Photo:
Kerstin FolleniusINFO/BIO
Dr.Nojoke was born in Berlin and stayed there since then. His childhood was imprinted by the squeaking sound of mono-kitchen-radio music. His youth was spent in headphone-trips with electronic and progressive music. The music lessons in school were a disaster, but the first guitar came as inevitable as Punk!
At home he did wild experiments with guitar, Casio, synthesizer, organ, tape-recorder and echo-machine. With bands he tried to express himself in Punk, Garage, Beat, Dark Wave, Alternative, Surf, Polka, Dub, Breakbeat and Indie-Pop. Little by little Dr.Nojoke purchased equipment for building-up a homestudio. Together with the project elektroblitz mitte he produced seven film- and seven theatre-soundtracks. Slowly he oriented himself towards electronic music/production.
Since 2005 he carried out solo-performances in galleries, clubs and festivals such as the Boom Festival (Portugal), Freerotation Festival (Wales), Festival Paysages Electroniques (Lille), Live Performers Meeting (Rome), Netaudio Festival Berlin and London, Universo Parallelo (Brasil), Club Transmediale (Berlin) and many others…
He performed in South Africa, Brazil, Sweden, Italy, United Kingdom, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Ukrainia, Portugal and France and off course Germany.
RELEASES / PROJECTS
After the first hardware-productions Die Hypnokommode (1999), Flub-Dubs #1 (2000) & #2 (2001) Dr.Nojoke switched to digital production and released two albums on the label phonector - Flucht nach Barbylon (2004) and Barbylon Tapes II (2005), which is a melt of Dub, Electronica, Techno, Breakbeat, Clicks & Cuts, Minimal and Ambient.
Lateron he focussed on danceable beats - which he calls CLIKNO - and released regularly EPs, compilation tracks and remixes for labels such as Anorakism, Autist, Archipel, Kalimari, Resopal, Leporelo, Deepindub, Mischievous… (see list on discogs).
In December 2010 the 6-track album GLANDRIDI was released on Pheek´s Archipel record label.
He did remixes for acts like Rosenstolz, Pheek and D.Diggler as well as for the English Electro-poetress Caro Snatch, Sven Laux or Autist Records boss M_Ferri.
Dr.Nojoke participated on the (Club-) Transmediale regularly since 2006: on the instant-label project 33.99 Records / in 2008 on the Sonic Wargame by Xavier von Wersch and at CTM 2009 he performed together with Servando Barreiro and J-Lab as part of the Netlabel meeting.
2009 saw Dr.Nojoke expanding his activities into the visual, audiovisual, dance, experimental and improvisational direction.
- HORROR VACUIis an interactive audiovisual dance performance researching on “emptiness”. visuals: vitaminK+ (Tritamin Kollektiv), dance/choreography: Carolin Goedecke, music: Dr.Nojoke!
- TRIoonis an audiovisual live jam project with laptops, effect devices, guitars and minitronics featuring Servando Barreiro, J-Lab and me. The launch gig was at Club Transmediale 2009. Lately involved in the Berlin Wall of Sound project, which had its premiere at the Netaudio Festival Berlin 2009.
- In 2009 Dr.Nojoke created a musical score to the experimental short film 147 from Micarus
- He started jamming live on four laptops with the guys "Erased Bodies" (Italy), "SH-i" (Israel) and "Substance G" (Wales) he met on the Ableton Live Users Group meetings in Berlin. Working tilte is Transit Audio.
- He collaborated with the danish dancer Christine Borch on her solo performance What my neck remembers my head will forget!
- On 01-01-2010 Dr.Nojoke launched UNOIKI, a label, collective and network, a platform for experimental electronic (club-) music and interdisciplinary projects.
CLIKNO
Since 2005 Dr.Nojoke has been working on technoid sound-sculptures based on his archive of self-made audio- and field-recordings he collected over the years. He defines a dubby, funky, minimal, quirky, clicky micro-cut-up-music, he calls Clikno.
Always with an experimental approach in production Dr.Nojoke relinquishes the conventional rave-signals and typical Techno sounds [as the TB303 or 808/909 drum machines]. Instead he prefers to play around with his fragmented and digitally treated “acoustic” sounds, which he forms to highly technological dance music. He also attaches great importance to the development of unusual and randomly harmony- and melody-schemes, non-stereotypical sounds and hooklines, which willingly break up clichés.
LIVE
Amidst all this well-considered concept is of course the element of fun and serendipity. The live show may feature instruments such as radio, crushed plastic bottles and souvenirs as Dr.Nojoke celebrates the joy of finding special sounds in everyday objects not usually appreciated for their musicality. This is part of the magic and fun of his performances.
Dr.Nojoke is serious about what he does, but he doesn’t take himself too seriously.
For booking inquires please contact me under
dr.nojoke@gmx.de
llisten to live-set here
Band-History
Composition, lyrics, vocals, guitar
Final Curtain
(Dark Wave-Punk, 1986)
Weird Scenes (Folk-Psycho-Beat,
1988-1991)
Love Bomb (Garage-Punk-Alternative-Pop,
1989-1990/1993-1995)
The Weirdo Stompers (Surf,
1991-1997)
Guitar
Jackethive (Brit-Pop, 1995)
Schulze´s Hölle (Trash-Schlager,
1995)
Farfisa-organ,
sound-FX
Big Jim (Breakbeat-Post-Pop, 1999)
Bass-Balalaika
Apparatschik (Polka, 1997-2000)
Bass
Turn
Marshalls (Surf, 1997/1998)
Astromama (Surf,
1999-2001)
Ivo Lotion & Die Mariachis, the
Lokalrunde-Band in the Kurvenstar club, Berlin
(HipHop-Reggae-Soul-Schlager, 2000-2002)
X.A.Cute Sound System
(Illmatic Dub, Breakbeats, Visuals, 2000-2002)
Guitar,
Bass,
Groove-Box,
FX,
Computer, Composition, Production
elektroblitz mitte
(Lo-Fi-Punk-Pop and Hi-Sci-Electro-experiments since 1997)
electronics,
production,
cooperations
Dr.Nojoke, (since
1999, Clikno
and live sets since 2005)
Horror Vacui, audiovisual dance performance
(since 2009)
TRIoon, audiovisual live improvisation (since 2009)
Transit Audio, improvisational laptop quartet
(since 2009)
Christine Borch
- what my
head remembers my head will forget, solo dance
performance with
live electronics (2010)