PC Nackt
Biography
Patrick Christensen aka PC Nackt (*1975) is one of the most versatile artists in the German music scene. As a composer, producer, and performer his work is characterized by the combination of classical influences, popular music and improvised sounds. Together with his partner Chérie, he started the electro-punk band Warren Suicide and founded the studio Chez Chérie, which has since become a hub for artists and projects from all over the world.
As musical director and co-founder of The String Theory, PC Nackt has toured with the ensemble and singer-songwriter José González throughout the world since 2011. The album Sekou Andrews & The String Theory (conducted, co-produced and co-composed by PC Nackt) was nominated for a Grammy (Best Spoken Word Album) in 2020.
PC Nackt has been composing music for international film and theatre productions including the TV-series Breaking Bad and most recently Ralf Schmerberg’s current film project Indarella. His soundtrack for the movie Equals, co-written by Sascha Ring and Dustin O’Halloran, was honoured with the Soundtrack Stars Award at the Venice Film Festival in 2015.
PC Nackt also acts as a producer and writer for amongst others Sascha Ring aka Apparat, Yello's Dieter Meier and Albanian singer Fatime Kosumi aka ANDRRA. Apparat's last album LP5 with a song by PC Nackt has received a nomination for a Grammy Award as Best Dance/Electronic Album. In June 2020, PC Nackt released his first solo album Plunderphonia.
Since 2016, PC Nackt has been collaborating with punk poet and director Schorsch Kamerun on a series of electro operas, which have been performed in various European cities.
Theatre
Das Bauhuas - Ein rettendes Requiem, 2019
Direction: Schorsch Kamerun
Music: PC Nackt, Schorsch Kamerun
Volksbühne Berlin
Spuren der Verirrten (Footsteps of the Lost), 2018
Direction: Schorsch Kamerun
Music: PC Nackt, Schorsch Kamerun
Theater Basel
Ein Sommernachtstraum im Cyber Valley, 2018
Artistic Direction: Schorsch Kamerun
Music: PC Nackt, Schorsch Kamerun
Schauspiel Stuttgart
Schorsch Kamerun
Theater Basel
Live scoring of the Schlingensief-film "Menu Total"
with 6 trombones of the STEGREIF orchestra and electronics
Silent Green Kulturquartier
Performance: Fabian Hinrichs, Schorsch Kamerun, PC Nackt
Directed by Robert Lehniger
Arrangement by Warren Suicide
Theatre Bremen
Directed by Sebastian Hartmann
Deutsches Theater Berlin
Dance
Film
w/ co-author Shri Sriram
directed by Greg Blakey and Maurice Taube
co-composed w/ Ben Lauber
Lysis, 2017
directed by Rick Ostermann
directed by Fabian Huebner
directed by Drake Doremus
Soundtrack Stars Award, Venice Film Festival
directed by Ben von Grafenstein
directed by Petra Biondina Volpe
co-composed w/ Sascha Ring (Apparat)
directed by Hendrik Handloegten
songs
directed by Michael Hofmann
songs
directed by Fatih Akin
songs
The String Theory
Jan/Feb/Mar 2017 (Concert Tour Europe and USA)
November 2017 (Berlin, diverse cities in Sweden, Wiesbaden)
Fall 2018 (European Tour)
Internet-sculpture w/ participants from Gothenborg and Berlin
funded by Musicboard Berlin
Composition: PC Nackt and Ben Lauber
Signal x - Suite 2
Workshop and performance
Energeticon Alsdorf, 2013
Workshop and performance
Energeticon Alsdorf, 2012
Warren Sucide
Experimental electro-punk-art group formed in 2002 (feat. PC Nackt as vocalist, instrumentalist, programmer, producer)
Signed to Fume Recordings in the UK until 2007 and to the Berlin Label Shitkatapult in 2008.
Festivals, concerts and art-happenings all around Europe (Rock am Ring / Glastonbury / Roskilde etc.)
Fervent radio support leading to shows in the USA, featured in various publications including: NME,Metro,Playlouder,Observer Music Monthly, Time Out, Clash Magazine, Flux, Creative Review etc.
Received overwhelming support from DJs including: Steve Lamacq, Zane Lowe, Fatboy Slim, Laurent Garnier, Trevor Jackson, Tiga & Ivan Smagghe (Black Strobe), T.Raumschmiere and Flux FM
Discography
Solowork
Plunderphonia, 2020
Album (7K!)
Warren Suicide 2002-2015 (selection)
World Warren Remixes
EP (Shitkatapult)
World Warren III
Album (Shitkatapult)
What did you do?!
EP (Shitkatapult)
Requiem for a missing link
Album (Shitkatapult)
The Hello
Album (Fume Recordings)
mini-album “Warren Suicide”
CD/DVD release (Fume Recordings)
Listen to National Radio Stations
EP
“1”
EP (1st Decade)
As Producer (selection)
The Los Angeles Suite - The String Theory, 2020
Sekou Andrews & The String Theory, 2019
Grammy Award Nomination 2020
ANDRRA: Palinë, 2017
Dieter Meier: Out of Chaos, 2014
Unmap: Pressures, 2013
Wende Snijders: Last Resistance, 2013
Apparat: Krieg und Frieden, 2013
Hans Unstern: The Great Hans Unstern Swindle, 2012
The Aachen String Theory, 2012
Apparat: Devil`s Pact, 2011
The Göteborg String Theory, 2010
Hans Unstern: Kratz Dich Raus, 2009
The Berlin String Theory, 2008
Band Deutscher Mädels, 2007
GRAMMY AWARD NOMINATION
SEKOU ANDREWS & THE STRING THEORY
Conducted, co-composed and co-produced by PC Nackt
The String Theory is an artist collective and production company based in Berlin and Gothenburg that since 2007 explores the outskirts of contemporary classical music and wild pop by means of collaborative workshops, studio recordings and live performances. The String Theory pursues a long term experimental approach, investigating new ways of interdisciplinary collaboration, incorporating visual art, developing new performance concepts and facilitating international artist networking.
Being essentially experimental in nature, The String Theory never stops questioning its own goals and sets out to regularly re-invent the way each separate project is conducted, and to further develop the unique sound of the ensemble.
The celebrated collaboration between José González and The String Theory, conducted by Patrick Christensen aka PC Nackt toured extensively in Europe in 2017, 2018 and in spring 2019 in the US and Canada.
In November 2019, the album Sekou Andrews & The String Theory was nominated for a Grammy Award 2020 (Best Spoken Word Album).
The Independent