the song For Electra, by New York label Dais Records.
Upcoming music releases include the soundtrack for Phase Shifting Index on Berlin’s PAN Records and Juego Carnal, a track co-written and produced for Poison Arrow, released in November 2024 as part of dBridge’s Exit Records 100.4 compilation, the fourth installment celebrating the label’s 100th release.
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Composition, Production and Sound Design
Efrén Mur - It From Bit
Interactive audiovisual installation - 2024
Sound design, music production and composition by Konrad Black.
Courtesy Matadero Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain.
Natalia Escobar - Las Traviesas
3 Channel Video Installation - 2023
Sound design, music production and composition by Konrad Black and Natalia Escobar.
Sergei Rostropovich with Konrad Black - This Corrosion
HD video installation - 2023. Music and sound design by Konrad Black
Courtesy NEW GALERIE, Paris.
EPOCH Gallery - Replicants
Virtual Gallery that show features the work of Gordon Cheung, Galath3a, Hung Yu Hao, Keiken, Katja Novitskova, Jennifer West, Dr. Woo, Qianqian Ye + Tiare Ribeaux. Original Music by Konrad Black. 2021 - 2022
Sergei Rostropovich with Konrad Black - When The Lights Go Out
3 Channel Video Installation - 2021
Directed and edited by Sergei Rostropovich. Original music composed and produced by Konrad Black
Courtesy NEW GALERIE, Paris.
Balenciaga - Afterworld
Afterworld video game built for Balenciaga as their Fall 2021 collection. Audio director and lead sound designer, Konrad Black. December, 2020
Pierce With Arrow - For Electra
A audio olfactory collaboration between perfumer Mark Buxton for Folie à Plusieurs and Pierce With Arrow.
The piece was co-written and co-produced by Pierce With Arrow and Konrad Black. Out on Dais Records September 29th, 2020.
Jeremy Shaw - Phase Shifting Index
7 screen video installation, variable durations, 2020
Original soundtrack by There In Spirit - Produced by Konrad Black Sound design by Konrad Black
Courtesy KÖNIG Galerie
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, February 26- April 20, 2020
Jeremy Shaw - I Can See Forever
HD video installation, 43:09 min, 2018
Original soundtrack by There In Spirit - Produced by Konrad Black Sound design by Konrad Black
Courtesy KÖNIG Galerie
Jeremy Shaw - Liminals
HD video installation, 19:43 min, 2017
Original soundtrack by There In Spirit - Produced by Konrad Black Sound design by Konrad Black
Courtesy KÖNIG Galerie
Jeremy Shaw - Quickeners
Single channel video with original soundtrack by There In Spirit, 2014 Produced by Konrad Black
Sound design by Konrad Black
Courtesy KÖNIG Galerie
Selected Performances
Konrad Black + Poison Arrow - Live in Bogota Live performance with Poison Arrow
Bogota, Colombia - 2018
Konrad Black + Poison Arrow - Live at Funkhaus Berlin
Site specific performance with Poison Arrow at Funkhaus, former GDR broadcast center Berlin, Germany - 2018
Konrad Black + Poison Arrow - Live at Ampere
Live performance with Poison Arrow at Ampere Antwerp, Belgium - 2018
Seconds Narrow
Performance with Phil Western of my composition Seconds Narrow, with improvised elements for live performance at the Polygon Gallery’s inaugural show: N. Vancouver, curated by Reid Shier.
Polygon Gallery, Vancouver - 2017
Selected Discography
Poison Arrow
Poison Arrow - Juego Carnal - Exit Records - 2024
Poison Arrow - If You Don’t Love Me (I’ll Cut Your Face) - Pleasure District - 2018
There In Spirit
There In Spirit & Konrad Black - Phase Shifting Index - PAN Records - 2025
There In Spirit - Liminals (10", Ltd, Num, Cle) - The Vinyl Factory - 2017
Konrad Black
Konrad Black / Kamran Sadeghi / DeWalta - Family Jubilee II - Meander - 2017
Konrad Black's 'Decompresha' Remix - Mathew Jonson - Freedom Engine - 2017
The Scorched Earth Interpretations - Meander - 2016
The Scorched Earth EP - Meander - 2015
Konrad Black & Art Department - Graveyard Tan - No.19 Music - 2012
Konrad Black & Ghostman - Medusa Smile (Don't Look Back) Wagon Repair - 2005
Draconia - Wagon Repair - 2005
Konrad Black & Selfpartwo - Scrawled In Blood Across... - 240 Volts - 2003
Nails EP - 240 Volts - 2002
As Producer / Engineer
Jeremy Shaw - Variation FQ - The Vinyl Factory - 2015
Circlesquare - Pre-Earthquake Anthems - Output Recordings 2003
Selected DJ Gigs
Movement - Detroit Electronic Music Festival - Detroit
USA Montreux Jazz Festival - Montreux, Switzerland
Epizode Festival - Phu Quoc, Vietnam
Sonar Festival - Barcelona, Spain
Outline Festival - Moscow, Russia
N.A.M.E. Festival - Roubaix, France
10 Days Off Festival - Ghent, Belgium
Manifest Festival - Brisbane, Australia
Sonne, Mond, Sterne Festival - Saalburg, Germany
Inti Festival - Lima, Peru
Berghain - Berlin, Germany
Fabric - London, England
Womb - Tokyo, Japan
Rex - Paris, France
Black Halloween - Bogota, Colombia
Haze - Beijing, China
D-Edge - Sao Paolo, Brazil
Caché - Cairo, Egypt
CONTACT
k@konradblack.com