Jonathan Haehn: Swimming Through Sound

As an architect, entrepreneur, and also music producer, it's only natural that Jonathan Haehn brings us music as a place. Throughout his full set for Laut & Luise's Montagssorbet, Haehn sends us through lulling downs and euphoric ups. Even the intro promises beauty in discord with the fragmented voice of a woman, or rather the voice of a fragmented woman.

Haehn builds a musical experience that speaks to the most human, indescribable feeling of contentedness amidst an environment that never ceases to change around us. We all know the feeling of impenetrable satisfaction, like we're floating above everything and anything that's out of our control.

The entire hour and thirty-five minutes pulls us through a multidimensional experience, where sounds live in the foreground and the background. The world in which they live becomes a place in which we swim. Even the occasional vocals speak of elation while distant sounds of water, chatter, and chimes echo upbeat rhythms, constructing a full soundscape. If you close your eyes, you could nearly move your hand through it. 

Haehn dives deep in this track, delivering us free spirit as a sound, inclusive of everything the free spirit lives to defy, by definition. Without discord, how could we exist above it all?