In summer 2015 Hirsch finished constructing the Carbophon, an electro-acoustic invention pushing the concept of the African Kalimba or Mbira. Early Carbophonics is the first series of pieces that Hirsch will release with the Carbophon as the main instrument. Drafts from the rehearsal room come together with more refined bits and pieces, editing processes, sampling and effects. Further on, occasionally a morse key, a Moroccan flute, an old Yamaha keyboard, the Electric Palm Leaf as well as the Singing Cane make their appearance.

Andreas Oskar Hirsch (DE) works as a musician and visual artist. He has been inventing various musical instruments that he performs with, among others, the Electric Palm Leaf that produces sounds through its spikes. Moreover, by connecting melodicas to the air chambers of a rubber boat or decoding bird calls via Morse code, he investigates sound, setups, narratives and performative processes and pushes them to a point where frenzy, humor, sense, and nonsense meet. In 2014, together with Patricia Koellges, he started makiphon, a record label for experimental music.