St. Monika

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St. Monika is the artistic project of Dr. Monika Demmler (PhD), a Los Angeles–based, award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, speaker, and official Grammy voter. A pioneering artist at the intersection of music and research, she channels her academic work on Solfeggio frequencies into immersive musical artworks, blending genres in bold and captivating ways.

Her work has been recognized with two REMI Awards and a Global Music Award. Recent releases include Zucker (2022), an avant-garde techno / deep-house collaboration with Holzkopfkinder, and Princess, a feline-fueled fusion of krautrock, shoegaze, and punk.

She is currently working on her third album, Love Bomb, conceived as an antidote to the prevailing global political and social climate.

[…] shifting in gear from loud and punky to ethereal and dreamlike is a range that’s hard to pull off with such success.

— Louder than War, Best Album no 39 in 2022

A force to be reckoned with: Her Mazzy-starish vocals switching between English and German as smoothly as her music transcends genres.

— Classic Rock

With hundreds of live performances to date, St. Monika has toured extensively across the UK (including The Lexington), the United States (The Viper Room, The Mint), and throughout Europe. Described by MOJO Magazine as “the excellent fronted-female Stony Sugarskull,” she has also performed in international livestream formats such as Mondo Art & Tech Con NYC.

Her collaborations include Ben Ellis (bassist for Iggy Pop, live sound engineer for Wet Leg), Leron Thomas (composer of Iggy Pop’s Free), film director Judith Jerome (Golden REMI Award winner), Thomas Stern (Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave), Mark Reeder (B-Movie, New Order), Franz Bargmann (Michael Rother / NEU!), and Warren Cuccurullo (Duran Duran), among others.

Her work has been supported by Germany’s leading public music funding institutions, including Initiative Musik, Musikfonds, and Musicboard Berlin.
Earlier releases include Bentley (2021), Gaia Live (2019), Butterflies (2018), Gaia (2017), and Trust (2016).