Adrienne Teicher

Tag: experimental

  • Drip Drip Drip

    Drip Drip Drip

    Dates

    3 November 2023Kasper Theater Berlin

    Drip Drip Drip is the debut collaboration between multi-instrumentalist and producer Bartłomiej Kuźniak and transfeminine artist Adrienne Teicher. The work resides in a landscape of psychedelic post-techno, interwoven with whispered, sung and shouted meditations on what it means to have a body, and the strange ghosts that linger behind experiences of love and desire.

    “Both & Neither” is a fever dream, in which the swarm of forces that animate the “I” of self-identify manifest as deities in the rattle of Adrienne’s voice. The composition’s strong rhythmic foundations intersect with an undercurrent of extended harmonies brought to life by Kuzniak’s saxophone and an array of atonal synthesizers.

    “Ocean” submerges the listener in a world of fluid, undulating textures and subtle, pulsating rhythms. Ostensibly a love song, the text refuses reassuring cliches, seeing love – like the ocean – as a space which resists human territorialisations.

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    The sombre, haunting melodies of “My Body Is Not My Own” unearth the paradoxes at the root of bodily autonomy and the tension between self and society that rupture the ostensible freedom to “be who you want to be” in fading liberal capitalist democracies of the West.

    Finally, the cascading, hyper-caffeinated polyrhythms of ‘Hope’ transmit a sense of everyday life accelerated beyond human limits, of bodies burning too brightly and then burning out. Yet beneath this choppy surface, there is a glimmer of joy and serenity. Is it our salvation? Or simply the illusion which keeps us in the game?

    The mesmerising video for the track was created by the visual artist Mariusz Knysak. For this project he designed and built a fully analogue reactor that uses light and sound exchanging their energy through water. The entire installation was created solely by recycling used electronic devices, which is the Knysak’s hallmark.

    Credits

    Text and VocalsAdrienne Teicher
    Double Bass, Soprano Saxophone, Electric Bass, ContraphoneBartłomiej Kuźniak
    Sequencing, Sound Design, Music ProductionAdrienne Teicher, Bartłomiej Kuźniak
    High Definition Mixing MasteringBartłomiej Kuźniak, studio333.net
    “Hope” VideoMariusz Knysak
  • Nature

    Nature

    Nature distills thousands of hours of drone footage into a single trembling gaze—the eye of the Anthropocene witnessing its own childbirth. Here, the sublime terror of human expansion becomes palpable: bitumen spreading like mycelium, veins of industry pulsate across landscapes, the planet’s skin peeling back under our touch. This work lingers in the liminal moment where civilization tips between metamorphosis and necrosis, its hunger for dominion collapsing into autophagic ritual.

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    The video’s construction mirrors its thematic decay. Using a technique developed in collaboration with Kathryn Fischer (HYENAZ) and inspired by Tasman Richardson’s glitch ontology, every frame is surgically bound to fixed points in a soundscape that evokes the darker spectrum of 90s trance music. Image and sound fuse into synesthetic hemorrhage—scarred landscapes stutter like a scratched CD while glittering cities are spliced with slums, cut with broken gasps of text. This dystopian audiovisual rave creates the sense of human futurity as a nightmare in itself: it asks, is it more terrifying to imagine the end of humanity or its triumph?

    Credits

    Sound DesignAdrienne Teicher
    Video EditingAdrienne Teicher
    TextAdrienne Teicher
    Mix, MasterSteve Voidloss
  • Insecure

    Insecure

    Composed, filmed, and edited during early Covid lockdowns, Adrienne Teicher’s Insecure liquefies the domestic into a feed of glitching selfhood. Colored projections stain her body and walls—electric Rorschachs that melt to the mantra “I want you to see me / to feed me / to heal me.” Filmed alone, her movements pixelate into grotesque puppetry: limbs stretched by lens distortion, face a meltwater between light and shadow. Her image becomes confessional booth and funhouse mirror, flattening flesh into cartoon avatars that scream LOOK AT ME while cringing behind artifice.

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    Teicher’s voice frays at the edges—from demonic ASMR to autotuned panic attack. The title’s mantra—inseCURE, CUREinsecure—dissolves language into pathogen. The virus here is proxy: a phantom “other,” a social rot that predates Covid isolation but is momentarily subsumed by it.

    Live iterations escalate the rupture. Poems disintegrate into granular synthesis, Teicher’s body a flickering UI of desire and shame. Audiences confront a digital mime trapped in meatspace, liminal and shuddering at the boundaries between consciousnesses. Here, ancient alienation colonises or is colonised by the digital void into which intimacy ever further retreats.

    Credits

    Sound DesignAdrienne Teicher
    Video EditingAdrienne Teicher
    TextAdrienne Teicher
    Mix, MasterSteve Voidloss
  • Binaries

    Binaries

    Winner “Most Bizaare”, Berlin Music Video Awards 2016

    In Binaries, HYENAZ transmutes breath—the primal dyad of in/out—into a hyperventilating ritual for queer worldmaking. What begins as a rhythmic pulse escalates into a chaos magic crescendo: bodies and cameras spiral through absurdist pantomimes of “sacred/profane,” “curved/straight,” “hand/eye,” each binary fractured into flickering particles. The tension builds, breath by breath, until the breaking point—a gnostic rupture where intention blooms and viewers can send their desires for personal and political change into the universe.

    Scenes of ritualized absurdity performed by two sea-monster like creatures: frying an egg, drinking milk, pissing in a tub are diced into microscopic shards using the Jawa technique, a glitch alchemy HYENAZ learned from Tasman Richardson. These fragments syncopate with sound and pixel, stitching together a hallucinatory tapestry where meaning slips its seams. Stylist Yeorg Kronnagel drapes the performers in textures that blur grotesque and divine, while cinematographer Rilk Mob lenses the chaos through a prism of queered light, bending shadows into collaborators.

    This is critical magic as praxis: a refusal of fixed forms, a love letter to disintegration. Binaries invites you to breathe with its arrhythmia, to let your gaze stutter across its glitch-smeared syntax. There is no resolution here—only the fertile void where binaries combust, and from their ashes, something wilder stirs.

    Binaries is part of HYENAZ’s Critical Magic project, where performative rituals become sites of radical re-enchantment.

    CREDITS

    Lead ArtistHYENAZ
    MusicHYENAZ
    PerformersHYENAZ
    StylistYeorg Kronnagel
    CinematographerRilk Mob
    Video EditHYENAZ