In little, human-sized songs that often go big places, Nic Koller flirts with genres like Ambient, New Age, Spoken Word, Neoclassical and more– upending expectations and creating albums that are perhaps best classified as artworks or artifacts of Nic’s existence. These works delve into the poetry of impermanence, where the failures and glitches of our escape attempts become objects of beauty and realness. Their songs sit squarely within a broader artistic practice: Nic is a visual artist, animator, filmmaker, composer, poet and budding clarinetist and performer who refuses to be anything less despite (as one of their songs puts it) being “so tired of making beautiful things”. Nic's work has been shown in far away places like Sundance Film Festival and on French and German television’s Arte TV, but they primarily perform and show work locally in New York City. You can find them baring their soul for intimate audiences at galleries and other unexpected venues throughout the city. Or you can stream their albums on quiet mornings or reclusive evenings and let the experience wash over you. In these fleeting, honest and sometimes beautiful moments, Nic Koller hopes to welcome you to a present that’s alive with meaning, where the memories and ghosts of the past combine with the vast, untapped potential of the future, and where we can all imagine something new together.
Nic’s forthcoming full length album, LAURIE AND THE WOLF, is a free-associative fairy tale that reflects on the concepts of home as a contested and political space.