27 JAN 24

FAILED EMPTINESS

by Mika Taanila

is premiering at the 51st International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR in the program strand ”Harbour”.

Failed Emptiness is an existential thriller that describes the familiar experience of emptiness when responsibilities end.

 

>> TRAILER <<

 

With Ariane Tretow

director and editor: Mika Taanila

screenplay: Harry Salmenniemi

cinematography: Jussi Eerola

music and sound design: Nika Son

additional music: Klara Lewis

graphic design: Patrik Söderlund.

 

2024 | 66 min | b/w | DCP | 1:1,33, original title: Epäonnistunut tyhjyys.

 

25 NOV 23

BEEK

 

live/

Els Vandeweyer & Gebrüder Teichmann & Moritz Baumgärtner

Adam Golebiewski & Nika Son

 

dj/

Raspe

 

Gebrüder Teichmann are equally well known on the club scene as they are in new music. Together with drummer Moritz Baumgärtner they will improvise live on stage with multiinstrumentalist Marja Burchard who is known as band leader of the group Embryo. The musicians from Berlin and Munich are continuing the collaboration that began at the 2022 Jazzexess Festival.

⚠ Marja Burchard unfortunately won’t be able to perform due to illness. The wonderful Els Vandeweyer will stand in on vibraphone.

 

Marja Burchard (Rhodes, Vibraphone, Voice)

Gebrüder Teichmann (Live Electronics, Sampling)

Moritz Baumgärtner (Drums)

 

The second improvisation will be fabricated by the Hamburg artist Nika Son and the Polish composer and musicologist Adam Golebiewski. Their drums and electronics constellate for the first time on this evening.

 

Nika Son (Live Electronics)

Adam Golebiewski (Drums)

 

Raspe will present a selection of records creating a wonky, stoical and noisy sound from different spheres.

 

BEEK  /  Marschnerstr. 21 / Hamburg

 

Photos: Charlie Spiegelfeld

24 NOV 23

24 November 23 – 20 Uhr

 

live/

SO SNER

NIKA SON

 

off church

Düsseldorf

 

Photo: Schiko

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

13 OCT 23

urban string – Imperfect Echoes

Carte Blanche

 

13th October 2023 – 20h

Resonanzraum

 

it’s been nearly a decade now since Ensemble Resonanz asked me the first time to play at their urban string series.

manyyy great memories!!

now it’s the first time i was invited for a carte blanche and to score a piece for four strings to perform with me.
a very exciting challenge! and bringing me further back to drawing…..

 

i called the evening

Imperfect Echoes, inspired by a piece by Beatriz Ferreyra

 

Pieces by:

Beatriz Ferreyra: Echos

Alvin Lucier: Disappearances

J.S. Bach: Andante un poco, Sonate für Violine, Nr. 2 BWV1015

Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds A

Nika Son: Gespenst

Malika Kishino: Lamento

Igor Strawinsky: Double Canon

Iannis Xenakis: Rebonds B

Nika Son: Imperfect Memories

4 OCT 23

NEXT TIME 💥

at Golden Pudel Club

 

w/ DAS KINN live

 

DAS KINN oscillates between the poles. Clear cut and shape-shifting.

Between relaxation and tension, Post Punk and Kraut, Electronics and Art Rock, between Minor and Major, hiccups and singing.

Das Kinn rants against the imposition of impermanence.

Behind the curtain of DAS KINN hides Toben Piel.

Located between the spheres of sound and mediums of expressions for years: as part of the music-performance duo Les Trucs, as co-operator of the tape label MMODEMM, as organizer of electronic music formats in Frankfurt a/M and with works for theatre and radio.

His upcoming EP, ‘Die Kanten’, was released on 22 September 2023 on the German labels Mangel and ICHI ICHI.

 

Djs/ Ratkat & Nika Son

 

Doors 20 Uhr !

3 Oct 23

Codex Club at Morphine Raum 💥

 

live

NO CUE

BROSHUDA

 

dj

CHAGO

 

our third live performance with NO CUE

very much looking forward to scramble again with Tintin Patrone, G E K, Maximillian Glass and RVDS !

 

we will bring some fresh Tapes !

 

don’t be late. doors at 19h

first concert at 19:30h

28 SEP 23

https://www.mousonturm.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Sote_4_-_photo_by_Arash_Bolouri1-1860x2048.jpg

 

Der Geheime Salon mit Sote & Nika Son

at Alte Oper Mangelsdorff-Foyer

Frankfurt

28.09.2023, 9.30 pm

In September, Der Geheime Salon starts the new season with a special edition at Alte Oper Frankfurt. On two evenings, you can listen to international artists of experimental electronic music in the wood-paneled Mangelsdorff foyer.
The sound artist Sote has been an institution of the Iranian music underground for years. We are very pleased to bring him to Frankfurt for a concert for the first time. His compositions are sound journeys through electro-acoustic realms, sound design walls, microtonal motifs and polyrhythmic sequences. Releases on quality labels like Warp or Opal Tapes speak for themselves. Hamburg artist, musician and Golden Pudel resident Nika Son will operate the turntables before and after the concert.

26 SEP 23

Upstream Concert Series for New Music and Performance

#3 – DETRITUS

 

Upstream’s September edition combines artists from Australia and the UK with Hamburg-based artist Nika Son for an evening dedicated to the idea of DETRITUS. We are taken from homemade instruments made from discarded materials (Alexandra Spence) to the creative potential of hypnotic and scattered states induced by insomnia (Son) to a chaotic affirmation of detritus as fertile ground for pushing music into new spaces (Yes Indeed).

 

± Alexandra Spence

± Nika Son

± Yes Indeed

± Micheal Brailey  – DJ

 

MS Stubnitz

Hamburg

27 SEP 23

Conrad Schnitzler „Manchmal artet es in Musik aus\' CONCERT: Nika Son & Stefan Schneider - Flyer-Vorderseite

 

Conrad Schnitzler “Sometimes it turns into music”

Book presentation

 

w/ Nika Son & Stefan Schneider

Talk, films, live sets.

 

at arkaoda Berlin

 

Since the early 1970s, Conrad Schnitzler (*1937 Düsseldorf – 2011 Dallgow) has been internationally revered as a pioneer of electronic music and a radical boundary-crosser in the use of sounds and images. Initially as a founding member of KLUSTER and as an employee of the early Tangerine Dream, in the following decades he developed a comprehensive and confusing body of work between Berlin, Düsseldorf and New York, which has not yet been fully developed to this day but continues to inspire artists all over the world . The Hamburg musician Nika Son dedicated a 2-day festival called Eruption to Conrad Schnitzler in 2018, which sought a diverse approach to Schnitzler. In 2022, Stefan Schneider co-curated an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf that focused on Schnitzler’s audio-visual work. The publication “Conrad Schnitzler—“Sometimes it degenerates into music” (Walther Koenig bookstore) has now been published, which summarizes the results of a two-year research into Conrad Schnitzler’s intermedia work of the 1970s and 1980s.

In a conversation, Nika Son and Stefan Schneider present their different perspectives on Schnitzler’s work and how they deal with it.

This is followed by two live sets in which both present their current musical work.

Q-O2 Residency

Post-Residency Concert

Scatter I

 

During the residency at Q-O2 Nika Son experiments on a new composition for a multi-channel sound piece in interaction with light and moving image.
For the presentation she’s following the thoughts and questions surrounding various states of mind in the wake of insomnia, the desperate striving for sleep and the longing to stay awake in a world of constant consumption and processing. How does our auditory sense shift at the brink of each state? Which senses take over when and why? When do we hear and when do we listen? What happens to the perception of time and its loss? Which overtones are produced? What rhythm do our thoughts set? What influence do surrounding noises and changes in light have on our hearing? When does the perception of space alter and what echoes are generated?

As it’s a work in progress, you will see and hear an intermediate state composed for differing speakers, video, flash lights and a fan.

 

at Q-O2

Brussels

Radiophrenia

RADIOPHRENIA

commissioned radio productions

Becky Šik & Nika Son  TONFALL – Remember, I must use the stairs

Saturday, 2nd September, 12pm – 12.30pm  + Sunday, 3rd September, 6 – 6.30pm

 

Two strangers matched together, their practices intertwine

A blank page

Growing from there

An open cupboard buzzes and humms

Sending snippets in stolen moments

The circle drops, opening a wide and generous hole

SlippageTalking, passing, exchanging, reasoning, corresponding, joking, transposing

Systems cycle in loops

Accents, language, tones, intonations, cues, pitch, syllables

Prompts

The megalithic Ouroboros fun machine that is Barbie

Touching an elephant

Circles, water, falling sound

Escalators, circular systems, sleep, not sleep

Words that don’t exist

Gleichgewicht

Walking with dizzy spells in saturation

Reflecting, twisting, alternating, translating, modulating, jumping from

On the edges – a Hallwall

Again the elephant, transponder, closed water, eyes

What does it mean to be open and what slips away?

Souffleuse, Echoschwelle, Tonfall

X1, mnemonic, delay

Asking, loops, deathbed

What’s wrong with my eyes, oscillating, brown noise

Pulse

What is an orbit sound

Missing the radiator, voices, vertigo

I could spell it fownetikally/ foʊˈnet̬.ɪ.kəl.i

Meter eater

Mi devas uzi la ŝtuparon

 

This piece was developed during a week long residency at CCA funded by the Goethe-Institut Glasgow in collaboration with Radiophrenia.

15 JUL 23

Performance & Exhibition

CWELLE

 

Vernissage

15 JULI 23

 

Galerie Gemüse

Hamburg

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

 

14 JUN 23

Poster: Thomas Baldischwyler <3

Im Rahmen von

blurred edges

im Golden Pudel

 

NO CUE

live

 

Das Projekt NO CUE formierte sich im Januar 2022 während einer Residency von Nika Son im ausland in Berlin. Sie lud die Musiker:innen Tintin Patrone, RVDS, Maximilian Glass und G E K ein, um einen gemeinsamen Konzertabend zu gestalten. Dabei entstanden rotierend-schwebende Soundessays mit unterschiedlichstem Instrumentarium.

 

Der Pudel wird ein quadrophonischer Puls.

 

Demnächst erscheint NO CUE auf Tape !

(mehr Infos bald!)

Aber am 14.06. schon

Pre-Sale Release Tape Party !

Djs: F#X, RVDS, Nika Son

 

www.blurrededges.de/nocue

www.pudel.com

18-21 MAY 23

PAPIRIPAR

 

18th – 21st MAY 2023

 

At long last: live! After two years of torpefying collective compliance, Hamburg’s experimental festival for pop, art and rotation has reawakened to the light of the day. Spotlight for our first post-Covid edition is “scope of movement”, in its broadest sense. For the Break Through in Play Room we are celebrating pop and art between centrifugal force, gambling disorder and alternating current.

 

Now in its fourth edition, PAPIRIPAR – Hamburg’s festival for recalcitrant trend waves interference for interval alarms during somnambulist periods of inaction – has fully recalibrated the colour and music scales. This time, the palette of acts set to tantalise eyes and ears ranges all the way from larger-than-life, breathing sound machines (Victoria Shen & Ivana Dama) and Dadaist monologues in clothing-free space (Sigtruyggur Berg Sigmarsson), afro-futurist syncopated industrial rhythms (Nihiloxica), otherworldly pop complexe (Lolina) and digitally deconstructed sound poetry (Jennifer Walshe & Thomas Lehn) to electro-acoustic concerts in the raw sound funnel of a Hamburg courtyard (Mazen Kerbaj & JD Zazie). There will also be a workshop on how to build a spectre detector (Tara Pattenden).

 

Curated by Felix Kubin, Nika Son and Florian Bräunlich, PAPIRIPAR once again executes mesmerising and delirious back flips and adulterous flings with and between the fiercely patrolled disciplines of art, music and performance in order to set off aesthetic electrical sparks capable of jump-starting our slumbering cultural bohemia.

 

E X H I B I T I O N

Victoria Shen + Ivana Dama

 

W O R K S H O P S

Tara Pattenden

 

C O N C E R T S / P E R F O R M A N C E S

Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm

Nihiloxica

Companion Species (Jennifer Walshe & Thomas Lehn)

Mazen Kerbaj

JD Zazie

Lolina

PLF

Evicshen

France Sauvage

Phantom Chips

Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson

Cilia

Kris Kuldkepp

 

D J s

Nosedrip

pq

Internet Offline

Semi-Nice & Elazer

Libyscher Wald

1 MAY 23

Anticipating PAPIRIPAR festival from 18th – 21st May. . . .For those who are too impatient can gather already on 1 May at the festival teaser PAPIRIPAR LABOR at Golden Pudel Club, where the Japanese no-wave legend PHEW, flanked by DJ DIE SOON and the artist Tanita Olbrich, will invoke an iridescent black sun.

 

PAPIRIPAR LABOR

at Golden Pudel Club

1st May 23 / 20 h

 

Live/ PHEW

In the late 1970s, Hiromi Moritani flew from Japan to Great Britain in pursuit of subcultural insight. She wanted to experience the Sex Pistols at the ground zero of their greatest veracity. Fired up by this journey, she formed the short-lived punk band Aunt Sally. After disbanding it she called herself Phew and again found herself in the right place at the right time: she recorded her first LP with musicians from CAN and DAF in Conny Plank’s studio on an old farm in the Rhineland. After this came further collaborations with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto and the Einstürzende Neubauten. Phew’s many tentacled globalist approach has continued to this day in her ongoing mission to forge an authentic synthesis of vocals and experimental electronic music.

Both in interviews and in her distinctive singing style, her words are plain-spoken. The intentionally half-sung lyrics serve as a thread that connects all of her works. The persistency with which over many years she has pursued her devotion to a single idea while fostering curiosity for all other ideas makes younger generations appear alarmingly unmindful of sustainability. Prior to the reissue of her aforementioned debut LP „Our Likeness„, London-based label Mute released Phew’s latest solo album „A New Decade“ in 2021. This record gathers recordings made during the past pandemic in her flat in the  Tokyo suburb of Kawasaki. „Personally, I can no longer see a future that goes beyond the present,“ she said about the paradigm shift hinted at in the title. So there should be no doubt that Phew’s Hamburg performance will be another enlightning permutation of space and time!

 

 

Live/ DJ DIE SOON

In 1997 Daniel Dumile aka MF DOOM entered the hip hop scene in a mask inspired by the Marvel evil genius Doctor Doom. Since then, following Dumile’s initiative, increasing numbers of protagonists in this genre have also donned camouflage. Why exactly Berlin’s German rap scene took such a fancy to this cultural stunt remains a puzzle. That the Japanese musician Daisuke Imamura, who happens to live there too, has something to do with hip hop cannot be denied. Using the sampler SP-404, a stock favourite of many traditional beats producers, he compiles rhythms on which increasing numbers of international rappers have laid their verses. But his sound design is more reminiscent of European industrial music from the early 1980s and when he obscures his face as DJ DIE SOON it feels more like being beamed into a psychedelic reinvention of Japanese Noh mask theatre rather than into some US American superhero comic. He also creates an artistic universe with his drawings, which he infuses with elements of Japanese culture. His live concerts, albums, exhibitions and publications thus merge to form an original and complex total work of art recurrently fired up with shock effects.

 

Exhibition/ Tanita Olbrich

At it’s beginning, video art was a very costly endeavour. Early works by American artist Dan Graham, such as „Time Delay Room“ and „Present Continuous Past(s),“ both from 1974, resembled high-tech simulations of a dystopian future. In the 1990s, digital multiplexing was developed, allowing for the simultaneous recording of multiple cameras, as well as time-lapse and motion tracking. This saved time and money and led to an increased use of video surveillance. The capture of public and private spaces led to extensive social discussions, which resulted in changes in laws, especially in European countries, at the beginning of the current millennium. More recently, CCTV technology has been improved and monetized through a shift towards the „Internet of Things.“ The distinguished Berlin filmmaker Tanita Olbrich belongs to a current generation of artists who deal with contemporary issues of surveillance and pop-cultural self-documentation. With the installation of the home security camera system Ring in Hamburg’s Pudel Club for one evening, she creates a depiction of a space in which the current problems of private surveillance technologies are reflected semi-publicly.

 

Before, between and after

PAPIRIPARIS DJ’s

Felix Kubin, Nika Son, Fleurop

 

Texts: Thomas Baldischwyler

Poster: Alex Solman

9 APR 23

18 Jahre Sissi & Die Chinesische Wäscherei


w/

Gush (featuring Steven Warwick (fka Heatsick) and Iván Brito (aka Vanya)),

Clemens Schittko (XS-Verlag, Moloko Print, Ritter Verlag),

Nika Son (Golden Pudel Club, Entr‘acte)

DJ Shlucht (Spam, Stenze Quo)

15 MAR 23

NEXT TIME

 

w/

POUYA EHSAEI

live

 

Pouya Ehsaei is a British-Iranian musician, sound designer, producer and curator currently residing in London.
He is the leader of the band Ariwo and the figure behind the electronic and live music club night Parasang.
Pouya Ehsaei started his musical career in the late 90s, at the underground scene of his hometown Tehran. His music is heavily influenced by his Iranian heritage and his experiences with the traditional music of his country, as well as his passion for experimental and electronic music.

His practice involves experimenting with different compositional and sound synthesis techniques to create a sonic passage through hypnotic soundscapes, industrial beats, intricate sound miniatures, epic soundscapes, fractal polymeric rhythms and pulsating hard hitting sub frequencies.

https://zabtesote.bandcamp.com/album/rocrast

 

Next Time dj alltimers:

Ratkat & Nika Son

 

www.pudel.com

 

11 FEB 23

LIVE
Avihozar 
Alobhe 
 
DJ
Phuong-Dan
Nika Son
 
Marschnerstr. 2
Hamburg

2 FEB 23

NEXT TIME

 

w/

LENA WILLIKENS >> wird nachgeholt !

 

Born and raised in Germany, Willikens first honed her unique approach to playing records during a long residency at Düsseldorf’s beloved Salon des Amateurs. These days, however, she’s based in Amsterdam, where her transportative impulses have been plugged into a variety of outlets with a global reach. On the radio, she pilots the monthly Lightning Conductor program on NTS. On record, she recently curated the fifth installment of Dekmantel’s acclaimed Selectors compilation series, and she’s also been tapped to remix the likes of Lena Platonos, S U R V I V E, rRoxymore, Simian Mobile Disco and Ana Helder, amongst others. On stage, Willikens works with artist Sarah Szczesny on Phantom Kino Ballett, an immersive audio-visual performance art project that defies routine explanation.

 

aaaand Ratkat & Nika Son

 

at

Golden Pudel Club

21 JAN 23

KLUB KATARAKT

Festival 2023

 

Nika Son & Helena Wittmann

Cae la Noche (2021)

performative Video-Sound Installation

 

Nika Son 6-channel-sound

Helena Wittmann 2-channel-video

 

Foto: Jann Wilke

18 JAN 23

ALAN #2

daadgalerie Berlin

 

Performance / Talk / Screening

 

18.01.2023 / 19:00 – 21:00

 

Curated by Burak Çevik

 

Guests:

Helena Wittmann

Nika Son

Theresa George

8 DEC 22

NEXT TIME

at

Golden Pudel Club

w/

BEAU WANZER

(L.I.E.S/Suction Records/Nation/…)

A vinyl and cassette collector since his teenage years, Beau Wanzer has forged a musical culture around more or less obscure industrial projects. Influenced by the European EBM of the 80s, he released his first record on L.I.E.S., followed by a number of techno releases with punk overtones, testifying to his love for live music and analogue machines. He also collaborated with Traxx on Mutant Beat Dance, with Maoupa Mazzochetti on De-Bons-en-Pierre and with two friends on Corporate Park.

11 OCT 22

Akustische Bänderdehnung w/ Nika Son

 

A radio show created by wonderful Toben Piel aka FM Aether aka Das Kinn, broadcasted on dublab Radio.
Now on their mixcloud archive website…next to many more great tape music flaneurs.

Toben invited me in august to wander around Hamburg while talking, climbing and listening to tapes from my wild cassette shelf.

very happy and honoured to being asked to contribute to this very special, entertaining and intimite way of creating a radio mix.

with great music on tape from my bag, with lovely homies: qp (aka Pose Dia), F#X, Cosmic Cars

and Human Heads, Das Ding, Pakasteet, Ubek, …Georgian chorals

 

Akustische Bänderdehnung explores the winding wonders and hissy oddities of the tape universe on a monthly basis.

An audible journey through mixes, features and interviews by Frankfurts own Toben Piel aka FM Aether.

13 OCT 22

NEXT TIME

NO BRA live

No Bra is an electronic dance and industrial solo act formed in the UK in 2003 and based in NYC since 2010.

No Bra’s confrontational and gender ambiguous performances deal with sexual fantasy, morality and performance of social rules among other things, undermining a level of comfort expected in consuming pop culture by women and marginalized groups in particular.

No Bra had an underground hit with the song “Munchausen”, has released 3 full length albums, several singles and compilations and is featured on tracks by Arca and Mykki Blanco. She has collaborated with the Raincoats, Wolfgang Tillmans, Slava Mogutin, Abdu Ali, Bruce LaBruce among others, and written and performed original songs for the Vivienne Westwood FW ’20 show in Paris. She has performed at the Tate Gallery, the Hayward Gallery, the Centre Pompidou, the ICA London, Artists’ Space NYC, MoMa, Performa NYC, Sonic Acts, numerous gig venues and clubs, as well as opening for acts like the Gossip, Patrick Wolf and Yves Tumor.

Djs/
Fleurop & Nika Son & Ratkat

2 OCT 22

AB HERBST

 

w/

Eyül Deniz, Cid Hohner, Nika Son, Baernd Anders, Gazza, Semi Nice, Elazer, DJ AOL

 

Schaltzentrale

Hallo Radio

10 SEPT 22

presents
Alexandra Phillips (NL), Mark Vernon (UK), Julia Reidy & Morten Joh (DE), Nika Son (DE), Das Ding (NL)

 

After curating multiple concerts in Roodkapje, Futura Resistenza is hosting a very special label night! Expect an evening full of groundbreaking performances and concerts.

Futura Resistenza is a label and platform from Brussels and Rotterdam, that operates somewhere on the border between performance, music and visual arts. Roodkapje invited the label to program a series of concerts in our venue. Throughout this year they’ve invited musicians and artists who already have a connection with the label, as well as people who they simply admire and wanted to see perform.
DJ – Lucija Gregov 20:00 – 02:00
LIVE Alexandra Phillips  20:30
LIVE Mark Vernon  21:00
LIVE Julia Reidy & Morten Joh 22:00
LIVE Nika Son  23:00
LIVE Das Ding 00:00
Roodkapje, Rotterdam

08 SEPT 22

MARK VERNON (Gagarin/Ultra Eczema/Entr’acte/Kye/….)

 

will perform a live soundtrack to an extended cut of the film ‚Tape Letters from the Waiting Room’ directed by Steven McInerney, also released as an LP on the Psyché Tropes label last year. An existential drama exploring the universal themes of death and rebirth ‚Tape Letters from the Waiting Room‘ is an experiment in film archaeology and magnetic memory as it navigates past life experiences. Shifting in succession from the mundane to the metaphysical, the film is composed of extant 16mm found footage from the past century and features an original soundtrack by MARK VERNON culled from his collection of domestic tape recordings, audio letters, found sounds and other lost voices.
Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based sound artist who works with found tapes and acousmatic presence. His oeuvre explores themes of magnetic memory, audio archaeology, voyeurism and nostalgia.

 

Trailer Film: https://www.psyche-tropes.com/

 

playing records before and after:

Felix Kubin & Nika Son

18 AUG 22

SOUNDCUTE presents:
YVES DE MEY – live
MARK VERNON – live
NIKA SON – live
QUAI ALLON // Entr’acte label – dj
at Café Central – Brussels

12 AUG 22

Exhibition CONRAD SCHNITZLER

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Manchmal artet es in Musik aus

 

The aim of the project Conrad Schnitzler: “Sometimes it gets out of hand and turns into music”, which includes an exhibition and a festival program, is to reassess the extensive work of Conrad Schnitzler (*1937 in Düsseldorf, †2011 in Berlin).

In the exhibition, the audiovisual works of the sculptor, musician, composer, as well as video, performance, and conceptual artist will be brought together and made tangible. The festival program invites Schnitzler’s contemporaries and successors to intervene in spaces at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and to contextualize and reflect on his work through discussions, installations, performances, screenings, and concerts.

To this day, Schnitzler is revered around the world as a pioneer of electronic music, even though he did not seek to make music himself and strictly rejected the commercial sale of his works. A lively international network developed around him, which propagated and realized the free circulation, reproduction, and performance of his audio and visual works. Schnitzler’s artistic legacy will now be institutionally recognized for the first time together with the artistic community around him.

Participating artists: Conrad Schnitzler, Noemi Büchi, Cengiz Mengüç, Ken Montgomery, Ulrike Rosenbach, Wolfgang Seidel, Nika Son, Tolouse Low Trax, Keiko Yamamoto, and many others

 

The exhibition is curated by Stefan Schneider (artist, musician) and Linnea Semmerling (Inter Media Art Institute) with Gregor Jansen and Alicia Holthausen (both Kunsthalle Düsseldorf).

 

12th August

concerts by

Tolouse Low Trax

Nika Son

Noemi Büchi

 

7 AUG 22

WORLD PREMIERE

of

HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH by Helena Wittmann

at

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL

 

starring ANGELIKI PAPOULIA, VLADIMIR VULEVIC, FERHAT MOUHALI, GUSTAVO DE MATTOS JAHN, MAURO SOARES, STEFFEN DANEK, INGO MARTENS, NINA VILLANOVA and DENIS LAVANT

 

script & direction & camera HELENA WITTMANN

music and sound design NIKA SON

assistant director LUISE DONSCHEN

Production and costume design ANNA OSTBY

Dramaturgical advice BIRGIT GLOMBITZA

Camera assistants TIM LIEBE & GUSTAVO DE MATTOS JAHN

Underwater images KEVIN SEMPE

Microscopic images VILIUS MACHIULSKIS

Sound NIKA BREITHAUPT

Color grading and mastering TIM LIEBE

Title design HANZER LICCINI

Casting Marseille and production management JULIE AGUTTES

Production FRANK SCHEUFFELE, KARSTEN KRAUSE & JULIA CÖLLEN (Fünferfilm, Germany)

Coproduction CHRISTOPHE BOUFFIL, FRED PREMEL, JULIE AGUTTES (Tita Productions, France)

28 JUL 22

NEXT TIME
w/
live: Inkasso & ML (Ósare! /Kashual Plastik),
djs: Ratkat & Nika Son

 

Inkasso (Ósare! / Kashual Plastik)
Turbulent synths ooze and oscillate, roaming like searchlight beacons across darkened shores. The experimental and idiosyncratic sound of duo Inkasso explores the feeling of being cast adrift in disorientating, mechanical worlds. In the studio, the pair jam with drills, string instruments, field recordings and everyday objects to create a hypnotic cacophony. Hear the penny drop on ‚Asso,’ chains rattle on ‘Träume aus Draht;’ the junglist murk of ‘Tag der Imker,’ and the sharp, crystalline beat of ‘Punkervirtel.’ Inkasso invites you to get lost in the uncanny spaces between dub, drone and techno; static introspection and the primal desire to dance.

 

ML (Kashual Plastik)
Everything makes me dream…
Id comes to life achromatic, briefly thoroughly illuminated by light. Instantly colors leak from above and slowly darkness covers the spreadsheet with all that many allegorical, symbolic, mystic shades. Noble, good, useful, mean, unnecessary, common, and beautiful. Mélancolies du voyage, floating in an ocean of mixed ratios.

 

Golden Pudel

20 JUL 22

a special 2-day event with a lot of great artists hosted by Kashual Plastik

 

Wednesday 20.07. – 8pm

Concerts

J. Stoy

Mark Harwood

A.K. Klosowski

Nika Son

 

Bar:

ML

 

Thursday 21.07. – 8pm

 

Concerts:

Pierre Bastien

Nein Rodere

Red Brut

M. Klein

 

Bar:

Laura Not

 

Insatallation, Video and Grafik

ML

Laura Not

Edition D Art

Malvern Brume

A Method To Exist

1 JUN 22

I’m very happy to be part of this very special exhibition project

HOW TO LIVE IN THE ECHO OF OTHER PLACES

by ANNIKA KAHRS

You can listen to all sound works until 4th sept !

and watch out for the sunset at dawn !

with:::: Ferdinand Försch, Douniah, Louis d’Heudières, TINTIN PATRONE, Tam Thi Pham, Jesseline Preach, Carlos Andrés Rico, Freja Sandkamm, Nika Son und Derya Yıldırım.

For my multi-channel sound piece „Echoes of Insomnia“ i talked to several people who live between day and night. They recount their perception and memories of sleep / awake states – and the moments in between. In the piece these echos dissolve the boundaries between body and mind, and thoughts repeatedly elude their grasp.
Thank you: Janine Jembere, Lilli Strasdas, Martin Jehmel, Bernd Meiners, Ellen Doeg und Yannick Kaftan
Location: Schuppen 29, Baakenhöft, HafenCity Hamburg

8 APR 22

urban string »state of [‘stasis]«

 

In seinem Buch Experimental Music. Cage and Beyond sieht der Komponist Michael Nyman den Tonkünstler La Monte Young als Vater des musikalischen Minimalism. Die Ursprünge dieser prozesshaften Musik findet er überraschenderweise im europäischen Serialismus. So erkannte Young im Spätwerk von Anton Webern nicht nur die Fortsetzung des Prinzips der „ständigen Variation“, das die europäische Musikgeschichte bestimmt. Er zog außerdem Inspiration aus Elementen, die einen ganz anderen Weg wiesen: einen Zustand der Richtungslosigkeit, eine Art musikalische Stille, „die als ‚STASIS‘ gehört werden konnte, weil dieselbe Form über die gesamte Länge des Stücks verwendet wird … die gleiche Information wird immer wieder wiederholt“, so Nyman.

Young fand dieses Prinzip der „STASIS“, also der Stockung, auch in Musiken außerhalb der westlichen Tradition vor – und in ganz alter Musik: „Höhepunkt und Richtungsweisung gehören zu den wichtigsten leitenden Faktoren westlichen Komponierens seit dem 13. Jahrhundert, während die Musik vor dieser Zeit, von den ältesten Gesängen über das Organum bis Guillaume de Machaut, durchaus ‚STASIS‘ als strukturelles Konzept in der Art verwendete, wie es auch östliche musikalische Systeme taten.“

 

Dieser Abend erforscht Vorbilder und Nachfolger:innen des Minimalismus von La Monte Young und Guillaume de Machaut bis hin zu Julia Wolfe und Lou Reed.

 

6.4.22 >> Bucerius Kunstforum, Hamburg

8.4.22 >> Resonanzraum, Hamburg

Mix

 

Mix for Chambre Noire

 

with music from: Teiji Ito/Maya Deren, Varvara Stepanova, Mark Vernon, Yves de Mey, Human Heads, Nika Son, Tom White, Phew, Moor Mother, Lil Asaf, Steven Roden, Tomoko Sauvage, Graham Lambkin, Ana da Silva & Phew, ß 70, Kiera Mulhern, Asmus Tietchens & Miki Yui, Saint Abdullah, John Kameel Farah & Thomas Brinkmann

15 JAN 22

Nika Son & Guests / Craving Coincidence – CC No.2

 

A night of solo sets & collaborations with

 

Cwelle

Maximilian Glass

Nika Son

RVDS

TiNTiN Patrone

 

 

For the series „CC No. 2 – Craving Coincidence“, ausland invited six musicians to curate one long night each, in between concert evening, salon and club night.
The start of „CC No.2“ was disrupted by the first wave of the pandemic in spring 2020, which unfortunately also affected Nika Son’s CC2-edition under the title „Underwater“, which was already announced for April 2020 and would have featured a larger line-up including many international artists for a programme between film, live-concerts and sound art.
Other than we hoped, the pandemic has everything but eased in the winter of 2021/22. Thus, Nika and ausland decided for a reconception, presenting tonight’s format as a dense and compact concert night of solo sets and possible surprise collaborations involving electronic musicians who’re based in Berlin or close nearby.

Cae La Noche

 

Es fällt die Nacht/Cae La Noche

 

by Helena Wittmann & Nika Son

 

A live-performance within a 6-channel sound and 2-channel video installation.

Premiere on Saturday, 11th September 2021 at Vanguardias live / Filmadrid

At El Instante Fundación, Madrid

 

La nuit tombe. Two projectors whir in the dark, their bright beams covered up. A masked crowd gathers and sits on the floor. Six speakers, tall and small, are scattered around us. Cicadas join in their daily celebration of sunset. Sound fills in social distances, caressing our skins. On the wall a fountain fades out of darkness. A female body lays behind it, her back turned to us. Taxis swirling around keep their night watch. She dissolves back into darkness, and so do I. Side-by-side, two screens probe the many shapes of nighttime. Bats waltz around out-of-focus street lights. My eye sinks into the concrete guts of a metro station. In ghostly slow motion, human bodies merge into the multilayered architecture. For thirty minutes, Nika Son and Helena Wittmann suspend all coordinates of daylight vision. Eerie sonic compositions alienate landscapes while neon lightning flattens all shadows. No depth, no opacity, no distances. I experience a world of ultrasonic radiology.

What is it like to be a bat? This famous philosophical interrogation has come to reflect our inherent limitations to bridge the gap of knowledge and communication with other species. Yet, in pandemic wake, much remains to be learned from bats beyond our viral likenesses. For months, the whole world fell into slumber. Night swallowed up optical legibility and daytime certainties. Physical boundaries were blurred. But domestic invisibility also opened spaces of possibility for our ears. In Es Fällt die Nacht, Wittmann and Son take up bats’ challenge – to feel the night on our eardrums. It is techno dancers’ womb, nightshifters’ cave. Like bats, I listen to pulsing lightwaves and see-through walls. Like bats, I enjoy the rugged surfaces resounding in my stomach. Like bats, I trade sharpness and colorfulness for intimacy.

(Text by Jade de Cock, 2021)

21 SEP 21

 

Zodiak Festival – Bildet Nischen!

at Hebbel am Ufer, HAU 1 – Berlin

 

With Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Manuel Göttsching, Günter Schickert, Wolfgang Seidel, Taste Tribes (Alfred 23 Harth, Hans Joachim Irmler, Wolfgang Seidel, Günter Müller), Nika Son, Galina Ozeran, Etkin Çekin, Detlef Krenz, Sebastian Lee Philipp, Monika Werkstatt (Gudrun Gut, Midori Hirano, Islaja, Pilocka Krach), The Notwist, Die ANGEL (Dirk Dresselhaus & Ilpo Väisänen), Christoph Dallach & Andreas Dorau, Valentina Magaletti, Andrea Belfi, Katharina Ernst, Marta Salogni, Air Cushion Finish, Niklas Kraft, Sven-Åke Johansson, Jan Jelinek, Contagious, Datashock, Kulku

 

“Bildet Nischen! Rückkopplungen aus dem Zodiak Free Arts Lab” (“Build niches! Feedback from the Zodiak Free Arts Lab”) examines the club’s historical influence, illuminating the connections among the political, social and cultural conditions that shaped the scene that emerged. Which conflicts release creative energy that continue to manifest in (pop) cultural developments today? How does counterculture form, and what kinds of spaces are needed for that to happen? Can Zodiak’s traces and connections be found in the cultural practice of later subcultural developments in the Berlin underground? To this day, these questions remain relevant to the development of artistic positions that HAU is exploring with a festival programme of concerts, collaborations, installations, talks and a lecture performance.

 

my concert is on the 21th Sept at 19h

>>>   https://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/programme/pdetail/zodiak-nika-son/

FÜR DIETER ROTH

Internationales Sommerfestival 2021

Kampnagel

N. Son, A. Kahrs, F. Kubin, C. Marthaler, M. Melián, W. Müller,:
Für Dieter Roth

 

I composed a Sound Piece walking through the Dieter Roth Foundation in Hamburg, while recompiling and garbling the poem

Mein Mund ist ein Auge by Dieter Roth

 

Zwischen U und dem Nix

[Mein Gehirn ist mein Magengrab]

9:38min

 

Stimmen: Sanna, Dora, Eliska, Zuzana, Tatyana, Alice, Vitoria, Nika

Übersetzung: google-translate

 

Danke: Dieter Roth, Kathrin Haaßengier, Marcel Bisevic, Kris Jakob