Talking Kaput #15: Musik für multiple Wirklichkeiten mit Nika Son & Richard Ojijo

Talk: Linus Volkmann & Thomas Venker in conversation with Nika Son & Richard Ojijo
Music (live): Nika Son / Richard Ojijo + Dj-Set Hasan Poppu

Nika Son studied Fine Arts at the HfbK Hamburg and has since worked as a freelance musician, artist, film composer, curator and DJ. In her work, she explores multisensory perception, but also forms of manipulation in which the audible reaches the limits of visibility. Influenced by musique concrète and the outer edges of electronic music, she plays with modified and fragmented field recordings, interwoven with analog sound syntheses, broken rhythms, scattered scraps of voice and modulated tape. Sounds and noises of different origins are translated into an unusual musical language, as if watching the audible.
She has released on various labels such as Mmodemm, Kashual Plastik, VIS, First Terrace Records, TAL, Sky Walking and Noctui. Her last album To Eeyore was released in 2020 on the Entr'acte label, her new album Aslope follows this year on VIS, as well as the soundtrack to the film "DRIFT" on Futura Resistenza.
In addition to her solo concerts, she creates radio pieces, video and sound installations and has been collaborating with various companions for many years, especially with the filmmaker and artist Helena Wittmann and the musician F#X (Cwelle).
Among other things, she is responsible for the score and sound design of Helena Wittmann's highly acclaimed and award-winning films "DRIFT" and "Human Flowers of Flesh".
She also regularly organizes art and music series at various venues, mainly at the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg. Since 2019, she has curated the Papiripar festival together with Felix Kubin and Florian Bräunlich.

For 20 years now, Richard Ojijo has been working with Cologne-based artist Marcel Odenbach on the soundtracks to his installation and film works. It all started in 2000 with the music for "Innere Sicherheit"; Odenbach liked the sound collage so much that he immediately entrusted Ojijo with "In stillen Teichen lauern Krokodile" the following year, a half-hour work about the genocide in Rwanda - and has since sent a new film to be scored almost every year.
Parallel to the major Marcel Odenbach retrospective at Museum K21 in Düsseldorf in fall 2021, which featured six collaborations between the two, Richard Ojijo reworked the film works and released them under the title "MORO20" on double vinyl in a high-quality, linen-covered box with embossed print via the Cologne label Magazine.
Richard Ojijo is also known as a live engineer and producer, among others for Patrice, Modeselektor and Joy Denalane, Moderat, GAS...
Richard Ojijo has been teaching for more than ten years at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne and at the Institute for Pop Music at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Bochum.