VEKKS & KostNixLaden
Ratschkygasse 14/1 (Eingang Erlgasse) 1120 Wien
Tel.: +43(0)681 10619938
Email: georg.stejskal@drei.at
Überblick
4.10.2025 19h30 Einlass
Sapient Paradox Duo (Zeynep & Christopher Cox)
Shoz
Born in Los Angeles and raised in Northern California, trombonist Christopher Robin Cox has performed creative music since 1987. Combining multiphonics, split-tones, and electronics, Cox has begun to build his own approach that is at once ambient and saturated. He has worked with legendary blues, funk, and hip-hop artists, as well as a long list of creative improvisers like Marco Eneidi, Glenn Spearman, George Cremaschi, Elliot Humberto Kavee, Jason Robinson, Damon Smith, and many others. After returning from a long hiatus, Cox moved to Budapest in 2019, where he has worked with Aram Shelton, Miklos Szylveszter, Robert BenkÅ‘, and Franz Hautzinger. His trio with bassist Péter Ajtai and drummer Attila Gyárfás is in high demand in Hungary. In the Spring, he plans to perform in Germany and Italy and will tour the West Coast of the United States with Transient a.k.a. David R. Molina.
​Zeynep Sarıkartal
is a sound-artist, improviser and researcher. She studied classical Piano in Ankara Bilkent Music School, had her Bachelor from Musicology in Istanbul Yildiz Technical University and her MA in University of Vienna in Ethnomusicology. Since 2010 she is based in Vienna and works as composer, improviser and sound artist in theater, film and multimedia projects, curates events, publishes articles, performs under the moniker ZS ZS. She mostly collaborated with musicians from the fields of experimental, noise, flashcore, extratone and other related genres. From 2016 on, she started to develop creative research projects that focuses on the concept of social death. ZS ZS live performances are about exploring and merging harsh, rhythmical and atmospheric soundscapes together with text and field recordings within a dramaturgical concept.
Shoz
is a sound artist based in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (USA) and their work explores relationship to Place and spirit. Starting on a foundation of field recordings, their pieces are expressions of embodied connection to a location, stratifying textures of site-specific channelled melody and movement in various instrumentations, digital processing, and rhythms made from environmental sounds. Their work addresses issues of dis/connection guided by the intention to develop and strengthen relationship to the emergent knowing alive in collaboration with The Unseen, creating containers for presence both individually and collectively.
9.10.2025 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.
12.10.2025 19h30 Einlass
Blumer-Dell-Geisser-Morgenthaler
Giulio Stermieri
Robert Morgenthaler - Trombone
Christopher Dell - Vibraphone
Fridolin Blumer - Bass
Heinz Geisser - Drums & Percussion
Blumer-Dell-Geisser-Morgenthaler bilden die Realität durch musikalische Handlungen, deren Folgen nicht vorhersehbar sind ab und lassen so ein Spiegelbild der menschlichen Existenz erklingen.
Die grosse Suggestionskraft der Musik steht im direkten Verhältnis zu der Stärke, mit der sie konzipiert ist und ist bedingt durch die Feinheit und Freiheit der Sinne der vier Musiker, welche die Beziehung zwischen der individuellen und der kollektiven Identität ausloten.
Alle Musiker gehören seit langem zur europäischen Jazz- und Improszene: Morgenthaler, Blumer und Geisser erschaffen im Ensemble 5 seit über 10 Jahren neue Klangwelten, Dell kreiert mit seinem Kollektiv Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard “neue Neue Musik”. Das Quartett ist aus der Zusammenarbeit von Ensemble 5 und Christopher Dell entstanden, welche auf dem Album „The Human Factor“ (Hat Hut) dokumentiert ist.Nach einer Tournee und Aufnahmen im Herbst 2024 ist die Band im Oktober 2025 wieder in Deutschland, der Schweiz und Österreich unterwegs, im Gepäck das neue Album "Beyond Scope" (Hat Hut).
Giulio Stermieri - Farfisa organ, toy piano, sampler
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Giulio Stermieri is a pianist, keyboard player, and composer. His musical path merges his love for the African American piano tradition and improvisation with a focus on timbral exploration of piano and electronics.
His work honors the present moment as the privileged dimension for an artist-listener communication. He also explores the way musical material affects form, following the instant composing utopia.
Fort Da, Stermieri's solo performance, is rooted in these beliefs; the Farfisa organ and the sampler become a living machine, together suggesting new creative trajectories.
Fragmented melodies appear and disappear, rising from the contemplation of simple sonic stratifications or sinking into polyrhythmic trance, revealing a game in which we can experience the symbolic value of repetition.
