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Nico Daleman (Bogotá 1989) is a Colombian-born sound artist and researcher based in Berlin. His compositions and installations prropose radical forms of sonic perception through an exploration of the spectral and spatio-temporal charateristics of sound, striving for a rejection of musical conventions. Digital enviroments based on audio data analysis, music information retrieveal and machine listening methodologies generate dynamic soundscapes that oscillate between colorful textures and overwhelming walls of noise. His performances are characterized by constant search for bodily interaction, where coexisting sonic entities organize themselves through recursive loops and gestural acts, blurring the boundaries between the digital and the human.

With a background in audio engineering and musicology, his research explores the influence of music technology on current practices of contemporary music and sound art, focusing on cybernetics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and non-western musical traditions.

His pieces have been shown in Errant Sound, Syndicate of Space and Sound, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Schwartzsche Villa, CLB at Aufbau Haus, and Muffathalle in Munich. Recent performances include Noiseberg Berlin 2024, Impuls Festival Leipzig 2023, Festival En El Acto de Sonar Bogotá 2023, Soy&Synth 2022, Soundance Berlin 2021, ZKM next_generation 2019, among many other venues in Germany and Colombia.

His research has been presented at the Ultima Festival Curating Course 2023, CTM Research Network 2023, Harvard Graduate Forum 2022, Digital Libraries for Musicology 2021 and Sound of Sound Studies 2021, ICAD 2021, SysMus 2021, IFC 2020  and the MIC creativity Conference 2021 and 2020. His writings have been published in Klang Magazine, MusikTexte, Positionen and the Berliner Festspiele Blog.  

He is the host of "The Rest is Music", a monthly show on Cashmere Radio that explores practices of contemporary music and experimental electronic music on the periphery of the canon. Since 2023 is a member of the sound art collective Errant Sound and the Speculative Lab of the Matters of Activity Cluster of Excelence at the Humboldt University Berlin. Nico studied Audio Engineering, Musicology and Sound Studies & Sonic Arts in Bogotá, Boston, and Berlin.


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