Ernst Karel has been played on NTS shows including NODE, with Oberterzen—Unterterzen first played on 16 February 2017.

Ernst Karel works with analog electronics and with location recordings, sometimes separately, sometimes in combination, to create audio pieces that move between the abstract and the documentary. Karel’s audio work includes electroacoustic improvisation and composition; sonic ethnography; fieldwork-based research in the anthropology of sound; recording, mixing, and sound design for public radio and for nonfiction film and video; solo and collaborative sound installations; etc.

Current music-sound collaborative projects include the long-running electroacoustic duo EKG and the New England Phonographers Union. Musicians with whom Karel has performed on trumpet…