Wax & Wane - 27 April 2023 live at Errant Sound Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Wax & Wane is a collaboration between JD Zazie and Karin Weissenbrunner. JD Zazie is an avant-garde turntablist, experimental DJ, sound artist and curator and completed her master’s degree in Sound Studies at Berlin University of the Arts. Karin Weissenbrunner has a doctorate in music from City, University of London and is active as both a curator and experimental turntablist.

Wax & Wane explores the sculptural and sonic link between local culture and urban nature by using custom-made records from regional beeswax. Karin Weissenbrunner and JD Zazie’s duo project unites the honeybees’ ›voices‹ as equal co-creators with their own wax, while recycling recordings of Berlin’s sound archives through the wax material. The key focus is to fully embrace the organic material with varying qualities in color, smell, or consistency specific to its origin environment – and to render these material features into a sonic experience.

JD Zazie & Karin Weissenbrunner – beeswax records, turntables
Sandra E. Blatterer – light design

video documentation – Allegra Solitude