This is our Dancefloor! A series of events by 4lthangrund Winter? No thanks – come to DAYRAVE! Dayrave fundraiser for AwA* You already have the impression that you’re in good hands, together with those known and unknown. You arrive at the door, you know you’re in the right place, you’re told that you can get Read the full article… »»»»
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Lecture @ Balance Festival for Club Culture – Leipzig November 1-3 2024
Balance Club Culture Festival – Tensions November 01.-03. 2024 / Leipzig BALANCE is back with its sixth edition! The Balance Club / Culture Festival is coming back to Leipzig after a year’s break. Once again, the interdisciplinary club culture festival will take place in various locations in Leipzig, combining music, discourse and art. For the Read the full article… »»»»
My conversation with Evicshen /Victoria Shen in online now via Struma+Iodine
I am happy to let you know, that the conversation I had with Victoria Shen for Struma+Iodine in May, is finally online after her awsome gig at Westbahnstudios at Unsafe+Sounds festival in September. Here is a little teaser, in case you do not know her yet: “It is like sculpting experiences” – A conversation with Read the full article… »»»»
September 13-22, 2024 Wienwoche Opening & Soundride – in solidarity with Riders Collective and for a change in traffic policy
With Rad Performance, we support the Food Delivery Workers and their Riders Collective with a bike demonstration on Friday, September 20, 2024, where we will then join the monthly Critical Mass. If you don’t just want to talk about activism, but actually do something, you can take shifts for the food delivery workers so that Read the full article… »»»»
Hope for the hopeless – an interview with RENT now online via music austria
This interview is only available in German. Switch to German icon to read it or here: https://www.musicaustria.at/hoffnung-fuer-die-hoffnungslosen-ein-gespraech-mit-rent/ More info & sound: RENT (bandcamp) RENT (Soundcloud) Ventil Records »»»»
31st of May 2024: Jukebox Utopia @ Zunder kein Wunder, Innsbruck AT
The wonderful people from Verschub Innsbruck have been planning and working for months on their first festival “Zunder Kein Wunder”, which will materialize on the weekend of May 31st and June 1st 2024 in cooperation with Inseminoid. In the (relatively new location) Hall 6 of the SKNT BRLTM (near Sillschlucht). After work & early shows Read the full article… »»»»
17.5.2024 Frankfurt/ Offenbach @ Robert Johnson Theorie 83 – Hardcore Techno and Rave as Protest
I am looking forward to holding the Robert Johnson Theory Lecture #83 on Friday 17th May 2024 at 22pm. A series of the Institute for Sound Research at the HFG Offenbach, curated by Partrick Raddatz. As the name suggests, the event will take place at the Robert Johnson Club in Offenbach near Frankfurt: Nordring 131 Read the full article… »»»»
23rd of March 2024 – Extinction @ 1BM Vienna w/ Jukebox Dystopia
🧨Dear lovers of heavy frequencies and speedy dance tunes🧨 Please join us for another👟 extinction hardcore dance event 👟 ☠️speedcore-doomcore-gabber☠️ are awaiting you THIS SATURDAY at 1bm, Vienna. You know the place! Due to the problems of our neighbour – the venster 99 venue, there will be a password to enter 1bm, which is “möbelblues” Read the full article… »»»»
10th of February 2024: Female Pioneers of Electronic Music – lecture @ Folkartmuseum Vienna
This Info is only available in German… please switch to German language More Info: http://www.musikausstrom.at/programm/ »»»»
18th-21st January 2024: T Fuckhead & Friends w/ Jukebox Utopia @ Theater am Werk, Wien
ATTENTION ATTENTION! ….we have been lost to the world…. With a 75-hour performance from 🧷18-21 January at the Theater am Werk 🧷, FUCKHEAD will once again manifest their will to 🧨💣⚡️noise and riot,⚡️💣🧨 who also like to immerse themselves in theatrical stage choreographies to explore the limits with the audience. 🍄🌪💨🚀 This epic performance, inspired Read the full article… »»»»
Extinction III @ 1BM – 2nd December 2023
Dear all, on 2nd December 2023 – starting at 22h we continue at Einbaumöbel and join forces for some Doomcore, Gabber & Co with the Extinction Series part III. Einbaumöbel, Stadtbahnbögen 97, 1090 Wien More Infos: https://www.ausgefinkelt.com/extinction-III/ ♾♾Tired Purple (live) ☠️☠️unkn_wn ⚡️⚡️Seiler Moon 🧨🧨Rites 💣💣Relatic 💄💄Katana 👟👟Jukebox Dystopia 🌪🌪✨Dance, dance, dance – against the cold Read the full article… »»»»
BRAV Magazin Release Party @ 1BM – 30th November 2023
We have been waiting for this. Finally another edition of the wonderful 🛹🛹🛹BRAV Magazin 🛼🛼🛼 will be released. After the concerts we will serve you music with dead media: I will bring records and the CD-Player crew CDs with playlists just burned for your joy. 🍿BRAV vol.2 Release❤️🔥 Einbaumöbel, Stadtbahnbögen 97, 1090 Wien 19:00 open Read the full article… »»»»
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Lecture at the symposium ‘Reclaim! Club Nights, Housing Struggle and Urban Open Spaces’ – June 28th 2023, Linz @ STWST
I am happy to be part of the symposium Reclaim! Clubnächte, Häuserkampf und urbane Freiräume. Organized by Moritz Pisk, Lukas Jakob Löcker and the great Mika Egal. Wed, June 28, 2023, starting at 5pm Stadtwerkstatt Donaulände and STWS. Lectures with: Eugenia Seriakov: No Future on the Dancefloor – Free Tekno as Antithesis to Club Culture. Read the full article… »»»»
9th of June 2023: Hart Lab presents a night of hard techno & hardcore @ rrr Vienna
I am happy to join forces with the Hart Lab Crew for a night of DJing at rrr. There will be techno, hard techno, dark techno, schranz & hardcore techno for you. Come and join us on the dance floor! The bar opens at 21pm, music starts 23pm! Admission: 7€ »»»»
May 13th 2023 – Jukebox Utopia @ 11 Jahre KUNSTKANAL Wien
I am super happy to join kunstkanals birthday event and spin some records. Come an join us! :::: kunstkanal 11 Birthday Line-Up :::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SA, 13. MAI 2023 ::: 11 k u n s t k a n a l ::: LINE-UP 16:00 – Saft Opening (Kidsfun) 18:00 – Gulasch à la Spiess 20:00 – Read the full article… »»»»
May 8th 2023: Art Doc Archive Prototype// Reclaim your Archive Launch Berlin @ Technologiestiftung
A public platform for archiving online content from Berlin’s art & culture scene. For many years, websites and social media feeds have been a central form of publication of artists and cultural professionals’ own work. Self-representation on the web since the 1990s represents an important untapped archive of Berlin scenes, documenting works, spaces, events, and Read the full article… »»»»
April 28th 2023 – Lecture/ Workshop: Facilitating a Queer Counter Club Culture, Frankfurt Main
In this lecture on queer counter cultures in music and clubbing I will outline discourses and concepts on music, collectivity and sonic bodies or feminist and post-colonial debates in academia and electronic music scenes (1). Early queer-diasporic clubbing in NYC in the 70s & 80s, Free-Tek in the 90s and Anti-Parades in the 2000s are Read the full article… »»»»
April 22nd 2023: Jukebox Utopia @ Popu Stress Club, Kapu Linz
For all comic lovers – come to the Popu Stress Club Zine Fair!! I look very forward to come with my records to KAPU and play with DJ Shinsekai. Our Mantra will be hard & fast :–>>>)) https://www.kapu.or.at COMING SOON: 13.5. Wiseup Radio @ Radio Orange 94,0, 21-22Uhr: report from the dancefloor @ KAPU Tune Read the full article… »»»»
3 Recent Films About Feminism: Brainwashed, Women Talking, Feminism WTF
2022/2023 I saw these movies & documentaries all dealing with feminism and patriarchy in differnt ways.. I enjoyed all them and thus like to recommend them!! Check out the trailers and basic infos: Trailer Feminism WTF (Katharina Mückstein, AT 2023) The women’s movement is the most successful social movement of the 20th century and has Read the full article… »»»»
Interview with Artist and Bicycle activist Conny Zenk for Music Austria – out now
This article is only available in German, but here is a teaser in English: “With each soundride a collective body of sound is created” At the interface between DIY and establishment, the artist CONNY ZENK works with a wide variety of media forms and expressions which she links. In addition to visuals, films, circus artistry, Read the full article… »»»»
BOEM presents: Uschi Ultra & Jukebox Utopia – 18. Nov. 2022 Vienna
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October 20th MEK Berlin – artist talk with dancer & choreographer Kadir [amigo] Memiş
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Unsafe+Sounds Festival Vienna: Politics of Immediacy, September 23rd-October 1st 2022
UNSAFE+SOUNDS IS PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE VIRAL FEELING OF INSECURITY AND FOCUSES ON ARTISTIC POSITIONS THAT CONFRONT OUR REALITY. WE WANT TO ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES IN OUR ENVIRONMENT, AND SEARCH FOR AGENCY, FOR APPROPRIATE SOUNDS FOR OUR TAINTED FUTURE AND OUR BEWILDERING EXISTENCE. TAINTED FUTURES – AGENCY OF IMMEDIACY Every day, the Read the full article… »»»»
Review 25 Years of Fuckparade – Berlin September 3rd 2022
Fuckparade – 25 years protest from below Against displacement, commercialization and senseless highway construction! Against the commercialization of techno Against the closing of clubs, bars and neighborhood shops Against the sellout of the city Against Nazis On September 3rd 2022 the 25th Fuckparade took place in Berlin. Meeting point was at 14Uhr near subway Alt-Tempelhof. Read the full article… »»»»
Warmup Unsafe+Sounds Festival Vienna: September 1st 2022 @ Rhiz – DeForrest Brown, Blaq Hammer and more
First Struma+Iodine gig after the summer break comes as a co-production with Unsafe+Sounds Festival, that will happen this year from 23.9.-1.10.2022 at Werk and Zacherlfabrik in Vienna! For the first time Unsafe+Sounds will have a discourse program and I had the pleasure of curating it. More infos coming soon! More infos on the warmup event Read the full article… »»»»
Publication online, Keep it Simple – Make it Fast // The sonic experience of experimental electronics
The proceedings of last years KISMIF (Keep it Simple – Make it Fast) conference are now online here The virtual book was editied by Paula Guerra and Sofia Sousa. The topic for 2021 was DIY Cultures and Global Challenges but only some of the inputs dealt with this topic, most related to the over all Read the full article… »»»»
Interview with DJ Warzone online// strumandiodine.com
One of Viennas finest music event series “struma + iodine” finally has a proper home in the virtual world as well. Here host and organizer Shilla Strelka has curated writers, photographers, artists, musicians and other professionals for her wonderful homepage. As part of the team I got to interview DJ Warzone, and you can read Read the full article… »»»»
New Mixes and Radioshows online
Hello world, there are some new 2022 mixes, edits and cutupshows online waiting their listens: extended mixdown (60min): original mix (15min): extended version (107min): radio version (60min): »»»»
Rhizom Festival Zurich, CH – 4th-6th of June 2022 : WORKING BEYOND AND ACROSS DISCIPLINES
RHIZOM is a transdisciplinary festival that has developed out of VAZEM collective dedicated to cultivating alternative electronic music and arts. It commits itself to uniqueness, character, innovation, passion and DIY-spirit. During the festival, alternative electronic music and uncompromising club-culture will be experienced. The social responsibility of culture and its consumers will be discussed and envisioned Read the full article… »»»»
Exhibition Transmedia Festivals running until 31st of May 2022 @ echoraum Vienna
The accompanying photo exhibition to the April event Transmedia Festivals – Between Experiment and Economisation, Reverberation #1 can be seen until the end of May during the opening hours of the echoraum. “Ars Electronica, Hyperreality, Heart of Noise, CTM Festival, Berlin Atonal or Ultrahang… These are some names of events that Bianca Ludewig examines in Read the full article… »»»»
Input Affective Communities @ Rewire Festival, The Hague (NL) – April 7th-10th,
Lecture/ Talk 9th of April – ‘Affective Communities’ at Korzo Club. “In my research I approach different urban scenes that come together through music as audio social communities. Audio social communities are in most cases affective communities. This is true for most of the scenes linked to electronic music, club culture or experimental sound practices. Read the full article… »»»»
Dirty code and art that can be painful – portrait of Rainer Kohlberger now online via Music Austria
This portrait of the transmedia artist Rainer Kohlberger is only available in German Links directly to Rainer Kohlberger and his work: Kohlberger Kohlberger (Twitter) Kohlberger (Vimeo) »»»»
November 27th 2021 – Sound System Culture: Solidarity Networks in Te(k)no Communities – Panel Discussion @ CURA Berlin
Sound System Culture closes its event series of 2021 with a great day full of concerts, djs sets and a panel talk near Warschauer Brücke: “As we had to postpone our September date, here we are with our promised panel discussion, an exquisite lineup and more noisy glitches – this time in the lovely heated Read the full article… »»»»
12th of November 2021, Contrapunkt – Club Against Reality @ P.M.K. Innsbruck: Utopia-Apocalypse-Futurism
In the planning stages since 2019, it is finally possible to hold this event: A night of Gabber, Breakcore and Happy Hardcore! I will speak about my book “Utopia and Apocalypse in Pop Music” and Riccardo Balli will talk about his book “Sbrang Gabba Gang”, for which I also wrote the foreword at the time. Read the full article… »»»»
Radical Realities – Out Now @ transcript publishing
In my text “Towards a New Class Society: Volunteering and Internship at Transmedia Festivals” was published at the beginning of October 2021 in the great volume Radical Realities (Radikale Wirklichkeiten) by transcript. Even though it is primarily about theatre festivals, there are a lot of important and exciting texts about festival work, and cultural work Read the full article… »»»»
Music Austria Interview on Club Culture: “We all have a lot of pressure in our everyday lives. The club helps us to deal with this”
mica-interview with BIANCA LUDEWIG 28 June 2021 BIANCA LUDEWIG has been researching club culture as a cultural anthropologist for years. She talks to Stefan Niederwieser about utopias, a communal love of music, stories that are missing and hard work at female:pressure to fight misconceptions. Heart of Noise 2014 / Lumisokea (c) Bianca Ludewig Is Read the full article… »»»»
KISMIF Conference Porto 7-10th of July 2021: Keep it simple make it fast, DIY Cultures and Global Changes
The fifth edition of the international KISMIF Conference ‘Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! DIY Cultures and Global Challenges’ takes place in Porto, Portugal, from 7 to 10 of July 2021 for the fifth time (previous editions held in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018) . This conference is open to artists, researchers and academics likewise who work Read the full article… »»»»
AUzine – Vienna Underground Fanzine feat. Subcultures Under Pr€$$ur€ is Out Now!
After two years it is finally done, the AUzine is printed. It documents seven years of Viennese subculture at the AU Vienna, a club located at Brunnenmarkt in the 16th district, which was something like a living room for me in my early days in Vienna. It was also there that I organised the event Read the full article… »»»»
Conference “Breaking Rules – European Hip Hop Meeting”, 11th-12th of September Rotterdam (NL)
On September 11th and 12th, 2020 the third edition of the European Hip Hop Studies Network Meeting will take place – live and online – in the Netherlands for the first time. And hip hop city Rotterdam will be hosting it. I am happy that I will be part of this exciting conference. Though it Read the full article… »»»»
Anthology “New Age of Electronic Dance Music and Club Culture” Out Now!
I am happy to announce that “our” collective volume edited by Anita Jóri and Martin Lücke has been published. For everybody, but especially for them it was a long way to go. The book was published with Springer what I am not too happy about as authors loose most if not all of their rights Read the full article… »»»»
Balance Club/ Culture Web-Festival May 20th 2020 // 22nd Input Hardcore Techno
I will do a videoinput about the history and aethetics of Hardcore Techno at/for The Balance Club / Culture Festival on friday. Here you can access the festival content: balance.ifz.me/webedition2020/ The festival would have taken place in various clubs, concert venues and off-locations in Leipzig from 20–24 May. With over 30 acts and as many Read the full article… »»»»
Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger? Politics of Contemporary Techno. Panel @ Co]l[ab Vienna, February 13th 2020
I am participating in a discussion on how music spaces and activists can deal with a growing commercialization and cultural gentrification. It is gonna happen in a new space in 15th district, can’t wait to see it – more info towards the end… Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger? Politics of Contemporary Techno & Club Culture in Read the full article… »»»»
CTM and transmediale 2020, 28 january -2 february, Berlin@HKW, Bethanien, Berghain and other venues
Another year went by too quick and again it is time for CTM festival and transmediale. Whereas transmediale is much older, and CTM was an attempt to strengthen the music as media art within transmediale, CTM became an independent festival and some people consider it one of the best festival for experimental music and club Read the full article… »»»»
Utopia and apocalypse in popular music: A case study on gabber and breakcore in Berlin. Out now!
“This Ethnography skteches a vivid image of the gabber and breakcore scenes in the 2010s in Berlin. It positions sound and sonic qualities in the center of its subcultural investigation. Music is understood as a sonic event and physical sensation and is analyzed in its social context. Starting from the sonic, other layers related to Read the full article… »»»»
3hd Festival – Fluid Worlds, Berlin 22nd-27th of October 2019
This year Berlins 3hd Festival is celebrating it’s 5th anniversary! 3hd Festival is organized by Berlin-based the interdisciplinary platform Creamcake since 2015. I will join a panel talk at the festival on thursday 24th with the topic E-scape. Breaking the Trance at Postscheckamt (Hallesches Ufer 40–60). More details here Here is the festivals announcement text Read the full article… »»»»
Lecture Performance @Lauter Lärm#9: Sa 12th October 2019, Venster99 Vienna
Another cooperation with TerrorNoiseIndustries. TNI (CH) brings Hedonist and Rage Reset of Bloody Fist Label (Australia) along to bass the Venster. DJ Balli (IT) will spin another of his just perfect hardcore sets, and so will Schirin (AT) und Grrrr (AT). Another local support is the label Fall Into Dry Lungs. The evenings kicks off Read the full article… »»»»
Earth Strike – There is no Planet B, 27th September 2019 Wien
Today a star march took place in Vienna from 3 points (Praterstern, Westbahnhof, Hauptbahnhof) to Karlsplatz. The demos passed symbolic places for politics (Ministry of Transport), economy (Chamber of Commerce) and science (House of the Sea). I joined one of the demonstration flows at Margaretenstraße. Surrounded by many U20 people, who chanted well-known chants (Antifaschista/ Read the full article… »»»»
FUTURECORE 2000 // ALL BEATS ARE BEAUTIFUL – 13th September 2019 @ KRAFTWERK BILLE, HAMBURG
A dance performance by Gloria Höckner In September the dance piece Futurecore 2000 by the Viennese choreographer Gloria Höckner, who lives in Hamburg, can be seen at Kraftwerk Bille. On Friday we will talk about our perspectives on Hardcore Techno. Dates, see below. Here some excerpts of the info text: “Inspired by the practice of Read the full article… »»»»
ARS ELECTRONICA: Midlife Crisis der Digitalen Revolution, 5th-9th of September 2019 @Linz, AT
For its 40th anniversary the Ars Electronica composed a ever larger programme of over 500 events and exhibitions. AE is “one of the world’s largest stages for media art, a festival for digital music, a playground for the next generation, a showcase for creativity and innovation – Ars Electronica is a unique festival for art, Read the full article… »»»»
Review ChaosCommunicationCamp 08/2019 @Ziegeleipark, Germany, Earth, Milky Way
The CCCamp2019 takes place every four years and was materialized in August in Brandenburg. As a lecture on “20 Years of Camp” (subtitles available) clearly showed, the CCCamp is a fusion of “open air and hacker culture”, if not rave and hack. One of the active members of the Chaos Computer Club Hamburg, Tim, was Read the full article… »»»»
Fuckparade #23, 31st of August, Berlin Hermannstrasse 14pm
For the 23rd time, since 1997, Berliners demonstrated with the means of hardcore music on mobile soundsystems against gentrification and the sell out of their city. As every year numerous political projects and cultural spaces are in danger: Syndikat, Friedel54, Meuterei, RAW, Kili, Mainzer Strasse, Liebig 34, Rummelsbucht. Sorry infos only in German. You might Read the full article… »»»»
Interview with Viennese Duo EsRap online at Music Austria
“Tschuschistan is everywhere where the diaspora is at home” – says ESRAP in mica (Music Austria) interview After a felt eternity, countless appearances, several mixtapes and digital releases, the debut album “Tschuschistan” (Springstoff) by ESRAP was released on 28 June 2019. The siblings ESRA and ENES ÖZMEN break as a duo not only with gender Read the full article… »»»»
Bookpresentation “Utopia and Apocalypse…” Fr 19.7.2019@ Kitchen-Zentrum der Tat Vienna
“Utopia and Apocalypse in Pop Music” is a study of hardcore techno in Berlin in the 2010s, but also a study of the sonic characteristics of these styles. Using tracks and videos, the emergence of these styles will be sketched and their references to the sound system culture or gender aspects highlighted. I will present Read the full article… »»»»
Takeover Street Art & Skateboarding @ Wien Museum July 5th-September 1st 2019
The exhibition “Takeover” on skateboarding and street art opened yesterday with the vernissage at the “old” Wien Museum on Vienna’s Karlsplatz. The exhibition is a kind of temporary use before the Wien Museum is rebuilt and enlarged. The exhibition on “Red Vienna” and staff have already moved to Felderstraße 6-8 in the 1st district. Yesterday Read the full article… »»»»
Article “Greetings from the Fuckparade” @ ZK/U Fact Finding Committee #3 Report
“The ZK/U Berlin (center for art and urbanism Berlin) concept and practice were initiated by the artist collective and non-profit organization KUNSTrePUBLIK e.V.. The association managed to become the owner of the former railway depot and holds a 40 year lease on the ground. KUNSTrePUBLIK‘s concepts and projects are equally focused on local involvement and Read the full article… »»»»
Bookpresentation “Utopia and Apocalypse…” @ Provitreff Zürich, June 14th 2019
There will be a bookpresentation of “Utopie und Apokalypse in der Popmusik. Gabber und Breakcore in Berlin” organized by Remote CTRL & Reclaim The Core presenting a bit of the content, and especially the Fuckparade, as there is still the Streetparade in Zürich, the biggest rave-demo in Europe. I will also talk about Gender, play Read the full article… »»»»
Rediscovered: Documentary “The Empty Citycenter”, Hito Steyerl (1998)
At university we watched Hito Steyerl’s documentary “Die Leere Mitte” in a seminar, for the work on an article I wanted to quote now some passages from the film and watched it again. 2010 it was already a document of contemporary history, to see it eight years later was just as affective as the first Read the full article… »»»»
She is the Other Gaze – Filmstart Austria May 3rd 2019
It all depends on the resonance. If we don’t get resonance, we don’t get opportunities. Then we do not exist. “Christiana Perschon’s documentary SHE IS THE OTHER GAZE presents a series of interviews with five female visual artists: Renate Bertlmann, Linda Christanell, Lore Heuermann, Karin Mack, Margot Pilz. Most of these artists started their careers Read the full article… »»»»
donaufestival – New Society 26th of April to 5th of May in Krems (AT)
When it is spring time in Vienna people who are into performance and edgy music take a trip to Krems an hour away from Vienna to attend the annual donaufestival. The festival frames its linup by a theme which is this year “new society”. This seems a bit overexcited at first glance, or is it Read the full article… »»»»
Bookrelease: The Mo.ë records, 3rd of May Vienna
The Mo.ë Records. Documents of a Canceled Future. This book documents the former arts and music space mo.ë in Vienna and discusses issues related to gentrification and urban planning. It reflects on the invasive displacement of functioning arts spaces that are put up by the unpaid work of dedicated artists and activists which eventually leads Read the full article… »»»»
Soundsystem Culture Berlin: Presentation & DJ Set @ Mensch Meier, 19th of April 2019
Wonderful Sound System Culture Berlin is a not-for-profit organization based in Berlin. Soundsystem Culture Berlin are working to create a participatory arts and social space around the theme of sound system culture, which will take place on the 19th of April 2019 in Berlin. I will give a presentation on Sound System Culture and the Read the full article… »»»»
35C3 Refreshing Memories, Leipzig 27th-30th of december 2018
CHAOS COMMUNICATION CONGRESS REVIEW For the second year we joined forces with Reclaim Club Culture (RCC) at the congress which was again an exceptional experience! For those who don’t know: This Hacker Meeting is organized by the Chaos Computer Club which was founded in 1981. The annual congress was launched in 1984. In the past Read the full article… »»»»
Conference proceedings published: popmusic and transgression
In October 2016 the German Speaking Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM – D-A-CH) met in Graz – with 70 researchers of popular music attending, who discussed different aspects of popular music and transgression. In November 2018 the conference proceedings were published via the BIS Verlag. The publication is Read the full article… »»»»
Heroines of Sound Festival: 6th-8th of December 2018 @HAU2 Berlin
The 5th edition of Heroines of Sound will feature four comissioned works, seven premieres and two German premiers by 30 artists. With: Maryanne Amacher // Anne la Berge// Mary Ellen Bute // Suzanne Ciani/ / Mary C // Lucrecia Dalt // Nina Dragicevic //Jessica Ekomane //Gudrun Gut//Ensemble KNM Berlin // Electric Indigo // Fågelle&Beate Kunath // Read the full article… »»»»
celebrating 20 years of female:pressure @ Mensch Meier Berlin, November 9th 2018
!!This event is open for every sex/gender!! female:pressure* is celebrating its 20 year anniversary! We are working at full speed, to compile a weekend of celebrating, listening, learning and exchanging. In the foreground of course other will be first-class music and art contributed by the artists of our network, as well as the development of Read the full article… »»»»
Presentation @ POP-POWER-POSITIONS: 3rd IASPM DACH-Conference @ Bern (CH) 18th-20th October 2018
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE BRANCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF POPULAR MUSIC (IASPM D-A-CH) University of Bern & Bern University of the Arts Partner: Norient – Network for Local and Global Sounds and Media We will do a panel at the conference: Club Cultures between difference, representation and cosmopolitism (Club Cultures zwischen Read the full article… »»»»
Unsafe + Sounds Festival, 2nd – 13th of October 2018 Vienna
Unsafe + Sounds Festival for Adventurous Electronic Music + Arts Unsafe+Sounds wants to investigate the interrelatedness of the fundamental changes in our environment and aesthetics, and look for apt noises for our disturbed existence. Under the banner of “Brutal Times”, we gather workers from the musical frontiers to find some medication for this pathological time. Read the full article… »»»»
Is it dark? by 3ncore. Exhibition, discourse, party dedicated to Liza N Eliaz @ Het Bos Antwerp, 27th-30th Sep. 2018
I will participate in a discussion with Merle Vorwald of 3ncore and Federico Chiari on gabber/ speedcore – genres & subcultures in Antwerp, Belgium. Here are some infos about the project Is It Dark? “Finally the collectives ENCORE + SEXES are presenting the outcome of their residency at AIR Antwerpen. After looking extensively into the Read the full article… »»»»
Frankenstein or the 8 bit Prometheus, 26th of September 2018 Book presentation @ Echo Books
Cultural anthropologist and music journalist Bianca Ludewig introduces dj/producer Riccardo Balli who will talk about his Frankenstein, or the 8 Bit Prometheus ChiliComCarne.com editions, 2018. About the book/ from book back cover: -1818 First edition of Mary Shelley’s classic: Frankenstein – 2018 Frankenstein gone mad: the many horrifying uses of technology, such as Web 2.0 Read the full article… »»»»
Documentary The Cleaners, available on DVD by 08/24/2018
“A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed. When you post something on the web, can you be sure it stays there? Enter a hidden shadow industry of digital cleaning where the Internet rids itself of what it doesn’t like – violence, pornography and – political content. Who is Read the full article… »»»»
Experimental music festivals in Austria – Part I: DONAUFESTIVAL , Krems 27.4.- 6.5.2018
In Austria there are plenty of festivals that showcase experimental and (post-)club music. Plus something else. In the following series I will discuss three of them. They happen in springtime: donaufestival, hyperreality and the heart of noise festival. This will happen at different platforms. Part I is published on the blog of the shituationist institute: Read the full article… »»»»
Superbooth, 3.-5. Mai 2018 @ Berlin FEZ Wuhlheide
Sorry this article is only available in German language. But you can find english infos, programme and past press articles about superbooth here: https://www.superbooth.com »»»»
Don’t Go To Resonate: Artists pull out of the Belgrade Festival 2018 because of payment issues
“Don’t go to Resonate Festival in Belgrade – a warning to artists and audiences“, posted Thomas Ankersmit on April 17th, a day before the festival started. He writes: “Phill Niblock and myself played a two-hour concert to a full house at the Resonate Festival in Belgrade in April 2017. A year later we, among many Read the full article… »»»»
Sensorium Festival, Bratislava 2nd-5th of May 2018
The first Slovak conference making sense of creative technology. Sensorium is a festival with conference, workshops & showcase bridging the fields of computational art, design and performance. For the third year, a multidisciplinary community comes together to envision artistic futures and its impact on society. Festivaltickets are 39€, for students 13€ – excluding workshops. It Read the full article… »»»»
Best of WiseUp 2018 #2: Rerun 3/2005 – Mike Patton
We continue the Rerun-issues 2018 with a show that was done long ago in March 2005 and transmitted via the free radio station in Hamburg FSK, where wiseup-radio started. It features an interview with Mike Patton about his album with the turntablists X-Ecutioners which was released back then, and it also features a short Read the full article… »»»»
donaufestival @ Krems AU, 27th of April-6th of May 2018: endless now
With: ZONAL feat. Moor Mother, Lotic, Perc, Lawrence English, The Space Lady, Mouse on Mars, Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois, Puce Mary, Demdike Stare, Deerhoof, Pan Daijing, Simon Reynolds and many more. Curatorial statement 2018 (Thomas Edlinger, donaufestival artistic director): You always have new messages; it just takes the next click for the next kick. Read the full article… »»»»
MaerzMusik – festival for time issues, Berlin 16.-25.3.2018
The festival 2018 Music offers time a centre. – This trope by John Berger puts the two main concerns of this festival – music and time – into a generative relation. Such a centre – in motion, elusive, non-geometric, plurimodal as it must be – would allow for a different point of view. From such Read the full article… »»»»
Festival as Lab – Cultural Practices and Potentials of Transmedia Festivals
This article was written in summer 2015 for the ECAS network publication “Networking Tomorrow’s Art for an Unknown Future” – documentation European Commission Culture Programme. It hasn’t been published as of yet. I am providing here up front the German original version as the publication will be in english translation. English Abstract: I sum up Read the full article… »»»»
Elevate Festival Graz, 28. Februar – 04. März 2018: Risiko/ Courage
Elevate Festival – Music, Art and Political Discourse Elevate is an annual interdisciplinary festival held in various central venues around the Schlossberg in Graz, Austria. With its unique combination of critical political discourse and contemporary music and art, the Elevate Festival stands out of the “usual” festival circus. Amongst the guests are Human rights experts, Read the full article… »»»»
Wiseup 12/2017 END OF THE YEAR REVIEW: Releases & Festivals 2017
In this Review Wiseup looks at the releases of the past year and plays its selection. Also Wiseup will review 2017 by looking back briefly at the visited festivals of the past year, which have been exactly 12, so I per month at average, starting in January with CTM Berlin and ending in December Read the full article… »»»»
Hardcore Territories, feature by bauhaus.fm
Feature by the experimental radio of Bauhaus University Weimar on our Input at Cynetart Festival: The lecture is in German. Vortrag „Hardcore Territories“ »»»»
CTM Festival 26.1.-4.2., Berlin
CTM – festival for adventurous music and art – is an event for electronic and experimental music, happening since 1999 in Berlin. CTM 2018 Theme: Turmoil Uneasy times demand uneasy music. The world is in turmoil. And so are many of us. No matter what perspective we take, what used to be familiar is becoming Read the full article… »»»»
Transmediale 31.1.-4.2.2018 @ HKW Berlin
transmediale is a Berlin-based festival and year-round project that draws out new connections between art, culture, and technology. The topic of this year issue is face value Things are what they are—but could they be different? transmediale 2018 face value aims to take stock of current affairs, to recognize things for what they are before Read the full article… »»»»
RCC@Chaos Communication Congress 34C3: Do Something! Leipzig 27.12.-30.12.2017
Hopefully this Hacker Meeting is already known internationally. It is organized by the Chaos Computer Club which was founded in 1981. The annual congress was launched in 1984. In the past 7 years this Hacker Meeting has grown rapidly to host in 2017 15.000 attendees in the Leipzig congress centre. In the frame of Reclaim Read the full article… »»»»
Simon Reynolds Discussion @ HU Berlin 3.12. & Book Launch @ HAU 4.12.2017
Simon Reynolds is visisting Berlin to present his recent book and discuss writing about popular music at the Humboldt University Berlin. Paneldiscussion „Writing as Performing Pop“ with Simon Reynolds, Sonja Eismann and Bodo Mrozek Medientheater of HU Berlin, Georgenstr. 47, 10117 Berlin// 19h// Free entrance Glam. Glitter Rock and Art Pop in the 1970s and Read the full article… »»»»
Bookrelease The Death of Graffiti 20.11.2017 @ Wendel Berlin
The Death of Graffiti is finally out on Possible Books, and celebrated with a panel-discussion at Bar Wendel, Schlesische Str. 42, Berlin Kreuzberg: With texts by David Alexander, Tobias Barenthin Lindblad, Thomas Bratzke, BROM, CLINT 176, Paul Vector Codierer, Christian Driesen, Paul Luis Fechter, Lukas Fuchsgruber, Allan Gretzki, Frank Hartmann, HIDDEN INDEXES, Ilaria Hoppe, ID33, Read the full article… »»»»
3hd Festival, 22.- 25.11.2017 @ HAU/ OHM Berlin
Whatever You Thought, Think Again 3hd Festival is in its third year, and organisers Daniela Seitz and Anja Weigl of Creamcake are pleased to announce the event will be running from November 22 to November 25. Happening at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, and OHM, as well as the internet — the program looks at music, Read the full article… »»»»
Lecture “Hardcore Territories” @ CYNETART, Dresden 18.11.2017
This is only available in German, please switch to that section by selecting it above on the right. More Infos: www.cynetart.org/2017/vortrag About cynetart here: www.cynetart.org »»»»
No! Music, 9.-12.11.2017 @ HKW Berlin
A concert, film and lectures series about the (im)possibility how to say no in music. Nearly all men are slaves, claimed the French writer Nicolas de Chamfort: “Because they can’t say no.” There are two ways in which musicians can say no: either through musical decisions, texts, or career strategies which express their refusal. Or Read the full article… »»»»
We Make Waves Conference & Festival, 09.11. – 11.11.2017 Berlin
Introducing We Make Waves, a new Berlin-based festival and conference made for women, trans and non-binary people poised to disrupt the music industry. This November, we will bring together a group of renegade performers, artists, and activists from Berlin and beyond in order to share transformational ideas, experiences, and motivation for future projects and collaborations. Read the full article… »»»»
Reframing Worlds – Mobility and Gender in a Postcolonial, Feminist Perspective, 4.11.-21.1.2018
Galerie im Körnerpark: 4 November 2018 – 21 January 2018 nGbK: 2 December 2017 – 21 January 2018 Friday 03rd November 2017, 18h, Exhibition Opening: Galerie im Körnerpark Sunday 05th November 2017, 17h, Performance: Unlistening White Feminism – Ida Pfeiffer’s Travel Diaries Revisited (en), Galerie im Körnerpark, A Sound-Performance by Antye Greie aka AGF Friday Read the full article… »»»»
WiseUp 10/2017 female:pressure – Monika Werkstatt – Baba Vanga @ Mixcloud
End of August the network female:pressure presented their new facts counting on female presence in electronic music festivals at Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin. WiseUp cut-up some excerpts on the outcome of the survey. In October WiseUp made a trip to UH Festival in Budapest, a festival for adventurous music, where Monika Werkstatt played the opening concert Read the full article… »»»»
Sonifications – Audible Data Streams, Berlin 27.- 29.10.2017
The Berlin Society of New Music presents the festival Sonifications Villa Elisabeth, Invalidenstraße 4a, 10115 Berlin How does a pulsar sound? What noises are made at night by a dreaming human brain? What might we hear when New York guitarist Hans Tammen sonifies his own DNA data live on stage during his „Endangered Guitar“? How Read the full article… »»»»
Bookrelease: The Death of Graffiti, Possible Books
For everyone who seeks to find out about graffiti practices and its entanglements with the social, the economic, the arts and society at large. 33 Activists, Scientists and Practitioners discuss, analyse or reflect on the 50 year history of graffiti as a social and asthetical phenomenon of the present. The Death of Graffiti is finally Read the full article… »»»»
Cynetart Festival, Dresden 16.-19.11.2017
CYNETART 2017: First Announcement 24 HOURS Caroline Beach / Valentina Cabro / Katharina Christl / Marcello Lussana / Jonas Marx / Lotte Mueller / Mika Oki / Guillaume Pires Parada / Jo Siamon Salich / Robertina Šebjanič / Anne Seidel / v4w.enko / Charles Washington / Luo Yuebing AUSSTELLUNGSPROJEKTE HeeWon Lee : Plui / Infinity Read the full article… »»»»
Ultrasound Festival/ Ultra Hang Fest, Budapest 1.10.-8.10.2017
UH Fest – Ultrasound in english – is dedicated to adventurous modern music in Hungary. Since 2001 we have staged more than 450 performances during 7 festivals and a number of one-off events. Due to our decade-long activity and the scope of our events (both in terms of number of acts and stylistic variety) UH Read the full article… »»»»
CTM 2018 Preludes: 09-11/ 2017 feat. Tara Transitory, Group A, Pharmakon u.a.
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UNSAFE+SOUNDS FESTIVAL Vienna // 22.-30. 09. 2017
»VARIABLES OF THE IMAGINARY« 4th Edition of Unsafe+Sounds Festival! There is no english Text for this available. You can view the program and more information here: www.unsafeandsounds.com www.facebook.com/unsafeandsounds »»»»
Opening Urban Nation Street Art Museum, Berlin 16.-17.9.2017
An impossible museum becomes reality, and let’s just hope the art will be better than the promotional text on their website, which is full of neoliberal vocabulary. As in their main slogan “Connect. Create. Care.” More of those commercial buzzwords are to be found allover their homepage: “The vision of a global art community, a Read the full article… »»»»
New female:pressure FACTS SURVEY 2015-2017
“Facts 2017 – what needs to be done?” The new facts were presented at the Pop-Kultur Festival in Berlin on 25.08.2017 and discussed with Sky Deep and Marlene Engel. These are some impressions of the presentation. For all detailed numbers, graphics, methods, download the full survey here: full survey as PDF [2.1 MB] You can Read the full article… »»»»
