Nick Klein is an artist working in sound and art and sometimes sound art with a lean towards the social potential in those modalities as they interact. Klein has recorded much music and shown work in visual art contexts. Klein is uninterested in the prohibitive ideological tropes and circumstances that both contexts offer and focuses the intent of his work on trying to see what productive energy comes from the friction between the two. Klein likes loud volume, cooking, offline community building, records, bars, synthesizers, and comedy. Klein is currently located in Berlin.

“The visceral sound of a Nick Klein record isn’t something that can be easily sourced or replicated,” writes Miami New Times. “This is partly due to Klein’s approach to texture, volume, and recording: In his hands, the medium becomes inescapably shaped by the material.”

At Skaņu Mežs 2024, Nick Klein will give a live performance, and also present a new installation work titled “Bone Setting”.

Nick Klein is a participating artist in the tekhnē project, supported by the European Union and The Ministry of Culture of Latvia. His performance at the festival is also supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding and Goethe-Institut Riga.