kai niggemann
transadc
Kai Niggemann researches transitions and transformation processes with analogue and digital means. In “TransADC” he processes the sounds of his analogue synthesiser live on stage with different digital techniques and translates a raw basic sound into new unheard-of structures. TransADC does not only stand for transformation, transmogrification or transmedia. It also refers to the important fact that some of the pioneers of electronic music were and are transpersons. “ADC” is the abbreviation for analogue-digital converter. In this process, errors, deviations and thus co-meanings and interpretations involuntarily arise, digital re-poetries of analogue poetry, coincidences and analogue inaccuracies creep in and breathe analogue spirit into what is otherwise so precisely digital.
Kai finds new sounds from timbres and harmonies, melodies and rhythms through processing and arrangement live and with digital help.
In the end, a weird digital dance music emerges from the fog of the experiment – with funk, bass and groove – which moves right into the limelight.
bio
Kai Niggemann (he/him) is a sound artist from Cologne. The lively, pulsating and poetic-organic music he creates, especially on the Buchla 200e Electric Music Box, is an expression of an understanding of music that comes from deep listening. His music is a metamorphosis of electronic music, most of it created in the moment, improvised live. His music transcends boundaries from ambient and noise to danceable and pulsating (and back).
He often puts the Buchla sounds in context with other sounds: voices, acoustic instruments, vintage drum computers, tape and other loops or his personal 25+years field recording archive from around the world.
Kai plays solo and in bands and projects, makes music for musical theatre, dance and other performing arts, as well as radio plays and radio. He is part of the music theatre label PARADEISERproductions, a member of the jazz/kraut/noise collective The Dorf , one half of the duo Dunkelwellen (with Conni Trieder, flute & electronics) and co-founded the internet computer music group European Bridges Ensemble (EBE), as well as the electroacoustic duo Resonator. He tours and performs in Germany, Europe, the USA and Japan.
kai niggemann
transadc
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