VEKKS & KostNixLaden
Ratschkygasse 14/1 (Eingang Erlgasse) 1120 Wien
Tel.: +43(0)681 10619938
Email: georg.stejskal@drei.at
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Wooli Duo / 無理 / 우리
is an avant-garde band featuring Taiwanese Pipa player Fan-Qi Wu and Norwegian drummer Michael Lee Sørenmo.
Through combining the traditional instrument Pipa with drum set and Korean percussion, Wooli Duo creates a captivating soundscape which presents the sound of traditional music, but played in an unconventional way. Inspired by East Asian traditional music and free improvisation, Wooli Duo blends traditional melodies and rhythms from Taiwan and South Korea into their own new expression.
Michael Lee Sørenmo is a Norwegian drummer having performed with numerous bands in Scandinavia and Europe. In Wooli Duo, Michael plays both drum set and Korean percussion instruments, Janggu and Buk and several gongs.
Fan-Qi Wu is an award-winning pipa player from Taiwan having performed on stages like One Beat US, and Building Bridges in Switzerland. She has developed a unique sound on her instrument through study with renowned Pipa players, and are among the generational leading improvisers of her instrument.
remediation
GLORIA DAMIJAN extended toy piano, percussion
CAROLE KIM sound objects, live visuals
LUISA MUHR voice
DILATE trio
is a subgroup of a larger collaborative audio-visual ensemble that has been performing together in live, remote and hybrid configurations since the onset of the pandemic. As experimental improvisers, DILATE is committed to live connection that bridges disciplines while in pursuit of innovative ways of thinking about and applying technology, inserting a sense of play, serendipity and creative invention.
We are deep in consideration of “remediation” as a multi-faceted concept and process over time. We must constantly visualize and conjure impactful energy that is both agile and persistent to both breakdown and germinate. “remediation” reinforces the cultivation of compassionate humanity.
Carole KimCarole Kim is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on multi-media installation, video projection, live and telematic performance, drawing and digital prints. Her work spans diverse contexts including experimental art, music, dance, theater and site-specific installation. Kim’s hands-on approach to working with materials and exploring the organic application of digital technologies crafts a hybrid visual
Polaschegg – Steyer & Masen – Prehofer
An diesem Abend werden sich 2 Duos vorstellen. Das eine arbeitet zum 1. Mal
miteinander, das andere kennt sich seit vielen Jahren.
Anschliessend werden beide Duos zusammen musizieren.
Set 1)
Edith Steyer – Klarinette
Nina Polaschegg - Kontrabass
Nina Polaschegg und Edith Steyer lernten sich persönlich während des Kaleidophons in Ulrichsberg 2024 kennen. Polaschegg, damals als Journalistin vor Ort, interviewte die
Klarinettistin Steyer nach dem Konzert mit SORBD, eines Berliner Quintetts mit M. Dyberg, R. Okuda, I. Rößler und Sofia Borges. Ausserdem verfolgte Steyer schon seit längerer Zeit die Zusammenarbeit Polascheggs mit der Saxophonistin Tanja Feichtmair, die wiederum eine Kommilitonin von Steyer am Bruckner-Konservatorium in Linz war. Die gegenseitige Wertschätzung führt zu einem ersten musikalischen Zusammentre]en am heutigen Abend.
Set 2)
Michael Masen – Altsaxophon
Michael Prehofer – Schlagzeug
Masen und Prehofer sind seit vielen Jahren musikalische Weggefährten. 2025 wurden sie zusammen mit dem Elektroniker Richie Herbst von dem finnischen Gitarristen Jukka
Kääriäinen nach Finnland eingeladen um dort eine Tour zu spielen. Ausserdem spielen Masen und Prehofer mit Steyer und potzblitz!brak in dem Quartett Ezakimak.
language that moves fluidly between analog and digital. She creates other-worldly environments that allow for magical connections and experiences to unfold.
Kim is currently an artist-in-residence at Blue Roof Studio in LA. Her work has also been supported by NowArt-LA (LUMINEX Festival), Montalvo Arts Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, Descanso Gardens, CalArts, Thoughtworks Arts, Glasslåven kunstsenter, Irvine Foundation, NEA, Center for Cultural Innovation, MAP fund, City of LA (COLA), Pasadena Arts Council, The Music Center, Durfee Foundation, REDCAT, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, The Getty Center, Automata-LA, SASSAS, Dublab, Freewaves, Newtown and Turbulence.org.
vimeo.com/carolekim | @shinealighton
Luisa Muhr
is an Austrian, New York-based experimental vocalist and interdisciplinary artist, working predominantly with voice, sound, and physical movement. Her work spans improvisation, composition, sound installation, performance art, movement/dance, and experimental music theater.
In 2024 Muhr released her debut solo album, TEUFLIN/SHE-DEVIL, and her second album, In Trialogue. Muhr is a certified Deep Listening® practitioner after Pauline Oliveros and has taught at The New School, and as a guest teacher at UCLA, and Portland State University.
Commissions and Residencies include Pioneer Works, Roulette Intermedium, the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, and Pocantico Rockefeller Estate (with Arturo O'Farrill). Artists Muhr has worked with include Claire Chase, Ash Fure, Kenneth Goldsmith, Sarah Hennies, Shelley Hirsch, Meredith Monk, Arturo O’Farrill, William Parker, John Zorn, and the New York Philharmonic.
www.luisamuhr.com | @luisa.muhr
Gloria Damijan
Gloria Damijan is a pianist, Toy-Piano player, composer, and sound artist born and based in Vienna. She studied piano and music pedagogy at Music University Vienna. There she first encountered contemporary music and free improvisation.
-Workshops with with Manon-Lìu Winter, Burkhard Stangl, Franz Hautzinger and Ian Pace
-Since 2003 active improviser in the Viennese and international experimental music -scene
-Since 2020 specialization in telematic and hybrid performance formats. Member of the audiovisual Ensemble Dilate Ensemble (Carole Kim - visuals, Jon Raskin - trombone, concertina, objects/ Luisa Muhr – voice/ Scott L. Miller - electronics, Kyma) and the NowNetArt network’s Hub-Ensemble.
- Co-founder and secretary of the Viennese improviser’s network snim-spontanes netzwerk für improvisierte music
https://www.facebook.com/spontaneousnetworkforimprovisedmusic
>Currently active with
-Eschata
https://soundhome.bandcamp.com/
http://soundhome.mur.at/GDGA_EschataE.pdf
4.7.2025 19h30 Einlass
Corrado Maria De Santis
Corrado Maria De Santis
is an Italian musician and sound artist whose work blends the resonances of improvised guitar with intricately processed digital sounds, creating layered drones and essential glitch textures. His music, marked by dense atmospheres and a minimalist aesthetic, has been released on notable labels such as Midira Records, Lost Tribe Sound, and Owl Totem Recordings. With a contemplative approach, he explores the liminal spaces of sound, pushing the boundaries of ambient and drone music toward an intimate and experimental dimension.
https://owltotem.bandcamp.com/album/city-of-tethers
https://corradomariadesantis.bandcamp.com/album/over-a-long-time
8.7.2025 19h30 Einlass
European Music Collective
Innassaah & Chloé Bernier
European Music Collective (EMC)
features:
Selendis Sebastian Alexander Johnson (USA)
Milana Sarukhanyan (U.K.)
Gregory Kharaneka (LT)
Christoph Götzen (DE)
The European Music Collective (EMC) is a union of musicians from all around Europe (and beyond), which constantly seeks out brand new and exciting international collaborations. The collective exclusively focuses on improvised and contemporary music and notably features young, talented and promising artists working through primarily improvised mediums. Today, EMC consists of more than 25 members based in Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, U.K., Denmark, Sweden, Lithuania, and Italy. The main collective goal is to create a platform and community for improvised music that subsumes national identities into a collective spirit that transcends borders. EMC has already organized several diverse performances and tours across Europe. Additionally, it is hosting its first artistic residency in August 2024 in Latvia and will be recording their collective debut album. European Music Collective is an independent, self organised and artist-run collective.
Innassaah
is an free impro & electro-experimental duo that celebrates macabre dances between the subtle and the aggressive in a performance that explores live electronics and contemporary singing in a wide spectrum of boundaries, from sprechgesang to multi rhythms and noise-manifesto.
Carla Genchi is an Italian singer and composer who by choice was torn from Italy and lived for several years between Holland, Germany, Sweden, England, Estonia and France where she met Lucas Alvarado a viola da gamba player and composer also torn from his beloved and estranged Chile and who still lives and performs in France.
https://vnvsmvndvs.bandcamp.com/album/time-to-book
https://vnvsmvndvs.bandcamp.com/album/ich-will-einen-weg-finden
https://vimeo.com/231961442
Chloé Bernier
Professional Dance Artist, Educator, and Researcher
Chloé Bernier is a passionate dance artist, educator, and lifelong learner. She engages deeply with movement through contemporary dance, Body Mind Centering, yoga, and psychoanalysis. Every day, she strives to learn something new, and sees dance as a form of music that can be felt rather than merely performed. For her, listening and attentiveness are
fundamental commitments in her practice, as she seeks a fluid, dynamic, and expansive dance. She also appreciates silence as a key element in the creative process.
In 2025, Chloé was invited to collaborate with musicians in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and France, offering improvisational performances. Over the years, she has shared the stage with renowned artists such as Marie-Laure Agrapart, Viktor Benev, Julie Gasnier, Carla Genchi, Luis Ianès, Riina Koivisto, Marika Lombardi, François Mellan, Dario Nitti, Isabelle Pierre-Jacquemin, and Jessica Rock. Chloé is the founder of La Compagnie du Châtaignier, where she co-created the performance Petite Terre Vaste Rêve with Isabelle Pierre-Jacquemin, Nathalie Roussel, and
Dani. This piece, featuring two dancers and a reader presenting Andrée Chedid’s short stories, has been given by the Conseil Départemental des Pyrénées-Orientales carte blanche. She initiated and led an improvisation collective for ten years, gathering teachers from the conservatories of Paris, where she also teaches dance. Alongside her dance work, Chloé
has a passion for writing and improvisation, both of which are integral to her artistic expression. Outside of her professional work, she also enjoys drawing and embroidery, often focusing on creating intricate tree designs.
