Anushka Chkheidze:
Intricate Pipes

Friday, July 4, 2025, 4 pm, Old Town Church

Anushka Chkheidze: electronics, organ
Markus Hinz: Artistic counselling

”Anushka Chkheidze will present Intricate Pipes at the Monheim Triennale 2025. It will be Chkheidze’s first organ project, in which she incorporates so-called Orgamates, i.e., robots

normally used to tune instruments, to perform her electronic music on an acoustic pipe organ.

Unlike choirs, organs are uncharted territory for Chkheidze. The polyphony of Georgian church music has no direct counterpart in instrumental music. ”I was always a big fan of organs, but more from the outside. I come from the Orthodox Church, and we don’t use organs. For me it was always something that is connected to the church“, she says.

”Intricate Pipes is about how an electric music composer could use a real organ“, she says, summarising the idea.

In doing so, the project somewhat breaks out of the framework that seems to define the Monheim Triennale. ”For me it was always the question: what will be the signature project, who do I want to collaborate with? Then I was thinking that I don’t want a concert with my famous favourite artist. Because I prefer to try the instrument that I always wanted to try and now is the moment. And I had the feeling that this is the moment to step out of my comfort zone in electronic music.“

Excerpt from Monheim Papers, 2025, Steffen Greiner.