Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool is the collaborative project of Klyl Shifroni and Seraina Fässler, a duo based between The Hague and Zürich. They met while studying at the Institute of Sonology, bonding over a shared passion for songwriting, digital synthesis, and coding languages. Their work blends experimental electronics with raw, emotionally charged songwriting, overcoming genre boundaries to create a sound that is both intimate and fractured. Born out of late-night DJ sets in abandoned garages, the duo’s creative language evolved into a process shaped by bowed bass textures, vocal harmonies, and subtle sampling techniques. Their music balances ambient minimalism, lo-fi tenderness, and punk-inflected edges, evoking a world that is both carefully constructed and deeply vulnerable. “Sunday” explores the quiet absurdity of rituals - rubbing a lucky coin, searching for four-leaf clovers, wishing on stars. Through sparse arrangement and poetic repetition, the song gently strips these acts of their meaning, exposing the hollow comforts we cling to in search of control. “Sunday / I’ll be waiting in the rain / Sunday / Look for clovers in the rain / Drop my penny in the drain…” The track rests on minimal electronics and a haunting bowed bass part performed by Shifroni, processed and layered to crack, swell, and dissolve across the track. These sonic textures murmur beneath the vocals like fading memories, blurring the line between harmony and noise. About the EP – Line Cuts Set for release on August 15, ‘Line Cuts’ marks Swimming Pool’s first full collection - an exploration of the tension between clarity and distortion, closeness and distance. From brittle post-punk moments to ambient ballads, the EP captures emotional collisions and raw edges, offering a delicate balance between experimentation and sincerity. The name Swimming Pool is drawn from a photographic series of hurricane-damaged backyard pools - a metaphor for the quiet beauty found in ruin and the overlooked fragments of everyday life.