ELECTRONIC MUSIC
NEWS
12 SEPT 2024 - 20-23h - “TABLE OF TONE” group perfomance with ZONA D at ZK/U "No Departures Without Arrivals", Part of Berlin Art Week ZK/U—Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Studio 12. Siemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin
Soft Waves out on Here Free Press on digital and 15 limited edition CDs
Autosampler on Hard Return (2022)
Album Fuzziness on Jollies Records (2021)
AARCHIVESSOUND FIVE Some field recordings and a track realized with water, whales, spirit and soul. Edition of 60 copies - numbered and signed.
Live set the 9th of June at Christa Kupfer on United We Stream - Arte Concert:
My album "Melt Map" is out on digital and limited edition cassettes:
ABOUT
Kritzkom is the solo project of Marine Drouan, musician and graphic designer, from Nantes (France) living in Berlin. She produces and play live electronic music with an assortment of machines interacting together. Her career as musician, DJ and producer started in 2002 in France where she studied graphic design. In 2008 she decided to move to Berlin to be more focused on her music. She worked the last ten years on several projects with releases on different labels like Hard Return, Jollies Records, Seagrave, Where To Now? Records, Hylé Tapes, Disorientation...
She composes regularly soundtracks for videos or short movies. Exploring and connecting noisy textures and patterns. Observing and recording the nature, navigating between different hypnotic sounds.
LISTEN
Tracks
Ursus Maritimus, released on the compilation "Remembrance Species 2020"
"Infinite" on the compilation KEDI 2 on Baumusik
Album "Melt Map" on Disorientation. Oct. 2019
South South on Hylé Tapes' compilation "self-identified non-male artists making experimental electronic music"
Album "Void Minus Matter" on Seagrave April 2017
Live set
Dj set / podcasts
Listen to the radio show I prepared: JOLLIES W/ KRITZKOM — 14.02.21 hosted by Austin Watts on Internet Public Radio. For this matter I recorded a live set featuring many of my recents tracks, some unreleased loops and field recordings I collected in the last years.
next performances
12 SEPT 2024 - 19-22h - “TABLE OF TONE” group perfomance with ZONA D at ZK/U "No Departures Without Arrivals" Part of Berlin Art Week, Berlin
previous performances and gigs
*STREAMING* 9th of JUNE 2020 at 20:00 CET - Live at Circle / United We Stream / Arte Concert from Christa Kupfer - Berlin
*POSTPONED* 10 APRIL 2020 - Live at Circle - Suicide Circus Berlin
21 SEPT 2019 - Modular live, part of the performance "Unangenehme Gefühle 2, Lüggen" - Friends With Books at Hamburger Bahnhof - Berlin, Germany
20 APR 2019 - Live at Computer Grrrls x Comme Nous Brûlons with: Gazelle Twin, Hante & rkss. La Gaité Lyrique, Paris - France
19 JAN 2019 - Modular live part of the performance "Unangenehme Gefühle 2, Lüggen" - Kunsthalle Wien - Austria
30 OCT 2018 - 'bOrrOwed recOrds' dj set with OiG and MeFisTo @ Möbel Olfe, Berlin - Germany
27 JAN 2018 - part of AMALGAMA experience / part of the Transmediale Vorspiel @ Gr_und, Berlin - Germany
17 NOV 2017 - DJ set at DokfestLounge - Kassel - Germany
23 JUN 2017 - Live / VOID MINUS MATTER (double) release party with Mimicof - Ausland - Berlin
17 NOV 2016 LIVE at ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin
26 JUNE 2016 - LIVE at Studio Chérie - Berlin
27 MAY 2016 - LIVE at NOISE KITCHEN SYNTH MEETING 2 - Brno - Czech Republic
30 AUG > 06 SEPT - Art Residency - Hai Art - Hailuoto, Finland
24 JAN 2014 - dj set - Acud Macht Neu - Berlin
15 NOV 2014 - live with Kontakt Sappho Kantine Berghain - Berlin
24 OCT 2014 - live (with ANNA OTTO) - Tresor - Berlin
25 OCT 2014 - live at Music Tech Fest - Berlin
more gigs
PERFORMANCES and INSTALLATIONS
Unangenehme Gefühle 2 - Lügen“.A conversation piece by Sonja Cvitkovic and Megan Francis Sullivan - group perfomance / Kunsthalle Wien - Austria” (2019)
“AMALGAMA Experience” group perfomance ZONA DYNAMIC / Gr_und, Berlin (2018)
"Kontakt Sappho" performance with Sappho / Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2016)
"Gradiant gradiant" performance with Black Palm / Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2015)
"Turn Around" installation with Romain Frequency / Berghain, Berlin (2015)
“Kontakt Sappho” performance for the Edition release Flipping the Coin with Sonja Cvitkovic, Michaela Meise and Birgit Megerle / Berghain Kantine, Berlin (2013)
RELEASES
SOLO
2023: Kritzkom - Soft Waves- Here Free Press (digital + CD)
2022: Kritzkom - Autosampler- Hard Return (digital)
2021: Kritzkom - Fuzziness- Jollies (tape + digital)
2020: Kritzkom - AARCHIVESSOUNDD FIVE- AARCHIVESSOUNDD(numbered and signed limited edition on vinyl)
2019: Kritzkom - Melt Map- Disorientation (tape + digital)
COMPILATIONS
2020: "Rememberance Species 2020" / track "Ursus Maritimus" (digital)
2020: "Les Disques Confiné.e.s" / series of tracks "Suspended Time During The Coronavirus Lockdown" (digital)
2020: "KEDI 2" / track "Infinite" (USB Stick + digital)
2017: Nona "Unchained" / track "Gravity's Rainbow (extended)" (tape + digital)
2017: Hylé Tapes "self - identified…" / track "South South" (tape + digital)
2016: Seagrave "Interpretosis" / track "Fluctuation" (digital)
2015: Seagrave "This Few Bones" / track "Circadien"
2015: CIRCE :The Black Cut: project / 2 tracks
2015: Female Pressure Revellers Comp1 / track "Huit"
2011: Ich bin ein berliner #1 / Kemijärvi
Collaborations
2015: Miko - Gelée
PRESS
A few articles and reviews:
Content Aware Review on Cassette Gods - 2021 (en)
Fuzziness Review on Cassette Gods - 2021 (en)
Groove: "Tapestry: Zehn Tapes zur richtigen Zeit
", 2021 (de)
The Brvtalits: "Kritzkom - Follow", 2021 (en)
WODJ Magazine: "Discussion avec Kritzkom : Quand le silence réveille la Techno", 2021 (fr)
Pepitestroniques: "Kritzkom dévoile son nouvel album, Fuzziness", 2021 (fr)
9 odd questions for music gear junkies (en)
Sampling Stories Vol. 19: Kritzkom (en)
Review of "Void Minus Matter" on Inverted Audio - 2017 (en)
PWFM - 2016 (fr)
Boomkat (Oscillopsea) Feb. 2016 (en)
Kaltblut Magazine (Mer Agitée EP and Noir Video) Oct. 2015 (en)
TAZ Blog (Turn Around installation) Oct. 2015 (en)
Outline Tape 2015 (en)
Noisey (de) 2013
COLLABORATIONS
I collaborate with Sonja Cvitkovic, creating music for videos or performances (Sappho, BlackPalm, Unangenehme Gefühle...)
Also part of the duo Miko. I Collaborated with Romain Frequency (Electrosexual) on an installation "Turn Around". In the past with Anna Otto and Stereonucleose.
I am part of female:pressure aiming to increase the visibility of women in electronic music.
Aschka, Rona Geffen & I, present the radio show Female Frequencies on Reboot FM and Chimeres Radio
SUPPORT
Featured in the documentary "Raw Chicks" about women in electronic mucic. Now available.
CONTACT
Booking for a live or dj set or any infos: info /at/ kritzkom.com
For music sync please contact: PWFM SYNC
Listen to more music: Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Bandcamp or stream on Spotify. And keep in touch with my Instagram,Twitter, or Facebook.
Listen to more music: Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Bandcamp or stream on Spotify. And keep in touch with my Instagram,Twitter, or Facebook.
