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 code-based composition. Their work brings together experimental electronics and emotionally direct songwriting - an unusual intersection that allows them to balance intimacy with abstraction, and warmth with fracture. Born out of late-night DJ sets in abandoned garages, their sound grew from instinctive improvisation into a layered process shaped by bowed bass textures, processed vocals, and subtle sampling techniques. The result is a sonic language that blends ambient minimalism, lo-fi tenderness, and punk-inflected edges, evoking a world that is both carefully constructed and deeply vulnerable. About the EP - Line Cuts Their debut EP Line Cuts is a slow-burning exploration of the tension between clarity and distortion, closeness and distance. Across five tracks, the duo craft a fragile architecture of sound - melodic phrases hover then fall apart, vocals are layered like dust, and rhythms dissolve before they form. The music is emotionally resonant, but never heavy-handed. Rather than deliver catharsis, Line Cuts lingers in the spaces between feelings: longing, memory, repetition, collapse. The opening track, “Calling”, is a whispered conversation with the self - its bare vocals and pulsing bass arpeggios evoke the quiet tension of words spoken just before dawn. “Sunday” follows, unraveling the strange power of superstition and ritual through sparse arrangement and poetic repetition. A bowed bass murmurs beneath the vocals, hinting at something held tightly and never fully understood. “Candle”, a reinterpretation of Leonard Cohen’s One of Us Cannot Be Wrong, bends tradition into abstraction. Built around layered harmonies and a clumsy midnight waltz of bowed bass, the cover marked a turning point in their creative process - an early sign of the duo’s ability to dismantle and rebuild emotional language on their own terms. “Wednesday Kinda Weekend”, with its hazy textures and layered vocal phrases, captures a weightless sense of heat and detachment. Time folds in on itself here - midweek becomes weekend, sunlight feels like a mirage. The track floats gently in liminal space, resisting structure in favor of immersion. The final piece, “Once In A Blue Moon,” stretches out into ambient drift and slow emotional rupture. Clocking in at over seven minutes, it builds almost imperceptibly, swelling into a dense fog of melodic fragments, processed harmonics, and eroding silence. It’s less a song than a sonic field-expansive, abstract, and deeply felt. The name Swimming Pool is drawn from a photographic series of hurricane-damaged backyard pools - a metaphor for the overlooked, the fractured, and the quiet beauty found in ruin. In that spirit, Line Cuts invites the listener not to find resolution, but to sit with ambiguity. It’s an EP that doesn’t demand attention, but rewards stillness - a soundtrack for moments when emotion surfaces slowly, in waves.