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  • Nina&Augustė

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  • Nina Guo and Auguste Vickunaite have been improvising together since 2017; Nina sings and Auguste plays reel-to-reel tape recorders. They combine a wide range of timbres and dynamics with low-fi electronics, background noise, and voice delivered at breakneck speed. All sounds are live and analogue. Performances often include humour, physical theatre, feedback, improvised text, and electro-acoustic interplay. Each player gets caught in the loops that the other creates; human-machine feedback ensues. On the radio, they improvise discussions based on speculative news items and, in 2021, they released "a thing is a thing but you can't really understand how far away it is from you" on the label Das Andere Selbst. They are based in Berlin.

    Nina Guo is a high soprano currently based in Berlin and Boston. She sings notated and improvised music and frequently uses theater. Radio and humor tend to prevail in her work. When she isn't experimenting with her instrument and learning music, she reads essays, listens in parks, and eats bread.

    Augustė Vickunaitė is Lithuanian Berlin based sound performer with a background in physics science. She mainly uses reel-to-reel tape recorders to play, record, and create sounds that contain diverse field recordings, malfunctions of the old technology itself and intentional sounds/instruments recorded in natural environments. She is interested in errors of old technology, randomness of nature, aesthetics of boredom and slow art. Additionally she collaborates with other musicians and dancers in which often her works become audiovisual.


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  • 14 08 2022: Radio Art Zone - part 2

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