NIK COLK VOID ::
BUCKED UP SPACE ::
eMego295
LP Black repress︎
Cassette w/
Russell Haswell Remix
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Digital ︎
Interruption Is Good
Big Breather
Tender Supposition
Demna
Romké
Absence Pile Island
FlatTime
Early Summer
OverSized
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Label :: Editions Mego
contact :: nikvoid00@gmail.com
Press : : zopf pr zoe.miller@zopfpr.com
Live : Earth Agency
naomi@earth-agency.com
Publishers : Mute Song Ltd
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Nik Colk Void is an electronic musician and artist with a vast reputation in experimental shapeshifting and collaboration. Void’s interests lie in the unconventional encounters with her tools, both analogue and digital, as a means of expression. Her key instruments are voice, guitar, and modular euro-rack systems engaging in a new language using extended technique and cut-up sampling through synthesis. As a result, the blends of her compositional tracks lean towards techno, club,experimental and noise. UK based, Void has produced eight acclaimed studio albums with her musical groups Factory Floor, Carter Tutti Void and NPVR with the late Peter Rehberg, releasing via Mute, DFA, Blast First, Editions Mego and Industrial. Her solo debut Bucked Up Space released via Editions Mego on 8 April 2022. Listen to the opening track, ‘Interruption Is Good’ HERE. This is Void’s first foray into a different style of collaboration, eningered by James Greenwood, mixed by Marta Sologni and mastered by Rashad Becker. The track highlights on Mary Anne Hobbs BBC 6 Music, Pitchfork and The Observer and news stories from the likes of Resident Advisor, Clash and The Quietus. Praise for ‘Interruption Is Good’“... a banging piece of sound art” - The Observer “...a fascinating piece of Brutalist techno that pivots between crisp machine-like minimalism and granulated noise.” - Clash "A piece of immediately engaging techno it reveals more of itself with each listen.” - CMU Daily.
Recorded between in 2020-21, Bucked Up Space combines Void’s love of improvisation with the driving force of beat-driven music absorbing experiences performing in galleries and clubs across the UK and Europe. These disparate contexts of the variety of venues inform the album as a result of the versatility of her setups to meet the needs of engagement with these variable environments. The process which led to this solo release was one that came out of the openness of collaboration teamed with the courage of improvisation which steadily teased out a language with sincere purpose and intent. Bucked up Space is the result of the ideas and resulting sounds of free exploration morphing into a personal structured album that fearlessly moulds patience, listening and restraint. It’s a sharp focused work embracing collective action through the lens of the self. Void explains: “It was important to me that the simplicity in the work disguised a lot of complexity, I’d like this to be absorbed instinctively.”
ELECTRONIC SOUND, feature
RA, Exchange podcast interview feature
FUTURE MUSIC, lead feature
THE WIRE, album review
ELECTRONIC SOUND, half-page album review
RECORD COLLECTOR, album review
PLAYLISTS:
WMFU, mix on Jesse Dorris’ show
THE OBSERVER,
BBC6 Music Maryanne Hobbs guest mix
Bleep Mix #232 - Nik Colk Void - Editions Mego Label Mix
NEWS:
PITCHFORK, featured on the Pitchfork Selects… playlist
THE OBSERVER - THE NEW REVIEW, featured in their Hot Tracks with accompanying playlist
RA,
RA PODCAST,
THE QUIETUS,
DJ,
CLASH,
LIVE STREAMS:
MUTEK LIVE 276
FACT PATCH NOTES
Key live performances - solo and with collaborators:
CTM Berlin/Unsound Kraków/Incubate Tilburg/Pitchfork (NY, Paris & Chicago) /Moog Asheville North Carolina/Coachella Indio California/GRM Paris/Club2Club Turin/LEV
Gijón/Semibreve Braga/Villette Sonique Paris/Supersonic Birmingham/Grauzone The Hague/Equity & Exchange New Mexico/London Spitalfields Music Festival/All Points East Festival London/ Japan Fuji Rock Festival/Rewire Festival The Hague/Skanu Mezs/London Fabric/London Iklectick/London Wide Awake Festival/London Field Day/Cheshire Blue Dot/London Corsica/Vienna Festival DazWerk/Conflux Festival/London Cafe Oto/London Village/ London Oslo/London Oval Space/London Village Underground/London Electrowerkz/Montreal Mutek/Gallery 1986 Vilnius/London FOLD/Mexico Mutek/Sheffield DINA/Walthemstow Trades Hall/Berlin Kiezsalon Akademie der Künste/Luxembourg Rotondes/Brussels le Nuits Botanique/Tresor Berlin/Sonar Barcelona/Primavera Barcelona/Robot Festival Belogna/Donau Krems/Fiber Amsterdam/The Blitz Munich
Cultural hub performances include:
Tate Modern/ London ICA /The Serpentine/Berghain/Wysing Arts Centre/Muziekbouw/Sutton House/The Village Underground/Kings Place/The Roundhouse
Art residencies:
Barbican London/ICA London/Zabludowicz Gallery London/ Lisson Gallery London/ Art Basel/ FiorucciTrust Stromboli Island/Galleriapiû Gallery Bologna/Metal Gallery Liverpool/
Ikon Gallery Birmingham/Semibreve Portugal.
Group Exhibitions:
Exhibitions at Einladung zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung Donnerstag
Macklin Gallery in ZürichMentor Switzerland.
‘Third Floor’ w/ Georg Gatsis - Cyan, yellow and violette Kunstraumriehen Gallery Basel
REMIX:
Simon Fisher Turner & Edmund de Waal
Depeche Mode Ghosts Again