In this bilingual episode, Sophie travels deep into the Sauerland, where the landscape of North Rhine–Westphalia reveals slate ribs, deep valleys, and tunnels that testify to centuries of extraction. Iron veins, copper seams, and long-worked quarries chart a terrain understood through cuts and passages.
This approach to seeing is central to “Between the Layers of Petrified Silence”, the first solo exhibition in Germany by artist Louis Braddock Clarke, presented by Kunstverein Arnsberg. The show merges geological materials, sound, and speculative research to make invisible forces such as infrasound and geological time perceptible, linking local mining history to broader ecological and technological questions. 
In this final episode for the time being (in English and German), listeners encounter these ideas through field recordings from Sophies visit, who are layered with reflections together with artist Louis Braddock Clarke, director of the Kunstverein Arnsberg Pauline Doutreluingne and curator Yannik Güldner.

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Sophie Emilie Beha is a multimedia music journalist. She works in various contexts, including music, text, language, curation, improvisation, dramaturgy and poetry. Sophie hosts festivals, concert introductions, podcasts and panel discussions. She is also an author and presenter for various public broadcasters. She curates interdisciplinary events, creates transmedia compositions and works as a dramaturge for ensembles.

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