Instruments of Care (IOC) is a Berlin-based creative organisation, record label, research group, and living archive, founded by artist and practitioner Nina Pixel. What began as a solo creative imprint — a label for releasing music and acts of artistic expression — has grown into a conscious umbrella organisation, bringing together a transdisciplinary group of artists, researchers, and practitioners under a shared vision rooted in sound, healing arts, collective care, and embodied knowledge.
Core areas: Music & sound releases · Sound research · Neurovibroacoustics · Deep listening · Healing arts · Collective care · Field recording & archiving · Participatory performance · Urban sound ecology · Community wellbeing
As a label, IOC is a home for music releases, sound works, and other creative output — a curatorial and publishing framework that gives artistic work institutional grounding and a coherent identity. Its catalogue begins with works such as Müggelsee Observations (2022), Nina Pixel's deep-listening field recording study of Berlin's Müggelsee lake, and continues to expand as new members and collaborators contribute to the IOC body of work.
As a research group, IOC develops and documents practice-based inquiry into the relationship between sound, the body, and wellbeing — spanning neurovibroacoustics, urban sound ecology, deep listening, and the study of collective rest as a cultural and political act. IOC treats artistic practice as a legitimate and necessary form of knowledge production.
As an archive, IOC preserves the works, methodologies, and lived knowledge of its members and collaborators — building a long-term record that bridges the experiential and the documented, capturing what is often ephemeral: the resonance of a room, the stillness of a shared rest, the knowledge held in a listening body.
As a platform for collective care, IOC produces public-facing events, listening sessions, workshops, and participatory experiences — including the ongoing Atelier of Listening series and vibroacoustic sessions under the Vibronautica methodology — bringing its research into direct contact with communities and exploring how sound and vibration can support nervous system regulation, stress release, and collective presence in the city.
IOC is based in Berlin, Germany, with a network of practitioners across Europe. The organisation is currently in its founding phase, formalising its structure as an eingetragener Verein (e.V.) while building the creative, legal, and administrative foundations for long-term cultural and research work.
Core areas: Music & sound releases · Sound research · Neurovibroacoustics · Deep listening · Healing arts · Collective care · Field recording & archiving · Participatory performance · Urban sound ecology · Community wellbeing
As a label, IOC is a home for music releases, sound works, and other creative output — a curatorial and publishing framework that gives artistic work institutional grounding and a coherent identity. Its catalogue begins with works such as Müggelsee Observations (2022), Nina Pixel's deep-listening field recording study of Berlin's Müggelsee lake, and continues to expand as new members and collaborators contribute to the IOC body of work.
As a research group, IOC develops and documents practice-based inquiry into the relationship between sound, the body, and wellbeing — spanning neurovibroacoustics, urban sound ecology, deep listening, and the study of collective rest as a cultural and political act. IOC treats artistic practice as a legitimate and necessary form of knowledge production.
As an archive, IOC preserves the works, methodologies, and lived knowledge of its members and collaborators — building a long-term record that bridges the experiential and the documented, capturing what is often ephemeral: the resonance of a room, the stillness of a shared rest, the knowledge held in a listening body.
As a platform for collective care, IOC produces public-facing events, listening sessions, workshops, and participatory experiences — including the ongoing Atelier of Listening series and vibroacoustic sessions under the Vibronautica methodology — bringing its research into direct contact with communities and exploring how sound and vibration can support nervous system regulation, stress release, and collective presence in the city.
IOC is based in Berlin, Germany, with a network of practitioners across Europe. The organisation is currently in its founding phase, formalising its structure as an eingetragener Verein (e.V.) while building the creative, legal, and administrative foundations for long-term cultural and research work.
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