A soundtrack to an Eastern European horror film and performance, dark soundscapes, and the ominous atmosphere of a post-Soviet hotel.
The GHSTING project by Polish artists Aleksandra Słyż and Alex Freiheit (also active in the duo SIKSA) explores the stories of hotel guests through fictional narratives, poetry, theatrical elements, and dense sound synthesis. What happens behind closed walls when no one is watching? The creators will talk about this on March 20 in the hall of the Krystal Center, an iconic building in Veleslavín designed in the 1980s and also used as a hotel.

The tension on the GHSTING album is palpable – four thematic chapters full of anxiety, unpleasant physicality, and synthetic sounds intertwined with percussion will leave the audience breathless. The debut collaboration between Freiheit and Słyż works as a complex and engaging whole, both terrifying and fascinating. Alex Freiheit is primarily a poet and singer who became famous for her distinctive and queer work as part of the SIKSA project. She brings her complex yet accessible storytelling to her creative collaboration with Aleksandra Słyż. The Polish composer focuses primarily on the relationship between synthetic and acoustic sound, creating drone layers and microtonal landscapes, which she has presented at festivals such as CTM, Unsound, and Rewire. Tickets for the GHSTING performance concert are available on the Heartnoize website.