34121 is a research platform for sonic culture. It functions as a virtual and physical meeting point
for faculty members and external affiliates of the Kunsthochschule Kassel, unfolding in a variety of
formats—including thematic blocks, reading sessions, interviews, psychoacoustic situations, DJ
sets, live performances, radio experiments, and extended listening sessions.
Founded in 2020, this platform supports and contributes to the preservation and historical analysis
of sonic documents. It serves as a container to investigate how acoustic perception shapes our
notion of systemic linkage, affect, poise, and agency, hosting an archive of over 10,000 titles,
ranging from early avant-garde documents, industrial culture, música máquina, actionism,
minimalism, dada/fluxus, ethnographical recordings, folk, psychedelia, microtonal, club, and
experimental electronic music, sound art, noise, and its multiple affiliates.