Nika Son

Until it bubbles and smokes

Nika Breithaupt aka Nika Son aka Nikae has her own set as a DJ in Hamburg’s Golden Pudel Club, writes film music, co-curates a festival, puts on exhibitions with other artists and you can experience her with her compositions worldwide at festivals and in clubs. In her music, she combines distorted and fragmented field recordings using analogue synthesiser lines, broken rhythms, repeated snippets of voices and warped tape relays. Influenced by the musique concrète composition technique, in which music is composed from previously recorded and partly electronically distorted sounds, and the expanses of electronic music, her sounds are almost tangible and visible. »With these pieces (which experiment with the sound of computer voices), I see myself more as a sound alchemist, who fuses various elements until the right colour emerges. Or until it bubbles and smokes enough.«