NYX NYX – Thomas Mahmoud (DE)
NYX NYX is the solo project of Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, musician, sound designer, performer, and curator Thomas Mahmoud. Where many musicians erase mistakes—carefully filtering out static, cleaning up recording glitches—Mahmoud leans into them. He captures the hiss instead of the tone, the breath instead of the voice, embracing the sonic residue others discard.
NYX NYX explores the deconstruction of sound using both analog and digital tools. The project moves through textures, polyrhythms, polymetrics, danceable bassworms, and abstract sound sculptures.
Originally launched as a collaborative project with Andi Toma—composer and experimental musician from the iconic electronic band Mouse on Mars—Mahmoud and Toma recorded together between 2019 and 2023. The results are still “hot on the hard drive,” waiting to be unleashed.
In early 2025, Mahmoud returned to NYX NYX with renewed energy, now working on a new album titled “END OF MARS 2”, to be released on UNIVERSAL SPAM!
NYX NYX sounds sexy like World Domination Enterprises, danceable like Masonna, toxic like Britney Spears, and funky like Bauhaus. Or maybe not!?
The premiere performance of this new chapter will take place at Avant Art Festival Wrocław 2025.
Thomas Mahmoud is a founding member of numerous bands and projects including: Tannhäuser Sterben und das Tod, The Nest, SFX, Phoebe Killdeer & The Shift, T.O.T. BAND, MFX, Black Swan’s Endcake, TRIGGS, Kuzniak & Mahmoud, C.V.S., and many more.
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LORD SPIKEHEART (KE)
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Symphony of the Ursus Factory
Naked and Famous: Tricky + Boy Next Door
AAF x CHMURY x 𝖀𝖓𝖎𝖈𝖔𝖗𝖓 AFTERPARTY/ INTERNET DESTROYER (PL) + ANATOL (PL)
Aja Ireland (UK)
AKA HEX (CH/KEN)
AnD (UK)
beluga ryba (PL)
BLACK FONDU (UK)
Blur: To the End
Boy Next Door
BROTHER MAY (UK)
CLIPPING. (US)
Cooling Prongs (Christopher Fleeger x Counterfeit Madison) (US)
Daniel Szwed (PL)
Death Goals (UK)
Dis Fig (US)
Francesca Ter-Berg, Coby Sey, Ursula Russell, Tara Cunningham (UK)
Frost & Kyeza (UK)
Gary Gwadera (PL)
gertie adelaido (CZ)
Glassz (PL)
Grischa Lichtenberger (DE) & Qba Janicki (PL)
HASSAN K. (IR/FR)
Hyperdawn (UK)
ICHI (JP/UK)
IFS MA (JP/PL)
In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
kIRk: Canes of Karabakh (PL)
KOTRA (UA)
Królowczana Smuga (PL)
Lichte (PL)
Marmur (PL)
Mazut (PL)
MERZBOW / BERNOCCHI / CAVALERA (INT)
Michał Macewicz (PL)
Mikro Orchestra (PL)
Mopcut ft. MC dälek (INT)
Nailbreaker (UK)
Olan Monk (IRL)
Open call for sonic acts
paszka (PL)
Piotr Pawlak / Dominik Strycharski (PL)
PLF (AT/UK)
Ryosuke Kiyasu (JP)
RZWD (PL)
S/He Is Still Her/e The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary
Seb Brun (FR)
Shabaka (UK)
Singeli Movement: Greed for Speed
SKI feat. SWRCFX (PL)
Slikback (KE)
Sly & The Family Drone (UK)
Space Afrika (UK)
Stalker (Dawid Konopka, Krzyś Bykowski)
Steve Noble & Marek Pospieszalski (UK/PL)
Stormfield (UK)
Suczy Napar (PL)
THAW (PL)
The Shits (UK)
Ugory (PL)
White Riot
Wojtek Kurek & Olga Balińska (PL)
worse (UA)
YUPPIE / Richie Culver (UK) solo exhibition & live show
ZU (IT)