“Products From The Time Department Store, Sleep” was first presented in 2020 as a multichannel sound installation accompanied by video at Elephant Space in Seoul, South Korea.
The installation explores people’s dependence on their own perception of time and the influence of temporality on Seoul’s soundscape. By weaving together the city’s auditory environments, brief narrative fragments, and compositions of music and text, it offers a meditative acoustic portrait of a fast city governed by time.
The segment titled “Sleep” focuses on a captivating section structured around piano, synthesizer, field recordings, and voice. Warm synth tones and the repetitive motion of the piano are layered with the opening verse of Dylan Thomas’s poem “I Fellowed Sleep.” These elements form a musical framework that guides the listener through Tim Loehde’s own texts and selected quotations, translated into Korean and spoken aloud.
Tim Loehde is an artist and musician based in Düsseldorf and Vienna. He studied fine art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and specialises in multisensory installations. His practice includes concert performances and exhibitions that incorporate a diverse array of elements – physical objects, synthesizer, piano, and computer.
His artistic research explores how sound can sculpt dynamic and unpredictable spatial experiences through algorithms. He investigates whether music can nestle in materials and objects or transform into materiality itself. Tim Loehde sees his music as a network that deforms and reproduces realities in a shifted way. Central to this approach is the intentional loss of control, creating space for improvisation and unexpected outcomes.
Tim Loehde’s works and music have been presented internationally in countries including Germany, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands. In 2023, he released the album MK/CT together with Chris Dreier (Tödliche Doris). In 2025, he released his first collaboration with Juli Lee, temporarysign / gaemi.