Reflections: Steve Hauschildt

REFLECTIONS presents a night with electronic artist Steve Hauschildt, co-founder of legendary kosmiche trio Emeralds. We’ll pair his performance with a projection-mapped light show, transforming this historic church — and ourselves — in a state of reverential beauty. Co-presented with our friends at KCRW. Opening artist to be announced soon.

STEVE HAUSCHILDT is an electronic musician based in Tbilisi, Georgia. As a founding member of Emeralds, the influential ambient synth experimentalist trio from Cleveland, Ohio, he explored a sublime astral sound indebted to cosmic forebears like Tangerine Dream and Steve Roach.

Since Emeralds paused activity in 2013, Hauschildt has released a stream of critically acclaimed solo albums. In 2011, he released his debut LP with Kranky Records, Tragedy & Geometry, an album inspired by Greek muses and the disposability of technology. In 2013, Editions Mego released S/H, an extensive anthology of rare and unreleased works from Hauschildt’s archives. Ghostly International released Dissolvi in 2018, which included “Saccade,” a touching collaboration with singer Julianna Barwick.

In 2025 Hauschildt returned from a 6-year break with Aeropsia, the first release on his new label Simul. Aeropsia (which translates from the Greek as “seeing the air”) refers to a visual phenomenon in which objects appear to float or shimmer, often due to neurological disturbances. Arpeggios climb to heaven, glittering synth sequences pulse, and saturated pads invite introspection toward a system on the brink of collapse.