With High Carbon  (October 2025, W.E.R.F. Records), Heleen Van Haegenborgh returns to her roots as a pianist. In a high­ly per­son­al set, she weaves piano, elec­tron­ics and her own sound tech­niques into a sub­tle, lay­ered world. Every sound, every nuance bears her sig­na­ture — from com­po­si­tion to performance.

Van Haegenborgh does not work with sto­ries or styles, but with tex­tures, ener­gies and colours. Her unique inside piano tech­nique of stretched wires, manip­u­lat­ed res­o­nances and lay­ered elec­tron­ics forms the back­bone of a con­cert in which no detail is acci­den­tal. At times the elec­tron­ics merge with the piano to form a sin­gle flu­id voice, at oth­ers they grate sub­cu­ta­neous­ly or idiosyncratically.

This solo project is a pow­er­ful state­ment from an artist rein­vent­ing her instru­ment, bring­ing togeth­er her tra­jec­to­ry as a com­pos­er, per­former and sound archi­tect into one intense lis­ten­ing experience.