Whatever

For their development residency at C-takt, Nikima Jagudajev will work with collaborators Jordan Balaber, Salomon Leondard Poutsma, Amina Szecsödy, and Lester St. Louis on their next album called Whatever. In 2024 during their exhibition of Basically at mumok in Vienna, they began collecting recordings of visitors. Those who were invited were integrated through a card game called POWDER, where they received direction from “The Dealer” to join the “Celestial Ferryman” in the recording studio because the music realm of the particular card they pulled was open for a short period of time. Now, in the wake of that exhibition Jagudajev and their collaborators will use these recordings as jumping off points for the creation of new music, a song per card, which will not only become an album but will develop into the musical landscape of their next large scale performance work of the same title: Whatever.