NXO25 – 25th Anniversary of the Nexialist Organization

Before the Nexialist Agency, there was the Nexialist Organization, a platform for my media projects. It all began 25 years ago ...

The Nexialist Organization was conceived as a transdisciplinary platform connecting architecture, music, and visual design through shared creative methods and theoretical inquiry. 

Astronaut logo created by Liis Roden

In the clandestine war on silence, there are no answers. Not only communication but culture itself begins to break down. When there are no answers, the manifestation of the future becomes vulnerable to sabotage from external forces. We become imprisoned within an endless nightmare of the present — frozen to standstill. In this sense, the only logical step is for the questions to become the answers — an act of self-recognition comparable to the turning of the mask as described by Vilém Flusser.

Nexialist was founded to create a platform for creative enterprises located between tangible architecture and audible music, with visual text as the binding element. Hence our motto: sound as architecture, architecture as text, text as design, design as sound. The nexus between these disciplines also inspired the tri-head — the un-copyrightable emblem of the Nexialist Organization. Rooted in methodologies derived from architectural and media theory, Nexialist applies these principles to projects spanning audio and visual production, design, text, action, and live performance. Nexialist.com was founded in 2000 by Mark Kammerbauer. The term Nexialist was first coined by A. E. van Vogt and derives from the Latin stem necto, meaning “to connect, weave, tie, or knot together.” It forms the basis for the word nexus, meaning “connection.” In this sense, the Nexialist stands at the focal point of multiple disciplines. The connection between architecture and music has generated a microcosm of research and creative work. As a general principle, we project the idea of the plan onto our projects — a discipline of thought that influences their material realization. The clash between plan and reality becomes an essential part of each work’s transformative process. The live operation thus becomes as significant as the conceptual stages of analysis, design, and reflection — where architecture and performance converge. Across two decades of production, the projects of the Nexialist Organization trace a consistent pursuit of connection — between disciplines, between human and machine, between structure and improvisation. Each work functions as both experiment and reflection, merging theoretical inquiry with material practice. From early explorations of sonic architecture to later site-specific investigations, the collection demonstrates an evolving language of interdependence: architecture as sound, sound as space, performance as method. The tension between plan and reality, design and transformation, remains the central current throughout — the moment when the question itself becomes the answer.

One of the first Nexialist projects was the formatting of groups of audio recordings and sessions into a series of limited-release documents with minimal design and packaging — part of a deliberate plan process. Halforganic is the title of a series of compositions and performances recorded and issued with accompanying artwork in various formats between 2000 and 2003. Altogether, ten different CDs, cassette tapes, and vinyl records — along with printed materials — were produced and released in limited editions under the Nexialist imprint. They represent a creative evolution from danceable electronic tracks to spatial-acoustic explorations, from live performances to analog-digital improvisations. Most performances took place in New York City and marked a decisive shift toward a noisier, more spontaneous sound. The final phase of Halforganic rejected genre conventions and traditional song structures, embracing an unrestrained, improvisational approach influenced by ambient and experimental performers as well as modern classical composers.

Review in Debug: "Halforganic is a sound collective of sorts, consisting of multiple acts (Instantbul, Torso, Fragment King, N.Deiker, Pathomechanical and various constellations thereof). The tracks oscillate between noisescapes, dark analogue electro-breaks, chipmonster-drumandbass, and dark worlds bordering electronica. Darkness seems to be a necessity, just as the city center of Stuttgart, and Fragment King sometimes peeks through the modestly morbid vision with some silly ideas, with a solid joy for the dissonant and clattery. Get your warm stuff on, it'll be a cold winter."

For this post and this occasion, I updated the Bandcamp version with additional recordings and a live bonus.

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