The Wire

Feature in The Wire Magazine

July 2024

 

Text by Louise Gray

Photo by Helena Wittmann

 

and on The Wire online: a scene from Finnish filmmaker and visual artist Mika Taanila’s new film Failed Emptiness, featuring a score by composer Nika Son. Watch here

10 NOV 23

10.11.2023

FUTURA RESISTENZA label presents

Roger3000 (be) + Ugne&maria (be)

+  Nina (de) + Nika Son (de)

Futura Resistenza operates somewhere on the edges of performance, music and the visual arts. Interdisciplinary at its core, for Futura Resistenza, a concert is never just a concert and a record reaches far beyond what meets the ear. The label invites musicians and artists with direct personal connections within its community, as well as people who they simply admire and want to see published or on stage. For this special occasion, they have invited two Brussels-based live acts from the label: musician and painter Roger 3000 and electronic duo ugne&maria, experimenting with the violin, synthesisers and sampling techniques. While DJs Nina & Nika Son, known for their sophisticated selections at among others Hamburg’s Golden Pudel Club, will lead you into the night.

 

Atelier 210

Brussels

Mutant Radio

photo by: Öncü Gültekin

time runs so fast
Papiripar is still resonating.
my post-papiripar mix for Mutant Radio

with pieces of most of the invited artists and others that are in my ear now and then and always

 

thank you so much for all the music !

 

Tot Onyx – Ishi Rhythm

Muqata’a – Quboor Mamila

Mazen Kerbaj – i always dreamt to be a guitar player / Just the three of us

Dali Guru & The Polyphonic Swarm – Lolutuuum

Roberto Musci – Shadow Player

France Sauvage – Brex me down

Thomas Lehn & Marcus Schmickler – Gelb

DJ Die Soon – Jon Stewart and Colonel Sanders with dog / Rantworth

PLF – Pop(e) Lost Faith

Phew – New World

Lolina – Chance

Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson & Andy Heck Boyd – Mr Trampoline Man

Kinzua – Domestic affair

Nihiloxica – 190819

Inkasso – Familiendrama

Manja Ristic & Mark Vernon – Pjesma mora / Upao u raj

Hainbach – Tremors

Jennifer Walshe – Guillaume de Machaut_ Messe de Notre Dame, Agnus Dei

Saint Abdullah – Pluto’s porn

Nihiloxica – 160819

Pouya Ehsaei – #8

Dali Muru & Polyphonic Swarm – Bath Philosopher

eRikm – Lux Payllettes

Mika Levi & Oliver Coates – county h / say good bye to everyone

16 JUN 23

Klassentreffen

Ein Festival mit Performances, Lectures, Filmen und Musik zum Ende der Klasse Michaela Melián (2010 bis 2023)

 

Meine live performance:

am 16.06. um 21 Uhr

zusammen mit meiner Videoarbeit

Imperfect Memories II

 

Programm:

15./16. Juni 2023, 14-22 Uhr, Aula HFBK Hamburg

Mit Beiträgen von:
Bilge Aksaç, Clara Alisch, Charlotte Arnhold, Jacopo Asam, Eda Aslan, Kristina Batzel, Björn Beneditz, Silvia Berger, Nika Breithaupt, Felix Boekamp, Sarah Bohn, Johanna Bruckner, Oliver Bulas, Sarah Drath, Agnes Eeg-Olofsson, Janis Fisch, Jakob Flöss, Junya Fujita, Manuel Funk, Juri Gaensdorfer, Nina Gohl, Lorenz Goldstein, Anna Gröger, Sevda Güler, Dörte Habighorst, Manuel Haffner, Lennart Häusser, Mona Harry, Elen Harutyunyan, Abe Hendriks, Jessica Herden, Tom Holert, Alexander Iliashenko, Benjamin Janzen, Franziska Kabisch, Jori Kehn, Leonid Kharlamov, Jihie Kim, Till Knapp, Frank Koenen, Nikita Kotliar, Johannes Kuhn, Eve Larue, Paulina Laskowski, Philomena Lauprecht, Sophia Leitenmayer, Flora Lenzmann, Yi Li, Xinyi Li, Charlotte Livine, Hanne Loreck, Fabien Lübke, Laura Mahnke, Takeo Marquardt, Ruth May, Dominik Mayer, Simeon Melchior, Stefan Mildenberger, Toni Mosebach, André Mulzer, Seungheon Nam, Elisa Nessler, Julia Nordholz, Jacobus North, Monika Orpik, Josie Overton, Alice Peragine, Jana Pfort, Felix Raeithel, Judith Rau, Signe Raunkjær Holm, Camilla Reisser, Jonna Roeper, Kervin Saint Pere, Pia Scheiner, Nicolaas Schmidt, Anja Steidinger, Nora Sternfeld, Maren Stocklöw, Julia Stolba, Nora Strömer, Zuza Spyczak von Brzezinska, Aleksandra Stadnik, Dominik Styk, Natalia Tikhonova, Samo Tomšič, Radoš Vujaklija, Janne Wagner, Leonie Wahler, Moritz Walker, Badrieh Wanli, Katharina Wild, Shuchang Xie, Martha Zonouzi

https://www.hfbk-hamburg.de/sound-und-performancefestival-klassentreffen/

 

HFBK

Hochschule für bildende Künste

Lerchenfeld 2, 22081 Hamburg

 

17-20 OCT 18

 

papiripar festival for pop | art | rotation 17th-20th October Künstlerhäuser Westwerk and Wendenstrasse, Hamburg   papiripar

is a quasi-palindromic propeller that diffuses the boundaries between image, sound and word. Boundaries become blurred and complex patterns evolve. The symmetry stumbles over its own mirror axis. papiripar will take place for the first time in October of 2018. The festival is dedicated to conceptual and progressive approaches to pop music and its intersection with art, film and performance.

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Live:

Deux Boules Vanille

Jan Jelinek + Lucrecia Dalt: A Tribute to Ursula Bogner

Manu Louis

Sven-Åke Johansson

The Modern Institute

Toresch

/

Exhibition:

Das Qualleninstitut

Pinkie Bowtie

/

DJ:

Nika Son

Nina

Phuong-Dan

Tolouse Low Trax

/

Film:

Blue For A Moment

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Among disparate spheres, intersections will be exposed and interdisciplinary influences will be illuminated, following the motto: More art in music, more music in art! This axiom of Düsseldorf’s ATA TAK label defined the German underground scene in the late 1970s. Overlapping of music and art was apparent in actions and participants from multiple disciplines; musicians let themselves be inspired by art’s conceptual methods, artists made music, released fanzines and ran record labels, concerts assumed the character of performance art and had a strong visual component.

6 OCT 18

RinseFM Golden Pudel Takeover

CC POP / DJ Internet Offline / Dionne / Ada / Speckman / DJ DC Schuhe / F#X / Crusat / Joney / Nika Son / Dietroiter / Ratkat / Alex Solman / RVDS / Good News / Nina


11 DEC 17

NEXT TIME

perform/

Rosaceae (Neoprimitive)

 

exhibit/

Hye-Eun Kim

anomalies

 

dj/

Ratkat & Nikae

RLR

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Nikae mix – live recording for Red Light Radio at Intonal Festival 2017

30 OCT 16

plakat_wow_a2

 

THE WILDNESS OF WAVES

30 October 2016, 19 h
Stefan Helmreich will give a lecture on the scientific domestication of waves and their (wild) mythological background. It’s role will have to be examined.

 

Following his thoughts, Nika Son and Helena Wittmann will present a video-sound-installation: Ocean waves are sound waves are light waves.

 

Finally, Theresa George and Stefan Helmreich will talk about questions and memories that emerge between rhythm, space and language.
STEFAN HELMREICH is Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). His research examines the works and lives of biologists thinking through the limits of ‘life’ as a category of analysis. He has written two ethnographies on the topic: “Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World (1998)” is about computer modeling in the life sciences and looks at the social and simulated worlds of Artificial Life. In “Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas (2009)” we can follow him to the deep sea and microscopic worlds of marine biologists. Currently he is working on wave science, in domains ranging from oceanography to cosmology to medicine to acoustics to social theory.

 

Westwerk, Admiralitätsstr. 74, Hamburg

23 JULI 16

 

Golden Pudel Club presents: 10 Years Gatto Musculoso

 

Felix Kubin (Gagarin) live

Tolouse Low Trax (Salon des Amateurs) live

C (Nika Son & F#X) live

 

Good News (VIS)

Phuong-Dan (Gatto Musculoso)

Ron Morelli (L.I.E.S.)

Alessandro Adriani (Mannequin)

Cindy Looper (Golden Pudel Club)

Bobbie* (PAL)

Alexis Le-Tan (ESP Institute)

Philip Berg (Blind Bodies)

 

>>> übel & gefährlich

11 FEB 15

NOCTUIDAE

 

live/

B/B/S  (Miasmah)

What happens when you take the founder of Miasmah records, Erik K Skodvin (aka Svarte Greiner and one half of Deaf Center), put him together with experimental drummer and electroacoustic musician Andrea Belfi and throw in a prolific drone metal avant-everything composer, Aidan Baker (also member of Nadja with Leah Buckareff)? Well, you get what is known as a ‘supergroup‘ in the underground circles (thinking here of Supersilent, Mortiz Von Oswald Trio and Black Elk), that’s what happens, and the result is beyond all expectations. Closer to the darker experimental and improvisational explorations of each individual artist’s output, the début collaboration under the B/B/S/ abbreviation is nothing but a marvel of sinister grandeur. Driven by an upbeat rhythm of Belfi’s abstract percussion, the deep distorted undertones of Baker’s versatile bass and the scratching growling of Skodvin’s bowed guitar, Brick Mask manages to capture the combined elements of post-everything doom-metal where each musician uniquely represents his own aesthetic in sound, while managing to seamlessly blend the output into one single stream of consciousness, as if these three have been at it for some time. This is yet another illegitimate mongrel of Berlin’s swarming and dense music scene, and one only wish for this ménage à trois to keep fertile for the many years to come! (Headphone Commute)

https://soundcloud.com/umor/b-b-s-nk012b01

https://soundcloud.com/miasmah/sets/b-b-s-brick-mask

 

live/

The Recording Industry has ruined an entire generation  (Waiting)

 

djs/

F#X

Nikae

 

Golden Pudel Club

Hamburg