VEKKS & KostNixLaden
Ratschkygasse 14/1 (Eingang Erlgasse) 1120 Wien
Tel.: +43(0)681 10619938
Email: georg.stejskal@drei.at
13.2.2025 19h30 Einlass
FreeForms
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.
18.2.2025 19h30 Einlass
Adrian Myhr Trio
Marina Poleukhina & Alexander Babikov
Adrian Myhr Trio is:
Adrian Myhr - double bass, compositions
Rasmus Kjorstad - violin, langeleik
Jan Martin Gismervik - drums, harmonium
This trio is at the intersection of jazz, Norwegian folk music and contemporary music. One can also hear hints of raga music from India, as well as Albanian singing tradition. The music is suggestive, melodious, meditative and has an acoustic expression with a good deal of use of improvisation.
Rasmus Kjorstad plays fiddle and langeleik, Jan Martin Gismervik plays drums, hanging vibraphone and harmonium and Adrian Myhr plays double bass. With this line-up, the trio has great variation in expression and instrumentation. It provides opportunities from e.g. playing long solos on top of a bass and drum groove to playing long drones on the harmonium and with a bow on the double bass and fiddle.
Marina Poleukhina is composer and improviser. The focus of her artistical attention lies in an interdisciplinary work. Her music unite a creation of a world that goes beyond only sounds. It connects movement, light, video projections on unusual surfaces, manipulation of ordinary devices that make them become instruments, objects that create their own space. This evolves into new and unexplored acoustical situations of an intense complexity. A territory made of crossroads of genres. Her music is played on festivals: Ultima (Oslo), Wien Modern (Vienna), Path Festival (Verona), MATA (New York) and others. She works with ensembles such as Nadar, MCME, Nostri Temporis, Looptail, Zwerm, Platypus, Airborne Extended, Curious chamber; musicians such as Jennifer Torrence, Alexander Chernyshkov, Alessandro Baticci, Stefan Voglsinger, Tomomi Adachi, Vladimir Gorlinsky, Didi Kern, Franz Hautzinger, Kirill Shirokov; with choreographers such as Johanna Nielsen, Paul Wenninger, Agnes Schneidewind. To see and listen https://vimeo.com/user15458156
alexander babikov is a vienna-based composer, sound artist and improviser, laptop musician and multi-instrumentalist. composition, conceptualism, installation and improvisation. various aesthetically differentiated projects and ensembles, site-specific works, interdisciplinary performances and spontaneous improvisatory formations. numerous live appearances in and outside of vienna. part of the monday improvisers session. https://babikov.klingt.org
25.2.2025 19h30 Einlass
St Celfer, Nina Sobell, Sachiko Hayashi, Fluffy Crumb
KAK? (=Regina Außerwöger, Stefan Krist, Didi Kern)
St Celfer, treading glitch-tronic failure, creates improvisational future-folk compositions - sound is amalgamated and congealed into a resolution of crossed and overloaded signals. In performance St Celfer embraces sensory overload in order to unlock ways of perceiving a world made narrow by the impositions of power. john macdougall parker, of American and Korean origin, floats between NYC, Seattle, and São Paulo. (photo by Marcus Leoni)
www.StCelfer.com
Foto: Evelin Stermitz
Nina Sobell is a New York-based multimedia artist renowned for bringing her pioneering integration of technology, performance, and interactivity into contemporary art. Her work has explored concepts of communication and connectivity through cutting-edge technologies such as brain-wave monitoring device (EEG), closed-circuit television, and internet connection, investigating how technology transforms perception, fosters connection, and reveals hidden aspects of human experience. Sachiko Hayashi, a Japanese-born, Sweden-based artist, is recognised for her video art and digital media practice, addressing themes of memory, identity, and time—both personal and collective—often through a non-verbal, experimental approach. Together, Sobell and Hayashi have been cultivating a creative partnership that merges Sachiko’s AI-generated visuals with Nina’s sound art, examining new artistic possibilities at the intersection of technology, sound, and image.
www.NinaSobell.com
https://www.e-garde.com/
Fluffy Crumb, an engineer from Poland who has dreamed of mastering chaos since childhood, studied deterministic chaos and has been writing scripts and applications since, but the real success in this goal is music - honest, emotional sound art based on balloon clamors and rackets, which can be heard on
KAK? =
Stefan Krist - Posaune, Objekte, Stimme
Regina Außerwöger - Geige, Zither, Stimme,
Didi Kern - Percussion
"KAK?" (="Wie?") Diese Frage, die ja alle ziemlich regelmäßig sprachlich stellen, aber meistens keine Antwort bekommen, stellt das Improvisationsmusiktrio Krist/Außerwöger/Kern mit musikalischen, klanglichen und geräuschigen Mitteln und kommt zu Antworten, die ziemlich regelmäßig überraschen. Spannung ist also garantiert, wenn die drei auf ihren vielen Idio-, Membrano-, Chordo-, und Aerophonen loslegen und dazu auch noch ihre Stimmen erheben.
Franciszek Araszkiewicz -
electronics composer and sound installation artist, laureate of, a.o. Avenir Grant (Arnold Schoenberg Center), artisrt-in-residence in MuseumsQuartier, Vienna. His instrumental and electroacoustic works were awarded in numerous competitions (Silver Medal at 8th Manhattan International Music Competition 2024, 1st prize ex aequo during the 11th Tadeusz Ochlewski Competition organized by PWM Edition in 2013, for a piece Monster Group Number for soprano and electronics; 1st prize at the international Concorso di Composizione Pianistica 2014 Giorgio e Aurora Giovanni Fondazione for his work Study of Chaos for piano for four hands, 3rd Dimitri Shoskakovich Competition Lviv 2021 for Enchevetrement Saint-Ambroise for piano, violin, viola and cello et al.) In 2019 he obtained a doctoral degree at his alma mater - Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, in music arts. www.araszkiewicz.fr
Alessandro Vicard -
double bass He worked with visual artists, composers, performers, and composed music for theater, film productions and multimedial project. 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, M, 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)
Markus W. Schneider – Baritongitarre, Effekte
Jakob Gnigler - Saxophon
„Schneider/Gnigler spielt Schneider/Gnigler“ könnte das Programm heißen: Auf Basis der bei Recordingsessions entstandenen gemeinsamen Tonsprache werden nun Stücke gespielt, die stilistisch zwischen zeitgenössischer Klangästhetik und „klassischer“ Lied-form stehen. Die gemeinsam entwickelte Tonsprache wird als Kompositionswerkzeug für neue improvisatorische und kompositorische Ausführungen.
Markus W. Schneider und Jakob Gnigler sind seit 2017 als Duo aktiv. Was als loses Duo begann um gemeinsam an Improvisationskonzepten zu arbeiten, entwickelten sich bald zu fixen Band. 2019 erschien ihr Debutalbum „Prosa“ beim Label Smallforms. Abstrakte Sounds treffen dort auf konfrontative Art und Weise immer wieder songhaft anmutende Passagen. Als „Theatermusik“ für die Performance „TTToxic Paradise“ (Mai 2021, Steinerhalle; Jänner 2022, Spitzer im Odeon; Mai 2022, Zacherl Fabrik“), komponierten und spielten sie 12-Tonkompositionen. 2022 folgte die Einladung ins Artist-In-Residence Programm "Hotel Pupik", wo sie ein neues Programm entwickelten. Seit Oktober 2022 treffen sich die beiden regelmäßig zu Recordingsessions. Aufnehmen, Hören, Evaluieren, Editieren wurden zu den Bestandteilen dieser organischen Weiterentwicklung. Aus dieser sehr umfangreichen Materialsammlung entstand nun eine Art Best Of-Album, das in limitierter Auflage auf Tape erscheint.
