electronic music producer | live act | writer | raver | it's political — let's be difficult
Sonae is an electronic music artist based in cologne, and part of label collective monika werkstatt. her debut album was released 2015 with monika enterprise /berlin. afterwards artist in residence at klingklang studio /düsseldorf, women in computer music scholarship at CCRMA of stanford university /usa, master degree in popular music at folkwang university of arts /essen. 2018 release of her second album ‘I Started Wearing Black’ “a striking album” Fluid Radio UK followed by her remix-album ‘Music For People Who Shave Their Heads’ 2019 with bit-phalanx /london. resident artist of NICA artist development program since autumn 2020. 2021 premiere of multi-media installation ‘Summer’ with video artist jennifer trees and release of same titled album with l a a p s music. DJ mixes for the wire, self-titled, vice, dublab.
“All the more reason to admire an already righteous artist.” The Wire
Sonae plays live solo and with monika werkstatt at places like institut für zukunft /leipzig, meakusma festival /belgium, ausland /berlin, pop kultur festival /berlin, fusion festival /lärz, uh-fest /budapest, cafe oto /london, 23rpm festival /london, the cube /bristol and more on the same bill with squarepusher, plaid, darkstar, kyoka, frank bretschneider, tim exile. Sonae lives and works in cologne.
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solo releases
SUMMER
laaps (2021)
https://laaps-records.com/album/summer
MUSIC FOR PEOPLE WHO SHAVE THEIR HEADS
bit-phalanx (2019)
https://bitphalanx.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-people-who-shave-their-heads
WEARING BLACK REMIXES
monika enterprise (2018)
https://sonae.bandcamp.com/album/wearing-black-remixes
I STARTED WEARING BLACK
monika enterprise (2018)
https://sonae.bandcamp.com/album/i-started-wearing-black
FAR AWAY … REMIXED EP
monika enterprise (2016)
https://sonae.bandcamp.com/album/far-away-remixed-ep
FAR AWAY IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER
monika enterprise (2015)
http://www.monika-enterprise.de/releases/far-away-is-right-around-the-corner/
remixes
BROMO – COPUOS – SONAE RMX
oigovisiones (2022)
https://oigovisioneslabel.bandcamp.com/track/copuos-sonae-rmx
BLINT – 92 AVENUE – SONAE RMX
blintmusik (2022)
https://blint.bandcamp.com/album/blint006-umwelt-sonae-remix
MAHENDRA – PARTIKEL – SONAE RMX
self-release (2022)
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/mahendra/partikel-feat-sonae-album-remix
DONNA MAYA – PEOPLE MOVER – SONAE RMX
sound sister records (2021)
https://soundsisterrecords.bandcamp.com/track/people-mover-sonae-remix
SI BEGG – VHS – SONAE RMX
noodles recordings (2020)
https://sibegg.bandcamp.com/track/vhs-sonae-remix
M_SESSIONS
monika enterprise (2021)
https://monikawerkstatt.bandcamp.com/album/m-sessions-reworks
AMBIENT SESSION
monika enterprise (2020)
https://monikawerkstatt.bandcamp.com/track/ambient-session-day-two-live-at-jewish-museum-berlin-27-april-2019
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS – DAEDELUS RMX
monika enterprise (2017)
https://monikaenterprise.bandcamp.com/track/between-two-worlds-daedelus-remix
MONIKA WERKSTATT
monika enterprise (2017)
https://monikawerkstatt.bandcamp.com/album/monika-werkstatt
LEISE FÄDEN
with danielle de piciotto (2017)
https://hackedepicciotto.bandcamp.com/album/leise-f-den