Fifteen pieces by Jason Kahn, based on field recordings made during an artist residency in Taiwan in 2023, composed in Zurich in 2025.
All Across the Universe is a work that bridges places, time, and the profound resonance of lived experience. The foundations of this project were laid during Kahn's artist residency at Ting Shuo Hear Say in Tainan, Taiwan, where the initial recordings were made between September 8–26, 2023. Immersed in the vibrant sonic and cultural landscape of the city, Kahn drew from encounters with the environment, people, and atmosphere of Tainan, creating a series of recordings that would later form the raw material for the album. Back in Zürich, over the course of May 2024 to June 2025, Kahn transformed these recordings into fifteen compositions, that in themselves form one larger picture of Kahn's time spent in Tainan. True to Kahn's aesthetic of weaving sound, silence, and space, All Across the Universe emerges as a work of both intimate detail and expansive vision.
Each hand-painted cover on thick gray cardboard is unique (limited edition of 100 copies).
Jason Kahn (born 1960 in New York, lives and works in Zurich) is a musician and artist who grew up in Los Angeles, and relocated to Europe in 1990. His work includes sound installation, performance and experimental composition. Kahn has been exhibiting his sound and visual works since the late 1990s, and has had solo and group exhibitions internationally, including Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Diapason Gallery, New York, and Centre d'Art Neuchatel, Switzerland. Originally a percussionist, Kahn later began integrating live electronics into his playing. As a composer, his work draws on electronic and acoustic sound sources to create slowly developing compositions imbued with a sense of timelessness. His work addresses the entity of sound as both a physical and psychological factor shaping our consciousness. Kahn's sound installations seek to enhance spatial awareness through sonic intervention, focusing on expanding our perception to other dimensions of seeing, hearing and feeling a space. Kahn has given concerts at various festivals, art spaces and clubs throughout the world, traveling and presenting extensively in Europe, North and South America, as well as Asia.
