Despite a drop in exhibitor numbers, this year’s 46th edition of the world’s largest music industry trade fair MIDEM remained faithful to its pioneering role. With its new concept of focusing on live music and showcasing enhanced technology companies with the latest developments … read more »

The roaring 20s are having a comeback and the swinging 60s are suddenly retro? Responsible for this musical trip into the past is among others the Upper Austrian Marcus Füreder, who is currently successfully conquering the international club and electronic music scene … read more »

The proverbial rules that are there to be broken can be applied to Wolfgang Mitterer and furthermore expanded: boundaries are there to be exceeded. Once approaching Mitterer’s creation, you find yourself confronted with contrasting, sometimes even contradictory-appearing elements. Composition and improvisation, jazz … read more »

A place to attempt new and unusual ideas, a platform for young and talented musicians who are no longer content with following old traditional paths but rather seek to break boundaries, a place liberated from any blinkered thinking in order to realize … read more »

On the 14th of December 2011, mica music austria and the jazz club Porgy & Bess organized a mica focus panel discussion to represent and analyze the current situation of different presentation forms and co-operations between Austria and the countries of the … read more »

From February 2-3, 2012 SPOT On Denmark takes place in Vienna for the 3rd time. Following the sold-out editions in 2010 and 2011, SPOT is turning up the ambitions in 2012 with an increased focus on improving Austrian-Danish music industry trading. Music … read more »

The tradition of bringing music together with the moving image goes back to the era of silent movies, when scores would be improvised in realtime by pianists in the playhouse. Over the past hundred years this relationship has undergone several transformations: from … read more »

Once again the music industry gathers in Cannes for the biggest international music fair. MIDEM is the place where music makers, cutting-edge technologies, brands & talent come together to enrich the relationship between people & music and form new business connections. 27 … read more »

„Austrian Music Box“ is an initiative of the Austrian Music Fund, the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, AKM and IFPI Austria.

In the attempt to summarize the musical oeuvre of the internationally acclaimed and respected Austrian jazz guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel in a few words, the appropriate vocabulary would most likely include terms such as “versatile”, “innovative” and “virtuosic”. Wolfgang Muthspiel is a musician … read more »