VEKKS & KostNixLaden
Ratschkygasse 14/1 (Eingang Erlgasse) 1120 Wien
Tel.: +43(0)681 10619938
Email: georg.stejskal@drei.at
Überblick
11.9.2025 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.
13.9.2025 19h30 Einlass
David Palliser
Anthony Kroytor , Kallie Lampel
David Palliser
is a multi disciplinary artist working across improvised music, painting and drawing. He performs regularly in his home city of Melbourne and often in Europe, mainly Berlin. He was a significant member of the post punk band The People With Chairs Up Their Noses , later with The Donkey’s Tail, and continues to perform with The Charles Ives Singers, SKP, and numerous collaborations with other musicians. He plays alto saxophone and clarinet and performs solo using them with electronics and objects... His performances are noted for their on the brink of collapse concentration on sound production, often with a particular and intense use of fragments of loops that chase the flow of playing just as he chases them...areas of repose open out and are swallowed by the ongoing keenly pitched mangling. The Music section of his website gives some idea of his practice
https://www.davidpalliser.com
Created with a combination of digital and traditional techniques, Anthony Kroytor's audiovisual work is a reflection on modernity using the language of remix and juxtaposition. His training in philosophy frames and structures his work, and its sonic and rhythmic elements are grounded in experimental synthesized music. He is particularly interested in the intersection and overlap of the human with the nonhuman, the impersonal.
Kallie Lampel is an experimental/ambient artist based in Berlin. Lampel’s music focuses on creating evolving sonic environments that both express and conjure mental imagery. Through the use of loops both in and out of sync, his music blurs the lines between melody, rhythm, and texture. In this way he seeks to convey and induce the multitudinous experience of memory, thought, emotion, and sensation.
20.9.2025 19h30 Einlass
AGA (Drummer Caffè Productions)
Vivi Wich
AGA
is a composer, creative performer and founder of the Drummer Caffè label. AGA is Alessandro Antolini, drummer and drum teacher for more than twenty years, graduated from Middlesex University in London. The artist collaborated with the late Maestro Ezio Bosso and released 4 albums entirely composed by him: R[Evolution], "Dream On" and the recent "IMAGINE" and "SHORT B-MOVIES". In the musician's intense concert activity, important episodes stand out in Italian and European theaters and clubs. Of note is his participation in the Sanremo Rock final for two consecutive years, where he received excellent reviews from critics. The openings of Tom Barman (dEUS) and Blaine L.Reininger (Tuxedomoon) are suggestive.
Live AGA is a duo that combines sound with images. The electronically derived sound is placed before a layer of acoustic rhythm. The images that are sometimes the protagonists take the listener on a musical journey made up of concepts but above all sensorial aspects. Made in multiple locations, it finds its ideal form in places where music is necessary.
https://www.instagram.com/aga_alessandro_gomma_antolini/
https://open.spotify.com/intl-it/artist/5GmCayXjobt3GmBDLAar8r?si=1K8GT0ijQDWHEhTgd9sf5w
Viviré is a music project by soundartist Vivi Wich about connection and hope. Landscapes of sound and emotion present themselves as longform pieces of synthesizer music. Each track is composed as a painting inspired by the emotions of hopeful, exciting, tense, devastating, depressed, helpless, connecting and eye opening trajectories in life. The sound engine to meet this was designed to navigate tensions between balance and chaos, harmony and dissonance, stability and fragility. Time is not of the essence, there is no progression, everything is present at the same time. Viviré’s performances are improvised interpretations of the paintings. For listeners they’re an invitation to scour the landscapes of sound and emotion for a sense of connection and hope.
25.9.2025 19h30 Einlass
DuChamp
Eric Arn & Veronika Mayer
Mlondiwethu Dubazane
DuChamp
is an Italian scientist, musician and curator based in Berlin, religiously devoted to drone.
Drone is related to a precise childhood memory: the sound of the hair dryer, that her mother used to fix her hair. That was the sound of care, bliss, and infinite love.
She made her debut as solo on Aug 22 2010, and performed several time across Europe and in the US West Coast.
Since 2017, DuChamp started to incorporate real field recordings, related to her personal memory, into her drone compositions, by adding layers of sounds and noise in attempt to recreate some kind of apophonias.
Her debut album “NAR” has been released in 2013 through the italian cult label Boring Machines. In 2015 the split “Sculpture” with French sound artist Felicia Atkinson was released through Idiosyncratics. In 2016 and 2017 Full Body Massage records released that tapes “Nectere” and the following year “A Blazing World”. Her new album “The Wild Joy” will be released in 2025 by Torto Edition, Ramble Records and Atena Records.
Veronika Mayer composes contemporary experimental music in the context of free improvisation as electronic musician with the laptop. She is dedicated to the effects of minimal sound changes and demands openness for subtle details. Veronika is on the curatorial team of the Klangmanifeste festival and a member of snim – spontaneous network for improvised music. She studied piano, instrumental and electroacoustic composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
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Eric Arn ist ein in Wien lebeder Gitarrist dessen Stile zu weit gefächert sind, um hier eine genaue Beschreibung dessen abzugeben, was genau an diesem Abend zu hören sein wird. Basis ist in diesem Zusammenhang jedenfalls Improvisation.
Mlondiwethu Dubazane
is a South African creative sound-maker, spontaneous spirit-music practitioner, sonic-dramatist and improviser. His sonic vision cultivates a sensitivity to the unveiling of the heart, in sound and in practice. Each day, he listens to the space behind the eyes, behind the gut, behind the pelvis, behind the heart. His music is an offering to the space of inspiration that thrums within us all.
For his offering, Mlondiwethu will be sourcing inspiration from the movements of Word, Rhythm and Spirit; to create a performative and sonic encounter titled in the voices of many. Attentively listening to the enthusiasm and refuge that each vibration, note, and sound carries and offers, in the voices of many, is an improvisation toward an amplification of the subtle, unseen, and often-unspoken energies that thrum within us.
27.9.2025 19h30 Einlass
Simon Rose & Didi Kern
Gabriel Zucker & Attila Gyárfás
Simon Rose is a freelance musician and independent researcher, author from London, based in Berlin. He performs on baritone and alto saxophones in numerous collaborations and as soloist. He also collaborates beyond music with dancers, visual artists, mixed media, built instruments, site specific performance and more. His research interest is in creative processes.
Didi Kern muss hier nicht vorgestellt werden....
American multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Zucker (piano, synth, voice) and Hungarian drummer Attila Gyárfás have been making music since they met in 2017 in New York. Living in separate continents, Zucker and Gyárfás have developed the unique synergy of their wide-ranging and ambitious duo project playing in short spans of a week or two at a time on the road in diverse venues — from candle-lit jazz clubs in Edinburgh and Istanbul to an
electronic music venue built out of repurposed car speakers in TimiÅŸoara; from an art gallery in London to a sculpture park outside of Cluj-Napoca. Performing sometimes with a grand piano and a high-fi sound system, but sometimes with a skeletal drum kit, a synthesizer, and a single speaker, the duo is at home within a remarkable range of sounds: passages of complex contrapuntal chamber music are followed by noisy improvised soundscapes punctuated by Gyárfás’s gong synthesizer, and followed again by Zucker’s plaintive lullabies.
28.9.2025 19h30 Einlass
Adriano Cava
Hanousek - Aardestrup - Jorgen
Adriano Cava
Playing with phonography to shape NoFi environments. Adriano Cava play “mikrokosmos” in a low-volume listening ground aired by a self-assembled, cheap multi-speakers system.
This trio was put together in early 2024 by bassist Jonathan Aardestrup who had found a great connection with both the other players.
Since Peter Ole and Jonathan already had joined forces as a duo and facilitated meetings with international guests in Denmark and internationally, in February they invited the Czech saxophonist Radim Hanousek and that was a magical music meeting. The 3 had an instant connection and played 4 concerts for much pleased audiences around Denmark. In October the trio had a small tour in Czech and Austria with similar reactions.
These days we are finishing a live album of the recordings in Denmark, are planning to record a studio album this spring and are organizing another tour to central Europe in October 2025.
Radim Hanousek - sopranosax & bassclarinet
Jonathan Aardestrup - bass
P.O.Jorgens - drums
4.10.2025 19h30 Einlass
Sapient Paradox Duo (Zeynep & Christopher Cox)
Shoz
Born in Los Angeles and raised in Northern California, trombonist Christopher Robin Cox has performed creative music since 1987. Combining multiphonics, split-tones, and electronics, Cox has begun to build his own approach that is at once ambient and saturated. He has worked with legendary blues, funk, and hip-hop artists, as well as a long list of creative improvisers like Marco Eneidi, Glenn Spearman, George Cremaschi, Elliot Humberto Kavee, Jason Robinson, Damon Smith, and many others. After returning from a long hiatus, Cox moved to Budapest in 2019, where he has worked with Aram Shelton, Miklos Szylveszter, Robert BenkÅ‘, and Franz Hautzinger. His trio with bassist Péter Ajtai and drummer Attila Gyárfás is in high demand in Hungary. In the Spring, he plans to perform in Germany and Italy and will tour the West Coast of the United States with Transient a.k.a. David R. Molina.
​Zeynep Sarıkartal
is a sound-artist, improviser and researcher. She studied classical Piano in Ankara Bilkent Music School, had her Bachelor from Musicology in Istanbul Yildiz Technical University and her MA in University of Vienna in Ethnomusicology. Since 2010 she is based in Vienna and works as composer, improviser and sound artist in theater, film and multimedia projects, curates events, publishes articles, performs under the moniker ZS ZS. She mostly collaborated with musicians from the fields of experimental, noise, flashcore, extratone and other related genres. From 2016 on, she started to develop creative research projects that focuses on the concept of social death. ZS ZS live performances are about exploring and merging harsh, rhythmical and atmospheric soundscapes together with text and field recordings within a dramaturgical concept.
Shoz
is a sound artist based in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (USA) and their work explores relationship to Place and spirit. Starting on a foundation of field recordings, their pieces are expressions of embodied connection to a location, stratifying textures of site-specific channelled melody and movement in various instrumentations, digital processing, and rhythms made from environmental sounds. Their work addresses issues of dis/connection guided by the intention to develop and strengthen relationship to the emergent knowing alive in collaboration with The Unseen, creating containers for presence both individually and collectively.
9.10.2025 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.
------- english ------------
-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.
12.10.2025 19h30 Einlass
Blumer-Dell-Geisser-Morgenthaler
Giulio Stermieri
Robert Morgenthaler - Trombone
Christopher Dell - Vibraphone
Fridolin Blumer - Bass
Heinz Geisser - Drums & Percussion
Blumer-Dell-Geisser-Morgenthaler bilden die Realität durch musikalische Handlungen, deren Folgen nicht vorhersehbar sind ab und lassen so ein Spiegelbild der menschlichen Existenz erklingen.
Die grosse Suggestionskraft der Musik steht im direkten Verhältnis zu der Stärke, mit der sie konzipiert ist und ist bedingt durch die Feinheit und Freiheit der Sinne der vier Musiker, welche die Beziehung zwischen der individuellen und der kollektiven Identität ausloten.
Giulio Stermieri - Farfisa organ, toy piano, sampler
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Giulio Stermieri is a pianist, keyboard player, and composer. His musical path merges his love for the African American piano tradition and improvisation with a focus on timbral exploration of piano and electronics.
His work honors the present moment as the privileged dimension for an artist-listener communication. He also explores the way musical material affects form, following the instant composing utopia.
Fort Da, Stermieri's solo performance, is rooted in these beliefs; the Farfisa organ and the sampler become a living machine, together suggesting new creative trajectories.
Fragmented melodies appear and disappear, rising from the contemplation of simple sonic stratifications or sinking into polyrhythmic trance, revealing a game in which we can experience the symbolic value of repetition.
Alle Musiker gehören seit langem zur europäischen Jazz- und Improszene: Morgenthaler, Blumer und Geisser erschaffen im Ensemble 5 seit über 10 Jahren neue Klangwelten, Dell kreiert mit seinem Kollektiv Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard “neue Neue Musik”. Das Quartett ist aus der Zusammenarbeit von Ensemble 5 und Christopher Dell entstanden, welche auf dem Album „The Human Factor“ (Hat Hut) dokumentiert ist.Nach einer Tournee und Aufnahmen im Herbst 2024 ist die Band im Oktober 2025 wieder in Deutschland, der Schweiz und Österreich unterwegs, im Gepäck das neue Album "Beyond Scope" (Hat Hut).