Sascha Butschalowski

Creative

Music, images and work that doesn’t need a business case.

How We Disappear — cover art
01Record · in progress

How We Disappear

A music project about distance, memory and the things that remain after people leave — sound design, ambient textures and songwriting, with a visual world built for the browser.

About the project →

Stills from the How We Disappear visual world.

02Acoustic · devotional

Echoes
of Vraja

Acoustic pieces built on traditional Vaisnava poetry and meditative modal melodies, recorded to keep the natural dynamics of the room.

  • 01Guitar
  • 02Harmonium
  • 03Mrdanga
  • 04Flute
03

Photographs

Landscapes and buildings, my own
A weathered wooden jetty running out into a grey, choppy sea under heavy cloud
Pl. 1Jetty in winter, February 2017
A broken concrete bunker in the surf of the Baltic Sea
Pl. 2Northern Forts, Liepāja, July 2011
Brick-vaulted cloister walk at Chorin Abbey
Pl. 3Chorin Abbey, Brandenburg
Black-and-white stripes of sunlight falling across a floor through railings
Pl. 4Light and shadow, May 2014
Lake under misty mountains
Pl. 5Königssee, Bavaria, October 2016
Concrete residential tower of the Ihme-Zentrum against a pale sky
Pl. 6Ihme-Zentrum, Hannover, April 2010
Rows of grey concrete stelae
Pl. 7Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, 2009
Rowing boats moored on a still alpine lake below steep green mountains
Pl. 8Below the Gaishorn, Tyrol, August 2017
Derelict hall with tall arched and round windows
Pl. 9Beelitz-Heilstätten, August 2009
The honeycomb facade of the Hawa Mahal lit at night
Pl. 10Hawa Mahal, Jaipur, November 2016
The Elbe valley from sandstone cliffs
Pl. 11Elbe Sandstone Mountains, October 2014
Geodesic radar dome on Teufelsberg against a blue sky
Pl. 12Teufelsberg, Berlin, April 2009
Clear turquoise sea and distant mountains framed by pine branches
Pl. 13Greece, May 2018
An orange sofa alone in a peeling, sunlit room
Pl. 14Heilstätte Grabowsee
A bronze sculpture alone in a bare stone hall under a skylight
Pl. 15Neue Wache, Berlin, January 2009
Red poppies on a rocky slope, a fortress on the hill behind
Pl. 16Poppies, May 2016
A domed modernist building at night, in black and white
Pl. 17Berlin at night, March 2009
A green-painted stairwell and double doors in an abandoned building
Pl. 18Beelitz-Heilstätten, August 2009
A tall concrete void with a floor of iron faces, a figure against the wall
Pl. 19Jewish Museum, Berlin, August 2010
A lit pavilion reflected in still water at night
Pl. 20Night reflection, April 2009
People crossing a low underground hall of columns, in black and white
Pl. 21Underground, March 2009
Metal arrows mounted on a white wall casting long shadows
Pl. 22Wall study, January 2010
Close-up of a chrome engine with ribbed cooling fins
Pl. 23Engine detail, April 2009
Front of a red Jaguar E-Type in a brick hall
Pl. 24Jaguar E-Type, August 2011
Abstract blur of amber and green light
Pl. 25Colour study, March 2010