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Dr.Nojoke
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Clikno
live-act / producer / musician / performer / composer
Frank Bogdanowitz alias Dr. Nojoke is a producer and performer – his live sets continually bring
new and unique sounds to the table, a combination of field-recordings, self-made sounds,
and highly conceptual production that redefine the way we understand electronic music.
A Berlin native and leader in directional minimal techno (or “clikno” as he describes it), Dr. Nojoke is a master of
rethinking ordinary musicality and procuring new uses for the everyday.
His childhood was imprinted by the squeaking sound of mono-kitchen-radio music. His youth was spent in
headphone-trips with electronic and progressive music. The music lessons in school were a disaster, but the first
guitar came as inevitable as Punk!
While doing wild experiments with guitar, Casio, echo- and tape-machine at home he played in diverse bands
alternative music like Punk, Indie, Garage, Beat, Surf, Polka, Dub, Breakbeat...
With the project elektroblitz mitte he realized seven film- and seven theatre-scores plus some trailers combining
electronic production with real instruments. In 2010 he created the music for the dance-performance “what my neck
remembers my head will forget” of the Danish dancer Christiane Borch.
CLIKNO
Since 2005 Dr.Nojoke has been working on technoid sound-sculptures based on his archive of self-made audio- and
field-recordings. He defines a dubby, groovy, minimal, quirky, hypnotic and complex music, he calls Clikno.
Always with an experimental approach in production Dr.Nojoke relinquishes conventional rave-signals and typical
techno sounds and samples [such as the 101, TB303 or 808/909 drum machines]. Instead he prefers to play around
with his own fragmented and treated “acoustic” sounds, which he forms to highly technological music.
Dr.Nojoke also attaches great importance to the development of unusual and randomly harmony- and melodyschemes, non-stereotypical sounds and hook-lines, which willingly break up clichés.
He has been releasing on a multitude of labels such as Pheek's imprint Archipel, Klangscheiben, Pluie/Noir,
Minim.all, NOOK, Autist, Resopal, Coal, Cavern, Concrete … on his own imprint UNOIKI and in 2015 his album
FALLING & WALKING on Sleep is Commercial.
He did remixes for acts like Rosenstolz, Dinamoe, Pheek, David Last and D.Diggler as well as for the English Electropoetress Caro Snatch, Autist Records boss M_Ferri or Sven Laux, Andrew Duke, Andrés Marcos and many more.
LIVE
Amidst all this well-considered concept is of course the element of fun and serendipity. The live show may feature
instruments such as radio, crushed plastic bottles, jew´s harps, souvenirs and toys as Dr.Nojoke celebrates the joy of
finding special sounds in everyday objects not usually appreciated for their musicality.
This is part of the magic and fun of his performances.
Since 2005 he carried out solo-performances in galleries, clubs and festivals notably at ARMA 17 (Moscow), Piknic
Electronik (Montreal), Freerotation Festival (Wales), Freqs of Nature (Germany), Waha Festival (Romania), Festival
Paysages Electroniques (Lille), Live Performers Meeting (Rome), Netaudio Festival Berlin and London, Universo
Parallelo (Brasil), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Boom Festival (Portugal), Save Festival (Moscow), Sol-Fest (Spain), XBass Festival (Napels), …
Dr.Nojoke is serious about what he does, but he doesn’t take himself too seriously.
CURRENT RELEASE
FALLING & WALKING CD album on Sleep is Commercial click here
CURRENT PROJECTS
 UNOIKI - label, collective and network, launched on 01-01-2010 www.unoiki.net
 POOL Berlin – collective and network of DJs, producers, VJs and fans of minimal, deep, glitch techno
 PLO – Pool Laptop Orchestra – open ensemble for live-improvised electronic music for six players
 Paralelo - live-jam project together with J-Lab. Launch gig at Club Transmediale 2009
Current album and performance: “Berlin Wall of Sound” out on UNOIKI
 Anomali – solo project of narrative dronescapes around the topic “essence & emptiness”
CONTACT
Frank Bogdanowitz | Grünberger Strasse 73 | 10245 Berlin | Germany
mobile +49-176–2395 2163 | skype: dr.nojoke | [email protected] | www.drnojoke.de
BOOKING
[email protected] | http://www.klangscheiben.de/artists/dr-nojoke
WEBPAGE
AUDIO
PICS
www.drnojoke.de
www.soundcloud.com/dr-nojoke
www.flickr.com/photos/drnojoke
FACEBOOK
RELEASES
VIDEOS
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www.discogs.com/artist/Dr.+Nojoke
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