TAPE RELEASE
Surfacing underneath
on Psykick Dancehall Recordings
Guest-Mix for Lena Willikens „Lightning Conductor“-Show on NTS Radio
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
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Exhibition:
Das Qualleninstitut
Pinkie Bowtie
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DJ:
Nika Son
Nina
Phuong-Dan
Tolouse Low Trax
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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.
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
NEXT TIME
w/
Louise vind Nielsen
Ignacio Córdoba
is a Copenhagen-based musician from Madrid, whose music goes from free improvisation or the first electronic traditions ala BBC Radiophonic Workshop or Elianne Radigue, to current trends like The Caretaker, Oren Ambarchi or William Basinski.
Ignacio devotes himself to „La Caja“ (The Box) – an old industrial calibration machine that plays with time like memory does: stretching, slowing and speeding sound, making it appear and disappear a bit different every time. Distant and hypnotic like a black hole, he uses it to get us to underwater sounds, bubbly atmospheres and melancholic mermaid calls through emotional and trance-inducing tunes.
The project has been active in different line-ups (from solo or duo up to quintet) since 2011, with two self-released records, cassette tapes through the labels MAGIA and Punctum, and shows all over Spain and 6 European tours through 17 countries.
is a Hamburg-based conceptual sound-, performance and visual artist from Denmark. Her body of work deals with the interrelations between human and machine in a diverse artistic practise between poetry and social engagement, using in particular performance and sound, often examining complexe themes with an obscure and humorous approach. In this way she performs as „Umuligt Instrument“ where she transforms her body into a living electroacoustic instrument with help of a specially designed suit. With her recent performance format „Human Amplifier“ she invites performers to acts as living speakers for her live concerts. Her Hamburg-based project „Radikal Unsichtbar – Centre for Collective Learning and Radical Listening“ aims to explore a language of listening through workshops. Louise holds a degree from the Det Jyske Kunstakademi – Diplom (MFA) from 2013 has studied at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Hamburg.
djs/
Ratkat & Nika Son
Mit Unterstützung des VAMH ! ♥
NEXT TIME
Golden Pudel
20h
°°°°°°° CAM DEAS °°°°°°°live
is a London-based musician and sound artist. Known previously as a solo guitarist and more recently for his live electro-acoustic work, he is currently working with pure synthesis. Deas treats synthetic sounds like alien orchestral sections, exploring polytempos and abstract sounds to create intense yet organic, ever-shifting, immersive sound environments.
some words about his new album:
…Time Exercises is a complex study in amorphous polymetric rhythms by Cam Deas for The Death of Rave. His first album composed solely for modular synths and computer, Cam’s follow-up to the acclaimed String Studies for Luke Younger’s Alter label marks a headlong tilt from acoustic to electronic spheres with a staggering effect resulting from meticulous research and process. It sounds as advanced as Xenakis or Roland Kayn superstructures, with the rhythmic displacement of FIS or Autechre, and with a grasp of slippery, mind-bending timbral dissonance comparable to Coil and Rashad Becker records…. (boomkat)
°°°°°°°Ratkat & Nika Son°°°°°°°°°djs
Nika Son Remix for Human Heads
Parochial Actions: a melodrama by Human Heads and friends.
Released by SPAM, Cologne: https://spammaps.bandcamp.com/
4. / 5. JULY 2018
Golden Pudel Club
A two-day happening freely based on Conrad Schnitzler.
Schnitzler? Schnitzler!
The self-proclaimed „Intermedialist“ and pioneer of electronic avant-garde music worked on a marathon performance practice in the early years of his artistic career: in his short-lived but legendary Zodiac Free Arts Lab in Berlin in the late Sixties, he led his audience into a whirlwind of sensory experiences: Concerts, installations, videos, and performances interacted with each other and turned into events that still conjure a sparkle in the eyes of their visitors today.
Conrad Schnitzler (1937-2011) called himself an “Intermedialist”, for he often expressed himself as a musician, as a composer, and as a video and concept artist at the same time, maybe also as a poet, never as an universal genius, but he surely was a great philosopher. He is regarded as one of the most important pionieers of electronic avant-garde music.
Transcending genres, he has influenced the work of numerous musicians and artists all over the world: As a founding member of the influential Kraut bands Tangerine Dream and Kluster, as a co-founder of the legendary Zodiac Free Arts Lab in Berlin, and with his solo works as well as with his innumerable collaborations.
For ERUPTION the Golden Pudel Club will be transformed into a multiphonic space, based on Ken Montgomery’s New York Sound-Art Gallery Generator. A space that will be changed into new states continuously, for two days and two nights. Besides concerts, a pop-up tape store, video projections, Beschnitzlerungen etc., the multi-channel Schnitzler tapes, presented by Montgomery, form the heart of Eruption. These sound-trips are being remixed several times during the festival and can be consumed by the public while walking, sitting, or lying down – in the dark, or in the light.
>>>> http://cwelle.org/eruption/ <<<<<
PNIN
NIKA SON
KONRAD SPRENGER
DJ MO CHAN
For the first edition of SKY WALKING LABORATORY at ACUD MACHT NEU we are overjoyed to present an incredible evening of concerts:
After their amazing Tony Conrad tribute show at Kampnagel Hamburg earlier this year, PNIN aka Nika Son, Phillip Sollmann and Joachim Schütz, will play an intro drone concert featuring the hurdy gurdy, a guitar and synths to be followed by the exceptional NIKA SON (Next Time, Golden Pudel Club). KONRAD SPRENGER, who just released his album “Stack Music“ on PAN, will present his midified robotic guitar on a six-channel loudspeaker system. MO CHAN aka Aiko Okamoto will accompany the shows with a selection of Japanese Extravaganza and Queer Electronics.
ACUD MACHT NEU, Veteranenstrasse 21, 10119 Berlin
MS Stubnitz
Wildness Of Waves
at International Shortfilm Festival Hamburg
04-11 June 2018
Video-Sound Installation by Helena Wittmann & Nika Son
18min loop
https://festival.shortfilm.com/programm-2018/sonderproshygramme/galerie-raumfahrt/
NEXT TIME at blurred edges festival
live/
Andrea Belfi
Scheich in China
Der in Italien geborene Andrea Belfi ist Schlagzeuger, Komponist und experimenteller Musiker. Seine von langen, soundscape-artigen Bögen getragenen Performances sind rhythmisch komplex und dabei atmosphärisch, pulsierend, hypnotisch und voller variierender Klangfarben. Mit einem minimalistischen Drum-Setup, bestehend aus dem finnischen Saari Kit, zusammen mit prägnanten elektronischen Klängen baute Belfi im Lauf der Jahre eine ganz eigene Sound-Welt auf. Für seine energetisch-immersiven Live-Performances konnte er sich über die Jahre einen ausserordentlichen Ruf erarbeiten, sowohl als Solomusiker als auch in zahlreichen Kollaborationen. Veröffentlichungen auf Labels wie Room40, Miasmah und Float.
Scheich in China kombiniert Schlagzeug und Elektronik, wenn auch in gebrochenerer Art und Weise. Industrielle Schläge brechen frei, verwoben mit Noise, Modularsprudel und feinen Feldaufnahmen. Scheich in China ist auch bekannt als Alsen Rau, sowie Collaborateur bei Esmark, On + Brr und dem DJ-Duo Brenzhold. Veröffentlichungen bei solch delikaten Hamburger Labels wie VIS, Hafenschlamm und Pleisto.
Djs: Nikae & Ratkat
MFOC
live/
C (Nika Son & F#X)
djs/
Laurel Halo
Raf
Pudel
Chairs, Speakers, sparse Light
at sic! Raum für Kunst / Luzern
Dass Sound ein künstlerisches Material sein kann, ist eine Prämisse für Chairs, Speakers, sparse Light. Denn gefragt wird hier nicht ob, sondern wie Sound in einem Ausstellungsraum präsentiert werden kann – ohne dabei Nebenprodukt einer Installation oder Videoarbeit zu sein, und ohne als Konzert ins Rahmenprogramm einer Kunstinstitution abgeschoben zu werden. In Form einer abendfüllenden Veranstaltung soll dies befragt und untersucht werden: Kompositionen verschiedener Künstler_innen aus dem In- und Ausland werden vorgestellt und abgespielt. Das Setting ist dabei auf das Mindeste reduziert: Stühle, Lautsprecher, spärliches Licht – der Sound steht im Ausstellungsraum für sich.
Félicia Atkinson (FR)
Lawrence English (AU)
Koen Holtkamp (NL/US)
Nika Son (DE)
Franziska Lingg (CH)
Hagar Masoud (EG)
Shayu + σφαιρικό (CH)
Der 2016 verstorbene Tony Conrad gilt als Pionier im Bereich Minimal- und Dronemusik und hat auch im Experimentalfilmbereich deutliche Spuren hinterlassen. Gemeinsam mit La Monte Young, John Hassel und John Cale (den er auf die Idee des Bandnamen Velvet Underground brachte) und weiteren Musikern war er in den 1960er Jahren Teil des neo-dadaistischen Theatre Of Eternal Music. 1973 nahm er mit der deutschen Krautrock Band Faust das wegweisende Album »Outside the Dream Syndicate« auf. Seine Arbeiten im Bereich Video- und Performancekunst wurden in Museen wie dem MoMA, dem Whitney Museum oder der Documenta in Kassel gezeigt.
Um das musikalische Erbe Tony Conrads wach zu halten, spielen Stephen O’Malley, Mitglied der legendären Drone Band Sunn O))), und die sich aus dem Umfeld des Golden Pudel Clubs gegründete Gruppe PNIN, bestehend aus Joachim Schütz, Nika Son und Phillip Sollmann, ein Tribute-Konzert.
Vorher wird im Alabama Kino Tyler Hubbys sehenswerten Film über Tony Conrad »Completely in the Present« gezeigt.
Ilija Lazarevic & Felix Boekamp
KRATZEN (sich)
exhibition and live vinyl etching
jukebox
w/
jennifer bennett
die eichhörnchen
christian ertel
axel heil
frau kraushaar
fee kuerten
michaela melián
norbert möslang
roberto ohrt
stefan römer
anna schütten
wolfgang seidel
nika son
asmus tietchens
jan st. werner
NEXT TIME
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SCHLUSS (Sky Walking)
From the circles of Hamburg’s Golden Pudel Club the duo Schluss presents their debut album “28” on Sky Walking. Éric Falconnier and Joachim Schütz join another adventure into Spontaneous Music- free and intense, demanding and magical.
A life dedicated to Noise, Experimental Music and Free Jazz, Éric Falconnier played in several formations such as Gebrochene Beine who appeared with the most notable piece on the previous Sky Walking compilation. Joachim Schütz is known for his collaborations with Ellen Fullman, Konrad Sprenger, Arnold Dreyblatt and Samara Lubelsky to only name a few. Schütz is also part of the Metabolismus collective.
With their dynamic, fragile and highly surprising Live sets and recordings, Schluss are on the path to decline expectations and burst conventions.
Release on First Terrace Records Compilation Tape
1. Machinefabriek – Clarinet Tape/Piano Tape 05:43
2. Nur – DLA3 03:42
3. Zohastre – MVTMJSUNP 05:02
4. Sukitoa O Namau – Cette phrase a-t-elle été écrite avant ou après que la maison ne soit détruite 03:24
5. C. Diab – Daniel and Henrik Battle the Bull of Heaven at Uruk 05:37
6. Rupert Clervaux – Ignescent 08:05
7. Ola Saad – Running 03:49
8. Daniel Klag – Partial 04:08
9. Chra – Red Robin 04:58
10. Nika Son – Wrill Nos Tad 04:41
11. Vida Vojić – Untouch 02:45
12. Specimens – All Life Eventually Turns To Dust 07:33
13. Angélica Negrón / Janus Trio – Drawings for Meyoko 07:35
Internationales Festival für experimentelle Musik
17. – 20. Januar 2018 – Kampnagel, Jarrestrasse 20, 22303 Hamburg
Next Time / Time Machine
Ratkat & Nikae
Pudel
AKTION #210
just to see
a circling performance surrounded by cats and other humans
at
Kunst und Kultur e.V.
Hamburg
Vol. I
Live:
Bear Bones, Lay Low (Tav Exotic, KRAAK, Brussels)
CREDIT 00 (Rat Life Records, Uncanny Valley, Dresden)
Lo Kindre (Optimo Music, MR TC, Glasgow)
Nika Son (Golden Pudel Club, HH)
DJ:
Rugilé (Berlin)
Jenya Sobol (ARMA17, Moscow)
Phuong Dan (Golden Pudel Club, HH)
Judith Crasser (Pracht, Lpzg)
Tussn (HH)
Esclé (Pracht, Lpzg)
curated by Simon Clement
at Moloch, HH
NEXT TIME
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Phil Struck is a sound artist and photographer. His work is based on experimenting with different surfaces and layers of black and white laser prints, sampling from odd sound sources, random data streams and the usage of microphones + various synthesizer.
Fantastic RADIOPHRENIA
a two weeks „radio-sound art-festival“ from 6th-19th November
very insomnia friendly 2 weeks 24 hours!
My sound piece will broadcast:
>> Thurs, 9th November 2017 @ 10:45 am – 11:00 am (GMT)
also hier eine stunde später >>> Do 11:45 – 12:00
Surfacing underneath you sea asu lapis
Nika Son
Trying to imagine being underneath a liquid that we call water while clutching to a metal ledge of a big concrete building with air in my lungs. Sensing water in your ears and eyes. Being split by water. Thoughts astray.
Algaic groaning gulping machines touching the liquid surface. Outer voices uttering in displaced languages. Who are you I am? Sinking. Waves floating over and under. Listening to antartic krill that sway to and fro. Emerging. Walking over oceanic noise, turning the page.
Your ears on surfaces.
noctuidae
w/
Carl Simon (Mmodemm)
Enchante (Jolly Discs)
Nikae
Carl Simon aka Mutandini Karl aka Host Stewart aka Charlotte Simon ist die andere Hälfte von Les Trucs und Mitgründerin des ausserordentlich feinen Tape-Labels MMODEMM.
Ihre 1001 A.K.A.s deuten es an: Carl Simon ist umtriebig, gibt wenig auf Grenzen und Transgression. Carly is living, breathing, djing, mutating Minimal Wave, japanischen Gagaku, cheesy Postpunk, Industrial-Tapes und House History.
Enchante ist Dj und Produzent aus London, Labelbetreiber bei Jolly Discs, Mitveranstalter von Top Nice und Bildender Künstler, derweil in Frankfurt am Main.
Next Time
live/
Annawooh (Stoscha/ffm)
Annawooh uses electronic soundscapes, her voice, and beats to create an image of a desolate landscape. Its a place where humans are small, and the image is both dark as well as humorous.
Debut album coming out 20 September 2017 on Stoscha.
dj/
Ratkat & Nikae
at Golden Pudel
World premiere of DRIFT in Venice at SIC!
DRIFT
HD / 5.1 Dolby Surround / 16:9 / color / 97min / 2017
CAST Theresa George / Josefina Gill
CONCEPT / DIRECTING / CINEMATOGRAPHY / EDITING Helena Wittmann
CONCEPT / RESEARCH Theresa George
SOUND RECORDING / SOUND DESIGN / COMPOSITION Nika Breithaupt aka Nika Son
Nika Son live
at Wolkenkuckucksheim Festival 2017
Nikae at
1
SVEN KACIREK (Schlagwerk) //
CHARLY SCHÖPPNER (Rahmentrommel)
2
NIKA SON (Elektronik)
3
CHAD POPPLE (Drums) //
JOHN HUGHES (Kontrabass)
4
DAVID WALLRAF (Elektronik/Noise)
urban string – Bach/Hosokawa/Butoh
22/06 – 23/06/17
20h
Tadashi Endo, Butoh
Nika Son, Electronics
Ensemble Resonanz
Resonanzraum, Hamburg
Kraniche X Theater der Welt X Der Bär
MS Stubnitz
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Nikae mix – live recording for Red Light Radio at Intonal Festival 2017
C (Nika Son & F#X) live
touring the malmö-warsaw-berlin triangle ►
29.04. Intonal Festival – Malmö, sweden
+ Nikae dj-set at Red light radio > broadcasting 20-21 h
30.04. Światło – at K 55, Warszawa, poland
04.05. C and D Heads – Sameheads, Berlin
w/Phuong-Dan, Nachi
Thankyouu Alex Solman for the loveliest tour poster you can get! <3
2403
Nina & Nikae
at Berlin Community Radio >> 17h-19h
Scheich in China (live)
Nika Son (live)
Nina
Brenzhold
at Alt-Stralau, Berlin
2503
Scheich in China (live)
Nika Son (live)
Brenzhold
at Pracht, Leipzig
klub katarakt
International Festival for Experimental Music
January 18th – 21st, 2017
18 Jan >> C (Nika Son & F#X) / live
21 Jan >> Phuong-Dan & Nikae / Dj-Set
Kampnagel
Hamburg