Nina Guo

hi berlin, “three voices” by morton feldman @km28berlin come early to grab your favorite seat (last time sold out!) tues, dec 17 doors 20h, concert 20:30 karl-marx-str 28

Saadane Afif. Five Preludes Live 28.05. Parallel zur Ausstellung Saâdane Afif. Five Preludes (12.12.2025–13.09.2026) im Hamburger Bahnhof @hamburger_bahnhof finden mehrere Performanceabende statt, die in direktem Zusammenhang mit den im Museum gezeigten Werken stehen. Afifs Arbeiten mit ihren vielfältigen Bezügen zur Kunstgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts setzen einen Prozess des Betrachtens und Interpretierens in Gang, in den auch Mitwirkende und die Betrachter*innen einbezogen werden. So lädt er Künstler:innen und Schriftsteller:innen ein, in ihren jeweiligen Sprachen poetische Kommentare zu seinen Werken zu verfassen. Eine Auswahl dieser sogenannten „Lyrics“, die in der Ausstellung an den Wänden angebracht sind, wird nun von in Berlin lebenden Musiker:innen live interpretiert. Im Roten Salon werden die von Augustin Maurs vertonten Texte zum Werkkomplex The Fountain Archives von Susanne Fröhlich und Claudia van Hasselt aufgeführt. Im zweiten Teil des Konzerts bilden einzelne Zeilen aus den Lyrics zur Installation Anthologie de l’humour noir den Ausgangspunkt für die Improvisation von Okkyung Lee und Nina Guo. Mit: Susanne Fröhlich – Flöten @susanne_froehlich , Claudia van Hasselt – Stimme @claudia_van_hasselt & Okkyung Lee – Violoncello @okkyung_lee , Nina Guo – Stimme @facesound Foto: Daniel Cao

So excited to have sung on the upcoming @horselords album together with Nina Guo (@facesound )! The new album is called “Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!” You can listen to the first couple of tracks, “Eureka 378-B” and “Brain of the Firm,” which feature me and Nina, and you can watch an accompanying video by Scott Kiernan (@zenithfoundation ). The tracks also feature trombonist Weston Olencki (@wolencki ), and bass clarinetist Madison Greenstone (@mads_green_stone ). I especially love how this project brought together my two vocal practices of shape note singing and just intonation. So fun! The album will be released on June 12th on RVNG Intl. @rvngintl , and you can get your pre-order now!

Clip from Four Songs by Matthew Shlomowitz (lyrics by @harryblakescribbles ) performed by Nina Guo & Joseph Houston. Hear it live at Plus Minus’ double bill concert 7pm, Tuesday 17 March — Deptford Town Hall 🎟 Tickets in bio #newmusic #chambermusic #experimentalmusic #london

from CHRISTIAN WOLFF’S “For Charles North’s 15 Poems and Liner Notes 2” written especially for us 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 “The no-shows not only don’t have to pay their dues on time, but they get to watch on livestream for nothing!” soooo excited to play this on Frequency Series @constellationchicago Sunday, Feb 15 8:30pm 🔗 in bio 💫💫💫 btw, in case anyone plans on being a no-show, there will be a livestream (but we still hope you pay your dues on time!) 😉

Double bill! Tuesday 17 March at Deptford Town Hall Music starts at 7pm Tickets available here /events/plusminusensemble/2034843 SET ONE: Nina Guo and Joseph Houston @milker_corporation - Twelve climate change songs Charles Ives - selected songs Matthew Shlomowitz Four Songs (lyrics by Harry Blake) SET TWO: Vicky Wright (clarinets), @alice.purton (cello), @mark_knoop Knoop (piano) Helmut Lachenmann Allegro sostenuto

Moonhorn is up and running @hotelmariakapel , and here are some installation images during the day. 🌓🌗 . My installation Moonhorn takes as its starting point the archeological artefact Mondorn, or moonhorn in English. Moonhorns are a mystery in archaeology. They are undefinable objects, dating back around 1300–600 BCE, and have been found throughout the North Alpine region. More than seven hundred have been found in Switzerland alone - too many to discard their existence as a mere coincidence. Somehow, we have lost the ability to read these objects, leaving them hanging mid-air, restless, unresolved, pending. They leave us wondering what might be, could be, pondering the possibilities embraced by uncertainty.  . The audio for the installation was made in collaboration with @facesound and the CAMRAS team at the radio telescope Dwingeloo. . The exhibition is open Thursday - Saturday, 1pm - 5pm, until December 13th 2025 . Photos by @bartimaeus.eu 🌙 . projects like this aren’t possible without financial support and I am grateful to have received funding from @stroom_den_haag @cultuurfonds @stichtingstokroos #stichtingvanachterberghdomhof #werktuigppo - thank you! . ceramics were realised @ekwc_oisterwijk . #moonhorn #mondhorn #hoorn #ropes #ceramics #moon #archeologyart

Our film ‚If Only‘ screening @aargauerkunsthaus as part of the annual Auswahl exhibition. . The film is a contemporary reinterpretation of the mandragora‘s many myths. It was first presented as a live performance @kunstlokalfestival in 2024 and later transformed into a short film. A huge thank you to everybody who supported the project 🤍 . choir director: Julia Gloor Direction: @brandner.leonie and @facesound Film production: @arzeit_ Editing: @alcaeusspyrou Camera assistance: @arianna_cavalensi Sound recording: @jethrocooke Colour grading: @mayisrukel . A huge thank you for financial support to: Aargauer Kuratorium, Gwärtler Grant, Elisabeth Weber Stiftung, MOZ, Wali Dad Stiftung, Irene Stiftung, Anne-Marie Schindler Stiftung. . @kunstlokalfestival @ritterhausbubikon #communitychoir #mandragora #singing #morethanhuman

friends! in a wonderful coincidence, I am in two exhibitions currently running @hamburger_bahnhof . 1. @xixellojme AN OPERA OUT OF TIME it was an absolute dream-come-true to be a part of Petrit‘s opera, SYRIGANA. you can hear me singing & tweeting w/ @urtaahaziraj in the big room! we are the bird narrators 🦜🦜 2. @annikakahrs OFF SCORE i‘m in full diva mode for Annika‘s new video work, „A Cashier‘s Opera.“ @louisdheudieres composed the most perfect Donizetti+Wagner mashup, and I got to sing it in an construction site mall?!! YES PLEASE! it was truly inspiring to be in both these pieces, and i feel like a very lucky duck to have worked with everyone involved 💕 i am super proud to be a part of these excellent, very different shows!!!! also, it‘s totally wild to hear myself in a museum!!! COME THRU!!! 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

EXPERIMENTAL SINGING WORKSHOP TO CO-CREATE A SOUNDSCAPE WITH THE MOON 🌕 . Super chuffed about our singing workshop @hotelmariakapel to work collectively on a soundscape for my installation Moonhorn. We worked together on vocally activating and interpreting the shapes, forms, distances and spaces in and around the sculputes with three fantastic local teens. The recordings we made will now partially be sent to the moon with the radio technology moonbouncing. To make this happen we teamed up with the Radio Telescope Dwingeloo and the amazing Jan van Muijlwijk - we cannot wait to hear what our vocal journey to the moon will return 🌖 . Enormous thank you to our fantastic singers Elian, Amber and Marente! . @hotelmariakapel ceramics realised @ekwc_oisterwijk . . . . @stroom_den_haag @cultuurfonds @stichtingstokroos #stichtingvanachterberghdomhof #werktuigppo #moonhorn #mondhorn #hoorn #ropes #ceramics #moon #moonbounces

MOONBOUNCING LIVE EVENT - we sent our voices to the moon and back! . Moonbouncing is a radio communications technique that uses the Moon to reflect radio waves back to earth, also known as Earth-Moon-Earth (EME). This techniques is today only used by radio enthusiasts connecting to each other via the Moon. As part of my project all around Moonhorns (an ancient ceramic artefact whose purpose nobody knows), I was eager to invite the moon more actively and literally into the project - which we do with Moonbouncing! . This is the very first time I have experienced live Moonbouncing with the amazing help of the Jan van Muijlwijk, a radio amateur who is part of the of the team that restored and up keeps the Radio Telescope at Dwingeloo. The Radio Telescope Dwingeloo is the largest and oldest radio telescope in the Netherlands and I am super delighted to be collaborating with them on this very special project! . Here is me and @facesound very excited about sending our voices to the moon! . Photos by Bart Treuren . @hotelmariakapel . . . . @stroom_den_haag @cultuurfonds @stichtingstokroos #stichtingvanachterberghdomhof #werktuigppo #moonhorn #mondhorn #hoorn #ropes #ceramics #moon