I'm a purely pessimistic ray of goddamn sunshine.

Shamhat is a DJ, composer and producer from Berlin with audio landscapes ranging from colourful sunsets at the seaside to wild riots in gloomy streets. 

Growing up in Berlin they spend most of their youth between the rehearsal rooms of punk and metal bands and sweaty techno clubs, until they found their way into the depths of electronic music making. They defy categorization of their sound as such always goes hand in hand with limitations and restrictions and rather enjoy tearing down these boxes. 

Shamhat tries to take the listener on a journey, create an athmosphere that develops in various directions and most importantly, make you dance. As a rebellious slut by nature, you will often find elements of sex, genderfuckery and resistance in their music.

Available for compositions, shows, DJ sets and mixing / mastering.

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bookings: 
carin@outer-agency.com
pascal@outer-agency.com (EU/WW) 
michael@heavy-trip.com (CA / US)
sync & licensing:  
gavin@syncsmith.com

contact: joseph.kamaru.jk@gmail.com 
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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.

Vocalist & writer (they/them/iel - accord masculin)
1/2 So Klarity w/ @d-tiffany
🗝️  Founding member Berlin Collective Action e.V
🗝️  The Lovers’ Dialogue workshop (Radiant Love harm reduction)

Forests, rivers and synthesisers.

[2025]

19.06 (live with ARBORE), 90mil Berlin, DE
15.06 (live) Fenêtre Ovale, Bruxelles, BE
23.05 (live with FEU FOU) Somewhere Press release party @90mil Berlin, DE
16.04 (live) Campos de Marte @Casa Baranchel, Madrid, ES
08-12.04 (workshop) Semaine du Son @ENSA Bourges, FR


[2024]

06.12 (live) forms of minutiae release party @90mil, Berlin, DE
04.12 (live) LOM Space, Bratislava, SL
01.12 (live with @laureboer) Noiseberg, Berlin, DE
23.11 (live) Ground Zero, Lyon, FR
11.11 (live) Favorit Bar, Munich, DE
25.10 (live) RAUSCH @ Backsteinboot, Berlin, DE
4-12.10 (instal) SYN/SYM at NOPA festival, Erevan, Armenia
05.10 (live) NOPA festival @HAYFILM, Yerevan, Armenia
21.09 (live) Seanaps festival, Leipzig
01.09 (live) Hosek Contemporary, Berlin
22.08 (live) FRANK with Kim Khan, OFFSITE Wehrmuehle Berlin
16+17.08 (live) Countdown Grabowsee, Brandenburg
18-22.07 "Canicular" performance with Rebecca Journo, Festival d'Avignon, France
22.06 (live) ROTA festival, Blanca, Spain
08.06 Field Recording workshop with Landscape, Refuge Worldwide, Berlin
25.05 (live) Les Yeux Fermés, Filature Levasseur, Evreux, France
03.05 "The Alien Kin" collective performance, Instituto Sacatar, Bahía, Brasil
02.02 (live) "Tartamudeos" with Selu Herraiz, B.A.S.E Tsonami, Valparaíso, Chile

[2023]

26.12.23 (live) Collective Session on Cashmere Radio, live from Rota Festival, Blanca, Spain
16.12.23 (live) ROTA festival, Blanca, Spain
18-26.11 Exhibition The Alien Kin, installations and performance, Cala Raum, Berlin
31.10.23 (live) The Alien Kin collective performance, with @mazenkerbaj, curated by Archipel Editions, 90mil Berlin
08.10.2023 (live) L'Embobineuse, Marseille
27.09.23 Presentation of the Avian Kin album, Videodrome II, Marseille
15.09.23 (live) Resonate! w/ @laureboer, @miki-yui, @marimo, FFT Düsseldorf
01.09.23 (live) duo Arbore w/ @laureboer, Conscious Madness Festival, Germany
11.08.23 (live) Guyenne Festival, France
22.07.23 (live) Strómy Festival w/ @selu-h, Czech Republic
15.07.23 (live) Codex Club, Arkaoda, Berlin
15.07.2023 (live) duo Arbore w/ @laureboer, Morphine Raum, Berlin
16.06.23 (live) in-animate matters w/ @pablodiserens, ssabae, Galleria Akusmata, Helsinki, Finland
27.05.23 (live) VESSEL, 90mil, Berlin
19.05.23 (live) CÚKR, warehouse, Prague, Czech Republic
29.04.23 (live) Bruit de Fond dérive w/ collectif Nuit Noire, marseille
09.03.23 (dj) ‘Eternally Frozen’ release  w/ Andrea Belfi & Zinc & Copper, arkaoda berlin
28.01.23 (live) CODEX club, studio dB, berlin
26.01.23 (live) with equations collective, OHM, berlin
06.01.23 (live) the alien kin, spatial performance, acousmonium INA-GRM 104 paris

[2022]

09.12.22 (live) ROTA festival, murcia, spain
24.11.22 (live) not a festival, rathaus neukölln, berlin
27.10.22 (live) the alien kin, morphine raum berlin
15.09.22 (live) jungle gym records, kwia berlin
10.09.22 (live) shifting conversations, documenta, kassel, germany
02.09.22 (live) sounds of rest, weisser elefant gallerie, berlin
20.08.22 (live) grabowsee festival, brandenburg, germany
23.07.22 (live) strómy festival, czech republic
14.07.22 (live) f-o-m release party, kwia Berlin
02.07.22 (live) ssabae ensemble, TBA, France
24.06.22 (live) shifting conversations, moos Berlin
04.06.22 (live) WEICH, studio dB, Berlin
29.05.22 (live) climate care festival, floating university Berlin
30.04.22 (live) vogelklang festival, soundtent, Schwarzwald
26.03.22 (live) garden of forking paths, Cashmere Radio Berlin
16.03.22 (dj) Return of the Living Wine Berlin
22.02.22 (dj) Arkaoda Berlin
19.02.22 (live) sentient lands, Arkaoda Berlin
11.02.22 (live) RAUSCH, Backsteinboot Berlin
28.01.22 (live) unfinished fridays, Lake Studios Berlin
07.01.22 (cancelled) INA GRM, Paris
29.05.22 (live) TBA, Berlin
30.04.22 (live) vogelklang festival, soundtent, Schwarzwald
26.03.22 (live) garden of forking paths, Cashmere Radio Berlin
16.03.22 (dj) Return of the Living Wine Berlin
22.02.22 (dj) Arkaoda Berlin
19.02.22 (live) sentient lands, Arkaoda Berlin
11.02.22 (live) RAUSCH, Backsteinboot Berlin
28.01.22 (live) unfinished fridays, Lake Studios Berlin
07.01.22 (cancelled) INA GRM, Paris

[past]
13.11.21 (live) Meakusma, Arkaoda Berlin
30.10.21 (live) cross'attic Prague
23.10.21 (live) Borsig Amp Fest. Kesselhaus Herzberge Berlin
22-24.09.21 (live) Voliera, Planeta Za, Prague
05.09.21 (live) Floating University e.V. Berlin
04-11.09.21 (installation) Floating University e.V. Berlin
22-25.07.21 (installation) STROMY Treehouse Festival, Czechia
01.07.21 (live) Zenner Open Air, Berlin
28.05.21 (live) Cosmic Playgrounds, Esslingen
23-25.04.21 (performance) Heroines'Wave Bangkok
10.02.21 (live) Oneironautics VI. Cashmere Radio, Berlin
03.02.21 (dj) HOER Radio, Berlin

[2020]
19.12.20 (live) Q3Ambientfest, online
16.12.20 (live) Oneironautics V. Cashmere Radio, Berlin
19.09.20 (live) Oneironautics IV. Cashmere Radio, Berlin
23.08.20 (live) Akousmatik Bush, Berlin
29.07.20 (live) Heads radio. Sameheads Berlin
24-26.07 (live) STROMY Treehouse festival, Czechia
23.07.20 (installation) TREES with Salomé Jashi, DAAD Gallery Berlin
17.07.20 (dj) CÚKR ambient stage, secret location
10.07.20 (virtual installation) Passing one loop into another, NBK Berlin
02.07.20 (live) Rising Whisper. ACUD Macht Neu Berlin
27.06.20 Oneironautics III. live collective on Cashmere Radio
07.06.20 (cancelled) PhOEMina festival, Acqui Terme
30.05.20 Oneironautics II. live collective on Cashmere Radio
21.04.20 (cancelled) Music for Cinemas, Rauschpalast Berlin
19.04.20 (cancelled) Anthropocene party, Prague
05.04.20 (cancelled) Q3A Ambientfest, Fabrik Potsdam
28.03.20 (cancelled) Borsig Amp Fest, Kesselhaus Herzberge Berlin
08.03.20 (live AV) Vaguement Ensemble @ Oneironautics I. Arkaoda Berlin
16.02.20 (live) Furry Casino, Berlin
25.01.20 (live) Punktum, Prague

[2019]

06.12.19 (live) Mensch Meier, Berlin
05.12.19 (live AV) Wassertanz preview
with Teres Bartunkova, West Germany Berlin
29.11 - 01.12. (installation) Permanent Wave Machine @ Zwitscher Gallery Berlin
22.11.19 (radio) Cashmere Radio
17.10.19 (live) ADE Dreamland, Klaproos Amsterdam
03-05.10 (installation) Enclosed Garden, Heroines Tbilisi
22.09.19 (live) Amplify, ACUD Berlin
07.09.19 (live) Sononami, LOFFT Leipzig
30.08.19 (live) Sonic Curiosities, Villa Kuriosum Berlin
29.08.19 (live) Tati goes experimental, Berlin
17.08.19 (dj) Mala Junta x MESS afterhours, Berlin
03.08.19 (live) Nachtdigital MINT ambient stage
20.07.19 (live) Summer of Doom, Open air Prague
05.07.19 (dj) UY ZONE afterparty, Kantine am Berghain Berlin
20.06.19 (live) w/ Orquesta Narval, MAZE Berlin
19.06.19 (live) w/ Orquesta Narval, Noizefabrik Berlin
26.05.19 (live) ALERTA secret location
25.05.19 (live) Drone Day, Berlin
14.04.19 (live) Q3A festival, Fabrik Potsdam
28.04.19 (dj) Punktum / Luft, Prague
05.05.19 (live) Noiseberg, Berlin
18.02.19 (installation) Planète Pacifique, UDK Berlin

[2018]

24.11.18 (live) DIETL Archiv, Polygon, Prague
04.09.18 (live) Hystereo, Berlin Community Radio
02.09.18 (live) Tchnienia festival, Poland
26.08.18 (dj) Wildt, Prague
25.08.18 (dj) Polygon Tag 3, Prague
03.08.18 (live) The Lodge, USA
06.07.18 (live) Drone sleepover, Berlin
27.05.18 (live) Seaweed Sonntags, Berlin
19.05.18 (live) Nowhere in particular, Prague
15.04.18 (live) Q3A festival, Fabrik Potsdam
19.03.18 (dj) Liquidation totale, LYL radio
02.03.18 (dj) Blue Panther show, Rinse FM France
15.02.18 (live) Madame Claude Berlin
17.01.18 (dj) Loophole, Berlin
11.08.17 (live) The Lodge, USA

Bumm bumm und dottn dottn
Member of Klokombinat

Upcoming:
06.09.25 tiny pressure (Berlin)

Booking: ray.vernico@gmail.com

Past:
31.06.25 Konzerthaus Berlin b2b Preffi Riot
30.11.24 Humboldthain (Berlin)
20.09.24 Tante Frizzante (Berlin) 
06.09.24 ://about blank (Berlin)

For the rights of sex workers - Against stigma and criminalisation.

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