AIDAN BAKER
Curriculum Vitae

CURRENT MUSICAL PROJECTS

Aidan Baker (1999)
Nadja (2005 - w. Leah Buckareff)
Hypnodrone Ensemble (2014 - w. Eric Quach & others)
Tavare (2022 - w. Angela Muñoz & Tristen Bakker)

PAST MUSICAL PROJECTS

Orchard (2017 - 2018 - w. Franck Laurino, Gaspar Claus, & Maxime Tisserand)
Noplace Trio (2017 - 2023 - w. Thor Harris & Simon Goff)
WERL (2016 - 2020 - w. Tomas Järmyr)
B/B/S/ (2012 - 2017 - w. Andrea Belfi & Erik Skodvin)
Caudal (2012 - 2018 - w. Gareth Sweeney & Felipe Salazar)
Infinite Light Ltd (2010 - 2012 - w. Nathan Amundson & Mat Sweet)
Whisper Room (2009 - 2021 - w. Neil Wiernick & Jakob Thiesen)
Adoran (2008 - 2019 - w. Dorian Williamson)
Mnemosyne (2002 - 2005 – w. Richard Baker & Rodin Columb)
ARC (2000 - 2012 - w. Richard Baker & Christopher Kukiel)

OTHER PROJECTS

Broken Spine Productions (record label/publishing house) – 2010
Arcolepsy Records (record label) – 2000 - 2005

COMMISSIONED WORK

2023 - Children of The Sun (Videogame Soundtrack/Sound Design), Devolver Digital, Austin, USA
2022 - The Truth About Helga, Lovefuckers Puppet Theatre, Berlin/Halle, Germany
2019 – Tableau: Kanon für vier Tänzer*innen, Jascha Viehstaedt – Hamburg/Berlin, Germany
2018 – Lonely Woman Variations, Gareth Davis/Gaudeamus Muziekweek – Utrecht, Netherlands
2017 – An Instance of Rising, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna/Sacrum Profanum Festival – Krakow, Poland
2011 – Liminoid, Riga Sinfonietta – Riga, Latvia
2007 – Earth Spring, Monday Morning Singers – Toronto, Canada
2004 – Lifeforms, The Penderecki String Quartet – Waterloo, Canada

FILM & TELEVISION CONTRIBUTIONS

2021 – Agita, Peter+Co (short)
2020 – Die Like A Dog, Silent Tower (short)
2020 – The Source, Vice Media (docu-series)
2019 – Anbessa, Rake Films (feature film)
2018 – After Sabeen, Schokofeh Kamiz (documentary)
2015 – The Sky Trembles & The Earth Is Afraid…, Artangel Productions (feature film)
2015 – Mit Leichtem Gepäck, Filmallee/Bayerischen Rundfunk (docu-series)
2012 – Final Witness: The Devil You Know, Lincoln Square Productions / ABC Television (true crime series)
2011 – Powerful As God, Documentary Media Program / Ryerson University (documentary)
2009 – Year of The Carnivore, The Film Farm / Screen Siren Productions (feature film)
2008 – Toronto Stories, New Real Films / Toronto Stories Productions (short)

EXHIBITIONS / INSTALLATIONS

2022-06-14 - Your Home Is Where You’re Happy (visual art exhibtion), Arkaoda, Berlin
2021-09-26 - A Study In Moisture, Eviction Songs (audio installation), Skulpturenpark, Berlin-Zentrum, DE
2016-03/04 – Colourtones (visual art exhibition / concert), Unterholz, Leipzig, DE
2013-09-08 – Stay Tuned (audio installation), Into The Great Wide Open Festival – Vlieland, NL
2012-09-21 – The Extended Amorphous Drone For Multiple Heads (live audio installation), You Are Here / The Maze Festival – Berlin, DE
2011-11to12 – The Shape of Snakes (visual art exhibition / concert), Bis Auf’s Messer – Berlin, DE

SELECTED FESTIVAL APPEARANCES

2024-12-01 - Psychedelic Network Festival, Würzburg, DE (Aidan Baker)
2024-10-26 - Lasher Festival, Aalborg, DK (Nadja)
2024-02-14 - Casa del Lago UNAM, Mexico City, MX (Aidan Baker)
2023-05-19 - Sonic Rites Festival, Helsinki, FI (Aidan Baker, Nadja)
2023-04-23 - Moving Noises Festival, Bochum, DE (Aidan Baker, WERL)
2022-10-22 - Festiwal Ambientalny, Wroclaw, PL (Nadja)
2022-09-22 - Zizkovska Noe Festival, Prague, CZ (Nadja)
2022-09-01 - Intersections Festival, Toronto, CA (Nadja)
2022-07-00 - Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, UK (Nadja)
2022-06-24 - Bruisme Festival, Poitiers, FR (Nadja)
2022-05-19 - A Colossal Weekend, Copenhagen, DK (Artist In Residence: Aidan Baker, Nadja)
2021-10-23 – Borsigamp Festival, Berlin, DE (Aidan Baker, Nadja, Hypnodrone Ensemble)
2021-10-22 – Psych In Bloom Festival, Esslingen, DE (Nadja)
2021-08-28 – Soundseering Festival, Muenster, DE (Aidan Baker)
2021-04-23 – Roadburn Redux, Tilburg, NL (Nadja)
2020-04-26 – SET Festival, Tehran, IR (Aidan Baker)
2019-11-28 – Festival du Film d'Architecture, Nancy, FR (Aidan Baker)
2019-10-12 – Amplifest, Porto, PT (Nadja)
2019-08-18 – Fekete Zaj Festival, Matra-Sasto, HU (Nadja)
2019-07-06 – Metal Attack Festival, Yerevan, AM (Nadja)
2019-06-06 – Redrum Festival, Tblisi, GE (Nadja)
2019-04-28 – Donaufest, Krems, AT (Nadja)
2018-09-01 – Intersections Festival, Toronto, CA (Nadja)
2017-11-11 – Sorte Firkant Musikfestival, Copenhagen, DK (Nadja)
2017-10-19 – Nancy Jazz Pulsations, Nancy, FR (Orchard)
2017-09-21 – Temple Damné, Montreal, CA (Nadja)
2017-05-26 – Dunk Festival, Zottegem, BE (Aidan Baker)
2016-11-10 – Le Guess Who Festival, Utrecht, NL (Nadja)
2016-11-06 – CPH PIX Film Festival, Copenhagen, DK (B/B/S/)
2016-10-30 – Beautés Soniques, Namur, BE (Hypnodrone Ensemble)
2016-09-09 – Incubate Festival, Tilburg, NL (WERL)
2015-08-19 – Half Die Festival, Rome, IT (Aidan Baker)
2015-06-20 – Heart of Noise Festival, Innsbruck, AU (Aidan Baker)
2014-09-15/19 – Incubate Festival, Tilburg, NL (Aidan Baker – Artist In Residence)
2014-07-19 – Rock Valley Festival, Santa Maria della Versa, IT (Nadja)
2014-04-25 – Fat Out Festival, Manchester, UK (Nadja)
2014-04-14 – Dunk Festival, Zottegem, BE (Nadja)
2013-10-14 – Unsound Festival, Krakow, PL (B/B/S/)
2013-08-23 – Fanø Free Folk Festival, Sønderho, DK (Aidan Baker)
2013-05-13 – Bergen International Festival, Bergen, NO (B/B/S/)
2012-06-18 – Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, Montreal, CA (Nadja)
2012-06-17 – NXNE Festival, Toronto, USA (Nadja)
2011-12-02 – Madeiradig, Madeira, PT (Nadja)
2011-10-21 – Zemlika Festival, Durbe, LV (Aidan Baker)
2011-09-16 – Incubate Festival, Tilburg, NL (Nadja)
2011-05-29 – Vilette Sonique Festival, Paris, FR (Aidan Baker)
2011-04-29 – Donaufest, Krems, Austria (Nadja)
2011-04-22 – Impetus Festival, Lausanne, CH (Nadja)
2011-02-26 – Heliosphere Festival, Tallin, ES (Nadja)
2010-07-18 – Creepy Teepee Festival, Kutna Hora, CZ (Nadja)
2010-06-09 – Midomi Festival, Milan, IT (Nadja)
2010-02-11 – Unsound Festival, New York, USA (Nadja)
2009-10-22 – Halifax Pop Explosion, Halifax, CA (Nadja)
2009-04-25 – Roadburn Festival, Tilburg, NL (Nadja)
2008-10-24 – Tone Deaf Festival, Kingston, CA (Nadja)
2008-08-01 – Electric Eclectics Festival, Meaford, CA (Nadja)
2008-06-13 – Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, Montreal, CA (Nadja)
2008-05-23 – Obey Convention, Halifax, CA (Nadja / Aidan Baker)
2008-05-17 – Festival International de Music Actuelle de Victoriaville, Victoriaville, CA (Nadja)
2008-04-19 – Roadburn Festival, Tilburg, NL (Nadja)
2008-03-06/30 – Canada/USA Tour (Nadja / Aidan Baker)
2007-10-05 – Pop Montreal Festival, Montreal, CA (Nadja)
2007-09-29 – Nuit Blanche Festival, Toronto, CA (Nadja)
2007-06-20 – Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, Montreal, CA (Nadja)
2007-06-01 – Mutek Festival, Montreal, CA (Aidan Baker)
2006-11-17 – Brainwaves Festival, Boston, USA (Nadja)
2006-09-30 – Nuit Blanche Festival,Toronto, CA (Aidan Baker)
2006-06-02 – Mutek Festival, Montreal, CA (Aidan Baker)
2006-03-16 – SXSW, Austin, USA (Nadja)
2004-05-26/27 – Distillery Jazz Festival, Toronto, CA (Aidan Baker)
2003-06-20 – OM Festival, Killaloe, CA (Aidan Baker)

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
Aidan Baker
2024 – Children of The Sun OST (Laced Music)
2024 – Pithovirii (Glacial Movements)
2024 – Cast Down & Hunted (w. Dead Neanderthals - Moving Furniture Records)
2023 – Trio Not Trio (w. MJ Guider, Ayami Suzuki, Kid Millions, Tim Wyskida, Sarff, Jana Sotzko, Tobias Humble, Sofia Salvo, Daron Beck – Gizeh Records)
2023 – Engenderine (Midira Records)
2022 – Songs of Undoing (Improved Sequence)
2021 – Seeing Past What Things Seem (Karlrecords)
2020 – There / Not There (Consouling Sounds)
2019 – See Through (w/ Jon Mueller & Faith Coloccia – Gizeh Records)
2017 – Delirious Things (Pleasence Records / Gizeh Records)
2017 – Nonland (w. Karen Willems – Gizeh Records)
2017 – Delirious Things (w. Claire Knox – Pleasence Records / Gizeh Records)
2015 – Half Lives (Gizeh Records)
2015 – The Confessional Tapes (Pleasance Records)
2014 – Triptychs - Variations On A Melody (w. Peter Broderick, Leah Buckareff, Julia Kent – Important Records)
2013 – Already Drowning (w. Clara Engel, Carla Bozulich, Jessica Bailiff – Gizeh Records)
2014 – Latitudes: Glass Crocodile Medicine (Southern Records)
2012 – The Spectrum of Distraction - Robotic Empire)
2011 – Only Stories (Broken Spine / The Kora Records)
2010 – Liminoid/Lifeforms (Alien8 Recordings)
2008 – I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed (Important Record)
2008 – Fantasma Parastasie (w. Tim Hecker – Alien8 Recordings8)
2006 – Oneiromancer (Die Stadt Musik)
2006 – The Sea Swells A Bit… (A Silent Place / Ici d’ailleurs)
2002 – Letters (Arcolepsy Records)

Nadja
2024 – Vestigial Spectra (Wolves & Vibrancy / Roman Numeral)
2022 – Labyrinthine (Broken Spine / Cruel Nature / Wolves & Vibrancy)
2022 – Nalepa (Midira Records)
2021 – Luminous Rot (Southern Lord / Daymare Recordings)
2020 – Stripped (Broken Spine)
2018 – Sonnborner (Broken Spine/Daymare Recordings)
2016 – The Stone Is Not Hit By The Sun… (Gizeh Records)
2016 – Sv (Essence Records /Broken Spine)
2014 – Queller (Essence Records / Broken Spine)
2013 – The Perfect World (Important Records)
2012 – Dagdrøm (Broken Spine / Daymare Recordings)
2012 – Excision (Important Records)
2010 – Latitudes Session: Sky Burial (Southern Records)
2010 – White Nights / Drone Fields (Beta-Lactam Ring Records)
2009 – Pyramids With Nadja (Hydrahead Records)
2008 – The Bungled & The Botched (Consouling Sounds / Blocks Recording Club /Daymare)
2007 – Radiance of Shadows (Alien8 Recordings / Conspiracy Records / Daymare)
2007 – Thaumogenesis (ArchiveCD / Daymare / Important Records )
2006 – Bodycage (Profound Lore Records / Equation Records / Daymare)
2005 – Truth Becomes Death (Alien8 Recordings / Conspiracy Records)

Various Ensembles

2024 – Tavare – Ghosts (Champion Version)
2024 – Hypnodrone Ensemble – The Problem Is In The Receiver… (Wolves & Vibrancy Records)
2021 – Whisper Room – Lunokhod (Midira Records)
2020 – Hypnodrone Ensemble – Gets Polyamorous (Wolves & Vibrancy Records)
2020 – WERL – WERL3 (Midira Records)
2018 – Hypnodrone Ensemble – Plays Orchestral Favourites (Wolves & Vibrancy Records)
2018 – Caudal – Fight Cry Fight (Drone Rock Records / Katuktu Collective)
2016 – B/B/S/ – Palace (Miasmah Records)
2016 – Adoran – Children of Mars (Consouling Sounds)
2016 – Caudal – Ascension (Consouling Sounds)
2016 – B/B/S/ – Brick Mask / Half Moon (Miasmah Records)
2016 – ARC – Somewhere There (Beta-Lactam Ring Records)
2016 – ARC – The Circle Is Not Round (A Silent Place)

Bibliography

2025 – A Year In Minutes (Adventurous Music – forthcoming)
2025 – Songs of Waking & Weather (The Garotte – forthcoming)
2014 – Passing Through (Wound Wolf Press)
2011 – Place Name #1-5 (chapbooks – Broken Spine)
2010 – The Shape of Snakes (Averse Publishing / Broken Spine )
2007 – Place Name (Wingate Press)
2005 – Transport (chapbook – Clairbury Press)
2003 – Wound Culture (Unbound Books)
2001 – Fingerspelling (Penumbra Press)
2000 – The Adventures of Me & You (chapbook – Eraserhead Press)