Free Music

A small but efficient music laboratory and recording studio in North Rhine-Westphalia focuses on cross-genre music.




Artist: The Research Institute (TRI)

Album: Music from the North German Wastelands

Year: Digital Album, April 2010


While many of our releases could be categorized as drone, industrial, noise, free improvisation or musique concrete, our definition of free music may also include certain aspects of contemporary music or electroacoustic composition.


The Research Institute are the German musicians and composers Michael Pabst and Matthias Bornemann working in the field of avant-garde music as well as in the field of free improvised music.