VEKKS & KostNixLaden
Ratschkygasse 14/1 (Eingang Erlgasse) 1120 Wien
Tel.: +43(0)681 10619938
Email: georg.stejskal@drei.at
22.11.2024 19h30 Einlass
Micaela Trombini
Lisk - Janje - Schneider
Micaela Trombini (Arg)
is an Argentine sound artist and educator known for her innovative approach. Her live performances are hybrids, incorporating living systems and biomaterials to produce unique sounds. Drawing from her extensive experience in live coding techniques and experimental algorithmic noise, she crafts her own instruments and sound interfaces from code. This method allows her a heightened level of improvisational freedom during her live sets.
She generates pseudo-random sound sculptures while dialoguing with the machine through code. The boundaries of this sonic realm are defined by her language and that of the software, turning the performance into an experimental and improvisational journey.
By employing the live coding technique, she crafts and adjusts algorithms in real-time, resulting in the creation of sounds and noise.
Live coding refers to the creation and modification of
algorithms for a creative purpose in real-time, often in
the presence of a physical or virtual audience. The
community is diverse and seeks to engage in a wide
range of artistic practices including, among others,
music, audiovisual creation, performance, robotics,
dance, scientific research, and education.
LISK - JANJE - SCHNEIDER
Tracy Lisk is a percussionist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ms. Lisk’s history as a painter informs the substance of her improvisationswhich contain references to rhythmic structures while maintaining a fluid, suspended continuity. She has lead percussion ensembles, and regularly tours as a drummer in the US and Europe. She has collaborated with William Parker, saxophonist Gary Hassay, Andrea Pensado (electronics/voice), Mia Zabelka (AU), Maggie Nicols, Ernesto Rodrigues (PT),
dancer Ryuzo Fukuhara (JP, SI), among others.
Boris Janje is a double bassist from Zagreb, Croatia, living and working in Ljubljana, Slovenia. For years, he has been researching, performing,
composing and expanding the sonic and musical possibilities of his instrument, building individualized musical vocabulary with the use of standard and extended playing techniques mainly in the field of non-idiomatic improvisation with a particular focus in sound, drawn to the idea of erasing borders between genres and styles and leaving aside structures and forms. Through the years, he played and collaborated with numerous local and foreign musicians, dancers ,poets and other artists.
Markus W. Schneider is a guitarist, composer, improviser, and producer from Vienna who works primarily in experimental music, with influences from pop and jazz. He challenges the traditional role of the electric guitar by exploring alternative playing techniques, electronics, and recontextualizing established repertoires and clichés.
His solo projects showcase this approach: "Fragile Findings" delves into electroacoustic improvisations, "Ghosts in my Pocket" explores acoustic guitar music, and "Widerspruch" is a deconstructive song cycle that pushes the boundaries of traditional song formats.
Schneider is a key member of several collaborative projects. He is one half of the Art Pop duo 264 HOURS OF SLEEP with Christina Ruf, part of the improvisation duo Gnigler/Schneider, and a member of the experimental pop band GLAM (with Gloria Amesbauer and Aras Seyhan). He also plays in
Lukas Aichinger's jazz sextet AHL6, the noise band Ferro Taylor, the multimedia group Monza Blitz, and the band B. Fleischmann.
30.11.2024 19h30 Einlass
Edith Steyer / potzblitz!brak / Michael Prehofer / Michael Masen
Alexia Astreinidi-Blandin & Alexander Babikov
EDITH STEYER ist eine frei improvisierende und komponierende Klarinetten- und Saxophonspielerin mit Wurzeln im Jazz und der klassischen Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als ehemalige Studentin der Sozialanthropologie interessiert sie sich auch für ethnische Musik. Sie widmet sich der Erforschung ihrer Instrumente und arbeitet mit verschiedenen Präparationen und Elementen wie Trommelfellen, Wasser und Wind sowie in letzter Zeit auch mit elektronischen Geräten und Feedback. Neben der Arbeit an einem Solokonzept gilt ihr Hauptinteresse der Schaffung intelligent verwobener Interaktionen und Klangfelder mit anderen Künstlern. Sie ist Teil der Berliner Echtzeitszene und in verschiedenen Musiktheatergruppen zu hören. Für ihre Arbeit erhielt sie verschiedene Stipendien, unter anderem vom Berliner Senat (2016, 2020), dem Deutschen Musikfonds (2020), als Mitglied der Musiktheatergruppe "Mann aus Obst" von der Initiative Neue Musik, vom Deutschen Musikrat (2022) und vom Goethe-Institut (2024). https://www.edith-steyer.de/
potzblitz!brak ist ein Multiinstrumentalist aus Wien. Seit vielen Jahren ist er in einer Menge Bands und Projekten aktiv, wobei die Bandbreite von Ethno bis Deathmetal, von Jazzcore bis Notebookkrach und von total auskomponiert bis völlig frei reicht.
Ein Jahr lang (05/2016 – 05/2017) hat er jeden Tag ein einminütiges Video produziert und veröffentlicht. Als potzblitz!brak tritt er solo auf, außerdem ist/ war er u.a. Teil von When Yuppies Go To Hell, Banana Chain, L´asino, 6to6 String Dezibel, die Gürtelneurosen, Wal wie der Fisch, Lunchbreak, Mandragora, Rax on the Lax und Maracatu Minimal. Dabei hat er mit Susanna Gartmayer, Elisabeth Kelvin, Marin Philadelphy, Ernst Reitermayer, Timon Thalwitzer, Lisa Kortschak, Gregor Mahnert, Chris Janka, Daniel Pabst und vielen anderen zusammengearbeitet.
MICHAEL PREHOFER ist ein Schlagzeuger aus Wien. Stilistisch bewegt er sich zwischen Pop und freier Improvisation. Er hat mit folgenden Musikerinnen und Musikern gearbeitet/gespielt: Daniel Schatz, Artur Nutz, Michael Fischer, Didi Kern, Linda Sharrock, Mario Rechtern, Jost Drasler, Eric Arn, Otto Horvath, Laura Pudelek, Yedda Yu Lin, Angelina Ertl, Sandy Ewen, Michael Masen, Eric Zinman, Rieko Okunda, Anti Virtaranta, Tissa World, Max Bogner, Teresa Riemann, Florian Fischbauer und viele mehr… Er hat an den folgenden Formationen und Projekten teilgenommen: East of Mozart / Vienna Improvisers Orchestra / Elsa Tootsie and the Mini Band / Mieryela Ensemble / Kalisho, Filmmusik für „Mein Wenn und Aber“ (Regie: Marko Doringer) / „Verteidigung der Demokratie“ (Theaterstück von Christine Eder) / Primordial Undermind / Club Freizeit
MICHAEL MASEN spielt Saxophon in den Bands FS Massaker, Mozo Mozo, Ouls und Astro Black. Konzert- und Festivalauftritte führten ihn neben Locations in ganz Österreich bisher auch nach Deutschland, Slowenien, Kroatien und Tschechien, wo er mit lokalen und internationalen Musiker*innen die Bühne teilte, darunter Linda Sharrock (US), Mario Rechtern (AT), Eric Zinman (US), Virginia Genta (IT), David Vanzan (IT), Michael Fischer (AT) uva. Zwischendurch wirkte er auch in den Bands BANANA CHAIN und DARWINISM 4 DUMMIES und war an Studioaufnahmen und Konzerten von Pulverin, Hella Comet, Rolltreppe, Meltdowner und Desolat als Gastmusiker beteiligt. Michael Masen lebt und arbeitet in Wien.
Alexia Astreinidi-Blandin is a multicultural improviser, musical theater artist and words player. After having experienced the clarinet through a classical approach, appeared the wish to get closer to the ability of improvising – with the idea that music is a gentle collaboration of sounds produced in- and outside the instrument. Their ambition with music is to create atmospheres, landscapes, shapes and interactions. A kind of storytelling about traditions, repetitions and ambivalences with the voice of a bass clarinet.
alexander babikov (*2005, moscow) is a vienna-based composer, sound artist and improvising musician. his artistic practice, invariably situated at the intersection of composition, concept art, installation and improvisation, encompasses a vast spectrum of genres and aesthetic approaches, regardless of his persistently uncompromising artistic attitude and a distinctive aesthetic sensitivity. as reflected in his presence in the viennese improvisation scene, his consistent involvement in various stylistically differentiated projects and ensembles, site-specific works, interdisciplinary performances and spontaneous improvisatory formations with numerous live appearances in and outside of vienna.
2.12.2024 19h30 Einlass
d'incise
Edith Lettner & Alessandro Vicard
d'incise, sound explorer, used to pretend to have no perticular instrument, using whatever can be considered as such, softwares, recordings, objects, percussions, harmonium, etc. However he has lately re-focused on analog electronic sources, carefully sampling and re-assembling them as solo concert proposal for loudspeakers. He's interested in radicalism, reductionnism, repetitions and conceptual approaches, building specific set-up for each new occasion & context, in solo, groups or thought for others. He tends to extract the most tiny details of the elements, appreciates slowness and obsessive explorations of simple processes.
He will play his new set called "Incendies". A new composition for slightly saturated signals and off-the-grid pulsations.
https://on.soundcloud.com/vc2GUkivR4DM24oH8
Solo tour supported by Prohelvetia & Canton de Genève.
EnergiA
Edith Lettner- alto & soprano saxophone, duduk
Alessandro Vicard- double bass
The two cosmopolitan musicians share a glowing intensity in their playing and a rich vocabulary for dialogs full of temperament and changing moods. The fact that both are also visual artists certainly has a significant influence on their musical potential. For some years now, they have performed together again and again to live out their passion for improvisation and Edith Lettner regularly takes part in the RARA Festival for Improvised Music founded by Alessandro Vicard in his home town of Palazzolo/ Sicily. She was part of the “Sicilian Connection” at Wien Modern Festival 2019 as well.
Alessandro Vicard
Double bass player - composer - visual artist
He worked with visual artists, composers, performers, and composed music for theater, film productions and multimedia projects.
In 2019, he was the curator of the "Sicilian Connection" at Wien Modern.
In the same year, Alessandro's first opera was presented at "Wir sind Wien".
Collaborations with Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke (GB/NL),Giancarlo Schiaffini, Mark Dresser, Benat Achiary, Agostino DiScipio, Michael Fischer, Gianni Gebbia, Franz Hautzinger, Didi Kern, Cort Lippe, Kuchera-Morin, Marcello Nisinman, Barre Phillips, Steve Potts, Michael Riessler, Vienna Improvisers Orchestra, Jacek Kochan; for theatre with EmmeA Teatro (I), Theatre Spirale (Switzerland).
Since 2019 he is acting as composer of the Gervasi Tanz Company(Vienna).
Tours in Europe, Asia, Cuba, Lebanon.
Edith Lettner
Is a musician, composer and painter, who performs internationally with numerous outstanding musicians & bands. With her chosen instruments, alto & soprano saxophone and duduk, she plays jazz, improvisational music and world music.
Edith’s unique sound and polychromatic talent have been shaped by an openness to different artistic genres and cultures and her numerous stays abroad (New York, Sicily, Senegal, Morocco, Canada, Armenia, …) Improvisation seems to be written into her DNA; it drives her music, her art work, and it defines how she lives her life.
Edith has recorded many CDs and has composed music for film, theatre and dance performances. In the field of improvised music she has worked with many inspiring artists in New York e.g. Warren Smith, Dafna Naphtali, Eric Zinman, Kenny Wessel, Ras Moshe Burnett und Mara Rosenblum, Matt Lavelle…. in Austria with Alessandro Vicard, Howard Curtis, Sylvia Bruckner, Herbert Lacina, Ursula Schwarz, Stephan Brodsky, Martin Kratochwil and many more. A studio session on Sicily with TRes Drei Trio with Antonio Longo on drums and Antonio Aiello on double bass will soon be released on CD and vinyl.
6.12.2024 19h30 Einlass
Grencsó-Mezei-Hock-Miklós Quartet
István GRENCSÓ – sax, flute
https://info.bmc.hu/en/musicians/
1434-grencso-istvan
Szilárd MEZEI – viola
https://szilardmezei.bandcamp.com/
Ernő HOCK – double bass
https://info.bmc.hu/en/musicians/
2369-hock-erno
Szilveszter MIKLÓS – drums
https://szilvesztermiklos.bandcamp.com/
https://grencso-mezei-hock-miklos.bandcamp.com/album/zene-a-konyvtarbol
Grencsó and Mezei have been around for decades, made a huge impact on the genre at home and abroad, played and recorded with all the greats such as Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, Tristan Honsinger, Joelle Leandre, Hamid Drake, Ken Vandermark or Mats Gustafsson - while Hock and Miklós are certainly among the most dedicated and versatile players of the younger generation.
“Their unique sound as an improvising quartet offers an exciting blend of sophisticated jazz and ancient folk elements while insisting on an uncompromising attitude in their constant search for the new and maintaining an unrivalled sensitivity in listening.”