Jana Irmert is a sound artist and composer based in Berlin. Her sonic explorations take on various forms – from live performances and multichannel compositions to joint projects with filmmakers, dancers and visual artists. Being interested in phenomena like temporality and impermanence, alienation and the ecological crisis, she creates atmospheric audiovisual and sonic spaces “that work with dis/harmony in such a way as to mirror our imperfect world at the moment.“ (TJ Norris, Toneshift).
Jana Irmert's album debut End Of Absence was released in 2016, followed by her second album FLOOD in 2018. Both received critical praise from various music blogs and magazines and have been internationally broadcast on RAI 3, Resonance FM, RTVE, OE1 and BBC Radio 3 amongst others. Her work for Florian Baron's film STRESS was awarded the German Documentary Film Music Award in 2019. In her compositions she “dissolves the boundaries between sound design and musical composition in a virtuoso and at the same time self-evident way, thus creating a sound cosmos that, through uncompromising reduction, generates brutal knowledge.“ (Jury statement) . Cusp is a collection of compositions taken from the soundtrack and was released in January 2020. Her latest work Everything minus all came to life in spring, under the working title "Notes on Compassion". It is a meditation about isolation and connection, using a minimal arrangement to play with the perception of space and time.
