Dedicated to everyone who identifies as a woman, feels like a goddess, rules like a female warrior, or desires to embrace their feminine energy in all shapes and complexity.

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Music created for the contemporary dance theatre "JUST ASK HER." in January 2022.

JUST ASK HER. deals with questions about gender-related issues. Three women are portraying what it means to be limited, silenced and categorized. What are the solutions to treat each other equally? When will we realize the importance of this topic? The performance is a place for opening all possible questions about unfairness in society.

Cooperation:
Radoslav Piovarči
Slovak Arts Council
Giorgia Belotti
Lucia Bielik
Paulína Šmatláková
Gabriela Čechová
Nina Pixel
Bombura klub
Synagóga Brezno
Mesto Brezno
Jakub Bielik
Lucia Piovarči
Casper Preisler

Teaser: youtu.be/kQqvHAqom-A
trakt.sk/en/just-ask-her-performance/

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SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIAN WOMEN
https://ninapixel.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-a-dialogue

All profits go to:

Ukrainian Woman's Fund
uwf.org.ua

UWF is the only women's fund in Ukraine.
We provide resources to women's rights/feminist organizations: grants, expertise, training, facilitation, platforms for cooperation.
The Ukrainian Women's Fund fosters the development of a strong, massive and effective women's /feminist movement capable of protecting women's rights and promoting gender equality in all areas.

UN Women
www.unwomen.de/helfen/hilfe-fuer-frauen-und-maedchen-in-der-ukraine.html

UN Women steht in Solidarität mit allen Frauen in der Ukraine. Sie müssen aus ihren Häusern fliehen und sich von ihren Angehörigen trennen. Diejenigen, die geblieben sind, leisten unter extrem schwierigen Umständen und unter großem Risiko humanitäre Hilfe. UN Women ist an der Seite der Menschenrechtsverteidigerinnen und Aktivistinnen, die sich mit ihren Forderungen nach Frieden Gehör verschaffen.

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Released on the 8th of March
(Mami, happy birthday, love you!) 
credits
released March 8, 2022

Music: Nina Pixel

Voices:
Giorgia Belotti
Lucia Bielik
Paulína Šmatláková

JUST ASK HER. project initiated by Radoslav Piovarči

Cover: a still from JUST ASK HER. teaser by Davide Belotti
Dancers: Giorgia Belotti, Lucia Bielik, Paulína Šmatláková
Mastering and support: Andreas Bonkowski at Magic Window

Nemamrada

Feel The Need

Unbutton The Buttons

Fix The Difference

Take Care Of Yourself Take Care Of Others Thake Care Of The Planet

HOW DO I LISTEN TO THE FOREST? WHAT IS THE LANGUAGE OF THE RIVER, AND HOW CAN I UNDERSTAND TREES?

I decided to spend all possible time in January in the woods behind my house. I wanted to comprehend it. I tried to listen, observe, journal, record, draw, feel. I spent my mornings, evenings, and noons with trees, rivers and recording devices.
My first recording instrument was my memory. Pretty much an opposite of an exact recording instrument, as I learned. Although I was thrilled by the idea of memory being my very first tool to mention. How dramatic! Perception of time seems to be an illusion of our brains. The memory of sounds turned into a dream-like sensation right after I came home from the recording session.

FROM AWARENESS TO ACTIVISM

Indigenous teachers tell us that plants are unique beings with their own will. They come where they are needed and always find their place to fulfil their roles. I believe our purpose can shift and evolve, depending on our skills, environment or conditions we live in. Same as plants, we adapt and evolve. Without being aware of our role in the ecosystem, we might feel like we lost roots or we stop growing perhaps. Without purpose, we fade.

Do you have a purpose in your life?

READ MORE HERE: www.florilegio.org/zuihitsu/nina-pixel-muggelsee-observations/

Created in January 2022 
credits
released February 18, 2022 

BUY HERE: https://ninapixel.bandcamp.com/album/m-ggelsee-observations

The full composition has been created for the Florilegio | zuihitsu blog as part of the site-specific observation.

Nina Pixel | Müggelsee Observations

Support via Bandcamp: https://ninapixel.bandcamp.com/album/voice-figures

"Voice Figures" release has been inspired by the research of Margaret Watts Hughes and her eidophone tool for visualising specific frequencies, geometrical & natural forms produced by vibrations of the human voice.

"At first, when directing the voice against the semi-liquid mass upon the centre of the disc, there is a feeling as if some impassable barrier were encountered and that it would be as easy to move a mountain with a push of the hand as to set that colour heap moving by the action of a note." (Margaret Watts Hughes)


I performed a variation on this experiment based on recording multiple singled frequencies generated by tuning forks, frequency generator and gong, which resonated on the metal surface and inside the soil. I captured reverberated metal surface, secondary resonation through the soil and oscillation of the bowl. The experiment is accompanied by recordings of water, coffee beans, my voice and string recordings in varied pitch and velocities.



released April 4, 2022

Everything sounds better after the mastering from Andreas Bonkowski at Magic Window

Voice Figures

Imagine listening to music inspired by ferns.

What effects might music with sacred frequencies and fern-like structure have on us?
Why do specific musical scales and notes impact our minds and body? I'm learning from ferns because their fractal shape intrigues me.

Why ferns? They hold ancestral, magical significance. Legends say ferns restore sight and offer protection. Finding a fern flower brings luck, even animal understanding. Ferns guard against magic and were used as shields.

What if I use healing instruments tuned to Solfeggio frequencies in a fern-inspired, fractal-based composition?


Frequencies used: 

Planets
Sun - 126.22 Hz
Mercury - 141.27 Hz
Venus - 221.23 Hz
Earth - 194.18 Hz
Mars - 144.72 Hz
Jupiter - 183.58 Hz
Saturn - 147.85 Hz
Uranus - 207.36 Hz
Neptune - 211.44 Hz
Pluto - 140.25 Hz
Moon - 210.42 Hz
These calculations are scaled up to the audible frequency so you can do powerful work with each planetary energy based on the estimates of each body's revolution around the Sun.

Solfeggio
UT - 396 Hz
RE - 417 Hz
MI - 528 Hz
FA - 639 Hz
Sol - 741 Hz
LA - 852 Hz

BIO

Meet Nina Pixel: an avant-garde sonic creator. She fuses field recordings, voices, and landscapes into her experimental electronic music, exploring the human soul like an archaeologist. Her tracks lead you through chaotic rituals and industrial myths, influenced by the raw energy of nature.

Nina's prowess shines in "ANCESTRAL ARCHEOLOGY," a double album reviving Slovak folklore. She's also composed for the dream-focused dance piece "SEN."

Experience Nina live at prestigious venues, including national galleries in Amsterdam and Prague, as well as Berlin's iconic clubs like ://about blank, Suicide Circus, Tresor, and Berghain Kantine. But her magic isn't confined to clubs; she's graced industrial spaces, forests, and swamps with her captivating sounds.

Based in Berlin, Nina aims to craft an instrument that unlocks profound states of consciousness through sound. Brace yourself for her mesmerising sonic world.

https://ninapixel.com/
https://ninapixel.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/ninnpix/

Almond Mind

I composed and produced music for a dance performance about dreams. Some parts are borrowed and adjusted from the ANCESTRAL ARCHEOLOGY album, and some were created solely for dreaming on stage.

—— SEN ——

Sen
Music: Nina Pixel
Mix & master and some of keys 🎹: @andreas_bonkowski
Direction choreografia: L. Holinová @luciaholina
Dancers a pohybovy materiál: L. Bobalik, D. Racek, P.
@paulinasmatlak ,K. Cilliková námet: Z. Ocenásová Vasicáková kostymy: V. Keresztesova
svetelny dizajn: R. Polák produkcia: RESERVA,o.Z.
Photo: Lea Lovisková

SEN - Sample Of A Dream

My A/V LIVE show for the ANCESTRAL ARCHEOLOGY project. Presented in OHM, also with a new yet unreleased material and a few samples from tracks I like at the moment.
This set constantly evolves and morphs with new sounds and instruments. 

Instruments: Fujara, singing bowl, tiny drum, kalimba, water

Recorded at SPFM Showcase @ OHM Berlin 07.12.2023

Album: https://ninapixel.bandcamp.com/album/ancestral-archeology

picture: Neone 25.11.22 cervenka jakub

Nina Pixel Presents ANCESTRAL ARCHEOLOGY @ OHM Berlin Live A/V

THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, THE TOLTEC WERE known
throughout southern Mexico as "women and men of knowledge."

Toltec were scientists and artists who formed a
society to explore and conserve the spiritual knowledge and
practices of the ancient ones. They came together as masters
(naguals) and students at Teotihuacan, the ancient city known as the place where "Man Becomes God."

Over the millennia, the naguals were forced to conceal the
ancestral wisdom and maintain its existence in obscurity. European
conquest, coupled with rampant misuse of personal power by a
few of the apprentices, made it necessary to shield the knowledge
from those who were not prepared to use it wisely or who might
intentionally misuse it for personal gain.

A Toltec is an artist of Love,
an artist of the Spirit,
someone who is creating every moment,
every second, the most beautiful art -
the Art of Dreaming.
Life is nothing but a dream,
and if we are artists,
then we can create our life with Love,
and our dream becomes
a masterpiece of art

(Don Miguel Ruiz)

*picture: Pieter van der Borcht the Elder (1578)

National Geographic | Sounds of Skating on Thin Ice 
Pact Infernal | Nitimur in vetitum (Original Mix)
Svarte greiner | Second
Yair Elazar Glotman | Oratio Continua 
Yair Elazar Glotman | Drifts
Field Recordings | cutting the tree bark and interactions with moss, White Carpathians, Slovakia
Minnie Harrison | Douglas Materialises And Speaks, 1954
Janet (Age 8)| Voices from possessed children, 1978
Margaret (Age 4) | Voices from possessed children, 1978
Aloisia Schinkenmaier | Prophezeiungen Der Aloisia Schinkenmaier In Unbekannter Sprache, 1967 
Jack Sutton | Jack Sutton Contacts Dead Airmen, 1980s
Emptyset & Paul Jebanasam | Demiurge - Of Blackest Grain to Missive Ruin (Paul Jebanasam Variation)
Broken English Club | Our History in Bones (Original Mix)
Pact Infernal | Initiation (Original Mix)
Violetshaped | Black Wisdom, White Witch (Original Mix)
Sciahri | Unease
Asmar | Sigil
Alhek | Development of the Mechanics (Original Mix)
Asmar | Clarence
Just | Modules
Boston 168 | Cybernetics
Addremove | Letter from police
Nothing | Oralage
Ola Oscura | FF For Vandalism
Perc | Look what your love has done to me
Ascetic | Exegesis (Unhuman Remix)
Blasted | Drop It (Unhuman Remix)
PVNV | Intrasolaar (Original Mix)
Restive Plaggona | Inner Penury (Original Mix)
A Primitive Trait | Analysis
Sciahri | Anathema
Acronym | Cygni (Original Mix)
Jack Sutton | Jack Sutton Contacts Dead Airmen, 1980s
Kobosil | The Living Ritual (Original Mix)
Codex Empire | Hamartia
Lewis Fautzi | Covalent Bond (Original Mix)
M-M-M | F.A.S 03 (Modular Phaze Remix)
Modular Phaze | Created In The Laboratory (Original Mix)
Thomas Kunkel | Cryogenic (Original Mix)
Modular Phaze | Dhrukla
Cleric | Nowhere Fast (Original Mix)
Svarog, NÃRBAK | XO1
Tensal | Darkonia
Cleric | The Key Of Dawn (Original Mix)
Pris | Feral Calling (Original Mix)
Kwartz | Death Is Not Defeat (Version 2) 
Marla Singer | Claviceps Purpurea (KRTM Mix)
? | Semiramis 
? | Addiction
Developer | Tesla On The Radio
Joseph McGeechan | Failed By The Conformists (Ancient Methods Sgt. Howie Remix)
? | Escaped from the dark 
Melania . (Codex Empire Remix) | Confirmatio
Ontal | Jackhammer
Gareth Wild | Warriors in the dance 
Nastia Reigel | Trust, intimacy 
Cleric | Concrete 
Alva Noto | Universe 133
? | Navigator 1

Nina Pixel | Ancestral Wisdom @ Proces : OAKE in Prague

It hurts and stinks, whatever it is.


*a preview of the hybrid performance on ÚFF>> https://www.facebook.com/events/674208346344775


voices:
Terence McKenna
John Giorno
Greta Thunberg
Palm Reader
BLACK ACID 

+ personal collection of UFF

NINA PIXEL | ÚFF

Traditional Slovak folk songs reused in the new age of challenging times. 
Songs originate in Liptov.

Are we still the same dark souls as our ancestors used to be? Something magical keeps attracting me since I was very little. Forests, moss, soil, stories, human sorrow, witches and healers, wise people and their whisper trapped in the past. What is that feeling I keep sensing from our movies, songs, and storytelling? It is time to listen.

BLACK ACID | Pohar Viny

“Počarovať" means to cast a spell. In Slavic “mythology" and historical practice is this activity closely connected to the love magic. There have been hundreds of spells helping young and old with searching for love. One of the very powerful artefacts is blood. Who drank the blood of the other person felt under hers or his spell. 

The Western world’s discomfort with menstrual blood is evident in its relative absence from just about every aspect of life. The recent world forgot the power of our own bodies or repressed ancestral wisdom. 
Love rituals all over the world are using the power of period blood because of its potency.
Though there is a persistent and widespread legacy of negative associations with periods and period blood “almost a cultural universal” (Strassmenn). 

Love potions are one of the more frequent uses for menstrual blood in folk conviction (including hoodoo),  these rites have been repeated on the territory of recent Slovakia, Moravia, Ukraine or Poland. In the western world, you could come across stories about blood rites aiming to distrust individuals and cultures viewed as below the status of white, Western doctors. 

This rehabilitating of the occult properties of menstrual blood is, in many ways, a sign of recent times liberating ourselves to design our own narratives and retelling narratives of our origins.  

Menstrual blood has long been at the core of mythology and magic dogmas, but it has also been the source of persecution and hostility; the blame of period-havers is prevalent throughout much of anthropological narrative. By supporting the energy of the period — the power to control it, to articulate its honour, and even to put it to practice — menstruating individuals are asserting themselves over a legacy of stigma and alienation.

It is time to rehabilitate stigmatized and repressed individuals and groups. It is time to be powerful - together.

on pic: @fridayinveins

NINA PIXEL | Počarovať ~ [extended version]

This is a recording from my hybrid set at Kalvarie, the magical little festival in the Czech mountains with stunning view and kind people.

NINA PIXEL | KALVARIE _ Rituals For The Solitude

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Booking: matwe@spfm.eu // booking@ninapixel.com

My music extends beyond the border of uncompromising ritual rhythms, in endless sonic soundscapes and dirty dark techno, noise and industrial forces. 
I  purposefully deconstruct once created, in an effort to re-create deep stories flowing into space. Together with fragments of tracks, layered between each other, I am using field and voice recordings, cumulating sounds together with concrete echoes, tapping and cracking rhythms in never-ending journeys.

Nina Pixel

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