GRAU&: The trio met in Berlin in autumn 2017 to score film music for the experimental filmmaker Caroline Schwarz.
Ariel William Orah and Maximilian Kupi already formed a psychedelic electronic duo under the name “Kupi&Orah” at that time and previously released three tracks together with Luftmenschen Klangwerk, a soundscape subsidiary of Berlin-based empathy entity Luftmenschen.
Pia Achternkamp (loh) is a sound artist, working on sound installations, scoring music for performances, and building self-made instruments. As grau& they constantly investigate the lines between the automation of electronic music machines and the fragility of human social values in an organic and emphatic (non-computer) environment. Even though their work has evolved to a live music performance format, their film scoring heritage still forms an essential part of their sonic identity