VEKKS & KostNixLaden
Ratschkygasse 14/1 (Eingang Erlgasse) 1120 Wien
Tel.: +43(0)681 10619938
Email: georg.stejskal@drei.at
9.5.2026 19h30 Einlass
Cate Hops
Grandmothers favourite (CZ/AT)
Cate Hops
is a Berlin based anthropologist, curator and sound artist. Throughout her artistic practice her ideas reflect space as a social practice. Her performances unfold as electro-acoustic experimental sound pieces and ambient scapes. She works with everyday objects, hacked toys, effected voice, and radios which she loops, layers on top of each other and transforms them into an ephemeral sonic space. She is a co-founder of the Fem*noise network and has collaborated with artists such as JD Zazie, Jena Jang, Leila Mnekbi, Mia Zabelka, Munsha and many others. She presented her work on different stages in Europe and at artist residencies in Austria, Estonia, Germany, Senegal, Taiwan, and Tunisia.
Video live at Tresor Linz: https://youtu.be/FrOHf2DGSOw?t=713
Live at Ton618 released on AMEK: https://amekcollective.bandcamp.com/track/live-at-ton-618
Instagram: @cate0hops
Grandmothers favourite (CZ/AT)
Post modern sudoku jazz
Line-up:
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Jakub Švejnar – Drums, no-input mixer
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Daniel Bierdümpfl – Guitar, synth, FX
To mistake is the only chance for something new to happen and therefor isn’t a mistake.
Unrehearsed, impolite, unwashed, charismatic, vicious sounds from the pit.
Instant compositions. The naive glorification of improvising the new.
Grandmothers favourite is an experimental music Project which aims to fill the void in between free improvised music, Jazz, Noise, modern creative & composed music.We are here to gather, not to divide. The Duo is constantly seeking for interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange on an international level.
Daniel Bierdümpfl
...is an Linz - Austria based interdisciplinary Artist.
Daniel is a former luthier of plucked & bowed string instruments, he studied time based & interactive media arts at the Kunst Universität Linz (AT) and works as a free lance artist in the fields of music, performance, theater, choreography, poetry, film & photography. He was nominated among five other finalists for the Oe1 Jazz scholarship 2023 as well as one of six finalists I AM ABROAD 2024 Open Call (New European Project for Free Improvisation Artists) Vienna AT. He is the head of programming & production for Raumschiff Linz with a focus on contemporary, improvised and off-genre music & performance.
Jakub Švejnar
is a drummer, percussionist and improviser.
Born in Zlín in 1995, he started playing the drum set at the age of 13 and moved to Prague to study at the conservatory of Jaroslav Ježek.
During his studies, he developed a more experimental approach to playing and moved towards free improvisation, which became his main focus.
Apart from the drum set, Jakub uses various percussion, objects, no-input mixer and voice.
He’s an up-and-coming player on the Prague improvisation and jazz scene and is member of bands such as Jungle Debris, Grandmothers Favourite, Pudlax, Uthando, Pátra/Švejnar and Dust In The Groove. He premièred new-music compositions with ensembles/composers: Dust in the Groove (Michal Wróblewski – Game no.5), PMP Ensemble (Anthony Braxton – Trillium X), Petr Hora - The Theatrical Stroll of a Diamond Spider, Elia Morreti (Once Enea Stuck a Seed In My Ear), Timotheé Quost (A Tool Is A Tool) and also collaborates with performance and dance theater ensembles – Špatné divadlo, Me-Sa Company and Divadlo Continuo.
14.5.2026 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.
15.5.2026 19h30 Einlass
gobi_10k (Alec Gordon)
František Hruška
gobi_10k (Alec Gordon)
blends Scotland’s rural landscapes with post-industrial noise, working across performance, sound installation, and custom instrument design. They use Max/MSP, generative deep learning, and DIY electronics to explore spectrum saturation via web-scraped data and adversarial networks. Emerging from Glasgow’s underground harsh noise scene with the ensemble SSDHD, they relocated to The Hague to study at the Institute of Sonology, where they now live and work.
Their process harvests digital artifacts through algorithms, transforming them via recursive neural processing into evolving sonic worlds that disrupt linear time. Performances are intense and unrepeatable, fusing noise aesthetics with real-time machine learning, processed feedback, and data-driven synthesis into dense textural soundscapes.
Recent appearances include Bludný kámen’s Sonic Lab (Opava), Studio LOOS’s intersect.SERIES, Central Station Ljubljana with Kikiriki, DobiaLab (Italy) with Aleksander Koruga, Cashmere Radio Berlin with Max Frimout, and 8sixA Amsterdam with Farzané Nouri. Featured on Concertzender’s Electronic Frequencies and XOR Space’s Loophole VR at Timcheh Festival 2023 (with Veronika Batzdorfer); regular at Bučení Festival (2022 w/ Rashad Becker). Active across Czechia, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Turkey, Latvia, and Scotland, redefining computational sound through live neural networks and improvisational electronics
František Hruška (1998),
born in Ostrava, lives in Brno. He is a sound artist, musician, composer, poet... He studied Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, then spent some time developing synthesizers for Bastl Instruments and now works in sound, music and related fields.
František Hruška's live improvised sound and light performances focus on the concepts of playfulness in music, communication issues and sound ecology. He plays on the listener's imagination and on analogue electronic instruments, most often of his own making. From organic analogue abstraction, through pulsating electro-confrontation, to the depths of colourful sound eruptions.
His electro-acoustic, acousmatic, fixed-media and other compositions often focus on sound ecology, in an attempt to draw attention to the act of conscious active listening and to the mundane and colorful poetics of sound using obscure physical and sound objects. František refers to his work as “stirring through sound the fabric of time”.
22.5.2026 19h30 Einlass
JWQ (Janoušek-Wróblewski Quartet)
JWQ (Janoušek-Wróblewski Quartet)
Štěpán Janoušek - trombone
Michal Wróblewski - saxophone
Miloš Klápště - double bass
Jan Chalupa - drums
JWQ is acoustic quartet playing original music, combines free improvisation with composed influences of jazz history
( new orleans, soul jazz, free-jazz...) and also other genres (surf-rock, reggae, contemporary music, heavy metal, brass music, tango....) During the ten years of existence they've played at numerous clubs and festivals in Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Germany and Serbia.
In September 2021, they've released second album on LP and on Bandcamp:
24.5.2026 19h30 Einlass
Luís Vicente, Gonçalo Almeida, Pedro Melo Alves, Kenji Herbert
Luís Vicente - trumpet
Gonçalo Almeida - double bass
Pedro Melo Alves - drums
Kenji Herbert - guitar
Stimulated by the desire to explore written music in greater depth and take some weight off improvisation, trumpeter Luís Vicente called on Gonçalo Almeida and Pedro Melo Alves to join him, bringing together three of the most exciting musicians in contemporary Portuguese jazz.
After recent experiments with Hamid Drake, John Dikeman and William Parker, Vicente returns to his elastic writing on the album Come Down Here, designed for a trio comfortable with the abstract and free paths that shape his conception of music.
In a constant game of approaching and retreating from rhythm, structure and melody, this encounter explores extremes and repeatedly escapes convention, both in writing and improvisation.
They will be joined by Kenji Herbert for an improvised set.
Kenji Herbert is a Japanese-Austrian guitarist/composer based in Vienna. In the decade that he previously resided in Brooklyn, New York, he has established himself in its creative music scene as a leader and collaborator to a wide range of projects ranging from jazz and improvised music to indie-rock and electronic music. His trio album “A Million Forests of the Fall” featuring Vinicius Cajado (bass) and Lukas König (drums) was awarded the Austrian jazz prize in the category Best Album 2025.
28.5.2026 19h30 Einlass
LIEBE - Ein Theaterstück von VADA
LIEBE
Ein Theaterstück von VADA
frei nach Mária Kunsági, Ernesztin Rosenberg & Tibor Déry
Ein auf wahren Begebenheiten basierendes Theaterstück von VADA über eine Frau zwischen Care-Arbeit und politischem Widerstand. Lucas Ehemann wird von der ungarischen Staatspolizei zu 10 Jahren Haft verurteilt. Die einzige Routine in ihrem aus der Bahn geratenen Leben bilden die Besuche bei der 90jährigen Schwiegermutter. Luca weiß: die alte Dame wird ihren Sohn nicht mehr wiedersehen. Um die zartfühlige Mutter an ihrem Lebensabend nicht zu bekümmern, erfindet sie Geschichten: Fast jeden Tag trifft ein neuer Brief bei der Schwiegermutter ein, der die Abwesenheit des Sohnes erklärt und das Warten erträglicher macht.
Das Publikum sitzt direkt im Schlafzimmer der alten Frau und fiebert mit Luca mit: Kann die Illusion aufrecht erhalten werden?
Konzept, Regie, Schauspiel, Bühnenbild, Technik, Ausstattung, Zeichnungen & Animation: Yulia Izmaylova, Felix Strasser
Infos: www.vada.cc
Eine Produktion des Vereins zur Anregung des dramatischen Appetits
Foto: Jeff Strasser
30.5.2026 19h30 Einlass
Roger F. & The Structure
Daniel Bierdümpfl & Marco Sickinger
Als Roger F. & The Structure schreibt und spielt Roger Fähndrich selbstkritische, oft paradoxe Protestsongs, die zum kritischen Nachdenken anregen sollen. Derzeit nimmt er für seine Podcast und Konzertreihe „Twisted Lamentations“ einen Songzyklus mit verschiedenen Künstler:innen aus der Schweiz und Belgien auf. Roger ist zudem Gründer von "The Center of Negativity", einem fiktiven Institut für Gespräche über schwierige Emotionen. Dieses Projekt entstand aus seiner Forschung zu den Parallelen zwischen künstlerischen Praktiken und emotionaler Arbeit.
http://www.roger-f.com/
Daniel Bierdümpfl ( AT ) + Marco Sickinger ( DE )
Marco Sickinger,
Jahrgang 1998, ist Schlagzeuger und Komponist. Im Alter von sechs begann er seine musikalische Ausbildung am Klavier; zwei Jahre später folgte das Schlagzeug. Früh sammelte er Erfahrungen mit großen orchestralen Besetzungen.
2020 folgte das Studium des Jazz-Schlagzeug an der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Künste Stuttgart, das er im Juni 2025 erfolgreich beendete. Er studierte dort u.a. bei Fabian Arends, Eckhard Stromer, Christian Weidner und Johannes Lauer. 2024 konzipierte und gründete er die Bandprojekte „et cetera“ und „Space in Between“. Mit letzterer veröffentlichte er im November 2025 das Album „Aporia I feat. Christopher Dell“. Außerdem kuratierte er von 2023 bis 2025 eine Jazz-Konzertreihe im soziokulturellen Zentrum Kulturkabinett e.V. in Bad Cannstatt, in der Künstler:innen wie das Vertigo Posaunen Quartett, Etienne Nillesen, Common Ground (Matthias Nowak, Sebastian Gille, Achim Kaufmann, Bill Elgart), Laura Totenhagen, Kathrin Pechlof Trio, Wanja Slavin und viele mehr gastierten.
Neben diesen Projekten bewegt er sich in Bereichen zwischen improvisierter Musik, Neuer Musik und Jazz.
Aporia I out now on Bandcamp
https://spaceinbetweenband.bandcamp.com/album/aporia-i-feat-christopher-dell
https://www.instagram.com/marcosickinger/?hl=de
https://linktr.ee/spaceinbetween_band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRaAQgX-bh4
Daniel Bierdümpfl
is an Vienna - Austria based interdisciplinary Artist.
Daniel is a former luthier of plucked & bowed string instruments, he studied time based & interactive media arts at the Kunst Universität Linz (AT) and works as a free lance artist in the fields of music, performance, theater, choreography, poetry, film & photography. He was nominated among five other finalists for the Oe1 Jazz scholarship 2023 as well as one of six finalists I AM ABROAD 2024 Open Call (New European Project for Free Improvisation Artists) Vienna AT. He is the head of programming & production for Raumschiff Linz with a focus on contemporary, improvised and off-genre music & performance.
5.6.2026 19h30 Einlass
Camilla Battaglia
Perpetual Possibility:
Solo performance for voice and live electronicsIt's an electro-acoustic work dedicated to T.S. Eliot 'Four Quartets' verses, in which vocals are modulated to create different rooms of textures and words.
The record came out october 2022 for the swiss label Hout Records.
https://camillabattaglia.bandcamp.com/album/perpetual-possibility-2
https://youtu.be/29VbdqMcFjw?si=VAqNE71KYeCWaiiy
https://www.citizenjazz.com/Camilla-Battaglia-les-voies-multiples.html
