Zagreb — Croatia

Nani

Flute · Electronics · Production
02 About

Nani Nodes is a Zagreb-based flutist, producer and improviser working at the edges of classical and experimental electronic music.

Nikolina Šušak, classically trained as a flutist at the Music Academy in Sarajevo, graduating with the University's Silver Badge for outstanding achievement, with an Erasmus year at the Conservatory in Vigo and a master's from the Arts Academy in Split. She has played in orchestral and chamber ensembles — among them the Sarajevo Philharmonic and the Orquesta Municipal de Vigo — and at contemporary-music festivals such as Sarajevo Sonic Studio, working closely with new repertoire.

That repertoire drew her toward electroacoustic music: pieces for flute and tape, live electronics, interactive processing. As Nani Nodes she now works at the edge of the acoustic and the digital, using Ableton Live, Max/MSP and real-time effects to turn the flute into texture and performance. Alongside her music she works as a software engineer — an interdisciplinary footing between sound and technology.

Instrument
Flute · Electronics
Live setup
Ableton · Max/MSP
Practice
Orchestral · Chamber · Solo · Session
Location
Zagreb, Croatia
Genre
Classical · Experimental · Electronic
03 Releases
Learning Curve — album cover

Learning Curve

  1. 01Fragile Beginnings0:48
  2. 02Allowance2:48
  3. 03Unsteady Pulse2:19
  4. 04Learning To Breathe3:16
Experimental Zagreb Flute · Electronics

Album cover design by Ana Naletilić Ivanković

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Learning Curve is what its name says, a recorded process of working it out. Almost every sound here starts from a single flute: breath, tone and extended technique, then effected, sampled and pushed until it barely resembles where it began. The percussion is the instrument too — key clicks, tongue rams and the small mechanical noises most playing tries to hide. Less a finished statement than an experiment in how far one flute can be stretched, and how many things it can be made to sound like.

04 Sessions

A selection of session and guest appearances — contributing flute to releases by other artists.

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Zagreb, Croatia