NINA PIXEL . BLACK ACID
Pre-apocalyptic fairy tales, emotional topography of personal landscapes, the archaeology of the human soul. Narcotic journey into the noisy rites and industrial myths of our dark corners.
Her stories are going beyond the border of uncompromising ritual rhythms, looped in endless sonic soundscapes and dirty dark techno.
Her performances are standing between live acts and djing, sampling, looping, and feeling, working often with a different topics as the main light motives for each set. Nina is playing hard distorted techno or dreamy soundscapes - often in one session.
Nina performs under names Nina Pixel, Palm Reader and BLACK ACID. Those projects are interconnected and divided at the same time.
Nina performs under names Nina Pixel, Palm Reader and BLACK ACID. Those projects are interconnected and divided at the same time.
PROJECTS
Nina Pixel > DJ / hybridtechno
BLACK ACID > multidimensionaldarknoiseambient / LIVE
Palm Reader > Preapocalyptic trashtechno / LIVE
BLACK ACID > multidimensionaldarknoiseambient / LIVE
Palm Reader > Preapocalyptic trashtechno / LIVE
BIAS LOOP
Is there a reality that is fundamental to human beings?
“Yesterday’s truth is today’s deception and yesterday’s false inference may be tomorrow’s revelation.” (C.G.Jung)
Oscillating between sense and nonsense, conscious is dancing with subconscious, all realities vibrating towards non linear freedom from opposites.
What is real and what is a bias we have to step out of?
(this version of reality is supported by Re-Imagine Europe & A4 - priestor súčasnej kultúry as a part of BIAS LOOP composition)
What will happen once we want to escape - glitch and distort our “Self” as a recorded program?
The sound of organic cello strings, voices, noises from the streets, talks, animals, wind and nature are being transformed into a different level - new realities - malformed - biases - skewed and looped.
Self is a projection. Same as the XYZ scales we live in. Is it who we really are or who we really want to be? Destruction of our Selves, society and nature created a pattern. Constantly dying and being recreated again and again in the loop. How many times we have to die to realize we have never lived? We are going to be lost, running from our own awareness till we stop, turn around and look outside. When we decide to let go our ego - when we let our Self die, only then we are able to reconnect.
PALM READER
The other day I have met a man reading palms and offering a piece of very reasonable advice > to become a farmer of our bodies - farm your health - farm your conversations - actions - view yourself as a farmer - farm your breath - change the context - cultivate - farm you!
This is a topic which popped up after meeting that misterious palm reader and recording his predictions - lot of material left over - much to process, so I decided to create this little boiling techno witchcraft project. s a
A pre-apocalyptic fairy tale on the unsustainable direction of our values. Darkrooms vs. All leaders summits, rape of the planet vs hedonistic self-centered indulgence. Fortune teller story of your present.
Samples:
John Giorno poems
Greta Thunberg
ANCESTRAL ARCHEOLOGY
__________________________________________Traditional Slovak folk songs reused in the new age of challenging times.
Songs originate in Liptov.
Are we still the same dark souls as our ancestors used to be? Something magical keeps attracting me since I was very little. Forests, moss, soil, stories, human sorrow, witches and healers, wise people and their whisper trapped in the past. What is that feeling I keep sensing from our movies, songs, and storytelling? It is time to listen.
Wisdom, memories, history, myths, poems, songs, fears, all connected via deep roots of shared consciousness.
Dirt elements stacked on the previous epoch.
Imagine civilizations living on the top floor of their ancestor's habitats. Is the consciousness of the contemporary mind interconnected like the web made out of the tree roots?
Do we feel the same about our mythology? How does the present face of Slovak folklore look like?
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"Until the White Morning"
The effort to deconstruct and destroy conventions in Slovak folklore contributed to the creation of the performance and video "Until the White Morning". By translating folklore into queer and feminist forms, new folklore is created, without gender stereotypes, sexism and patriarchy. And finally, how else would Friday end in 21st-century folklore if not a rave in the woods until white morning.
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Cast: Tina Hrevušová, Joanka Taorogińska, Tomáš Košarišťan, Jerguš Paučula
Camera: Lívia Valková
Music: Nina Pixel
Edits: Martina Pavlíková
RECENT RITUALS
BLACK ACID & WINDOW MAGIC live at Punctum | Punctum & Radio Punctum present:Black Acid & Window Magic / live set /SK/DE/25 / 01 / 2020
RELEASED STUFF >>
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"He who understands the Principle of Vibration has grasped the sceptre of Power" (Kybalion)
Everything flows out and in, everything has its tides, all things rise and fall.
"Many other methods of raising power will also act to synchronise the participants in a ritual. The essence of magical dance is that it should be a frenetic circumambulation of a circle about a fixed point, accompanied by collective mantric invocations."
(Lieber Null & Psychonaut)
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RELEASED STUFF >>
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"He who understands the Principle of Vibration has grasped the sceptre of Power" (Kybalion)
Everything flows out and in, everything has its tides, all things rise and fall.
"Many other methods of raising power will also act to synchronise the participants in a ritual. The essence of magical dance is that it should be a frenetic circumambulation of a circle about a fixed point, accompanied by collective mantric invocations."
(Lieber Null & Psychonaut)
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Music From Ancestral Archeology | Secrets of the Fern
An ancient Slavic myth of the fern flower symbolises everything that one seeks but what is, in fact, unattainable.
Fern Flower is rooted in the Slavic tale in which the fern is an unreachable and alluring plant existing only in the realm of delusion.
The legends say that only the fern that grows in the most secluded forests can bloom with the magickal flower and sometimes with a magickal fruit. It has to be a place far away from the human villages, where no dog barking, rooster crowing or people talking could be heard.
The fern gives birth to the flower around midnight, and a loud sound described as a crack, a bang, or a thunder follows its birth. The flower shines with a golden, purple or blue glow. It is extremely delicate: blooms only shortly and dies before dawn or lives only less than an hour.
According to the folk legends, a person who manages to find the flower will be filled with exceptional supernatural wisdom that would bring happiness to their life or be given great wealth and power.
Imagine layers of the soil. Dirt elements stacked on the previous epoch. Imagine civilizations living on the top floor of their ancestor's habitats. Wisdom, memories, history, myths, poems, songs, fears, all connected via deep roots of shared consciousness.
How do your roots feel? How does the soil of your home taste? What is the sound of your skin? Music and visuals inspired by Slovak folklore and anthropology in connection to our personal narratives.
Folklore without old narratives. Queer and feminist forms incorporated into the new story of our identities.
What about retelling the narrative of our present? Who are we and what do we remember? What are our values and what do we believe in? What is the „real“ face of our identity and which one is your favourite? What is our story to tell?
Fern Flower is rooted in the Slavic tale in which the fern is an unreachable and alluring plant existing only in the realm of delusion.
The legends say that only the fern that grows in the most secluded forests can bloom with the magickal flower and sometimes with a magickal fruit. It has to be a place far away from the human villages, where no dog barking, rooster crowing or people talking could be heard.
The fern gives birth to the flower around midnight, and a loud sound described as a crack, a bang, or a thunder follows its birth. The flower shines with a golden, purple or blue glow. It is extremely delicate: blooms only shortly and dies before dawn or lives only less than an hour.
According to the folk legends, a person who manages to find the flower will be filled with exceptional supernatural wisdom that would bring happiness to their life or be given great wealth and power.
Imagine layers of the soil. Dirt elements stacked on the previous epoch. Imagine civilizations living on the top floor of their ancestor's habitats. Wisdom, memories, history, myths, poems, songs, fears, all connected via deep roots of shared consciousness.
How do your roots feel? How does the soil of your home taste? What is the sound of your skin? Music and visuals inspired by Slovak folklore and anthropology in connection to our personal narratives.
Folklore without old narratives. Queer and feminist forms incorporated into the new story of our identities.
What about retelling the narrative of our present? Who are we and what do we remember? What are our values and what do we believe in? What is the „real“ face of our identity and which one is your favourite? What is our story to tell?
Music From Ancestral Archeology | Difference and Repetition
“The voice is always dead, and only out of some desperate denial, we call it living. We call this irreplaceable loss a modulation. Modulation is a voice to the extent that it has always passed. It has been silenced.”
Roland Barthes
What Is The Story You Want To Tell?
In the past, people with special skills, knowledge or just ones looked different from the middle part of the bell curve, those people were persecuted. Burned and accused of not being good for society. Why shall we create shallow and uniform societies with only one type of people? Why can't we cherish differences, various genders, multiple identities and the power of weirdness? This is the main magic that we are burning when we decide to fit into one uniform.
Folklore For The New Era
What are the stories we want to tell our relatives, friends or kids? Traditions used to be heteronormative, roles defined and lives predestined. Future folklore does not have to be like that. How does our stamp in the cultural map look like? Like us.
Dance, raving at night and repetition in the music compositions stays in our culture and evolves since we reacted to the first vibration with our bodies. Movement without prescribed gender roles and predefined steps is an attribute of freedom. A choice we are making when we decide to move as we want.
A semantic Memory, Simulacrum of Reality
In Baudrillard's concept, like Nietzsche's, simulacra are perceived as negative, but another modern philosopher who addressed the topic, Gilles Deleuze, takes a different view, seeing simulacra as the avenue by which an accepted ideal or "privileged position" could be "challenged and overturned".
Deleuze defines simulacra as "those systems in which different relates to different by means of difference itself.
What is essential is that we find in these systems no prior identity, no internal resemblance".
(Deleuze, Gilles (1968).
Difference and Repetition. Translated by Paul Patton. Columbia: Columbia University Press. p. 69)
Glass Horse
Glass horses can live inside trees or abandoned shacks or dark caves or near rivers, ponds and wells. They enter the human world during the spring, staying until autumn. During the winter, they live in mythical villas and castles. After they die, each glass horse gets a mansion.
Glass horses are gorgeous beings with an affinity for fire. They have the power to bring about drought, burn a farmer's crops, or make animals die of high fever. It is said that, when excited, glass horses can change their appearance and turn into monstrous bird capable of throwing fire at their rivals.
Accompanied and following only the rhythm of the breeze and their chanting, their dance was said to have been often witnessed by lost travellers, seduced by the sorcery of their song and resemble, only to die of exhaustion at dawn, when the glass horses finally disappeared.
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From our Future Selves
From our Future Selves | YGAM
'From our Future Selves' is Berlin-based label ygam’s first non-profit various artists compilation. This 12-tracks gathering was put together to support the organization 'Friends of the Earth' in their aim at challenging the current model of economic and corporate globalization, while promoting solutions that help to create environmentally sustainable and socially just societies. All proceeds from the album will be donated directly to them. In its drive to raise environmental awareness and inspire togetherness, this compilation also shares a sonic facet only slightly explored by the imprint so far: the dance floor's rhythmical occurrences. Indeed, through their various contributions extending from power electronics and heavy bass deconstructions to dense techno cuts, artists propose a wide variety of approaches to club-oriented music and ways for bodies to engage in cadenced investigations.
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ygam stands with the missions of 'Friends of the Earth' :
• To collectively ensure environmental and social justice, human dignity, and respect for human rights and peoples' rights so as to secure sustainable societies.
• To halt and reverse environmental degradation and... more
yva01 | ygam 2020
artwork by pablo diserens
mastering by mathieu bonnafous
title inspired by vida vojić
PERSONAL THANKYOU TO MY LOVE ANDREAS!
ygam stands with the missions of 'Friends of the Earth' :
• To collectively ensure environmental and social justice, human dignity, and respect for human rights and peoples' rights so as to secure sustainable societies.
• To halt and reverse environmental degradation and... more
credits
released March 20, 2020yva01 | ygam 2020
artwork by pablo diserens
mastering by mathieu bonnafous
title inspired by vida vojić
PERSONAL THANKYOU TO MY LOVE ANDREAS!
Recorded live at Punctum - Krásovka.
Presented by Susana Benesova & Punctum
Recordings mastered at Mustakillah Studio.
credits
released December 13, 2018--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BLACK ACID is the darkness eating us from the inside when we are not watching. Your fears you are running from. It is you. It is me.
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VIDA VOJIĆ is a sound expressionist from Berlin. Vessel of unconscious secrets. Vocal manipulation/introverted beats/nostalgic ambiences/electrified outbursts.
vidavojic.tumblr.com
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NOVEMBER /+ MARCH
Nočná ╳ i͠n͠t͠e͠r͠v͠e͠N͠C͠i͠a ▅▅▅▅▁▅▅▅▇▃ Nina Pixel ╱ wyme ╱ Katov syn(th) ╱ afterparty
OCTOBER
3 OCT - PRAGUE - AV LIVE ANCESTRAL ARCHEOLOGY
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Nočná ╳ i͠n͠t͠e͠r͠v͠e͠N͠C͠i͠a ▅▅▅▅▁▅▅▅▇▃ Nina Pixel ╱ wyme ╱ Katov syn(th) ╱ afterparty
OCTOBER
3 OCT - PRAGUE - AV LIVE ANCESTRAL ARCHEOLOGY
SEPTEMBER
11 SEPT - BRAK FESTIVAL - NOVA CVERNOVKA - BRATISLAVA - LIVE - ANCESTRAL ARCHEOLOGY
AUGUST
28 AUG - TAURON NOWA MUZYKA - POLAND - LIVE
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22 AUG - KALVARIE - RITUALS FOR THE SOLITUDE - LIVE
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22 AUG - KALVARIE - RITUALS FOR THE SOLITUDE - LIVE
JULY
10 JULY - POHODA IN AIR - TRENCIN - MIDNIGHT RITES - ANCESTRAL ARCHEOLOGY
7 JULY - T3 - BRATISLAVA - INTROSPECTIVE DISCO COMPOSITIONS / Foto by Ivan Kosdy
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JUNE
MARCH
POSTPONED TILL SEPTEMBER - THE SPACE IN SOUND - BRIGHTON - BIAS LOOP - SPATIAL COMPOSITION FOR PENTACLE 15.3![]()
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JANUARY
25 JAN BLACK ACID + WINDOW MAGIC - PRAGUE - PUNCTUM - LIVE A/V SET
21 JAN - SUICIDE CIRCUS - BERLIN - NINA PIXEL DJ SET
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DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
FRI 01 NOV - R84 - EXPERIMENTAL NIGHT - BERLIN - A/V show
OCTOBER
SAT 05 OCT -
SAT 12 OCT - GOLOSA x BRENN. - SUICIDE CIRCUS - BERLIN
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AUGUST
SAT 24 JULY - THIS PARTY HAS BEEN STOLEN - LOOPHOLE - BERLIN
10 JULY - POHODA IN AIR - TRENCIN - MIDNIGHT RITES - ANCESTRAL ARCHEOLOGY
7 JULY - T3 - BRATISLAVA - INTROSPECTIVE DISCO COMPOSITIONS / Foto by Ivan Kosdy
JUNE
MARCH
POSTPONED TILL SEPTEMBER - THE SPACE IN SOUND - BRIGHTON - BIAS LOOP - SPATIAL COMPOSITION FOR PENTACLE 15.3
06MAR - BOREALIS - BERGEN - BIAS LOOP - SPATIAL COMPOSITION FOR 8 SPEAKERS
FEBRUARY
14 FEB
VLNTNČN▐⚤⚢⚣⚥ 𝙎𝙞𝙯𝙚 𝙋𝙞𝙚𝙧 ⚯ Nɪɴᴀ Pɪxᴇʟ ⚯ ₱Ɇ₳Ⱡ ⚯ ᴠᴇsɴᴜ ⚯ ŋąďą
JANUARY
25 JAN BLACK ACID + WINDOW MAGIC - PRAGUE - PUNCTUM - LIVE A/V SET
21 JAN - SUICIDE CIRCUS - BERLIN - NINA PIXEL DJ SET
DECEMBER
NOVEMBER
Proces series continues after the last sub-sonic storm,
leading us into modular sculptures, industrial rumbles and hidden memory layers all woven into psychedelic fiction.
Drew McDowall, once a member of legendary groups like Coil or Psychic TV, presents his latest album “The Third Helix” during his Prague premiere. Slovak sound researcher Jano Doe is defined by DIY modules, entangled patch cables and her art of improvisation.
Dark ambient “post-archeological” moniker Black Acid belongs to Nina Pixel who will explore emotional intelligence with us. And last but not least, White Wigwam opens up his Coil-esque sound world which is literally modular, constantly on the move, evolving and transmuting.
leading us into modular sculptures, industrial rumbles and hidden memory layers all woven into psychedelic fiction.
Drew McDowall, once a member of legendary groups like Coil or Psychic TV, presents his latest album “The Third Helix” during his Prague premiere. Slovak sound researcher Jano Doe is defined by DIY modules, entangled patch cables and her art of improvisation.
Dark ambient “post-archeological” moniker Black Acid belongs to Nina Pixel who will explore emotional intelligence with us. And last but not least, White Wigwam opens up his Coil-esque sound world which is literally modular, constantly on the move, evolving and transmuting.
FRI 01 NOV - R84 - EXPERIMENTAL NIGHT - BERLIN - A/V show
OCTOBER
SAT 05 OCT -
Keith F'eMs 1st Annual Fun'draiser
intergalactic cooperation with WINDOW MAGIC - BERLIN > ARTISTANIASAT 12 OCT - GOLOSA x BRENN. - SUICIDE CIRCUS - BERLIN
AUGUST
SAT 24 JULY - THIS PARTY HAS BEEN STOLEN - LOOPHOLE - BERLIN
JULY
MON 29 JULY - DATABASES //SILO// TOUR - LIVE - SLOVAKIA
SUN 14 JULY - RITUALS - LIVE - RAVE, SUICIDE CIRCUS, BERLIN, GERMANY
JUNE
TUE 18 JUNE - SUICIDE CIRCUS, BERLIN, GERMANY
SAT 01 JUNE - PUNCTUM, PRAHA, CZECH REPUBLIC
BLACK ACID live at Punctum from Punctum on Vimeo.
MAY
SAT 25 MAY - DRONE_DAY - RADIO NUNC LIVE BROADCAST - GREENHOUSE BERLIN, GERMANY
VIDEO HERE >>>>>>> ﹋﹋﹋﹋
10 hours of live drones celebrate Drone Day, a noise round the world
TUE 21 MAY - HYPERNATURAL LIVESTREAM LIVE @ TWITCH.TV, BERLIN, GERMANY
VIDEO HERE >>☉|
THU 09 MAY - PUNCTUM IN AUSLAND w VIDA + JANO DOE + FRIENDS AUSLAND, BERLIN, GERMANYTUE 07 MAY - RADIO SHOW W VIDA CASHMERE RADIO STATION, BERLIN, GERMANY
SAT 04 MAY - SILENT NIGHT - LIVE - BLCKACD DIVADLO PONEC, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLI
APRIL
SAT 27 APRIL - AFO TBA, OLOMOUC, CZECH REPUBLIC
SAT 27 APRIL - SHARPE FESTIVAL, NOVA CVERNOVKA, BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA
SAT 06 APRIL - CONSTRUCTION RE:FRESH, BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA
MARCH
WED 27 MARCH - LIVE - BLCKACD ANKALI, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
FRI 08 MARCH - ://ABOUT BLANK, BERLIN, GERMANY
FEBRUARY
FRI 22 FEBRUARY - SONIC ACTS - LIVE - BLCKACD SONIC ACTS, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
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PHOTO IMPRESSIONS OF SONIC ACTS' 25TH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL EDITION
SAT 02 FEBRUARY - SHAME - IXEL, BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA
FRI 01 FEBRUARY - KLEIN EVA JUSTKA NINA PIXEL - LIVE - A4 SPACE FOR CONTEMPORARY CULTURE, BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA
JANUARY
TUE 29 JANUARY - SUICIDE CIRCUS - BERLIN, GERMANY >>RA
DECEMBER
THU 13 DECEMBER - TAPE RELEASE - PUNCTUM KRASOVKA, CZECH REPUBLIC
NOVEMBER
WED 28 NOVEMBER - NEXT 2018 - A4 SPACE FOR CONTEMPORARY CULTURE, BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA
SUN 11 NOVEMBER - RADIO PUNCTUM TALKS WITH NINA PIXEL >> LISTEN
TUE 06 NOVEMBER - STEIM RESIDENCY - COMMISIONED WORK FOR REIMAGINE EUROPE & A4
SAT 03 NOVEMBER - ALTERNATIVA FESTIVAL - PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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AUGUST
FRI 31 AUGUST - 02 SEPTEMBER - ALTERSHAPES GATHERING /NULLA/ - PODSEDICE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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SAT 25 AUGUST - SUICIDE CIRCUS - BERLIN, GERMANY
JULY
TUE 31 JULY - SUICIDE CIRCUS - BERLIN, GERMANY
JUNE
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TUE 06 NOVEMBER - STEIM RESIDENCY - COMMISIONED WORK FOR REIMAGINE EUROPE & A4
SAT 03 NOVEMBER - ALTERNATIVA FESTIVAL - PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
AUGUST
FRI 31 AUGUST - 02 SEPTEMBER - ALTERSHAPES GATHERING /NULLA/ - PODSEDICE, CZECH REPUBLIC
SAT 25 AUGUST - SUICIDE CIRCUS - BERLIN, GERMANY
JULY
TUE 31 JULY - SUICIDE CIRCUS - BERLIN, GERMANY
JUNE
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