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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES
Sonic Front with Dirar Kalash and others. Cafe Oto, London [Oct 2]
Info: Featuring Kalash on guitar, piano, sax, Nicolás Jaar on piano, bass clarinet, Max Hallett on drums and John Edwards on bass. Sonic Front statement: After a year of zionist massacres, encompassing all of Palestine, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon -added to decades of occupation and looting- we see little to no change in policy from the pitiful halls of government in the US, UK and Europe while mainstream western media outlets continue to be nothing but another wing of imperialist propaganda. What can poetry and sound do in a time like this? Be a witness to the violence, archive the pain and the triumphs of the martyrs and reject normalization of white supremacist violence anywhere we see it. Violence comes on all fronts therefore we must resist on all fronts. – Sonic Front. Cafe Oto, Oct 2, 7;30pm.
Radical Sounds Latin America [Nov 17-22]
Vancouver Chan Center with Ali Sethi [Nov 22, 2024]
latest
⚇ ARCHIVOS DE RADIO PIEDRAS (2020-2024)
'archivos de radio piedras' is a radio play set in the near future which follows two radio announcers as they remember their friend salinas hasbun who mysteriously disappeared in 2022 (length 3:30h) all the music from this project is now available on bandcamp
⚇ ISOLE (2024)
'isole' is a collection of short stories, translated to italian by valerio cianci.
⚇ The Ear of the Storm
comissioned essay for www.oceanicrefractions.org
⚇ "Interview in Corriere della Sera
An excerpt from the interview: "After many protests around the world for the dignity of Palestinians, nothing has changed on the ground, actually things have only gotten worse with diseases added to bombings and famine. We live in a system that must normalize enormous amounts of violence to function. We can't look at our phones and think about cobalt mines in the Congo. I could say that the role of culture is to not normalize the violence that is so pervasive around us. And maybe it's true. But at this moment, millions of Sudanese have had to flee their homes due to the aggression of the UAE-backed militias, millions of Ukrainians have lost everything they held dear. Who benefits from this? Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Leonardo… The military industrial complex benefits from these horrors: you can see profits spike every time a new war emerges. And oil and gas companies profit too. At the end of last year, Israel granted new exploration licenses to Eni in an area adjacent to the coast of Gaza. Will those who invest in death ever be judged for their crimes?"
⚇ "Gaza is calling" by mustafa
Produced parts of this song about a year and a half ago.
⚇ Spoke to Al Jazeera Español
We speak about Archivos de Radio Piedras and other things.
⚇ Sound Workshop at AIF, Beirut, Lebanon Spent a week in Beirut, Lebanon in early August leading a workshop on sound editing and listening at the Arab Image Foundation. Workshop was organized by Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh and others. Sary Moussa co-led the sessions alongside myself. Participants were mainly from Burj el-Shemali.
⚇ Darkside is going on tour
Tour is in October/November and we are also curating part of the lineup of Le Guess Who?
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general info
Nicolás Jaar, 34, was born in NY to Chilean parents and raised between Santiago and New York. Since 2008, he has released music under various guises spanning shades of pop, ambient, noise, and club music. Since 2013, he has curated the Other People label, releasing the visual & audio work of artists Maziyar Pahlevan, Africanus Okokon, Jena Myung, and the music of Aho Ssan, Saint Abdullah, Dienne, Pierre Bastien and Lydia Lunch among others. In recent years, Nicolás has mainly focused on education, teaching sound-editing and listening workshops to emerging musicians and non-musicians alike in institutions such as the Museo de la Memoria in Santiago, Chile, AdBK in Munich, Germany, free.wav in Attappadi, India, Festival 4x4, Chiapas, Mexico, Dar Jacir and Alrowwad in Bethlehem, Palestine, among others. His latest project is called "Archivos de Radio Piedras". It's a 3h 1/2 long radio play set in the near future in Chile. His debut collection of stories "Isole" was released by Timeo, an Italian publishing house, in February 2024.
Nico is also part of the "Shock Forest Group", "Darkside", and was one of the founders of "Musicians for Palestine".
my six studio albums from 2011-2020 are available for free download on this link
for all licensing inquiries please contact willmoore@beggarsmusic.com
bio is here
for bookings and other requests email : inquiry@nicolasjaar.net
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past shows 2024:
february
⚇ valentina villarroel + eli wewentxu + jaar @ concepción (chile)
⚇ masa nazzal + nicolás jaar present "borderlands" @ berlin (germany)
march
⚇ jaar live @ le sucre with aho ssan - lyon (france)
⚇ jaar live @ la gaité lyrique with aho ssan - paris (france)
⚇ comission new work @ chiesa di san fedele - milano (italia)
⚇ "isole" book launch tour
- 13/03 milano - triennale
- 14/03 bologna - alchemilla
- 15/03 firenze - m. tabacchi
- 16/03 perugia - paradiso 518
- 18/03 roma - supernova
- 19/03 palermo - mmv
april
⚇ guest lecture for okokon's intermediate studio: open media (risd, ri)
⚇ jaar live @ intonal festival - mälmo (sweden)
⚇ sound editing workshop (slovenia)
⚇ jaar live @ sonica - festival of transitory art at mota - ljubljana (slovenia)
⚇ jaar live @ auditorium parco della musica - roma (italia)
may
⚇ archivos de radio piedras (instalación) en la sala de experimentación sonora del muac - cdmx (mexico)
⚇ 𝓅𝒾ℯ𝒹𝓇𝒶𝓈 en vivo!
- cdmx (mexico)
- santiago (chile) tickets
⚇ archivos de radio piedras (instalación) en la bienal internacional de artes valparaíso - (chile)
- valpo (chile)
⚇ archivos de radio piedras (instalación) en el museo de la memoria - (stg, chile)
- buenos aires (argentina) tickets deseo tickets roxy
- barcelona (spain)
- valencia (spain) tickets
- madrid (spain) tickets
june
- Benefit for Gaza @ Total Refreshment Center with Khyam Allami & more (London)
- Benefit concert for Sudan & Gaza (London) (performed as part of the choir with bint mbareh and accompanied FKA Twigs on piano, as well as a performing a live rendition of my song 'mud' from cenizas)
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2023
teaching engagements:
⚇ alrowwad [palestine]
⚇ free.wav [india]
⚇ ladridos [chile]
⚇ akademie der bildenden künste [germany]
music releases:
⚇ archivos_de_radio_piedras
⚇ intiha (with ali sethi)
⚇ weavings 2 with aho ssan, angel bat dawid, antonina nowacka, khyam allami, oren ambarchi, pak yan lau, paweł szamburski, raphael rogiński, resina, tomoko sauvage, and valentina magaletti
⚇ IMPro Pitxantu (with eli wewentxu)
concerts / performances:
⚇ cafe oto [uk]
⚇ open source art festival [poland]
⚇ ICA london [uk]
⚇ gütxamkawün with eli wewentxu (concert and talk) [wallmapu]
⚇ temporary shock forest group @ van abbemuseum (workshop + performance) [netherlands]
⚇ darkside tour with dave harrington and tlacael esparza [europe and uk]
also:
⚇ la ricerca (score) [italy]
⚇ dar jacir chomio residency with eli wewentxu (residency) [wallmapu]
⚇ lithium triangle studios (exhibition) [portugal]
⚇ shock forest group at van abbemuseum [netherlands]
2022
teaching & talks:
⚇ rca london [uk]
⚇ overtones fellowship [usa]
⚇ unbuilding listenings workshop 2 [palestine]
collaborations:
⚇ tassili by lydia ourahmane [usa]
⚇ weavings 1 with with aho ssan, angel bat dawid, dirar kalash, ellen fullman, księżyc, laraaji, ka baird, paweł szamburski, raphael roginski, resina, rolando hernández and wukir suryadi & rully shabara of senyawa
concerts & performances:
⚇ ¡miércoles! with stephanie janaina [spain]
⚇ weavings 3 with valentina magaletti, marina herlop, linda sikhakhane, robert aiki aubrey lowe aka lichens, antonina nowacka, cyro baptista, dormeshia, luca rossi, tlacael esparza, susie ibarra, and bint mbareh [usa]
also:
⚇ shock forest group on eflux
2021
teaching & talks:
⚇ unbuilding listenings workshop 1 [palestine]
⚇ reeds @ rca [uk]
⚇ rotterdam film festival with dea kulumbegashvili [netherlands]
⚇ mala memoria [chile]
⚇ kabk [netherlands]
concerts:
⚇ live in the hague [netherlands]
collaborations:
⚇ omnipresence by nadia hallgreen
⚇ yakjehti mein with ali sethi
⚇ sonic liberation front sets
2020
albums:
⚇ telas
⚇ cenizas
concerts:
⚇ museo de la memoria [chile]
mixes:
⚇ fil mishmish on radio alhara
exhibitions:
⚇ het nieuwe instituut, lithium [netherlands]
scores:
⚇ beginning by dea kulumbegashvili
2019
concerts & performances:
⚇ 9 hours improv at oude kerk [netherlands]
⚇ sharjah architecture triennial [uae]
⚇ ¡miércoles! [jordan]
⚇ ¡miércoles! ca2m [spain]
⚇ le guess who? festival [netherlands]
residencies:
⚇ month-long dar jacir residency [palestine]
⚇ dar jacir studio residency with sebastian jatz [palestine]
⚇ dar jacir studio residency with rolando hernandez [palestine]
⚇ shock forest group [netherlands]
collaborations:
⚇ fka twigs
2018
performances & concerts:
⚇ the kitchen honoring nan goldin and lydia lunch [usa]
⚇ ¡miércoles! in chiapas
⚇ live at rewire festival [netherlands]
⚇ ¡miércoles! at mira [spain]
collaborations:
⚇ music for two seas with lydia ourahmane
2017
⚇ live in ramallah [palestine]
2016
⚇ sirens
⚇ the network
2015
⚇ sergei parajanov - the color of pomegranates - alternate ost
⚇ eleven times, collaboration with brian jackson and samantha casolari
⚇ nymphs
2011
⚇ space is only noise
2008
⚇ the student