Sonae is an electronic music artist based in cologne, and part of label collective monika werkstatt. her debut album was released 2015 with monika enterprise /berlin. afterwards artist in residence at klingklang studio /düsseldorf, women in computer music scholarship at CCRMA of stanford university /usa, master degree in popular music at folkwang university of arts /essen. 2018 release of her second album ‘I Started Wearing Black’ “a striking album” Fluid Radio UK followed by her remix-album ‘Music For People Who Shave Their Heads’ 2019 with bit-phalanx /london. resident artist of NICA artist development program since autumn 2020. 2021 premiere of multi-media installation ‘Summer’ with video artist jennifer trees and release of same titled album with l a a p s music. DJ mixes for the wire, self-titled, vice, dublab. “All the more reason to admire an already righteous artist.” The Wire Sonae plays live solo and with monika werkstatt at places like institut für zukunft /leipzig, meakusma festival /belgium, ausland /berlin, pop kultur festival /berlin, fusion festival /lärz, uh-fest /budapest, cafe oto /london, 23rpm festival /london, the cube /bristol and more on the same bill with squarepusher, plaid, darkstar, kyoka, frank bretschneider, tim exile. Sonae lives and works in cologne.