Nick Klein

Nick Klein is an artist working in sound and art and sometimes (begrudgingly) sound art with alean towards the social potential in those modalities as they interact. Klein has recorded a largeamount of music for tape, CD, digital file, and vinyl editions for music labels around the world, as well as running his own amorphous label project PL (primitive languages, Psychic Liberation, etc). Concurrently, to the best of his ability, he has shown work in visual art contexts. Klein is uninterested in the prohibitive ideological tropes and circumstances that both contexts offer, and
focuses the intent of his work on trying to see what productive energy comes from the friction between the two. Klein likes loud volume, cooking, offline community building, records, bars, synthesizers, and comedy.

Klein is currently located in Berlin. Klein had operated a monthly radio show on Montez Press Radio since its inception until 2025 amassing a library of over 50 unique interviews with important contemporary sonic practitioners. Klein has also ran an ambitious monthly invitational program beginning at the Volksbühne Roter Salon, now hosted at the Silent Green Kuppelhalle, titled Psychic Liberation Night. From December of 2023 to June of 2024 the Psychic Liberation Night was awarded the second highest funding to operate the series by Germany’s Musikfondsprogram. Klein has collaborated in various capacities and medial materializations with Wilted Woman, Audrey Chen, Das Ding, Hugo Esquinca, Jean-Louis Huhta, Erik Nystrand, Scant, Philip Maier, Makoto Oshiro and many more. Since 2013, Klein has ran the label “PL” (Primitive Languages, Psychic Liberation, Potentially Listenable etc) and currently collaborates on the free internet label FLMPP with Adam Campbell and Diego Behncke.