A direct gaze into the fear of change.

Benshi/SoWood is an independent electronic music label and artistic platform founded by Eduardo Benito, operating between Europe and Abu Dhabi.

The project focuses on experimental electronic music, sound art, and audiovisual performance, with a strong interest in how contemporary research on cognition and perception informs artistic practice. Influences include large-scale initiatives such as the Human Brain Project, as well as studies on how language, memory, and internal dialogue shape our experience of reality.

Under the artistic alias Shifting Heigo, Eduardo develops long-form compositions, releases, and live performances where sound is treated as a modeling tool rather than a fixed object. His work explores the tension between internal narratives and external reality, examining how meaning is constructed, remembered, and reconfigured through sound.

This approach is also informed by Curtis Roads’ thinking on musical time scales, where sound is understood across different levels of duration: from microscopic textures and sonic particles to gestures, structures and larger narrative forms. Time becomes an active material in the composition, allowing the music to move between detail, transformation and architecture.

This line of work takes its clearest form in To Model Phenomena, a body of work that frames music as a way of representing complex processes rather than illustrating ideas. The project moves between composition and timbre modulation, engaging with contemporary questions around perception, cognition, and abstraction.

Benshi/SoWood operates as a label and collaborative framework, supporting releases and performances situated in festival, concert, and exhibition contexts. The project is rooted in the present cultural landscape, contributing to ongoing conversations around electronic music, sound art, and contemporary artistic practice.