Queer Ear Mastering

01/11/2024

Sinok's Instrumental album "Mutism" is out now on ! We are very happy to have mastered this album!

Produced and Mixed by Sinok
Mastered by ***rearmastering
Artwork by Ricaletto

"Mutism" is a thoughtful instrumental album and Sinoks homage to Hiphop the way he likes it best: sample-based, detailed and not too clean. Finding a worn vinyl on the street or at the flea market, sampling it to finally create something new - that was exactly the process of creating this LP. Sinok has been making beats for two decades for Rap artists, but the desire to make an instrumental album has been there for ages. Free from time pressure, he only wanted to use beats that create a certain feeling that is difficult to put into words. Strangely enough, some of the album tracks have been beats that rappers he showed them to weren’t that interested in anyways - either because there wasn’t enough space for vocals or because the rhythm was too strange. Making music with others always means finding compromises. "Mutism" is a very personal, uncompromising instrumental album.

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26/09/2024

Das Doku-Hörspiel "Kontaktanzeigen - Q***re Generationendialoge in Ostdeutschland" ist nun online zuhören auf

Eine Untergrund-Zeitschrift vernetzte und inspirierte Ende der 80er zahlreiche Frauen und Lesben in der DDR. Heute gibt es wenig Dialog zwischen den Wegbereiter:innen von damals und jungen Q***rs. Dieses Hörstück nimmt Kontakt auf.

Von , und

Es spielen Bettina Hoppe, Dela Dabulamanzi und Oska Melina Borcherding

Im Gespräch mit Daria Kinga Majewski, Ina Röder Sissoko, Yamin, Alma Roggenbuck, Elna Maria Rackwitz, Jenny Trabhardt, Martina Weigel und Rita Wolf

Mit Kontaktanzeigen von .zi, Irina Nekrasov/a und IrèneMélix

Und Beiträgen über und ***rnetz

Danke an Bärbel Klässner und die gesamte frau anders Redaktion.

Mit besonderem Dank an Maria Bühner, Kerstin Gorke und Marty Damour

und Frauenzentrum Magdeburg, Keimzelle Halle, TEKIEZ - Raum des Erinnerns und der Solidarität

sowie Franca Bohnenstengel, Frauenzentrum Towanda Jena, Erika Stürmer-Alex und dem Kunsthof Lietzen, Festival OSTEN Bitterfeld-Wolfen 2024, Agentur für Bildung, Geschichte und Politik e.V. und Die Soziale Fiktion

Komposition und Sounddesign: .transitory (Q***r Ear Mastering)
Illustration: Tina Kaden
Besetzung: Sabine Bohnen
Ton und Technik: Andreas Stoffels, Eugenie Kleesattel
Regieassistenz: Swantje Reuter
Regie: Mike Dele Dittrich Frydetzki und Judith Geffert
Dramaturgie: Julia Gabel, Tatjana Petschl und

Produktion: Deutschlandfunk Kultur 2024

Die Vorrecherche wurde gefördert vom Fonds Darstellende Künste aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.

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06/09/2024

🐚 OUT NOW 🐚

drops her new single "Shut The F**k Up And Let Go" — the first taste of her upcoming album "Please, save yourself" 🌊🌊🌊

Produced and mixed by and Manu Mayr
Mastered by ***rearmastering

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23/08/2024

Exciting News! ✨

's new single "Baby You Can Hold Me" is officially out now! 🎶 This track is part of her highly anticipated upcoming EP.

〰️ Mixed by
🔊 Mastered by ***rearmastering
🎨 Cover designed by
📸 Captured by

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11/06/2024

We're very happy to have been doing the music composition, sound design and sound mastering for Larisa Crunțeanu () & Sonja Hornung's film "to slip, to slide, to glitch" which is currently running at as part of until the 12th July 2024

"to slip, to slide, to glitch" is an expansive installation with video works, textiles, text, and sculptural elements which explores moments of control, disruption, destruction, and restoration in the production of landscapes through "green capitalism". Disruptions or glitches, such as those found in faulty satellite images of open-cast mines, reflect broader interruptions in the landscape, with deep-seated implications for bodies (human, animal, plant, and water).

The artists research starts with (post-)mining landscapes in East Germany and Romania. They investigate how the desire for an ecological and just transformation collides with profit-driven extraction processes. Who benefits from the desire for change and restoration, and how does this repeatedly negatively impact people and ecosystems?

Large-scale textile cyanotypes and hyper-coloured fake plants transform the gallery into an imitation forest. In a video work, two protagonists move through (post-)industrial coal mining landscapes in Lusatia and the copper mining region in the Apuseni Mountains, searching, marvelling and observing. Transformed into skeletons, the artists refer to the toxicity of the scenarios and processes at play, destabilising their own physicality in relation to "artificial nature".

The exhibition blurs notions of nature and artificiality. Landscapes are always partly produced by humans—either through the imagined full restoration or neglect. The project is dedicated to the productive power that arises when we do not separate "natural" and "artificial" conditions, pointing to the need for practices that embrace the wounds of the world, and take responsibility for caring.

Film production by

11/05/2024

Thank you for bringing us to Prague to talk about Mastering!

Talking about Mastering is not the easiest to do but we try our best to give a better understanding what mastering is about and our approach towards it. Hopefully it was helpful for those who attended and thanks to everyone who came down yesterday!

03/05/2024

new single "Love Me Truly" is out now on !

Recorded by
Mixed by
Mastered by ***rearmastering
Cover by

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01/05/2024

LP "CHTHULUZÄN" is out on ! Very happy to have mastered this!

"CHTHULUZÄN" is a concept album based on the ideas and thoughts of Donna Haraway's "Staying With The Trouble".

Produced and mixed by &
Mastered by ***rearmastering
Album cover artwork by

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30/04/2024

Hello Prague - we’re coming soon :)

Mastering, co to přesně je, a jak k němu přistupovat.
V rámci projektu Q***r24 v Goethe-Institut Prag proběhne v pátek 10. května přednáška dvojice umělkyň a zvukových inženýrek Q***r Ear Mastering a diskuze s dalšími q***r tvůrčími osobnostmi bude následovat. Přijďte s námi oslavit přínos q***r tvůrců*kyň a společně hlasitěji požadovat rovnost.

Více informací na události Q***R EAR MASTERING (lecture + discussion). The event will be led in English. The entry is free, you just need to register. FLINTA first!

28/04/2024

Extremely happy to have been involved in this one, we mastered the music composed by for DESIRE, an original radio play by about q***r s*x workers composed for WDR-Hörspiele !

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DESIRE is a soundtrack with 7 songs and 7 poet interludes. It's a journey from start to finish with early critics hailing it as vulnerable, provocative, and empowering.

In December ‘22, Tia created a multimedia exhibit with Polaroid photos and an audio installation curated from 31 interviews with q***r s*x workers from various backgrounds. With an idea of creating a soundtrack for a fictional audio series focused on the lives of q***r s*x workers, Tia shared the archive of interviews and her ideas for the episodes of the audio series and Breezy worked with the featured artists to translate the stories, philosophies, and perspectives into electronic R&B, hip hop, and dance-punk.

The audio series and soundtrack both invite the non-s*x worker audience to immerse themselves in the world of LGBTQIA s*x workers, listen to voices that remain too often unheard, and question assumptions about s*x work and q***rness.

Lyrics, Vocal performance, Production, and Mixing by
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25/04/2024

We recently mastered the sound for the short film "What’s softest in the world rushes and runs over what’s hardest in the world." by

Currently showing at the Venice Biennale - Foreigners Everywhere (), so if you’ve had the chance to hear it on site, do let us know how it sounds!

Film edited by
Music composition & Sound Design by Suhui Hee
Sound mastered by ***rearmastering

"What’s softest…" is a glimpse of q***r parenthood in Singapore, where such families are illegitimate under the eyes of the law. Like Kin, the hybrid documentary film combines interview material with a constructed communal space for play and imagination. The film’s title is taken from Ursula K. Le Guin’s rendition of the Dao De Jing and refers to the dichotomy of water and stone. By gathering sensibilities of the natural world, Eastern cosmology, and interdependence, "What’s softest…" presents q***rhood as an open field of possibility, one brimming with life that is to come.

02/10/2023

PLF's new album »ParziFoooooooooooL« is out today!

For their 2nd album, the non-conformist trio PLF delves deeper into broken song structures and harsh rhythms. Restless, the »scream-of-consciousness« vocalist , sonic dissident & producer , and multifarious drummer spew a fresh batch of tracks resembling post-apocalyptic rituals.

LP/DL on all platforms.

Available on Bandcamp and selected record stores.

Artwork by
Mastered by Q***r-Ear Mastering 

Released on in cooperation with

20/06/2023

The ability to listen into the highs have been lost to ageing ears, thus to ensure the crispness of the masters leaving our studio, we have employed the hearing prowess of the latest edition to our studio, meet our high frequency specialist ! 🪄👂🐶

17/05/2023

Finally, finally we have received the LP I Wish I Was Awake by Like Mint! Thank you for saving us a copy ! 🙏❤️ It was such a pleasure to have mastered this album! 🥰

08/12/2022

Our mastering companion for the next couple of weeks! 🐶❤️

22/07/2022

Elijah Hook‘s debut album Métis is out and available on vinyl too! Really happy to have had the opportunity to master this. Link in bio.

Recorded at
Mixed by
Mastered by Q***r Ear Mastering

15/07/2022

non-breaking space

A hybrid digital art exhibition and EP release by musician and artist Anise, non-breaking space involves a stellar cast of collaborators including Brandon Tay, Mervin Wong, Sonia Kwek and Amanda Lee Koe. The artwork features music tracks from Anise that have never been heard before, created in tandem with five original illustrations, in an immersive and interactive visual experience crafted by Tay.

non-breaking space explores the othering of nature from humanity and the rituals and pathways back. Taking the shape of five music tracks within an experimental digital space, the artwork brings the audience on an auditory journey from dark electronica and glitchy beats, meandering choral glissandos and sparse rhythms, to raw emotive performances. Beginning with the apocalypse and ending with an ode to decomposition and a return to love, each piece unravels a sprawling visual landscape and invites the audience to sojourn within themselves.

Part of + ᗴᗩ丅 ᗷƳ @ᔕƳᑎᗪᎥᑕᗩ丅ᗴᔕǤ, commissioned by Art House Limited for Singapore International Festival of the Arts ‘Life Profusion’

Tracks by
Painting by .atomie
Digital Experience by
Mixed by
Mastered by ***rearmastering
Motion by
Culture producing by

Trailer cut by

28/03/2022

NASHI44s Debüt-EP Asia Box ist out now! Habt ihr schon reingehört?! Link in Bio.

Wir sind mega happy, dass wir Teil des Prozesses sein durften und die Möglichkeit hatten die EP zu mastern!

02/12/2021

We Are Moving!

Find us soon on Boxhagener Straße!

In the midst of chaos at the moment and taking new bookings only from February 2022 onwards. Emails will be slower than usual but we will reply!

Thank you lovelies for your patience, understanding and continued support.

❤️❤️

01/10/2021

MOPCUT’s new album JITTER is out now on Opal Tapes & Ventil Records!

MOPCUT are Audrey Chen (), Julien Desprez () and Lukas König ()

Vinyl Pre-Order >>>
Tapes >>>

Recorded by Markus Wallner
Edited by Lukas König
Mixed by Shahzad Ismaily
Mastered by Q***r Ear Mastering
Cover Illustration by Miki Kadokura

01/09/2021

We are very happy to announce that we will host our 1st event with a talk and performances with Audrey Chen, Nashi44, Sable, Sarah Farina and Spoke at Pogo Bar, KW Institute for Contemporary Art on the 9th of September at 9 pm. ❤️‍🔥 Link in our Bio. ✨

Pic 2: Audrey Chen 📷 Jose Toral
Pic 3: Nashi44
Pic 4: Sable
Pic 5: Sarah Farina
Pic 6: Spoke - Slomo Studio

30/07/2021

Happy Release Day! Edgy by is out now! Link in their Bio 💥

Mastered by us ✌️

25/06/2021

Oha, what a surprise! We got nominated for this year’s VIA – VUT Indie Awards 2021 as Best New Music Business. Many thanks to .de, the jury, all our supporters and especially to all the artists we have had the chance to work with! 🙏💯

📸 by .o.nguyen

24/06/2021

Very happy to see the video premiere of .isobel song Maggie today! Maggie is part of Sable’s upcoming EP ‘Kitchen Sink’

Mixed by
Mastered by us ✨

25/04/2021

Weekends have been for studio maintenance and today, these two beauties are going to Lichtenberg for a tune up 😬😬