NATHAN SHUBERT
Nathan Shubert is a modern classical pianist and contemporary composer. Originally from Vancouver and now based full-time in Berlin, they have spent the past few years performing, recording, and expanding their sonic world across continents.
Their work spans intimate piano arrangements, synth-based compositions, field recordings, and an exploration into electroacoustic soundscapes. Inspired by the likes of The Soundscape by R. Murray Schafer, they consistently record the sounds from the world around them, from the intimacy of their home to the sonic textures of the places they visit while on tour.
Their upcoming album, “Iso”, is a profoundly personal and intimate project, recorded live in their Vancouver home studio on an upright piano. To create Iso, Nathan Shubert used eleven microphones to capture and record every creak and resonance of the instrument. Iso is a story of pain, loss, and loneliness while also documenting the experience of finding comfort and yearning for more. The album is paired with short film vignettes and analogue photography and will unfold piece by piece throughout 2025.
Nathan Shubert's music, such as the Field Recordings LP series, presents field recordings in a narrative format. Vol. 1 transports the listener to the soundscape of an aeroplane, travelling alongside Nathan Shubert from the sky to the streets, and hearing the world around them, through airports, past church bells, and into the pulse of the London Underground. To be able to exist in a moment through sound alone is a genuinely surreal and stunning experience; you experience a moment in time that, if not for Nathan Shubert, would have been fleeting.
Nathan's music is a world that exists within itself, with songs such as “When You Take Your Shoes Off” capturing a feeling of yearning through the sounds of water, a car alarm ringing out somewhere in the distance, and an impending storm. Their music is intensely immersive and builds an atmosphere where we’re not invited just to listen, but to exist.