NIKA SON

Nika Son works as a musician, artist, film composer, curator and DJ after graduating in Fine Arts in Hamburg. In her compositions and audio-visual works she examines multi-sensory perception, its bounderies and interaction, but also forms of manipulation and illusion. Her work captures the fluid, ever- shifting nature of the night, making the familiar strange and the surreal strangely familiar. Influenced by Musique Concrète and the outer space of electronic music, she plays with modified and fragmented concrete sounds, interwoven with analog and digital synthesis, broken rhythms, voices and modulated tape. Sounds of various origin are translated into a very unusual musical language, as if one watches the audible. Her last album To Eeyore was released in 2020 on Entr’acte/Stellage, her new album Aslope came out in 2024 on V I S, as well as the soundtrack DRIFT on Futura Resistenza. Alongside her solo concerts, she creates radio pieces, video and sound installations, and has collaborated for many years with various companions, in projects such as Cwelle or No Cue. In her work as a soundartist for experimental film, she is among other responsible for the score and sound design of Helena Wittmann's highly acclaimed films DRIFT and Human Flowers of Flesh. Most recently she scored the film Failed Emptiness, the latest feature by filmmaker and artist Mika Taanila. For over a decade she hosts regular art and music events at the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg with various international guests. Since 2019, she co-curates the festival Papiripar together with Felix Kubin and Florian Bräunlich. www.nikason.de

NINA

As a DJ at the border between coruscating sentiment and desolate surrender, Nina summons enough of an intuition about a space and its dynamics to prompt a club's darkness to cave to her selection, to have the darkness address you personally. With her closest ,Tobias, known as Dj Good News she started the V I S Label in 2015. https://soundcloud.com/internetnina https://v-i-s.bandcamp.com/music

Access Guide and Tickets for Personal Assistants

You can view/download The Glad Cafe's Access Guide here. If you require a ticket for a Personal Assistant/Gig Buddy (at no extra cost), please contact kim@thegladcafe.co.uk.