Tales of the Nexialist Organization

Critical Void encapsulates everything the Nexialist Organization set out to do: create projects at the intersection of architecture, music, and visual design through shared creative methods and theoretical inquiry.  A site-specific audio analysis and performance, Critical Void examined the planning crisis of Munich’s MaximiliansForum through sound, dialogue, and documentation. Critical Void performance, MaximiliansForum München. Photos: Andreas Graf  Critical Void is an analytical audio work based on an urban study of Munich’s MaximiliansForum and its complex planning history. Developed by Z’EV and Mark Kammerbauer, the project combined interviews, archival research, and live performance into a sonic investigation of urban transformation. The MaximiliansForum, located beneath the intersection of Maximilianstraße and Altstadtring, was originally conceived as a traffic tunnel but repurposed as a pedestrian underpass and later as an art space. Its ambiguous spatial identit...

Working with Z'EV was key to the Nexialist Organization – aimed at creating projects at the intersection of architecture, music, and visual design through shared creative methods and theoretical inquiry. We collaborated on recordings and performances from our first meeting in 2005 until his passing in 2017. Marcelo Aguirre (Spastic Dementia, Evil Spirit, Æternum Sacro) was key to facilitating a collaboration between us. THE.BÄND initially featured Z’EV, Alexandra von Bolz’n, Marcelo and I, as Fragment King. The project combined percussion, bass, and voice into an extreme, physical form of metal-drone performance art. The Bänd emerged in 2008 from a collaboration between legendary percussionist and sound artist Z’EV, drummer Marcelo Aguirre,  vocalist Alexandra von Bolz’n, and bassist Fragment King. Their partnership began with a live performance in Berlin and developed into a long-distance creative exchange between Germany and England. Critical Void, Munich, 2013. photo: Andreas ...

Playing live with Z’EV was precisely what the Nexialist Organization set out to do – creating projects at the intersection of architecture, music, and visual design through shared creative methods and theoretical inquiry.  At Gallery Wallywoods in Berlin in 2008 an improvised performance took place uniting percussion legend Z’EV, Alexandra von Bolz’n, Marcelo Aguirre, and Fragment King in a visceral half-hour of physical sound energy.  On September 13, 2008, Nexialist members joined experimental percussion pioneer Z’EV for a live performance at Gallery Wallywoods in Berlin. The line-up featured Marcelo Aguirre (Evil Spirit, Spastic Dementia) on drums, Alexandra von Bolz’n on vocals, and Mark Kammerbauer (Fragment King) on treated bass guitar. The ensemble performed a single, thirty-minute piece of throbbing, droning intensity — a physical encounter between rhythm, noise, and space. Superfast grindcore percussion collided with detuned, slow-motion bass riffage, accompanied b...