VEKKS & KostNixLaden
Ratschkygasse 14/1 (Eingang Erlgasse) 1120 Wien
Tel.: +43(0)681 10619938
Email: georg.stejskal@drei.at
Überblick
Ist es doch Jazz?
Teilweise in Rockmusik Verpacktes?
Ist es Improvisationsmusik?
Die Musik von Ippio Payo in Worte fassen zu wollen ist ziemlich aussichtslos. Zu zahlreich die stilistischen Einflüsse und Wendungen.
Ihre Instrumentalkompositionen verschmelzen Seiteninstrumente, Blasinstrumente mit Percussion und elektronischen Sounds zu einem polyrhythmischen Netz.
Dabei ist es egal wieviel Jazz, Weltmusik, klassische Musik, Krautrock, Postrock, Punk oder elektronische Musik in den jeweiligen Stücken enthalten ist.
Man sollte sich voll und ganz darauf einlassen und nicht jeden Takt einzeln analysieren.
Dann bemerkt man die eindrucksvolle Homogenität.
Musik, die Spaß macht, weil sie keine Schubladen, keine Grenzen kennt.
Josip Pavlov – guitar
Martin Lehmann – trumpet
Daniel Tanner – drums
4.2.2026 19h30 Einlass
Federico Pozzer
Federico Pozzer
TRANSCRIPTIONS OF MY PIANO STUDENTS’ PLAYING
In this solo piano performance, composer-performer Federico Pozzer plays transcriptions of recordings of his piano students attempting to interpret famous pieces. These recordings—captured during one-to-one piano lessons—are filled with irregular rhythms, hesitations, long silences, “wrong” notes, and unexpected dynamic choices.
Federico transcribed them precisely and is going to perform them himself. The result is a tender, strange, and subtly disorienting collection of pieces that hover between recognition and distortion.
Well-known melodies emerge but altered by the fragile gestures of children in the act of learning.
This project treats error as expression and listening as a form of
care. By inviting us to hear the beauty in musical imperfection, both humorous and haunting, the performance aims to challenge what we expect from music, memory, and the so-called “correct.”
Audio Examples:
https://on.soundcloud.com/eh2BNvsQNTaGPDVcyc
Website:
http://www.federicopozzer.com/
7.2.2026 19h30 Einlass
Life Aquatic Quartett
Liquid wie die Lyrik ihrer Lieder liebäugelt dieses Kollektiv mit den transparenten Übergängen zwischen Komposition und Improvisation. So darf streng Notiertes manchmal frei interpretiert werden während die tänzerische Freiheit auch mal als adretter Hörgenuss ertönen soll - Ansätze,die das Repertoire der Band prägen. Die Kompositionen von Life Aquatic variieren zwischen verschiedenen musikalischen Genres. Contemporary Jazz, freie Improvisation und Kammermusik verweben sich mit Einflüssen aus dem Indie Rock, dem Alternative sowie aus osteuropäischer Musik - ein einzigartiges Konstrukt, dessen Existenz auf die unterschiedlichen musikalischen Einflüsse der Bandmitglieder zurückzuführen ist. Life Aquatic sind raffinierte Geschichtenerzähler und laden den Zuhörer ein, an ihrer Reise teilzunehmen - eine Reise ins Unbekannte.
8.2.2026 19h30 Einlass
Jošt Drašler & Cene Resnik & Eric Arn & Vid Drašler
Bneleti (Ben Wheeler)
Improvising quartet:
Jošt Drašler - acoustic bass
Cene Resnik - tenor saxophone
Eric Arn - electric guitar
Vid Drašler - drums
Dieses Improvisations/Free Jazz–Quartett ist eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen den slowenischen Musikern, Vid Drašler – Schlagzeug (DKD-Trio, trójnik, Orchester Senza Confini, Orkestrada), Jošt Drašler – Akustikbass (DKD-Trio, Orch Senza. Confini, Jani Moder Trio, Vito marence Gruppe ..), Cene Resnik – Tenor Saxophon (Cene Resnik Quartet, trójnik, Watch for dogs–Trio, Orch. Senza Confini) und Wiener-Ami Eric Arn - E-Gitarre (Vienna Improvisers Orchestra, Alle Formen Trio, Mieryela ensemble)
Dies ist ein Forschungs-Quartett. Sie versuchen Melodien zu umarmen, alle Arten von Klängen und Rhythmen, jedoch keine Strukturen. Sie spielen am schmalen Grad, wo ihr musikalisches Material wahrnehmbar, greifbar, aber auch zerbrechlich bleibt. Somit fühlen sie sich involviert an der Profilierung eines musikalischen Handwerks in einem der großen kreativen Bereiche neuer Musik. Das Ziel ist es neue Erfahrungen, und neue Verbindungen in andere Teile Europas, zu schaffen.​
Bneleti (ბნელეთი) is a solo project by Ben Wheeler, an experimental musician, composer, and ethnomusicologist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Performing with an electric guitar, saz, and modular synthesizer, Wheeler integrates his impressions of the music of Caucasus, particularly Azerbaijani traditional music and Georgian polyphony, with dark ambient, drone, and experimental composition, and the aesthetic of Seattle hardcore and black metal, creating a musical world that is beyond genre classifications.
His first full-length release under the moniker "Bneleti" is set to be released in February 2026 on Inverted Spectrum Records, and will be followed by a three-week tour of Central and Eastern Europe.
Ben Wheeler is the co-founder of Mountains of Tongues, a project dedicated to preserving and promoting lesser known music from the Caucasus region. He has recorded songs in languages that have rarely been caught on tape, instruments that only exist in extremely small numbers, and performances from a variety of underrepresented ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority communities throughout the region. He is also the Senior Editor of EastEast, a journal that covers culture and society in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, and the founder of the Caucasus All Frequency festival. He is an instructor on synthesizers at Creative Education Studio in Tbilisi. Besides his Bneleti project, Wheeler also published under his own name, composed music for multiple independent films, performed and written for a diverse selection of bands, and worked as a music director and composer.
12.2.2026 19h30 Einlass
FreeForms
ein freier dialog der kreativen : tänzerinnen, musikerinnen, malerinnen, poetinnen und dem publikum ; das nicht existente JETZT greift auf raum und zeit zu. die FREIE KOMMUNIKATION rückt ins zentrum;
-> frei im sinne von in „augenhöhe, in gegenseitiger akzeptanz; hierarchie befreit bzw. befreiend“, offen kommunizierend und grenzen überschreitend. FREE FORMS ist offen für alle genres soferne sie sich dem freien, offenen, kreativen dialog aussetzen wollen.
-> JUST MUSIC ist teil der internationalen FREE FORMS bewegung.
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-a free dialogue of the creative : dancers, musicians, painters, poets and the audience ; the non-existent NOW accesses space and time. the FREE COMMUNICATION moves into the centre;
-free in the sense of "on an equal footing, in mutual acceptance; liberating hierarchy", communicating openly and transcending boundaries. FREE FORMS is open to all genres as long as they want to expose themselves to free, open, creative dialogue.
JUST MUSIC is part of the international FREE FORMS movement.
21.2.2026 19h30 Einlass
Joaquin Ortega & Daniel Bierdümpfl
Cicale Cicale Cicale
In this new duo, Joaquin Ortega and Daniel Bierdümpfl explore musical dialogue through the guitar. As two guitarists with different approaches to the instrument, they create a unique conversation shaped by contrast, curiosity, and collaboration. Their music moves between written structures and spontaneous interaction, in which rhythmic counterpoint and noise function as organizing elements that generate spaces of tension, overlap, and exchange.
Joaquin Ortega (Argentina/France)
Argentin musician based in France, Joaquín Ortega explores the connections between guitar, electronic devices, and field recordings. His work draws inspiration from bodily movement and contemporary musical languages. Alongside his instrumental practice, he also develops projects involving installations and dance. His work has been presented at the Desired Lines pavilion of the Venice Biennale, the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, and the Fondation Fiminco, among others.
Daniel Bierdümpfl
is an Vienna - Austria based interdisciplinary Artist.
Daniel is a former luthier of plucked & bowed string instruments, he studied time based & interactive media arts at the Kunst Universität Linz (AT) and works as a free lance artist in the fields of music, performance, theater, choreography, poetry, film & photography. He was nominated among five other finalists for the Oe1 Jazz scholarship 2023 as well as one of six finalists I AM ABROAD 2024 Open Call (New European Project for Free Improvisation Artists) Vienna AT. He is the head of programming & production for Raumschiff Linz with a focus on contemporary, improvised and off-genre music & performance.
