We are a coll­ec­ti­ve of musi­ci­ans who come from dif­fe­rent musi­cal worlds and pur­sue dif­fe­rent ways of working. From this con­stel­la­ti­on, new per­spec­ti­ves emer­ge on the methods and for­mats we deve­lop together.

The pro­ject got its name from Lev Ser­ge­evič Ter­men, the phy­si­cist and inven­tor born in 1896 in Saint Peters­burg, Rus­sia. Ter­men beca­me inter­na­tio­nal­ly known around 1920 with the inven­ti­on of the the­re­min, one of the first musi­cal instru­ments that pro­du­ced its sounds elec­tro­ni­cal­ly. The the­re­min works elec­tro­ma­gne­ti­cal­ly, it does not have to be touch­ed when play­ing. It seems to pro­du­ce its sounds out of nowhe­re, which ama­zed the audi­ence then (and still does today). The inven­ti­on of the the­re­min was fol­lo­wed by num­e­rous other inno­va­ti­ve instru­ments and an extre­me­ly eventful life on the inter­na­tio­nal stage. Today Ter­men is con­side­red a pio­neer of ear­ly elec­tro­nic music. The begin­nings of lev lie at the end of 2016 in Mar­ten Seedorf’s master’s the­sis (in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Chris­tof Mar­tin Schultz), in which the loop-Ensem­ble was deve­lo­ped. After com­ple­ting his stu­dies, Mar­ten began his music edu­ca­ti­on work under the name "Loop". In mid-2017, the plans for a more com­pre­hen­si­ve media­ti­on pro­ject took on more con­cre­te fea­tures, which was final­ly foun­ded under the new name "lev" at the end of 2017 tog­e­ther with Deniz Dilek, Gis­bert Schü­rig and Simon Stein­haus as a gUG. After the dis­so­lu­ti­on of the gUG, lev has been working as an inde­pen­dent musi­ci­ans' coll­ec­ti­ve with new artists and musi­ci­ans sin­ce 2023. lev has its cen­ter in Ber­lin - a city that is the inter­na­tio­nal cen­ter of diver­se elec­tro­nic music and elec­tro­nic music culture.