Kai Niggemann
Climate And Violence
buchla / modular / modular synth / ambient
Component Recordings
CLIMATE AND VIOLENCE (2025) is Kai Niggemann’s second solo album.
The successor to HEART MURMUR (2019) grew out of composer Kai Niggemann’s work on the soundtrack for the performance „Denkraum der Utopien. Eine Performance der Wissenschaften“, a work confronting climate change and inviting audiences into action. Written between November 2020 and April 2021, much of the music took shape during lockdown in Brandenburg, where Niggemann worked with a stripped-down studio: a Buchla 200e modular system, guitar, laptop, small speakers, an audio interface, and a compact eurorack synth for granular processing.
His method was one of constant transformation—recordings of instruments, radio, and field sounds were layered, filtered, and re-synthesized until their origins dissolved into new textures. Initially composed to accompany three scientists on stage, the music also underscored abstract choreography, such as the movement piece “We move when they move.”
The first presentation, streamed during lockdown, was digital only. But in July 2021, as theaters reopened, the piece expanded into a full performance.
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