At Sonic Territories Festival in Vienna, Austria, I give the world premiere and my first and only solo performance of 2025: “Body, Bend”, a piece commissioned for embodied percussion and live electronics!
At Sonic Territories Festival in Vienna, Austria, collaborator Alex Hofmann and I will present a workshop of our project on combining “embodied percussion”, or body percussion, with live electronics. This happens on the eve of my first ever performance of the piece commissioned for this project!
At Vienna’s largest photo biennale, I will share a listening session through the music of Halim El-Dabh.
Nyokabi Kariũki shares research into the longstanding and inextricable relationship between the African body, movement, and soundmaking - both individually and communally. This workshop also invites participants to inquire about their own relationships to sound-making with their bodies.
Looking forward to bringing my guided listening session on Halim El-Dabh’s otherwordly music to Malmö, Sweden, as part of my residency hosted by fors & Retreat Radio.
An evocative symbiosis of human voice, cello and birdsong — first premiered at Rewire 2025, now at the third stop: Amersfoort, for SeptemberMe Festival.
An evocative symbiosis of human voice, cello and birdsong — first premiered at Rewire 2025, now at Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam (NL), as part of “The Rest Is Noise'“ series!
Tickets: € 12,50–€ 25,00 /
In 2022, Gaudeamus paired the octet with Nyokabi to perform pieces from her debut EP peace places: kenyan memories live. Three years later, they connect again to perform a new commission: Birdsongs from Kĩrĩnyaga.
I team up with music technologist Dr. Astrid Bin to get closer towards the crux of my piece, “Meditations on the Sounding African Body.” Here, we will present our findings so far at the Institute for Musical Acoustics (IWK) in Vienna, at a symposium organised as the culmination of research by Dr. Alex Hofmann.
I have unfortunately had to pull out from this last minute do to a family emergency, and I’m sorry for anyone who was looking forward to seeing me here. Please be on the lookout for other Vienna dates coming up though!
Ten internationally pioneering female composers* who explore our globalized present in a multi-voiced way are the focus of two concerts with Klangforum Wien. The audience will experience a wealth of inspiring artistic signatures of a global, second, feminist modernity.
I am OVER THE MOON to be collaborating with Cello Octet Amsterdam again! The world premiere of my new work, ‘Birsdongs from Kĩrĩnyaga’, will be performed in April at Rewire Festival in The Hague, NL.
I am OVER THE MOON to be collaborating with Cello Octet Amsterdam again! The world premiere of my new work, ‘Birsdongs from Kĩrĩnyaga’, will be performed in April at Rewire Festival in The Hague, NL.
A little try-out concert with Cello Octet Amsterdam, in advance of our premiere at Rewire Festival in The Hague!
Kilele Summit is a first-of-its-kind music innovation symposium in Nairobi. Following the success of the first edition, the Kilele team in Nairobi we are super excited to welcome you back for the second edition, taking place on February 18-25th, 2025!
Stay tuned to hear more on how I’ll be involved this time around :)
At the inaugural SQUARE, a festival-conference part of Braga ‘25, Kenyan artist and researcher Nyokabi Kariũki will talk to Joshua Minsoo Kim (Tone Glow) about her research “On learning that one of the first electronic works was by an African, Halim El-Dabh”.
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Dec 07 2024, 7 p.m // Band On The Wall, Manchester, UK // Tickets here
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Dec 06 2024, 7 p.m // Islington Assembly Hall, London, UK // Tickets here
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Thu Dec 05 2024, 7 p.m // Trinity Centre, Bristol, UK // Tickets here
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Tuesday Dec 04 2024, 7 p.m // Ha Concerts, Ghent, Belgium // Tickets here
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Mon Dec 02 2024, 7 p.m // Zonnehuis, Amsterdam, NL //Tickets here
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Sat Dec 01 2024, 7:30 p.m // La Maroquinerie, Paris, FR // Tickets here
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Fri Nov 29 2024, 7 p.m // Dudelange, Luxembourg // Tickets here
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall to support her 2024 EU/UK Tour!
Wed Nov 27, 20:00 // Slaktkyrkan, Stockholm // Tickets here
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Tuesday 26. nov. 2024, 19:00 // John Dee, Oslo // Tickets here
Back on the road with Julia Holter this Fall, supporting her EU/UK Tour!
Sunday Nov 24 2024, 8 p.m // Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen, DK // Tickets here
A listening session of Temporary Stored II, a project by Kenyan ambient artist KMRU with contributions from Aho Ssan, Jessica Ekomane, Lamin Fofana, Nyokabi Kariũki and Bhavisha Panchia. After the listening, there will be an artist Q&A with Kamaru, Jessica Ekomane and Nyokabi Kariũki.
Update: Unfortunately due to illness, I will not be attending for the Q&A. Sad to miss it, but it’ll be amazing anyway :)
My work among other works by Afrodiasporic composers, performed by International Contemporary Ensemble at The Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
I join other incredible afrodiasporic composers at The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, to “discuss their understanding and articulations of interdisciplinarity in their work, including its cultural, affective, and historical references and contexts.”
I join panelists Monthati Masebe, Njabulo Phungula & Andile Khumalo to “discuss the state of African composition today—its present and future, both on the continent and beyond.” Taking place at at The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin.
In the beautiful Kuppellhalle of silent green, i'll be performing my final show of the year! I will bring out my piano fingers for this one. Likely a show marking a transition into a new era of music from yours truly🌷
