About INFLORESCE

Willow

Willow is an interdisciplinary performer, musician, and storyteller who crafts emotive yet delicate electronic music. Fascinated by subverting the familiar, their music weaves recordings from the environment and re-worked folk instruments with minimalist pop beats. They routinely merge visual, literary, and sonic mediums to create ethereal performances across the East Coast: they have performed at festivals like Earth Celebrations Ecological City, NYC, Deep Water Literary Festival ('22, '23, a...

Passionate about using the intersections of art and science to tackle environmental and social issues, they frequently collaborate with non-human organisms like plants and fungi through the process of biosonification to create music. Intimate performances in carefully crafted "ecosystems" often feature non-human collaborators, and Willow hopes these settings inspire dialogue about and connection towards the ecologies around us. They are also the second half of INFLORESCE, a budding art-pop duo...

Joerg

Joerg drifts through the unstable terrain of electronic music under the moniker elektroschaden — exploring noise, breath, glitch, and silence as raw materials for sonic architecture. His works are fragile yet forceful, unfolding like spectral blooms, always on the verge of collapse or transformation.

As Mr. Esce, he co-creates INFLORESCE with Willow — a duo where sound and poetry are interwoven, wild-growing and resonant, like language before meaning.

Across both projects, Joerg follows a path of perpetual emergence — seeking the precise moment where sound stops behaving and starts becoming. The fleeting moments where noise becomes song and form becomes breath.