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hilk.eu
Musician, coder and queer Sometimes acoustic, sometimes electronic, always melancholic https://hilk.eu Part of https://redbrickrecords.ch Bookings: https://gelatobusinezz.com/artist/hilke
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behind the scenes it was at @oneofamillionfestival that I fell in love with the Swiss music scene 12 years ago and it was an honour to spend a couple of days again at @stanzerei to prepare our new live set.

such a hauntingly beautiful thing that Laura and Luzius Schuler made together with Yannick Mosimann www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKsn...

push 3 impro with the Bizarre Lakeside Orchestra, brainchild of my dearest @claude-buehler.bsky.social , 12 people improvising on flute, cello, tuba, drums, vocal fx, spoken word, modular, etc. This is what community and art is about 💓 so grateful!

"Doch warum soll nicht beides gleichzeitig gehen? Kritik an Gewalt, an Rechtsextremismus und Reflexion eigener Leerstellen, Auslassungen und Anfälligkeit für Dogmatismus und Einseitigkeit."

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'WHERE DO WE GO?' Nemo asks in despair. I wrote a text where artist should go www.indiemusi.ch/about/ What do you think? Should they come here? I think so.

Hurray! just uploaded my first repo to @tangled.sh

Last night CocoRosie very close up and touching, at an extraordinary place, Mühle Hunziken

Today is the new single is out of the newest Red Brick Records family member, Anna Rey. Give it a listen and share if you like lnk.site/anna-rey-den...

soft but right being left in the dark ~ more than ever it is important to stay soft but 'right', even if you feel 'left' in the dark ~ I wrote 'voice' before the political climate got more grim, but it only added meaning to this song. https://youtu.be/YcQWc9RwJ9Q

And later that evening helping Egopusher with my audio interface because their setup broke down 😇 (just wanted to say goodnight on my way home at Royal Baden)

One of my favorites @rivalconsoles.bsky.social in Zürich yesterday

I am thinking about doing something atproto as an art project, inspired by this call for projects. Error 406, tech fascism not acceptable error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas...

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. Thenk you Nemo

My friend’s debut single is out today! Jodel with modular, really!

Cosplaying high society with @claude-buehler.bsky.social , former city photographer

My band mate Laura Schuler, just released a new single with her brother Luzius Schuler: violin and organ as you never heard it before luziusschuler.bandcamp.com/track/thrill

What a show by Cocon Javel last night at Royal Baden 💜 Check them out and put all your money in therapy! lnk.site/cocon-javel-...

New single release on our collective label Red Brick Records: lnk.site/juni-nami-nei (I am still in the process to convince my friends and label about Bluesky 😅) Children songs in Swiss German, not niche at all 😇

becoming is beautiful

As an artist on ATProto I have been thinking that I want my songs on my PDS in a new lexicon. It should contain all the meta data of the rights owners and even an encrypted wav blob for audio players to use. It would empower me to be paid directly by fans. Is somebody working in this direction?

Me being goofy in the backstage before one of our recent shows

Throwback to last week’s show at Neubad in Luzern. 
Here you see my lovely crew during the soundcheck before the show, handling violins, keyboards, cables, the cutest baby and loosing their iPad every 5 minutes. So happy to work with those people 💜


And also go look those niche bands live, don’t just scrobble. @ainosalto.bsky.social at Royal Baden this evening

I feel the thrill of 2009 again. Scrobbling niche local bands like @ainosalto.bsky.social on beta tech platforms like @rocksky.app and @atprotocol.dev that want to give power back to the people

as an indie musician and coder I am really happy that @joe.sprk.team of @sprk.so talked at @ahoy.eu about how they want to involve indie artists into their platform. let's talk!

@aendra.com's inspiring talk during @ahoy.eu 💜 about queer resilience on social media: queer resilience is expression queer resilience is visibility queer resilience is connection queer resilience is resistance

Getting prepared to by inspired by @ahoy.eu . I will attend the European Social Web Day online today

This piece is superb.

Our last show in Neubad Luzern is almost a week ago. Here you see some smiling faces after and during the concert. Sometimes people say that my music is so sad and depressing and they think I am too, but actually I am quite an optimistic person.

Just bought my ticket to @ahoy.eu, and posted 2 of the 3 ideas I hope to pitch. Can I suggest a custom feed of all attendees? It could be great to start discussing ideas before we meet face2face. And if others publish their ideas, I'm happy to curate them here: myhub.ai/@mathewlowry... /1

Do we fear, do we hide, look away?
One month ago my new album came out. The song 'voice' is trying to talk about the people that are not listened to, who have important things to say, but that are ignored because of their status in society.

Decentralised social video is coming

Ah that voice and that violin @hilk.eu and Laura Schuler. Looking forward to listen to the album today.

Personal Data Servers (PDS) mentioned in @forbes.com — we’ve come a long way (Blacksky & Friends mentioned too)

I also want to explore how to make the Fediverse (Mastodon) and the ATmosphere (Bluesky) work together: as an artist I should be able to tap into both worlds from one user interface.

As a software coder I want to offer people (my music community) the possibility to own their data and have them outside of the US. I am already working on a local Mastodon server and I will also look to set up a PDS (Personal Data Server) for ATProto/Bluesky in Switzerland.

Some thoughts after the m4music 'fight the broligarchy' workshop: As part of my local music community I want to move my own social media consumption to Bluesky. I want a feed with concerts of my favourite music clubs and a feed with new releases of the artists in my bubble

Using atproto for communities. Rudy is the very smart initiator of Blacksky

Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol techcrunch.com/2025/...

I am also invited to this panel about how to earn money as an independent musician. I plan to pose as would be anti-meritocracy lobbyist www.m4music.ch/events/en/20...

I will be very present at this years m4music, talking about Bluesky and Mastodon during this workship with @oddbeholder.bsky.social @ossupervisor.bsky.social, Tizi and Beda. www.m4music.ch/events/en/20...

Small recap of the last show in Thun. New shows coming up: 3.4 ISC Bern, 4.4 Bogen F Zürich, 17.4 Neubad Luzern. Get your tickets: hilk.eu/shows