Nina Hynes Musical Releases
Albums
ZAP!(2020)
Goldmine Dancing Suns(2013)
A Generous Act(2011)
Sending Letters to the Sea (2009)
Really Really Do(2008)
Staros(2002)
Creation (1999)
Eps
Incant(2021)
Songs from the Lockdown(2020)
I see a better life 2019
Raging Fire (2019)
Honeymood(2004) Can I sleep now(2002)
Can I Sleep Now (2001)
Singles
2020-2022
Pheonix
H.E.A.R.T
White Butterfly
Bones and skin and hair
Hummingbird
Holiday
Bloom-Commissioned for film 'Aimer La Vie' by Nadia Genet
Dingaling Time
Glove
Lost Office-Commissioned by OJAI
Warsaw-Commisioned by Club Real-
efördert aus Mitteln der Projektförderung Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Unfuck the world )2019)
Raging Fire 2019
Mono Prix(2002)
Universal / This Magic Stuff (2002)
Collaborations
Nina Hynes and The Star Children-Residency at Ponderosa Dance Centre (2021)
fake anna-project with US actor dancer Frank Willens(2020-2023)
Super Extra Bonus Party(2016, 2023)
Blanket of death-Icelandic band debut album(2016)
DOP(2016)
The Gregory Walkers(2015)-Walk this Way-musical
collaborationcrossing genres
Raging Fire-Art Music Video with Yvonne Mc Guinness(2015)
A Winter's light-musical residency/group collaboration/recording at the
Model, Sligo(2014)
Trailblaze series of concerts, Dublin(2013)
Artist:A Generous Act(2011)
Artist: Sending Letters to the Sea(2009)
Title: Sending Letters to the Sea
Artist: Herm
Title: Year of the Horse(2009)
Artist: Super Extra Bonus Party(2007)
Title: Super Extra Bonus Party
Artist: A=Apple(2006)
Title:Plane
Artist: Jimmy Behan
Title: Days Are What We Live In (2004)
Artist: Messiah J & The Expert
Title:No Bagsies, No Keepsies
Artist: Hector Zazou
Title: Strong Currents (2003)
Jane Birkin and Melanie Gabriel covered
Nina’s songs on Hector Zazou’s album ‘Strong Currents’(2004).
Artist: The Array(2003)
Title: First World Power Conference
Artist: Katell Keineg
Shaking The Disease (October 31 2003) Artist:
Cillian Murphy
Title: Away from you(Disco Pigs)(2001)
Live Performances with a-apple(2002-2017)
LIVE 1998-2022
Nina Hynes plays spordic shows and creates boutique theatrical performances.
She has toured extensively in the US and in Europe and over the years, supported many well-known acts including Roxy Music,
Stereolab, Glen Hansard Damien Rice, Julie Cruise, Smog, David Gray, Joan as a Police Woman.
Nina Hynes has been releasing albums since 1999.
She spent her childhood believing she would be a film director/photographer and an actress. She grew up in Ireland and studied drama and theatre from the age of 3 and spent most of her teenage years attending plays at The Gate, The Abbey, The Focus Theatre and any new and exciting small theatres or workshops that she could find. She spent two years attending the renowned Deirdre O'Connell's Saturday salons at The Focus Theatre. Life had other plans though and music took over.
After taking a year out in the wilds of Donegal, she busked in Dublin and Paris for a couple of years and then began to play weekly at the songwriting night in The International bar in Dublin. This led to touring in Europe(1997-1998), playing electric guitar, singing and making sounds with experimental legends Hector Zazou, Harold Budd, Christian Le Chevretel and Alex Kid.
She had been playing around with a Fostex 8 channel 4 track tape machine for years but in 2003, she made the decision to study sound engineering and music technology so she would not have to rely soley on sound engineers to express herself. Experimentation, observations, emotions, songs and stories remain at the core of her work. Playfulness and a general feeling of drifting in a Sci-Fi has been a recurring theme.
She has released 5 solo records independently and contiues to create and produce work that she releases regulary on her own label Transplant Records.
Nina Hynes CV
Works beyond the solo records
2023
March National Concert Hall Performance 'Daughters of the Pirate Queen' with Eimear Noone
"Baby Alive" song as sountrack in the new film "Sisi und Ich" Directed by
Frauke Finsterwalder
Making a personal film with Cinematographer Director Neil Dowling
Writing a dystopian musical with an underlying Utopian vision
2022
Various Residencies and research awards(see below)
Soundtrack for A ‘call to action’ project in support of the work of
UNFPA, the United Nation exhibition, Clifden, Ireland
Composing for 'The Pirate Queen' with conductor Eimear Noone
Release of ‘Sweet Confectionary’ video with dancer Edith Buttingsrud
Pederson Directed and choreographed by Nina
2019-2022
Residencies-Awards
Flytig_Fugtive- Norway Residency, composition and performance
Musikfonds stipend for harp research and composition
Fonds Daku theatre-dance residency for fake anna research
UNCERTAIN UNITIES- Daze Of The Futures-Residency at Ponderosa Arts Centre
'Meluzine and The Cosmic Band' 2x week Residency at Uferstudios
streamed live to Vienna Konzerthaus
Irish Arts Council Music Bursary
Gema Award
2021
Traditional Harp Lessons with the Online Academy of Irish Music
Release of ‘Looking for you’- music film written and Directed by Nina Hynes
Soundtrack to film -‘Aimer La Vie’ Directed by Nadia Genet, Ateliers
Varan, Paris
‘fake anna’ composing and writing for ‘Beyond Binaries’- a
multi-faceted Berlin-based duo
with US dancer/actor Frank Willens
2020
Release of video ‘Unfuck The World’- with Dancer Caia Leseure and Choreography by Nina Hynes
Recording and Mixing album ZAP!
2019
Europeam Tour with Academy Award Winner Glen Hansard
Crowdfunding and Recording Album ZAP!
‘Aimer La Vie’ Premiere, Ateliers Varan, Paris
Soundtracks
2020
'Aimer La Vie'-French Feature Film by Nadia Genet
Sound pieces x 2 for Mark Garry Solo show-The Mac Belfast
Soundtrack to 'Glue' premiere-IFI Dublin
2018/2019
Before the last sun sets, Commissioned Sound pieces x 4 for
installations and flms by Yvonne McGuinness at Lough Key Park, Roscommon
'Borders' -Illuminations Gallery, Maynooth
Commissioned Sound pieces x 5 for Yvonne McGuinness
Soundtrack to 'Glue'-a feature film by Artists Oisin Byrne and Gary
Farrelly
-screening premiere at Goldsmiths, London
2011
Sound pieces-Mark Garry permanent installation at the Mac , Belfast
Sound piece-Film by Linda Quinlan at Bloomberg Space, London
2010
Water that Sleeps soundtrack to film by Ruth Le Gear
Sound piece for 'On the Edge of Eden' by Roisin Loughrey at Leitrim Sculpture
Centre
Events 2018
Curation and organisation of 'Craw' an Alternative Irish Arts Festival
in Berlin
Performances
2023
'The Pirate Queen' National Concert Hall with Eimear Noone
2022
Cairde Festival, Sligo X 2 Perfomances
Ponderosa Harvest fetival solo Performance
Meluzine Sci Fi Performance at Ufer Studios
2021
fake anna Grieving Week performance at Ponderosa Dance Centre
Meluzine Sci-Fi Performance at Ufer Dance Studios
2019
European tour supporting Glen Hansard
Born Optomistic Whelans, Dublin-Mic Cristopher tribute concert
Popshultz Studio Berlin performance
Cairde Arts festival musical performance
Single Launch Concert at Lost Lane, Dublin
'Rezonen'-at The Renaissance theatre-Nina is one of two non-German artists to take part in a collaborative evening with fifteen renowned and respected German musical artists curated by Yoyo Rohm
2018
National Concert Hall Turkana Concert choir arrangement
and performance
Musical Performance with 5-piece band at Craw
Dance choreography and electronc musical performance at Craw Festival
Schokoladen Berlin 13-piece band performance performance
2017
Week of workshops with saxaphonist Matana
Roberts and performance at HKW, Berlin Acud Berlin, 10-piece band performance
2015
The Model Sligo concert with Longford children's choir
An Cruthu Arts festival headline with Longford children's choir
Raging Fire Art Music Video with Yvonne Mc Guinness
'Walk this Way'-musical collaboration-crossing genres with The
Gregory Walkers
Various Berlin concerts
2014
Berlin Bilingual School choir arrangement and performance at Universität der
Kunste Berlin̈
'Let's talk about Ireland'
Performance with The Crash Ensemble, The Discovery Gospel choir
and St. Brigid’s Girls School Choir Cabinteely
Fingal County Council 20 years of Arts-Farmleigh House performance
with The
Lambay Singers Choir
A Winter's light-musical residency/collaboration/recording at the
Model Sligo
Dancing Suns-with The Discovery Gospel Choir; The Fringe Festival,
Dublin
2013
Dancing Suns Album Launch-Pepper Cannister Church
Dancing Suns-Body and Soul, Wanderlust
Trailblaze Rites of Passage series of events/concerts with St. Brigid's
Girls
School Choir Killester at the Pepper Cannister Church and Trinity
College
2011-2012
Dancing Suns- Recording the album Goldmine
2010
‘A generous Act’ at The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh-Performances, composing and Recording an album
Buddy Buddy theatre performance at HBC
Arranging and Performing music with choirs
2015 Longford children's choir, Ireland
2014 Music workshops at BBS Berlin with choir
St. Brigid’s Girls School Choir Cabinteely,Dublin
The Discovery Gospel Choir
The Lambay Singers Choir
2013 St. Brigid's Girls School Choir Killester, Dublin
2012 Aspiro Choir, arrangement
2003-2006
Sound Engineering-Music Technology-St. Thomas College Bray
Recording Producing 'Really Really Do' with David Odlum
2000-2002
Sound pieces, performance and photo slides-'Mark'- Project Arts Centre ,Dublin
Tripswitch- 5th Gallery ,Guinness Storehouse
Ascend: Thomas Clarke Tower Ballymun Dublin 14 Artists(2001)