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 !

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

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.

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

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.

Post-Residency Concert

Scatter I

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

Performance & Exhibition

CWELLE

Vernissage

15 JULI 23

Galerie Gemüse

Hamburg

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

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

CLUB BERT TINA

live/

Stacks

D.I.P.

exhibit/

Tintin Patrone

Jil Lahr & Gesa Troch

Sarah Draht

Djs/

Speckman

Nika Son

Curated by Phuong-Dan

Kampnagel – Internationales Zentrum für schönere Künste

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)

SP.INBETWEEN

My piece Trinsar Puddle is part of the latest BELOW THE RADAR compilation of the The Wire Magazine.

>> https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/btr/below-the-radar-41/3

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.

AB HERBST

w/

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

Schaltzentrale

Hallo Radio

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

b2b with F#X

at

HALLO FESTSPIELE 2022

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

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)

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

live/ PANOPTIQUE (FR/Macadam Mambo)

djs/ Ozan Maral (arkaoda Berlin), Felix Kubin, Nika Son

Golden Pudel Club

live/

Nika Son

Mark Vernon

Barry Burns & Ollie Pitt

at The Old Hairdressers

Glasgow

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

NEXT TIME

at Golden Pudel Club

finally back !!

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

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.

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)

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/

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

KLUB KATARAKT FESTIVAL 2021 – 27th May

Due to the corona pandemic Klub Katarakt Festival #16 will take place without live-audience and with reduced line-up

Digital-stream via KAMPNAGEL

19:00

Matthias Kaul in memoriam

Ensemble L’art pour l’art & Frauke Aulbert

The centerpiece of the evening is a memorial concert for Matthias Kaul. The percussionist and composer passed away on July 1, 2020. klubkatarakt presented Kaul in the 2014 edition as a guest composer with his music theater piece Relax. In past editions, he often appeared as a performer and was also collegially linked to the festival, among other things by lending instruments.

To commemorate this notable musician and exceptional human being, klubkatarakt dedicates a portrait concert, conceived by flutist Astrid Schmeling. The program includes five very different compositions by Kaul, ranging from solo to ensemble pieces. Performers are the musicians of the ensemble L’art pour l’art, which was co-founded by Kaul himself, and the vocal artist and singer Frauke Aulbert.

20:30

Nika Son

Nika Son is a musician, artist, film composer, dj and curator, based in Hamburg. In her work, sounds and noises of different origins are translated into an unusual musical language, as if watching the audible. She elaborates her compositions from modified and fragmented field recordings, interwoven with analog synth surfaces, broken rhythms, scattered vocal scraps and filtered tapeloops.

For Klub Katarakt Nika Son will perform fragments from her album „To Eeyore“ (2020) mixed with new material. Next to her live-set she will show a video work especially created for this performance. It’s a collage playing with shade, darkness and light, interrupted by visual thoughts and memories that appeared and disappeared while commuting from her home flat in St. Pauli to her studio at Veddel in Hamburg.

22:00

Huthwelker & Hoffmann

René Huthwelker and Carl-John Hoffmann will perform an audiovisual concert. In his solo performances, Huthwelker uses analog-synthetic feedback loops to create a form of repetitive minimalism, which gradually consolidates itself into pulsating structures. Video artist Hoffmann adds another aesthetic dimension to Huthwelker’s sound layer through his live visuals. Both artists are members in the polymedial artist collective Niedervolthoudini from Hamburg.

>> www.papiripar.com <<

TENTENKO – AN ANTWORTEN EP on TAL Records
with remixes by TOLOUSE LOW TRAX, MM/KM and NIKA SON !

>> Bandcamp or via boomkat, anost, forced exposure, kompakt, rush hour….

Cwelle mix for Zelle (hosted by Charlotte Simon & Anna Hjalmarsson) on Radio 80000

First hour Nika Son, second hour F#X.

Recorded Sunday night while waiting for the blizzard.

Originally broadcasted on 9th February 2021

thank you for the music by

Michael Speers, Ka Baird, Jessica Ekomane, Ubek, Moormother, Bernard Parmegiani, Phew, Bruno Spoerri, Mark Vernon, Lil asaf, Ghédalia Tazartès, Marc Barreca, Pakasteet Ja Draama-Helmi, Group A, Marja Ahti, Possessed Factory, Mylan Hoezen, Black To Comm, Bourbonese Qualk, Anna Holmer, Tomoko Sauvage, RVDS, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Flora Yin-Wong, Daphne Oram, Mark Fell & Will Guthrie, Otto Sidharta, Mentocome, Aleksi Perälä, Ena, Auvinen, Electronome, Leila, Russell Haswell

photo: Phil Struck