｢play, listen, share, repeat｣

John Haag

2026

Repetition forms a rhythm; compression softens the tone.

Software and interfaces mediate everyday interactions, blending visible surfaces with hidden algorithmic processes and creating environments that are both familiar and opaque. The audiovisual work explores the complex relationships between digital technology and the practices it shapes.

Within the piece, music is composed by remixing a multiplicity of software tools themselves. Screenshots and internal audio recording build bridges between closed systems, transforming them into collective sites of participation. Material sourced from networked platforms is reassembled across scales, roughly cut, or broken down into microscopic units to create multi-layered textures and circulating patterns. Each part carries a voice that continues to resonate within the whole. The self-built objects each inhabit a part of the piece. Listen closely, then exchange.

About the artists:

John Haag is a designer and musician based between Amsterdam and Munich. His practice spans the fields of graphic design, music and collective infrastructures, often in collaboration with artists and cultural institutions. Moving between digital and analog environments, his work explores networked systems through sound, visual media, and experimental software approaches. This engagement extends into community-oriented projects such as Radio 80000, where he shapes spaces for collective listening and exchange.