Nickolas Mohanna

Nickolas Mohanna is an American artist, composer, and guitarist. His interdisciplinary practice employs a variety of media to explore and blur the borders between music, sound art, video and drawing. Biography Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1979 , he moved to the Bay Area to study printmaking at San Francisco State University and later went to the University of California, Davis for an MFA in Art Studio. While there he took courses with Mike Henderson, Bob Ostertag, Annabeth Rosen, Douglas Kahn, and Wayne Thiebaud. He lives and works in New York. Work In his sound compositions, there is a “tendency of sculpting and orchestrating a minimal array of sounds into sonically rich and spacious atmospheres.” Some pieces explore field recordings processed into abstract soundscapes with electroacoustic procedures. “While other arrangements invoke a post-punk minimalism with flashes of Arthur Russell.” Most of the sounds are sourced from local environments. While certain tracks “bury melodies in multiple layers of distortion to reveal their latent chromatic richness through gradually mutating textural contrast.” The “consistent tone makes it all flow together like raindrops forming a lake.” The m