John Klima

KLIMA DE SA ZITHER, LONGWIRES, SOFTWARE - adriana sá, LONGWIRE, PERCUSSION - john klima
TIMESPINE ZITHER - adriana sá, BASS - john klima, DOBRO - to trips
ENTRETONS ZITHER - adriana sá, PERCUSSION - diana combo, PIANO - tiago sousa, LONGWIRE - john klima
WEDNESDAY BASS - john klima LAP STEEL - thomas kahrel DRUMS - nuno morão
klima de sá

Adriana Sá and John Klima have been collaborating for more than 10 years on a variety of musical and interactive media projects

timespine

Soon to release the second album "Urban Season"

wednesday

ScratchBuilt's in-house musicians

entretons

Performance at Teatro Municipal Maria Matos

scratchbuilt

Vintage recording studio

archive

Archive of new media installations by John Klima

Biography

Vintage Digital Artist
John Klima employs a variety of technologies to produce artwork with hand-built electronics, and computer hardware and software. Consistently connecting the virtual to the real, Klima builds large scale electro-mechanical installations driven by 3D game software he programs from scratch. Klima has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. His exhibitions include BitStreams at the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as the 2002 Whitney Biennial. He has also exhibited at Eyebeam, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, PS.1 and The Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Klima's international exhibitions include The Museum for Communication in Bern, Switzerland, the NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, Japan, The Daejeon Municipal Museum in Korea, and numerous international festivals. Recently, Klima has been focused on sound and music, performing with Entretons, Timespine, Wednesday, Variable Geometry Orchestra, Caro de Fogo de Sei Miguel, and of course, Adriana Sá. In 2014 he founded “Scratchbuilt Studios” in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has recorded countless musical and experimental sound projects, focusing on vintage analogue recording equipment.

Highlights

Entretons
Teatro Maria Matos, 2018

Klima de Sá
String Practice, Lisboasoa 2018

Wednesday
Rehearsal recording feat. Luís Vicente, 2016

Wednesday
Interns' ReStart graduation project, 2015

Timespine
Performance, Bon Sons Festival, 2015

Timespine
Recording session, Namouche, 2013

Timespine
SoundCloud clip from the first album, 2013

Train
European Capital of Culture, Guimarães, 2012

Collaborators

Adriana Sá

Zither, Software, Wires, Noises

Thomas Kahrel

Lapsteel, Guitar, Noises

Nuno Morão

Drums and Percussion

Tiago Sousa

Piano

Diana Combo

Percussion

To Trips

Guitars