Their set up includes Austin Ford on synthesizers and vocals, Nick Tripi on drums, and Cody Barbato on bass.

Big Fun has shared stages with Mike Watt, Destroy Boys, Enjoy, Eyedress, The Red Pears, Cow Girl Clue, Mickey Avalon, Together Pangea, Show Me The Body, Dirt Nasty, Lealani, Ultra Q, Mexican Slum Rats, Strfkr, Wolf Eyes, Planet B (Justin Pearson), Levitation Room, Nhale, 2nd II none, The Dwarves, Niis, Tijuana Panthers, Wacko, Alice Bag, É Arenas, Thick, Tommy Midnight & Strawberry Guy to name a few.

Links: youtube -Jam in the Van , youtube - RUBBERBAND, Instagram

Making use of a sine and square wave oscillator system, analog 1/4" tape and open reel loops, filtered radio and EMF signal, and foley-inspired sound treatments from amplified surfaces and objects, Young's improvisational and compositional techniques are influenced by Cagean aleatoricism as well as haptics-based praxis and deep listening. His McLuhan-esque approach lies in combining the physical treatment of audio signal (piezo mic'd objects and surfaces, manipulations of tape and tone via texture and voltage) with complex musical content, to create sonic narratives that are anchored by the media on which they are recorded, edited, and/or played back. Young’s live performances are improvisational and grid-less.

In 2021, Young released his début solo LP, Amaro, featuring multidisciplinary artists Vito Ricci, Ida Toninato, Markus Floats, Pauline Kim Harris, Johannes Bergmark, Deanna Radford, Dolphin Midwives, and Tomonari Nishikawa, to wide acclaim across Canada and beyond. Recordings since Amaro (2019-2024) have iterated on variations within the “Amaro system” of oscillators and tape he developed in 2019 as a compositional tool.

In 2020, Young's work was selected to appear in Francisco López's kaleidoscopic audio exhibition, "AUDIOSFERA: Sound Experimentation 1980-2020," at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain. Also in 2020, Young and Radford (Cloud Circuit) were invited to contribute a multimedia work of sound, text and visual art to Berlin’s Occulto Magazine's Issue 7. The resulting "Static studies: four ersatz phrases in dactylic hexameter for sea (s) and cloud (c)," led directly to a 2023 invitation by the Prima Vista Festival to become “Utopian Ambassadors” in residence in Tartu, Estonia.

In 2022, Young was invited by the TAKKK Kunstikeskus environmental art center to begin work on a multi-year sonic artwork to be installed in-situ in 2023-24. That same year, Young was invited by the Politécnico de Leiria in Portugal to give a master class in tape splicing and performance. In 2016, Young was commissioned by the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève to compose a full-length work of sound based on their massive ethnomusicological sound archives, called The Poetics of Time-Space. Young's follow-up work, 2018's Dizzy, Congested Musick, continues exploring some of the same themes as The Poetics, yet set to a dizzying sonic landscape of time-warped found vinyl samples. In 2014, he was awarded a Media Artists' Assistance Grant by Wave Farm (NYSCA) to create 125 unique cassette loop pieces and commissioning sound artists to create new work using them as source material. The audio is archived online at The Chants Beneath Project here.

Young has been involved as a co-curator with continuing events series such as Adam Daudrich’s Présences Ambiantes, Jann Tomaro's sonic guided meditation series, Practice, and Jesse Perlstein's roaming graphic score group improvisations, BraidedSOUND, and as an invited curator for the Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival in Montreal, Quebec. In 2024, Young launched a music blog for album reviews called The Royal Editoryal.

Die Kunstfigur Buenoventura ist ein auf den Bahamas geborener Ex-Seemann*, Punk, Raver und Musikliebhaber, der in einer farbenfrohen One-Man-Show performt. Als Buenoventura kann Bernhard Hammer spielerisch zwischen Genres wechseln und intuitiv seinen Ideen freien Lauf lassen. Bernhard Hammer hat in Buenoventura einen Kompagnon gefunden, mit dem er stilistische Konventionen durchbrechen und Genregrenzen für sich neu definieren kann.

Für sein Debut Album Gelb (VÖ 23.05.2025) hat er sich für die E-Gitarre als das zentrale Ausdrucksmittel entschieden und kombiniert damit abstrakte Klangmuster, hypnotische Gitarrenmelodien, mit repetitiven (Poly)Rhythmen. Die Musik ist organisch und ekstatisch, bleibt aber immer minimalistisch!

Links: Instagram, Web

Foto: Astrid Knie

Their music captures the essence of cosmic exploration, characterized by hypnotic riffs and an experimental approach that pushes boundaries. With a focus on dynamic performances and rich instrumental textures, Skyjoggers invites listeners on a journey through uncharted musical territories.

“Skyjoggers, the innovative band from Tampere, Finland, fuses the exhilarating elements of space rock and psychedelic soundscapes.“ - Desertfest Berlin

Foto: Victoria Fofanova

Snailmate has released a full length album Love in the Microwave as well as a myriad of EPs and singles covering a wide range of genres and topics. From songs about anxiety, isolation and queer identity, to bangers about hot sauce, nostalgia, or wearing a robe. Nothing is off limits, and the two often use humor and wit to tackle dark topics, confiding, “We want you to know that you're not alone. Life is short and weird and sometimes crappy, so let's have some fun.”

Snailmate’s new album Stress Sandwich, produced at Lava Lake Studios in Phoenix, AZ is all about growth. The album explores themes of vulnerability, disappointment, and accepting art-making as a beautiful yet imperfect process. The duo shares, “This album is a long time in the making, but it couldn't have been finished any sooner. We had to tour the world, live through quarantine, get our hearts broken a couple times, go to therapy, get our cats, and Bentley had to literally CHANGE GENDERS before we were ready to stick the the toothpick in this baby. Stress Sandwich has everything in it, and it is delicious!".

With the impending Stress Sandwich and a bonkers 2023 tour schedule, Snailmate is ready for their next chapter. Crafting music that is cathartic and relatable yet truly unique, Snailmate is an exciting genre-defying duo that is unlike anything you have ever heard. Truly authentic, Snailmate inspires their listeners to be unapologetic and unashamed of who they are.

Foto: Valence Heartlock

Es sind alle eingeladen mitzumachen, außergewöhnlichen Fähigkeiten
sind nicht erforderlich, nur die Freude am gemeinsamen Musizieren und
Interesse an elektronischer Musik!

Der GIK wurde initiiert, um einen Rahmen zu schaffen, in dem das
Jammen und gemeinsame Improvisieren mit allerlei akustischen und
elektronischen Instrumenten, sowie auch stimmlich erprobt werden kann.

Die Herausforderung dabei besteht in der Realtime-Interaktion und
auch -Klangverarbeitung, dem Begreifen von oft unbekannten Klangquellen
und Klängen und ein Gefühl dafür zu bekommen, wie diese musikalisch
miteinander funktionieren können. Im Vordergrund steht daher das
aufmerksame Zuhören, sich gegenseitig Raum geben und das
Experimentieren.

Kuratiert von Rainer Binder-Krieglstein

...immer am 2. Mittwoch im Monat

Foto: 'Paco' Diaz

Lydia Lunch has crossed paths with Alan Vega and Martin Rev of Suicide upon arrival in New York at age 16, late 70 SUICIDE The first show of which she attended was a real shock, a revelation on a new form of a concert, a total show, theatrical, free, violent. Since then, a close relationship, as much artistic than friendly, united them , Lydia Lunch performed on stage and on a record "Frankie Teardrop" by Suicide and she sang a duet with Alan Vega in the album SNIPER by Alan Vega and Marc Hurtado in 2010.

Marc Hurtado, had already met Alan Vega and Lydia Lunch on his Etant Donnés ‘s RE-UP album Be in 1999 and he formed the project My Lover The Killer in 2013 with Lydia Lunch , with whom they recorded an album and play on stage.

Since 2014 Lydia Lunch and Marc Hurtado join forces for this event around Suicide and Alan Vega songs , it will be a kind of sonic "Blitzkrieg" and a visual shamanic ceremony, where both artists will burn their souls in the volcanic heart of the music of Suicide and Alan Vega.

Lydia Lunch is a nomadic gypsy in eternal metamorphosis that almost lost her life for her art dozens of times in 35 years. Musician, writer, photographer and performance artist, she appeared in the New York music scene in 1977 with the project founder No Wave, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. In search of inspiration and cooperation she worked with Karen Finley, Hubert Selby Jr, Nick Cave, William Burroughs or Virginie Despentes, she lived in New York, Brooklyn, New Orleans, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, London. She has visited 656 cities to perform on stage for concerts, spoken word, installations in clubs, theaters and museums.

Marc Hurtado is a musician, performer, poet, painter, producer and filmmaker who co-founded the French duo ETANT DONNES with his brother Eric in 1977. He has made more than 20 albums and concerts around the world in places like Kitchen ( New York), the Fondation Cartier (Paris), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Sonar Festival (Barcelona), the Atonal Festival (Berlin), or Transmusicales (Rennes). Apart from this duo and solo project Sol Ixent, he has collaborated with many cult figures including Alan Vega, Genesis P.Orridge, Michael Gira (Swans), Gabi Delgado (DAF), Craig Walker ( Archive) , Pascal Comelade, Z'ev, Philippe Grandrieux, Christophe, Saba Komossa (Delkom), Mark Cunningham (MARS), Bachir Attar and the Master Musicians of Jajouka. His films were screened in Beaubourg Paris , FID Marseille, the French Cinematheque in Paris, the Locarno Film Festival, BAFICI Festival Buenos Aires, Mostra de Valencia and recently at the MoMA in New York, which also acquired his latest feature film "Jajouka, something good comes to you" in his collection.

Foto: Sébastien Greppo

A collaborative and adventurous entity manoeuvring between poetic maximalism and intensity driven improvisations. Incorporating midi chaos, string sound objects, and sensor articulations the project will be a rhizomatic diffusion of sonic fragments and textures.

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Mahtab Miandehi is a violinist, sound artist, and researcher born in Tehran and based in Austria. Her works include acoustic and electro-acoustic music across various media formats, as well as the creation and performance of contemporary music, occasionally built on improvisation and experiments, and at other times following a structured approach.

Reza Kellner is a shapeshifting experimental musician and multimedia. Over the past decade, he has inhabited multiple sonic identities, performing under various monikers at renowned stages including Elevate Festival, Unsafe+Sounds, and the Institute for Sonic Welfare.

Deta legt ausschließlich mit Vinyl auf und bleibt dabei genreoffen. Von Disco, Jazz, House und Electro bis zu Acid, Glitch und technoiden Sounds: Es geht nicht um Kategorien, sondern um Kontraste und Bewegung.

Leszek arbeitet seit dem Jahr 2000 mit analoger Videotechnik - überwiegend als begleitende Live-Performance bei musikalischen Darbietungen. Er ist davon überzeugt dass die Videokassette ein großes Comeback feiern wird.

This was not just a direct musical collaboration. Ilia and Sara integrated their sounds into the spaces in which they were played in. Out of using elements of free improvisation, electroacoustic techniques and compositional thinking they created «Binus» album which was released at kuda.org label in December 2024.
Links: listen / watch

Ilia Belorukov is a musician from St. Petersburg, Russia, now based in Novi Sad, Serbia. He works in improvised, noise and electroacoustic music. Ilia practices an experimental approach to sound extraction using saxophone, modular synthesizers and other instruments. His works have been released on labels such as Clean Feed, SOFA, Moving Furniture, Astral Spirits, Notice Recordings, Raw Tonk, Mikroton and many others. He founded the Intonema label and was one of curators of Spina!Rec label. He has organized events in Saint Petersburg and elsewhere in Russia, and co-curated the Teni Zvuka and Spina!Fest festivals. Recent activities included writing reviews and articles for Jazzist website and as musicworm on Telegram channel as well as working as mixing and mastering engineer for own projects and different musicians and labels.
http://belorukov.blogspot.com

Sara Zlanabitnig is based in Vienna since 2005. She has dedicated her artistic interest to free improvised, experimental and electronic music, both as an active musician and as a cultural worker. She is an active part of the platform Frau*feld - for the visualization of female musicians*, the collective festival of the Viennese experimental music scene Jahresendzeitschokoladenhohlkörper, the cultural-political initiative mitderstadtreden and since the beginning of 2022 of the
artistic direction at echoraum. A diversity-oriented, progressive and non-commercial (sub-)attitude are key concerns for her. As a flutist, Sara Zlanabitnig prefers to move in and between the fields of electronic and freely improvised new music. She searches for unusual sounds, explores the possibilities of using electronics and prefers false fingerings as well as quarter tones, harmonics and multiphonics. Borders between music styles are very open to her.
https://sarazlanabitnig.com

Foto: Zsolt Polgar

Scatt3r creates immersive soundscapes designed to lose oneself in. Guiding listeners through scattering sonic landscapes, she weaves melodies, rhythms, and ambient textures using a modular synthesizer and a variety of gear. Each composition is an exploration, blending sound fragments into cohesive, captivating experiences.

Mit rauer Stimme und famosem Gitarrenspiel vermag er es wie kein anderer österreichischer Liedermacher, Erlebtes und Beobachtetes in Texte zu verwandeln und in Musik einzubetten. Sein musikalisches Schaffen ist durch die Verarbeitung seines bewegten Lebens geprägt und umfasst sechs Alben, die zu den Glanzstücken heimischer Dialektmusik gehören.

Foto: Markus Thums