SHAPE+ is an platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, co-funded by the EU. Now in its third year, the program has announced a new open call for artists to apply for the working period July 15, 2024 – July 14, 2025. … read more »
5 Million Pesos is a monthly concert series featuring young jazz in and from Austria, presented by Radiokulturhaus Vienna and the Radio Ö1 jazz department. Cili Marsall – solo piano The March edition of the 5 Million Pesos concerts is something of an exception. The … read more »
Vienna producer Jon Gravy has just released his third album, 21 Dreams. The songs on the record are equally well suited to headphones and to the dance floor, and have made him the FM4 Soundpark Act for March. A visit to his … read more »
These days, it’s impossible to imagine jazz in Austria without the JazzWerkstatt Wien. In point of fact, however, the artistic collective was founded twenty years ago, in 2004, by Daniel Riegler, Peter Rom, Clemens Salesny, Bernd Satzinger, Wolfgang Schiftner und Clemens Wenger, … read more »
At the end of last year, Austrian Music Export launched the Impulse Program, a new initiative supporting Austrian music on the international stage. Today, the first results are in: Austrian Music Export is happy to announce the recipients of the first wave … read more »
The world has changed a lot in the last twenty years, and so has Austrian music. In this series, we’re checking in with artists chosen over the past two decades to take part in NASOM – The New Austrian Sound of Music … read more »
The works of composer and pianist Belma Bešlić-Gál deal with the lure of outer space, the collision of different worlds, the basic questions of human existence. For her current work, “Prostorъ [Uncovering the Existential Through My Everyday Temporality: An Artistic Journey]”, she … read more »
The Elevate Festival is an annual 5-day interdisciplinary festival in Graz focusing on cultural, political, and society issues. Its unique program of concerts, performances, lectures, and other events connects political discourse with art, avant-garde electronic music, and audiovisual experiment; the festival will … read more »
February is kind of an in-between month: the holiday hoopla is long gone and we’re left staring down the long, cold, damp tunnel until the weather starts to turn appreciably warmer (climate change notwithstanding). But wait – is that a glimmer of … read more »
In 2023, Austrian Music Export started “Building Bridges”, a pilot project with a focus on continuing education and international exchange in the music business. The program is aimed primarily at music business professionals, the people behind the artists – labels, publishers, management, … read more »