{"id":53410,"date":"2017-06-23T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=53410"},"modified":"2017-06-23T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:00:29","slug":"nik-nowak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/nik-nowak\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Artist Nik Nowak Unveils Solo Exhibition in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53418 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Nik-Nowak.jpeg\" alt=\"Nik Nowak\" width=\"3715\" height=\"2787\" \/> Artwork by Nik Nowak<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade, Berlin-based artist Nik Nowak has spent his time building a diverse series of sound objects. Combining art, sound and music, Nowak\u2019s objects are designed to operate as both sculptures and functional sound systems. Even if you haven&#8217;t heard his name, you may already know Nowak&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-jbmDcSBkoY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundtank<\/a>&#8220;, a behemoth machine that&#8217;s part-Jamaican sound system, part-tank and part-stealth aircraft. Performing with his objects, Nowak creates sound collages that focus on the psychic and physical effects of sound as well as the use of sound to occupy space. From soundscapes, quotes and his own compositions, the results operate as a sound essay.<br \/>\nFor his latest solo exhibition, entitled &#8220;Infra\/Ultra&#8221; and on display at Berlin&#8217;s Alexander Levy gallery, Steve Goodman, a lecturer of Music Culture at the University of East London, founder of the record label Hyperdub and friend of the artist, describes Nowak as approaching the concept of an &#8220;&#8216;unsound system \u2013 as opposed to a sound system \u2013 silent, with frequencies both too high and low in pitch to hear. The work charts the migration of vibrations across borders, between the audible and the inaudible, actual and virtual, past and future. Nowak&#8217;s unsound system threads together sonic virtuality, perception and time.&#8221;<br \/>\nGoodman offers insight into Nowak&#8217;s process, &#8220;While trailing on the Austrian Alps in 2016, Nowak ventured inside the mountains&#8221; and recorded the sounds of his new environment, a landscape of inaudible sounds including ice dripping, wind turbines, bats, insects, animals and all sorts of household electronics. &#8220;Because all of these sound sources emit vibrations, Nowak used auditory prosthetics, enhanced microphones or customised recording device to upgrade and therefore exceed the human sensorium, making these inaudible ranges of noise and sounds&#8221; more accessible. Like the blood running through our veins, &#8220;these sounds are still capable of producing neurological effects or physiological resonances, modulating both thought and the body.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn post-production, Nowak deleted all the audible content he recorded, aestheticising his impossible noises to reveal the not yet audible, the untapped potential. A sphere of sound that always existed but we, as humans, had never accessed before. Doing so, Nowak raises questions of identity, such as: &#8220;What do we really know about the environment people come from?&#8221; and &#8220;How can we perceive ourselves in where we are now?&#8221;<br \/>\nWithin the installation, Goodman details, &#8220;the bass is played through a vibrating platform sheathed in acoustic foam on which visitors can recline, with six speakers playing the high\/mid tones from a construction above,&#8221; giving us the opportunity to widen our perception and sensibility into new spheres and memories of constellations.<br \/>\n<strong>Nik Nowak&#8217;s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/alexanderlevy.net\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Infra\/Ultra<\/a>\u201d is on display at Alexander Levy gallery in Berlin from 24 June until 29 July 2017<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin&#8217;s Alexander Levy gallery presents new solo exhibition from sound artist Nik Nowak<\/p>","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":53419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[8878,34,1072,8879,3791],"class_list":["post-53410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-alexander-levy","tag-berlin","tag-exhibition","tag-nik-nowak","tag-sound-art"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sound Artist Nik Nowak Unveils Solo Exhibition in Berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On display until 29 July 2017, Berlin&#039;s Alexander Levy gallery presents a new solo exhibition from sound artist Nik Nowak.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/nik-nowak\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sound Artist Nik Nowak Unveils Solo Exhibition in Berlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On display until 29 July 2017, Berlin&#039;s Alexander Levy gallery presents a new solo exhibition from sound artist Nik Nowak.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/nik-nowak\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-23T13:00:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Laurent Petit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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