MALU PEETERS


Berlin and Amsterdam based composer, sound artist and researcher, making experimental electronic music and sound design with a special focus on (live) immersive formats, phygital art, experimental film, and sound scenography for installations and performing arts. Information   Email






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The Clearing
by Sabine Groenewegen

2026



Netherlands, Indonesia,  
Colour, Black and white, 89’ 
Sumatra, early twentieth century. The exploitation of rubber by Dutch colonisers leads to the sexual enslavement of female workers. Archival and contemporary images intertwine in a documentary fabulation that plunges into the depth of a long-erased history.

FILM
·   Composition
·   Sound Design  
·   Sound Concept
·   Translation Láadan
·   Sound Supervision
·   Voice Láadan  

Excerpts From a Plantocracy 

by Sabine Groenewegen 

2026



Netherlands, Indonesia, 
2-channel video installation, 6.1 spatial sound, 8’41”
Archival images of corporate propaganda from rubber plantations, fragments of written correspondence, and contemporary images converge in this two‑channel installation. Excerpts From A Plantocracy unfolds a layered composition whose haunting soundscape, assembled from fragments of field recordings and foley sound, lingers between past and present.

INSTALLATION
·  Composition
·  Sound Design  
·  Sound Scenography
·  6.1 Spatial Mix

LIARS 

by Henrike Iglesias, Olympia Bukkakis & Olivia Hyunsin Kim

2025

Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany, 70’  LIARS explores cases of patriarchal violence and their amplification on social media. Why are women and queers who speak out about patriarchal violence still (or once again) so strongly distrusted? How does the myth of the ‘(im)perfect victim’ play into this? How are social media tools being used specifically to reinforce misogynistic and queerphobic tendencies? And what role do we play as an audience?
PERFORMANCE
·  Artistic Co-Direction
·  Sound Design
·  Composition  
·  Live Sound / FOH

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R.I.P. Resurrect In Peace
by Anan Fries | Hairygaze

2023 - 2024

HAU - Hebbel Am Ufer Berlin, Germany
Kaserne Basel, Switzerland, 70’ Amidst the human-made extinction-level event, R.I.P. celebrates the finite nature of all existence and queries for the political potential of possible resurrection. Resurrect in Peace is a ceremonial admission of guilt, a lament in computer graphics. Three performers are the masters of ceremony, their movements transformed into digital data via motion tracking. Their bodies connect the virtual with the physical reality and those present with those absent.
PHYGITAL ART
·  Composition
·  Sound Scenography
·  6.1 Spatial Sound Design  
·  Voice Design 
·  UE5 Integration
·  Live Sound / FOH
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Virtual Wombs 
by Anan Fries & Malu Peeters

2021 - 2022

HAU - Hebbel Am Ufer Berlin, Germany
Kaserne Basel, Switzerland, 55’Virtual Wombs brings virtual reality into the theater space and plays with speculative states. The work deals with mutation and transformation and with the potentials of 'worldbuilding', the creation of digital, reality-expanding worlds. Visitors are taken on a tender journey into the womb of the pregnant post-human by physical and virtual performers. The production is a hybrid of a spatial sound environment, a light installation and a VR trip into which visitors are invited in small groups.
PHYGITAL ART
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[Posthuman Wombs]
by Anan Fries & Malu Peeters

2021 - 2022

IDFA DocLab 2021
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 35’This interactive installation takes you into a colorful virtual womb, your host for a trip that will expand your horizons and perceptions. Anan Fries and sound artist Malu Peeters explore all manner of physical possibilities for pregnancy—certainly not limiting themselves to glowing young women. [Posthuman Wombs] is part of a major long-term project in which Fries en Peeters take a non-normative approach to exploring pregnant bodies in a combination of VR and live performance.

VR & SPATIAL SOUND INSTALLATION
·  Composition
·  Spatial Sound Design  
·  Voice Design 
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[MHM] 

by Malu Peeters & Leo G. Alonso

2019

Idee & Klang, Basel, Switzerland, 31’ [mhm] is an experimental, multi-sensory art project created by sound designer Malu Peeters and light and video artist Leo G. Alonso. The project was developed during a residency at Idee und Klang Audio Design in Basel.

PERFORMANCE 

Marraq/Mud
by Jasper Coppes & Malu Peeters

2022

HET HEM, Zaandam, Netherlands
16mm film transferred to HD;
Inuktitut, with English subtitles; 8’14”Marraq is the Greenlandic word for the mud that due to the melting ice flows through the landscape in large amounts. For five years, filmmaker Jasper Coppes worked together with a group of naturalists from Greenland on a film in which this undervalued substance eventually came to play a leading role. The sound and image captured on analogue 16 mm film let the changing landscape speak for itself.
INSTALLATION
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Aasivissuit
by Jasper Coppes 

2020
HET HEM, Zaandam, Netherlands,
16mm film transferred to HD;
Inuktitut, with English subtitles; 24’40”Aasivissuit is an area of great cultural value (UNESCO World Heritage) where the people of Greenland live. The film follows a journey on which Adam Lyberth introduces a young park-ranger to the rapidly changing landscape. The film wants to make us reconsider this landscape, in order to make palpable how deep layers of the earth are connected to distant shores; how past, present and the future melt together; and how humans and non-human beings live together.
FILM
·  Field Recordings 
·  Sound Supervision  
·  Sound Design 
·  Sound Editing

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MOLIMO O MOCHA  
by Lemohang Mosese

2021
Humboldt Forum Berlin, Germany The work is inspired by Basotho prayer “The new god worships the old God”. Mosese appropriates the hymnal prayer to proffer his meditations on Becoming and to attempt to reconcile the ills of the past with the grace of the future.

INSTALLATION
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1000 Serpentinen Angst  
by Olivia Wenzel

2021
HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

 Polyphonic and witty, Olivia Wenzel writes about loss and anxiety disorders, origin and racism, about flirting with capitalism and recurring encounters with snack vending machines. About five months have passed since the publication of her debut novel 1000 Serpentinen Angst – time for an interim assessment: How was the novel received by whom and why? What absurdities transpired during Instagram readings? And what questions have not been asked yet?

READING PERFORMANCE
Sound Scenography · Composition · Spatial Audio · 3D Field Recording · XR Audio · Audiovisual Installation · Film · Performing Arts · Political Philosophy · Writing · Teaching 


MALU PEETERS (she/they)


Malu Peeters is a sound artist and composer based between Berlin and Amsterdam. Working across film, performance, XR and installation, she creates dense sonic worlds informed by queer, feminist, posthuman and postcolonial thought. Recurring themes include voice and agency, silenced histories, interspecies relations and more-than-human forms of listening, exploring ways to make audible what dominant systems render inaudible.

Her practice is characterised by intricate textural and spatial composition, and a close attention to the dramaturgical, material and psychoacoustic qualities of sound. Often operating at the level of image entanglement, her sounds unfold in meticulous relation with visual texture, space and movement. Through sonic worldbuilding, she gives presence and voice to forms of knowledge that exceed human representation: silenced histories, interspecies grief, reproductive futures, speculative forms of being. Whether composing for film, phygital art, XR installations or live performance, she translates critical research into sensorial experiences that are at once immersive, unsettling and tender.

Recent works include the audiovisual installation Excerpts From A Plantocracy (dir. Sabine Groenewegen, 2026); the feature film The Clearing (dir. Sabine Groenewegen, 2026), which premieres in International Competition at FID Marseille 2026, and for which she composed, supervised sound and performed original voice recordings in Láadan - a constructed feminist language she researched and translated for the film; the internationally touring Posthuman Wombs (co-created with Anan Fries, 2021–2022), which explores non-normative reproductive futures through VR, live performance and spatial sound; and the phygital work R.I.P.  Resurrect In Peace (dir. Anan Fries, 2023–2024), for which she wrote a techno-spiritual multichannel requiem. Her debut EP L-0-U (2022) traces the spectrum of the (post)human voice from the fleshly and intimate to the strange and whimsical; a second release, a requiem for interspecies grief, is due in 2026.
 
Malu Peeters' works have been presented at IDFA, Eye Filmmuseum, Humboldt Forum, HAU Berlin, FIBA Buenos Aires, FID Marseille and DOK Leipzig.

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