Nino Theys

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                                         Selected work:

 

Unstable System  (live)    Concept of hybrid performance/ installation on a kinetic setup, where instruments dance to their own sound. Suspended on a motorized pulley system, the synthesizers rise and fall, driven autonomously by their own volume.
Absurdly, the instrument begins to play the performer.
Premiered at Monopol Berlin, April 16th 2025, 35 min.
Light by Studio Kodek        

Chorals (sound installation)      Sound installation by Julian Charrière transforms a chalk cave into an ephemeral reef, where layers of recorded marine bioacoustics seem to emanate from the walls themselves.
Through on-site composition and acoustic measurements, the piece play with perception of space by extracting, exaggerating, and bending its resonant frequencies.
The cave is no longer just a container for sound, but its source.
Permanently installed at Maison Ruinart, Reims France.
12.1 audio format, 9’12” continuous loop  
       
Photo by Ruinart for Julian Charrière 
Chorals, 2025
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany

AV collaboration with Brice L. Edwards (live)    Hybrid performance / installation where sound becomes visible. A fixed laser beam reflects off a mirror plate connected to a transducer, translating sound into physical vibration. The result is a three-dimensional mechanical oscilloscope: fragile geometries shifting to sound and traced through haze.
Commissioned for Dreamscape Festival, Tallinn, March 15, 2026, 50 min.
Audio reactive light sculpture by Brice L. Edwards.
      

Rhetorical Silence  (sound installation)      For 168h straight, contemporary artist Mathias Gramoso inhabited a spherical chamber, isolated from time, space, and sound.
I sound-monitored the performance throughout its duration, capturing his breathing, singing, and other sounds, which later became part of an exhibition soundscape built around the sphere’s 84 Hz resonant frequency.        

Midnight Zone (film soundtrack)

   Original Composition & Sound Design for Midnight Zone, a film by contemporary artist Julian Charrière, supported by OMR Gallery and the Schmidt Ocean Institute. Later, sound design for a subsequent version by Laurel Halo.
Exhibited at MHNCA, Mexico City; Museum Tinguely, Basel; Perrotin, Tokyo...
4K film, 16:10 aspect ratio, 4.1 audio format, 54 min.

Monopol Berlin  (live)     Serie of 4 Live Performances at Monopol on August 23, 24, 30, 31st 2024. For Organysmo, stage by LedPulse & DLB Kinetic Lights
Visuals by Gokalp

Disillusion of a Machine (LP)    Collection of soundscapes in between Ambient and Drone, recorded from very simple sound sources, often pure sine tones, then shaped through various physical/tactile audio processes such as springs, feedback, faulty circuits, hands.
The sound that comes out of it is aimed to be palpable, almost as an illusion for these machines to be.
Recorded in Funkhaus Berlin, released on all digital platforms + CD production, 27.03.25

Hear the Shapes  (live)      Concept of Analog Drawing / Sound live concert, in collaboration with Fred Theys.
Blank Pages collectif X WinterMünze, at Alte Münze
Berlin, 07.12.24

Hošek Contemporary (live)    Live set on the gallery boat Hošek Contemporary, for Sonic Havoc, Berlin 02.05.24

Litter Decomposition (live)

•    Multi-Speaker Live Performance (8 channels) for
• “From All Sides” Festival, Funkhaus Berlin
• 12.04.24

Le Temps du Rêve (live)

•     Ongoing concept of interactive and improvised
• drawing concert in collaboration with Fred Theys
• Réunion Island, Mayotte, Bretagne, Berlin,
• 2020 -> now

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