VEKKS & KostNixLaden
Ratschkygasse 14/1 (Eingang Erlgasse) 1120 Wien
Tel.: +43(0)681 10619938
Email: georg.stejskal@drei.at
4.2.2026 19h30 Einlass
Federico Pozzer
Federico Pozzer
TRANSCRIPTIONS OF MY PIANO STUDENTS’ PLAYING
In this solo piano performance, composer-performer Federico Pozzer plays transcriptions of recordings of his piano students attempting to interpret famous pieces. These recordings—captured during one-to-one piano lessons—are filled with irregular rhythms, hesitations, long silences, “wrong” notes, and unexpected dynamic choices.
Federico transcribed them precisely and is going to perform them himself. The result is a tender, strange, and subtly disorienting collection of pieces that hover between recognition and distortion.
Well-known melodies emerge but altered by the fragile gestures of children in the act of learning.
This project treats error as expression and listening as a form of
care. By inviting us to hear the beauty in musical imperfection, both humorous and haunting, the performance aims to challenge what we expect from music, memory, and the so-called “correct.”
Audio Examples:
https://on.soundcloud.com/eh2BNvsQNTaGPDVcyc
Website:
http://www.federicopozzer.com/
7.2.2026 19h30 Einlass
Life Aquatic Quartett
Liquid wie die Lyrik ihrer Lieder liebäugelt dieses Kollektiv mit den transparenten Übergängen zwischen Komposition und Improvisation. So darf streng Notiertes manchmal frei interpretiert werden während die tänzerische Freiheit auch mal als adretter Hörgenuss ertönen soll - Ansätze,die das Repertoire der Band prägen. Die Kompositionen von Life Aquatic variieren zwischen verschiedenen musikalischen Genres. Contemporary Jazz, freie Improvisation und Kammermusik verweben sich mit Einflüssen aus dem Indie Rock, dem Alternative sowie aus osteuropäischer Musik - ein einzigartiges Konstrukt, dessen Existenz auf die unterschiedlichen musikalischen Einflüsse der Bandmitglieder zurückzuführen ist. Life Aquatic sind raffinierte Geschichtenerzähler und laden den Zuhörer ein, an ihrer Reise teilzunehmen - eine Reise ins Unbekannte.
8.2.2026 19h30 Einlass
Jošt Drašler & Cene Resnik & Eric Arn & Vid Drašler
Bneleti (Ben Wheeler)
Improvising quartet:
Jošt Drašler - acoustic bass
Cene Resnik - tenor saxophone
Eric Arn - electric guitar
Vid Drašler - drums
Dieses Improvisations/Free Jazz–Quartett ist eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen den slowenischen Musikern, Vid Drašler – Schlagzeug (DKD-Trio, trójnik, Orchester Senza Confini, Orkestrada), Jošt Drašler – Akustikbass (DKD-Trio, Orch Senza. Confini, Jani Moder Trio, Vito marence Gruppe ..), Cene Resnik – Tenor Saxophon (Cene Resnik Quartet, trójnik, Watch for dogs–Trio, Orch. Senza Confini) und Wiener-Ami Eric Arn - E-Gitarre (Vienna Improvisers Orchestra, Alle Formen Trio, Mieryela ensemble)
Dies ist ein Forschungs-Quartett. Sie versuchen Melodien zu umarmen, alle Arten von Klängen und Rhythmen, jedoch keine Strukturen. Sie spielen am schmalen Grad, wo ihr musikalisches Material wahrnehmbar, greifbar, aber auch zerbrechlich bleibt. Somit fühlen sie sich involviert an der Profilierung eines musikalischen Handwerks in einem der großen kreativen Bereiche neuer Musik. Das Ziel ist es neue Erfahrungen, und neue Verbindungen in andere Teile Europas, zu schaffen.​
Bneleti (ბნელეთი) is a solo project by Ben Wheeler, an experimental musician, composer, and ethnomusicologist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Performing with an electric guitar, saz, and modular synthesizer, Wheeler integrates his impressions of the music of Caucasus, particularly Azerbaijani traditional music and Georgian polyphony, with dark ambient, drone, and experimental composition, and the aesthetic of Seattle hardcore and black metal, creating a musical world that is beyond genre classifications.
His first full-length release under the moniker "Bneleti" is set to be released in February 2026 on Inverted Spectrum Records, and will be followed by a three-week tour of Central and Eastern Europe.
Ben Wheeler is the co-founder of Mountains of Tongues, a project dedicated to preserving and promoting lesser known music from the Caucasus region. He has recorded songs in languages that have rarely been caught on tape, instruments that only exist in extremely small numbers, and performances from a variety of underrepresented ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority communities throughout the region. He is also the Senior Editor of EastEast, a journal that covers culture and society in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, and the founder of the Caucasus All Frequency festival. He is an instructor on synthesizers at Creative Education Studio in Tbilisi. Besides his Bneleti project, Wheeler also published under his own name, composed music for multiple independent films, performed and written for a diverse selection of bands, and worked as a music director and composer.
12.2.2026 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.
21.2.2026 19h30 Einlass
Joaquin Ortega & Daniel Bierdümpfl
Cicale Cicale Cicale
In this new duo, Joaquin Ortega and Daniel Bierdümpfl explore musical dialogue through the guitar. As two guitarists with different approaches to the instrument, they create a unique conversation shaped by contrast, curiosity, and collaboration. Their music moves between written structures and spontaneous interaction, in which rhythmic counterpoint and noise function as organizing elements that generate spaces of tension, overlap, and exchange.
Joaquin Ortega (Argentina/France)
Argentin musician based in France, Joaquín Ortega explores the connections between guitar, electronic devices, and field recordings. His work draws inspiration from bodily movement and contemporary musical languages. Alongside his instrumental practice, he also develops projects involving installations and dance. His work has been presented at the Desired Lines pavilion of the Venice Biennale, the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, and the Fondation Fiminco, among others.
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.
CICALE CICALE CICALE
Cinematic Mediterranean Library music, especially bass, drums, piano and sax but with incursions and interferences. Music with a high level of groove, not only danceable but cinematic, moving sounds for moving images.
Simona (Sax),
Sole (Drums and percussions),
Daniele (bass and synth) and
Rocco (piano and guitars)
build a dynamic and immersive sound, capable of adapting to any live context, from the most intimate clubs to open-air festivals.
https://www.instagram.com/collettivo_cicale/?hl=zh-cn
https://cicalecicalecicale.bandcamp.com/album/bufo-bufo
https://open.spotify.com/int.../album/0gPT8u0YrAabgMkad0WVih
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XAQ4GI7A8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=ZtWut7ehUBzdonoF...
https://www.sodapop.it/.../cicale-cicale-cicale-bugo.../
https://www.tomtomrock.it/.../recensione-cicale-cicale.../
http://www.xtm.it/DettaglioEmergenti.aspx?ID=24285...
marsigliarecords.it
25.2.2026 19h30 Einlass
Augustin Braud
Georg Zichy
Vanessa Mattei Scarpaccini
Augustin Braud
is a composer, musician, and researcher. A permanent musicologist at RicercarLab in Tours (CESR), his practice ranges from written instrumental music to electroacoustic performances such as Trônes Amoncelés, a 36-minute piece recorded at La Muse en Circuit and released on Opal Tapes label in March 2025, inspired by Antonin Artaud's Les dix-huit secondes.
He is also the winner of the 2020 Claude Arrieu Prize from SACEM, and has collaborated with ensembles such as the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the Klangforum Wien (GOLEM), at festivals such as ECLAT, Gaudeamus, Musica, and Présences.
Georg Zichy
is a sound, clang, rattle, screech and noise artist. In his solo practice, he performs with found objects and electronics: containers, tablets, bins, rods, etc. Acoustically scratched, bowed and hammered, electronically amplified, distorted, and fed back.
Zichy lives and works as a freelance artist and musician in Vienna, moving between noise, free improvisation, and a phenomenology of sounds. 2025 saw the release of Vleisch (Opal Tapes), a duo with Reinhold Friedl and a_kustisches (self-released) in a duo with Fabian Wutti.
https://www.instagram.com/musterkoffer/
Vanessa Mattei Scarpaccini (Cortona, Italy, 2004)
is a dance artist based in Florence. Since 2025 she has been an associated artist with Sosta Palmizi. Her research has been presented in Stromboli, Milan, Vienna and her projects have also been hosted by TanzTendenz München.
She is co-founder of Atelier Fiume with Virginia Sieni, a collective of under-25 creatives based at Palazzina Indiano Arte in Florence. She is currently working as a dancer with the choreographer Virgilio Sieni and has performed in works by Claudia Catarzi and Natalia Di Cosmo.
She's part of the improvisation collective FREE FORMS active between Austria and Czech Republic.
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Alongside her artistic practice, she studies Philosophy at the University of Florence
Remembrances are retraced through a spatial score from a map by the artist Verena Rendtoff — the road to Berlin, a satellite place where the body arrives after a path of stairs, falls, gravel, memories of bodies.
Who is Berlin?
Throught the Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 by Ludwig van Beethoven a desire is expressed.
28.2.2026 19h30 Einlass
Rovar17 (Kálmán Pongrácz)
EMERGE (Sascha Stadlmeier)
The Rovar17
(Insect17 in English) is basically Kálmán Pongrácz's solo project, but different kinds of collaboration often occur with musicians, visual artists, performers as well as theater. The music is made by audio-audio collage technique, which rejects the traditional sound system, harmony, melody, even rhythm, and creates compositions from inconsistent and untempered sounds, noises, natural or electronic- but mostly human voices. This act has already seen more than 400 concerts and performances, and has played all across Hungary, in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States of America. The method of the Rovar17 audio collage technique: - first step: Creation. We create some artificial organisms. Because we have not got pure laboratory, and we cannot groom test-tubes and instruments; the generated living beings are black-hearted. - second step: Sampling. We investigate the evil beings & make video and audio record of their behaviour. Eventually, finds are presented live to the audience.
https://www.facebook.com/rovar17
https://havizaj.bandcamp.com/album/csonkolt-t-nd-r
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIwZhlH9p8o
Sascha Stadlmeier (b. 1977)
has been releasing electroacoustic music with his project EMERGE on international labels such as Drone Records, aufabwegen, Tâalem and Frozen Light since 2001. A composer working at the intersections of musique concrète, drone, and noise, he has also been an increasingly active presence in the field of free improvisation since 2016. In addition to live electronics, his improvisation practice involves guitar, bass, and amplified objects. Collaborations with other musicians from a very wide range of styles form an important part of his work, with collaborators including RLW, If,Bwana, Doc Wör Mirran and Toy Bizarre. He has been touring Europe extensively, with concerts in France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Serbia, and Bulgaria. His music has been presented at many international festivals including Avantgarde Festival, lab30, 20 years of MGNM, Zasavje Noisefest, Ecological Sound of Varna Fest and Autistic Campaign Fest. While a prolific composer and performer, Stadlmeier has also created various sound installations and a radiophonic composition for West German Radio's renowned Studio of Acoustic Art. Since 2010, his label attenuation circuit has established itself as an important hub in the international experimental music scene, with releases by more than 100 artists from numerous countries to date. attenuation circuit also regularly organised concerts of experimental music at Stadlmeier's home base in Augsburg, Germany.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FW3IIKl1m8
https://emergeac.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/emerge.dependenz/
https://immerge.bandcamp.com/
