It’s August baby – heat’s rising, while the motivation for the daily grind: diminishing, at nearly the same speed. What to do with your time, mind and body in this “Sommerloch” (“summer lull”)? You guessed it: music – make it, take it, … read more »
The Vienna based festival Unsafe+Sounds returns this September with a densely layered program. Now in its 11th edition, the festival continues to foreground experimental, electronic, and club music alongside socio-cultural discourse and artistic practices that stretch and subvert contemporary templates. The presented … read more »
Unsafe+Sounds was founded by Vienna composer Matthias Kranebitter in 2014 and has been under the artistic direction of Shilla Strelka since 2015. The festival, in its own words, focuses on challenging music from a variety of different genre, combining underground aesthetics and … read more »
UNSAFE+SOUNDS is pushing back against the viral feeling of insecurity and focuses on artistic positions that confront our reality. Their aim is to establish relationships with the fundamental changes in the environment, and search for agency, for appropriate sounds for our tainted … read more »
For seven years now, the UNSAFE+SOUNDS FESTIVAL has been presenting trend-setting musical positions of a contemporary culture that resists the prescriptions of the mainstream, and critically and reflectively depicts the reality that surrounds us, sometimes with radical results. What unites the participating … read more »
The BLACK PAGE ORCHESTRA is a heterogeneous ensemble for contemporary music based in Vienna. Its repertoire is largely made up of compositions by the younger generation. They are often aesthetically radical works that take a confrontational course, attacking our perception and reflecting … read more »