Mad Kate | the Tide are a post punk conceptual performance project with The Tide on guitar, loops, electronics and Mad Kate on vocals, poetry, contact mics and performance.

Now joined by Sara Neidorf on drums, Mad Kate | the Tide has just finished an EP This Morning Waking about genderbased violence and is about to release their new full lenght album called "Stage and Bedroom"  about the relationship between labour, art and the body. Their Discography also includes ALIVE:ness (LP/eBook 2014), Combinatorics (EP/eBook 2013), will be ready – the Teufelsberg session – (LP Freudian Slit Records 2013) and Leather Jacket (Single/remix 2012)

Composed in dialogue with conceptual explorations and texts, Mad Kate | the Tide’s dynamic sonicscapes mix punk, acoustic folk, psychedelic rock and spoken word. They form the backbone for honest, sometimes darkly provocative performance art and movement which provokes and stirs its audiences.

Mad Kate ∣ the Tide has been featured on ARTE Tracks, played alongside Peaches at Le Tetris, and had the honor of sharing the night with Penny Arcade at the International Performance Art Festival in Copenhagen.
They released their first conceptual album ALIVE:ness in 2013, along with a book of essays and experimental prose by the same name.

S.W.E.A.T. >>sex/uality. work. extraction. art. theatr/ics.<< is a series of conversations about performance and performativity of the sexual and sexualized body at work—where work is broadly defined as the labour of survival, the labour of care, creativity, and capital-A-Art. How exactly do we define our work and how does that work entangle and circumscribe our sexual identities, our creative lives and the ways in which we provide care? How do we perform both tasks and identities within the framework of that which we consider work? My hope is that these conversations are a means to speak between intersectionalities by anchoring through our always already sexualized bodies, our working bodies, our artistic bodies and our performative bodies.

photos by Onsoh Studios and Claudia Brijbag

please support S.W.E.A.T. on my patreon page 
https://www.patreon.com/madkate

S.W.E.A.T. hostex  Mad Kate is a Berlin-based electronic artist, vocalist, and producer who fuses sound, performance, and activism into a singular, immersive experience. Rooted in a background of writing and queer feminist, sex-positive performance art, Mad Kate weaves together interviews, field recordings, and vocal manipulations with raw, pulsating synthesizers to explore the porous borders between bodies, identities, and geographies.

With a sonic language shaped by storytelling and embodied experience, Mad Kate’s compositions interrogate the personal as a lens for understanding collective realities—how power structures inscribe themselves onto intimacy, how movement across borders reshapes identity, and how world-building through imagination disrupts existing narratives. Whether through hypnotic, shape-shifting club compositions or experimental soundscapes, their work pulses with a deep commitment to sonic activism, carving out space for new forms of relationality and resistance.

Mad Kate’s performances are immersive and confrontational, collapsing the boundary between artist and audience, body and machine. Their sonic explorations have been featured in venues and festivals across Europe, where they continue to push the boundaries of electronic music as a site of both political critique and radical pleasure.

Booking:  

geflimmer@yahoo.de

Hörschmaus und Braus und Saus:
15.03.19 - Cafe Glocksee (Hannover)
01.03.19 - Mensch Meier
15.12.18 - Klunker Kranich
20.10.18 - Odonien (Köln)
13.10.18 - Mensch Meier
23.08.18 - MoynMoyn Festival 
04.08.18 - Kölpinstock
23.06.18 - Odonien (Köln)
03.06.18 - Gardelegen Festival
18.05.18 - Kili
08.04.18 - ZKU
26.08.17 - moynmoyn Festival
21.07.17 - Nation of Gondwana
16.06.17 - Odonien (Köln)
13.05.17 - Burg Schnabel
18.03.17 - U-Club (Wuppertal)
02.12.16 - Kino Zukunft
26.11.16 - Rosis
12.11.16 - Kili
28.10.16 - Maze
22.10.16 - Odonien (Köln)
03.10.16 - Bucht eures Vetrauens
01.10.16 - Rehfelde
02.09.16 - Mensch Meier
30.07.16 - Uckeralm Festival
17.07.16 - Katzensprung Festival
24.07.16 - TTT Festival
25.06.16 - Rosis
21.05.16 - J.K.
27.04.16 - Folkets Bar (Malmö)
15.04.16 - J.K.
08.04.16 - Bucht eures Vetrauens
02.04.16 - J.K.
04.03.16 - J. K.
 27.02.16 - Weißer Hase
 09.01.16 - Bethanien
  19.12.15 - Maze
  17.12.15 - Weißer Hase
  05.12.15 - B-Lage
  28.11.15 - Weißer Hase
02.08.15 - SimSalaBoom
22.07.15 - Stereo33
04.07.15 - Badehaus
05.06.15 - Distortion (Kopenhagen)
16.05.15 - Mensch Meier
09.05.15 - Urban Spree

HYENAZ are Berlin-based sound and movement artists Kathryn Fischer aka Mad Kate and Adrienne Teicher. The dance tracks, soundscapes, performative installations and a/v works they produce are based on the sonic shapeshifting of field recordings gathered in the process of site-specific works.

Since 2015 HYENAZ have been working on a music, performance and sonic research project they call “Foreign Bodies,” a slow movement journey to explore relationships of “bodies in motion and bodies in resistance”, be they human or of other sentience. Central to this project is the idea that the body is disappearing: from social interactions blasted into the corporate cloud, to machine intelligence tangled in the systems that govern life, to techno-futurists fantasies of an age where analogue flesh has vanished into digital consciousness.

Their first release for Foreign Bodies PROXIMITY was an act of listening and learning from non-human animals, frogs in particular, to think about how proximity changes relata between bodies. The track premiered in the poetry journal Interim as a/v poetry–a contemporary dance music video with integrated text that the duo choreographed and edited themselves. A virtual sculpture PROXIMA debuted at the Near-Field Communication Digital Art Biennale and is now traveling around Europe.

Their second release, Columns, is HYENAZ’ response to militarized violence. The track, which sounds like industrial techno, is built entirely from vocalizations and organic percussion scavenged deep within a cave outside the pilgrimage town of Częstochowa, Poland.

They are now releasing the a/v work and remixes PERIMETER on June 3rd 2021. With Foreign Bodies HYENAZ build on their reputation as visionary performers. Electro superstar Peaches called HYENAZ a “performance monster duo” in The Guardian. They have performed twice at Berlin’s world famous techno mansion Berghain as part of Your Moms Agency’s Digital Art Meets Music series and once to support CHRISTEENE and have been energetically touring the world, from SXSW to the MIDI Festival Shanghai; from techno festival Garbicz to the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, where HYENAZ produced Spectral Rite with the visual artists Sylbee Kim and Nico Pelzer.

The body has always been central to the work of HYENAZ, but Foreign Bodies examines questions of embodiment with an ever sharpening focus. In a frame from PROXIMITY, text flashes on the screen asking: HOW MUCH OF MY BODY COULD I LOSE. Another frame asks: DO YOU RECOGNISE ME / MY / YOUR SOVEREIGNTY and DOES OUR PROXIMITY BIND US? The pain of having and being a body in the 21st Century fuels HYENAZ drive to bring bodies together in a room and fight alienation.

Pianist, singer/songwriter, independent artist from Norway

Also Transwoman and activist, economist and a nurse student

music is politics and can change the world

7.12. - Live Performance with minutektiv @ Greenhouse, Berlin
9.11. -  Mensch Meyer, Berlin - 20 years of female:pressure
- New track "Black Flowers" - Out now ...
- 2 Remixes for Gudrun Gut + Werkstatt - Repetition
https://open.spotify.com/album/0EUfDW086N14ZgcJ7HTe8I

19.7. - Live at Lauschangriff, Berlin

Release of the music video "Wanting"
https://vimeo.com/253145409

Anna Leopolder live @ Übel und Gefährlich (Hamburg) - video
https://www.facebook.com/1621152721446251/videos/1886606344900886/
more see below ...

About:
Anna Leopolder studied fine arts in Duesseldorf and Berlin. In the 90ies, she was founding member of two notorious trash/postpunk bands in Hamburg, Germany: “Mausi Sisters” and “Meckatzer Bubn”. 
In Hamburg – and later in Berlin – she played mainly deep house, minimal and electronica as DJ Anna Elle. 

Since 2014 she has been working as a producer/remixer and live performer.
Her music oscillates between beauty and weirdness, poetic finesse and raw tension. Basically all her tracks and remixes have got this unique dark and cryptical atmosphere which is immediately captivating. 
Her music has been released on several labels such as Berlin based Reveller Records, TWIRL! Records (Chicago), Yes Yes Records, Minina Music, Fett Recordings and on the "Zoolook Revisited Album" (selected by Jean Michel Jarre) - together with Daedelus, Simonne Jones, Mikael Seifu und Luke Vibert.
Anna Leopolder is also member of the kollektiv "minutektiv" (see links)


Latest releases:
2 remixes for Gudrun Gut + Werkstatt - Repetition
https://open.spotify.com/album/0EUfDW086N14ZgcJ7HTe8I

Laylae: Show Me What You Want - Anna Leopolder Remix (Fett Recordings) With female:pressure remixers La Fraicheur, Mila Dietrich and Lady Maru
https://www.traxsource.com/title/803095/show-me-what-you-want

Out on Reveller Records: My track "Come With Me"
Soundtrack of Sky Deep's award-winning Film "Enactone"
https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/enactone-soundtrack/id1208685614?app=music&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
http://pornfilmfestivalberlin.de/film/enactone/

 Ena Lind - The Wisdom To Know The Difference (Anna Leopolder Remix) (TWIRL! Records)
http://www.junodownload.com/products/ena-lind-the-wisdom-to-know-the/3195963-02/

 THE JUJUJUs - "Dance With Me" (Anna Leopolder Remix) (Minina Music)
http://www.junodownload.com/products/the-jujujus-asap/3037885-02/
2. July 16 *Live-Set* @ Uebel und Gefährlich, Hamburg 
THE JUJUJUs: ASAP - record release party

My track “En Route” was released on the "Zoolook Revisited Album"
Selected by Jean-Michel Jarre
https://soundhunters.tv/contest/en/
http://www.junodownload.com/products/zoolook-revisited-a-tribute-to-jean/3042053-02/?track_number=10

 Anna Leopolder - "Initial Sparks EP" (Reveller Records) 
https://pro.beatport.com/release/initial-sparks/1639085

Alley O & Anna Cavazos - Back EP (Anna Leopolder Dark Remix) (Yes Yes Records)
https://www.beatport.com/YesYesRecordings/playlists/a4gefmmkgrbv/alley-o-anna-cavazos-back

"Southern Skies" feat. Penny Yon (Anna Leopolder Original Mix) (7MNS music)
http://sevenmoons.bandcamp.com/album/vox-ref-025

 "Upright walk" -  female:pressure Revellers Comp 1 (Reveller Records)
https://pro.beatport.com/release/female-pressure-revellers-comp-1/1560820

 "Spherephonic - One Day (Anna Leopolder Remix) (Apparatus Vivere Records) - winner of the remix contest
https://soundcloud.com/annaleopolder/spherephonic-one-day-anna-leopolder-remix


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© Michael Bührke  (1)
© Anna Leopolder (16)

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