Nick Klein

Nick Klein is an artist working in sound and art and sometimes (begrudgingly) sound art with a lean towards the social potential in those modalities as they interact. Klein has recorded a large amount of music for tape, CD, digital file, and vinyl editions for music labels around the world, as well as running his own amorphous label project PL (primitive languages, Psychic Liberation, etc). Concurrently, to the best of his ability, he has shown work in visual art contexts. Klein is uninterested in the prohibitive ideological tropes and circumstances that both contexts offer, and focuses the intent of his work on trying to see what productive energy comes from the friction between the two.

Audrey Chen and Nick Klein’s collaboration explores the shifting interplay between voice and electronics, moving fluidly between distinction and symbiosis while pushing towards extremes of dynamics and affect. Together they explore the interplay of improvisation in its most tangible form. Working around the erratic pulses of Nick’s modular electronics, Audrey’s voice reacts and swiftly counters, like an elegant dance between two otherworldly forms. Each maintains the distinct character of their own practice, while remaining completely responsive to the movements of the other. 

The duo has performed at SARA'S (NY), The Julia Stoschek Foundation (DE), Folk Teater (SW), Cafe Oto (UK) and the Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemberg Platz (DE).