Meet the Bordunot
A drone instrument shaped by air, pressure, and resonance. Somewhere between field equipment, ritual object, and musical instrument.
The prototype uses airflow-activated brass reeds, combining elements of traditional drone and wind instruments with a mechanical fader interface inspired by electronic music equipment.
Built from walnut, aluminium, brass, and felt.
Concept, design and construction by Simon Lanz
Pictures by Simon Lanz with helping hands from Gina
CNC support by Valentin Küng
Brass components customized with help from @mat8ess
Prototype development supported by @ikeafoundationswitzerland
16.05 | 𝐶𝑅𝑇𝑇𝑅 𝑇𝐴𝐾𝐸𝑂𝑉𝐸𝑅: 𝑆𝐼𝑀𝑂𝑁 & 𝑇𝑂𝐵𝐼𝐴𝑆 𝐿𝐴𝑁𝑍 + 𝐿𝐼𝑆𝐸 𝐵𝐴𝑅𝐾𝐴𝑆
Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind night of hypnotic drones, custom-built wind instruments, haunting bagpipes and immersive experimental soundscapes with Simon Lanz & Tobias Lanz, Lise Barkas, curated by the Bern-based collective CRTTR!! a night where tradition will mutates into raw sonic explorations
(ෆ˙ᵕ˙ෆ)(ෆ˙ᵕ˙ෆ)(ෆ˙ᵕ˙ෆ)miam miam
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Infos & tickets: www.miam.space (link in bio)
𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋
16.05 | 𝐶𝑅𝑇𝑇𝑅 𝑇𝐴𝐾𝐸𝑂𝑉𝐸𝑅: 𝑆𝐼𝑀𝑂𝑁 & 𝑇𝑂𝐵𝐼𝐴𝑆 𝐿𝐴𝑁𝑍 + 𝐿𝐼𝑆𝐸 𝐵𝐴𝑅𝐾𝐴𝑆
Simon & Tobias Lanz
Simon & Tobias Lanz are a duo of composer-performers, artists and brothers. Working between drone music, experimental composition, and visual aesthetics. Simon Lanz designs and builds the duo’s custom wind instruments, while Tobias Lanz focus lies on the compositional and conceptual frameworks. Their practice is collaborative across all stages, merging instrument-making, composition, and performance into an integrated artistic process. Drawing inspiration from the pipe organ while deliberately departing from its tradition, they employ microtonal tuning systems and unconventional playing techniques to explore sonic territories beyond Western twelve-tone frameworks and classical organ timbres.
CRTTR
is a creature of many faces: superstar, trickster and failed poet. It slips through the cracks, its cells dividing, mutating, and reassembling in an endless cycle. Every now and then shedding its skin as it seeks new spaces to grow.
And just when you think you’ve figured it out, it changes again. CRTTR is an artist collective based in Bern that hijacks radio waves, transforms cultural spaces, and works with sound and images. We curate exhibitions, organize concerts, host radio shows, and publish selected experimental sound and printed works. CRTTR thrives on collaboration, moving playfully through different genres. It’s a space where artists, musicians, storytellers, designers, and curators meet and experiment together.
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Infos & tickets: www.miam.space (link in bio)
𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋
Last week, we did a production residency at Burning Sound Labs in La Chaux-de-Fonds, where we finally recorded our second album.
Thanks to Bab, the entire Burning Sound team, and everyone who made this possible, as well as the Burgergemeinde Bern (@bgbern ) for their kind support.
The release will take some time — stay tuned.
PS: Save the date, on 16.05.2026, we’ll play a special set with our organ system, amplified and reverberated through the 32-channel loudspeaker dome at @miam.space .
After a period of dormancy I am finally back in the workshop and soon back on stage. New projects, new instruments, new shows coming up this autumn and winter:
19.11 — @zentralwaescherei Zürich
Diffusion with @hannah.heartbreak & Lukas Matthys
04.12 — Kulturhaus Helferei Zürich With @rtk.555@joanjordioliver & @ensembletag
06.12 — @sososo.space Bern
Performance with @rtk.555
23.01 — @buffet_nord Bern Solo performance
Would love to see some familiar faces <3
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Simon
we had a nice time in brussels and passed by @kiosk.radio to play a set <3
you can now listen back to the set on soundcloud!
tracklist:
Wasauksing Sniper - Somme
@billbuhler.zip - swallowing
Kevin - 3 selfish replacement (w foamy sax)
@maxcoopermax , Felix Gerbelot - On Being
@elisabethklinck - Winter Song
@_danielblumberg_ and Hebronix - Off and On
Mschyen & Loft Garten - You Deserve Everything Pt. 2
@floco_rj - Lapwing
@martina_berther_ - Sprinkler
Nicolás Jaar - radio chomio 2 (con eli wewentxu)
RTK - Llego
Hildegard Von Bingen - O Beata Infantia Alio Modo
14km/h - ct_v1
@l.a.timpa - Orin
@vynehall - Alichea Vella Amor
@innerinnerlife - this reminds me of U
Mschyen, Loft Garten - This Landscape Is Body Is Throat
@leeeee13_ - dead wedding
@nykolaes & @mauriceluijten - maakt ni uit
Bill Bühler - tying knots
@thegreatharryhillman - A P O S
Wasauksing Sniper - Ypres
1995 Epilepsy - get 2 kno
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flashback to last thursday’s performance at @prozess_kultur_bar . thanks for the great atmosphere and for inviting us <3
PS: Book us, we’d love to play some more shows as a trio!
PPS: pics shot and developed by @rtk.555
