Christina Köhler is a German-Filipino sound and performance artist who mostly works under the artist name Tintin Patrone. In 2011, she completed her studies at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, where she studied under Haegue Yang, Asmus Tietchens, Isaac Julian, and Matti Braun. Tintin
Patrone explores the connections between sound, art, and other experimental forms of expression. One focus of her creations is on the visual elements of music, the tension between conceptual ideas and physical existence, and how we relate to music, individually and as a society. Her work is partly inspired by club culture. In 2009, Tintin Patrone founded the noise ensemble Krachkisten Orchester and in 2018 the performance collective The Ambassadors of Disappointment in collaboration with the Goethe Center in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 2021, she ran an Asian takeaway called DEUTSCHES REIS, a place for experimental music and food.

During her stay, Christina Köhler wants to create new compositions for the bamboo instruments used in the music of the Musikong Bumbong. These handmade instruments imitate western brass instruments but use a kazoo as a sound generator. Musikong Bumbong was the attempt of a 19th-century revolutionary movement to create a uniquely Filipino sound. This attempt led to the formation of bamboo ensembles that were organized along the lines of marching bands and played music by Filipino composers.

Selected Works/Recitals
2024 | Girl At Alimall, composition for marching band: 14 kazoos and percussion, WP: Manila
2024 | Caprizaen, composition for robot, drone and voice, WP: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
2023 | Pet Music, composition for robot four-legged friends and music mats, WP: Dortmunder U
2022 | leontopodium_futura.wav, composition for robots, hologram reactor, 4 performers on sound objects, WP: Reaktor, Vienna
2021 | gorlepin oam ratt, vocal composition for robots: for 4 yodelers and wooden megaphones, WP: Mounsonturm, Frankfurt
2020 | When you and your goat find bread, vocal composition for robots: for 4 yodelers, trombone, and percussion, WP: Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

Discography
2024 | BOCKLOS AM WEGESRAND, het generiek, Amsterdam, tape
2021 | 5G horse, visible dinner, Leizig, tape
2019 | When you and your goat find bread, Stoffe, Hamburg, tape
2018 | blues, pleisto, Hamburg, tape
2012 | Krachkisten Orchester – self-released, Hamburg, tape

Selected Awards
2023 | Working Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2022 | Working Grant, Musikfonds e.V.
2021 | Project Residency, inkonst, Malmö
2019 | Project Residency, Goethe-Zentrum Bezirk, Guadalajara
2019 | Artist Residency, PARADISE AIR, Matsudo