Nicolas Melmann at Werkhalle Wiesenburg Berlin Gesundbrunnen 2025-09-27T19:00:00
Nicolás Melmann (b. 1981 in Argentina), with a Music composition degree (Quilmes University), and a Master in Sound Art (Barcelona University), explores the social and poetic aspects of sound in his transdisciplinary projects. Melmann experiments with technology, creating linear and nonlinear narratives and working across different media. His compositions draw from electronic, electro-acoustic and generative music, featuring experiments with sensors and hydrophones, data sonification, sound cartographies, installations, and field recordings.
Melmann uses sound as the raw material for his work and as a solo musician creates sonic pieces and installations using electronics, unconventional instruments, field recordings, and spoken word. He also has produced music and sound for television, film, dance, and theater. Active for more than 16 years, Melmann has released six albums and toured in Asia, Europe, North and South America. He has shown his work in numerous venues and festivals, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, Victoria & Albert Museum (LON), Polytechnic Museum (Moscow), Seoul Museum of Art, MCA - Denver (Museum of Contemporary Art), Mutek, Sónar, and Gamma Festival (St. Petersburg), among others. He has also worked as a curator on “Lenguajes Sonoros” and been an artist in residence at the Red Bull Music Academy (NY), ZKM – Zentrum Für Kunst und Medien (Karlsruhe), AIR Lower Austria, STEIM (NL), Chateau Ephemere (FR), Casa de Artistes (Menorca), among others. He has won prizes and awards including the Paideia Grants (SW), Virtual Partnership (Goethe Institute), Beques Barcelona, (Spain), National Arts Foundation (Argentina), the Kosice Biennial, Asylum Arts (NY), and participated in educational projects and workshops around new music and sound art at Garrison Institute (New York), ZKM (Germany), CMMAS (Mexico), Fundación Telefónica (Perú). Along the way, Melmann has shared the stage with artists such as Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nicola Cruz, Robert Lippok, Lydia Lunch, Max Cooper, Richard Devine, and many others.