Christian Molenaar

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Christian Molenaar is a multi-disciplinary artist from San Diego, CA. His extensive body of work has incorporated film, painting and music, including appearances on nearly 200 recordings in a wide variety of styles as well as performances in multiple countries. His work often includes hand-built electronics and instruments in a broad array of stylistic influences from free improvisation and harsh noise to American primitivism.

His work has been featured at the Festival de Cannes and covered by NPR, The Wire, The Needle Drop, PopMatters and more.

As a musician, Molenaar has performed with Patrick Shiroishi, Tatsuya Nakatani, Martín Escalante and many more. His recorded output includes collaborations with Xiu Xiu, Kazumoto Endo, Locrian, and members of Ramleh, Deafheaven and Full of Hell.

    Thought:

    “I want to hear the one thing speak that
    cannot speak.
    I want to know the things that can’t be known.

    I want to speak only here in his closed book.
    To hear those sorts of things said, that can
    only be spoken in this sort of closed silence.
    When the rest of the world is not awake to any
    of this, and I also would rather be sleeping.
    The wind making its marks on the other side of day.
    And the crystal only keeping its lights, to itself.
    And to me.”

    Clark Coolidge | This Time We Are Both

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