it's political — let's be difficult 🖤 Sonae is producer and live act for electronic music, part of label collective monika werkstatt. her debut album was released 2015 with monika enterprise / berlin. artist in residence at klingklang studio / düsseldorf, women in computer music scholarship at CCRMA of stanford university / cal, USA, master degree in popular music at folkwang university of arts / essen. 2018 release of her second album ‘I Started Wearing Black’ “a striking album” (Fluid Radio UK) followed by ‘Music For People Who Shave Their Heads’ 2019 with bit-phalanx / london and 'Summer' on laaps / france. resident artist of NICA artist development program since autumn 2020—2022. DJ mixes for the wire, self-titled, vice, dublab. “All the more reason to admire an already righteous artist.” The Wire Sonae plays live solo and with monika werkstatt at places like institut für zukunft / leipzig, meakusma festival / eupen, ausland / berlin, pop kultur festival / berlin, fusion festival / germany, uh-fest / budapest, cafe oto / london, 23rpm festival / london, the cube / bristol and more on the same bill with squarepusher, plaid, darkstar, kyoka, frank bretschneider, tim exile. Sonae lives and works in cologne. artistphotography / katja ruge hair & makeup / ginger güttler