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Known for their solo projects (Rent, Asfast, Karolina Preuschl, Gischt) in the Viennese experimental electronic scene, Katrin Euller, Leon Leder, Karolina Preuschl and Ursula Winterauer have been active for several years and together have founded a band format whose strength is fuelled by their different influences and independent approaches.
EAERES is the soundtrack to a gloomy indictment of relentless dominance.
RELEASECONCERT presented by Liccht
→ October 9th 2024, Fluc, Praterstern 5, 1020 Vienna
doors: 8.00 pm
start: 8.30 pm
MISONICA (live)
EAERES (live)
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We are pleased to present our new artist-in-residence program in cooperation with Westbahnstudios. This year, four great international artists will spend some time in Vienna to work on new projects: Victoria Shen, Mariam Rezaei, Yuko Araki & Mark Fell. The residency always ends with a performance by the respective artists at the Westbahnstudios.
Our explosive conglomerate of residents will provide an extraordinary concert evening with noisy and powerful performances. Yuko Araki, Evicshen and Mariam Rezaei have been residing and experimenting at Westbahnstudios for the last couple of days.
CONCERT PROGRAM:
doors: 6.30 pm - limited capacity/first come first serve!
start: 7.00 pm
MORNING SEANCE (live)
YUKO ARAKI (live)
EVICSHEN & MARIAM REZAEI (live)
→ September 14th 2024
Westbahnstudios
Preysinggasse 5, 1150 Vienna
10 € (AK or online)
Concerts in cooperation with Unsafe+Sounds Festival
→ Festivalpasses are valid for this event!
Graphics by Klimentina Li
Curated and organized by Isabella Forciniti, Peter Kutin & Ursula Winterauer
Kindly supported by SKE, MA7 Musik & BMKOES.
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doors: 7.00 pm
start: 7.30 pm
MARTINA CLAUSSEN & KATHARINA KLEMENT (live)
JAKOB SCHAUER (live)
→ June 30th 2024
Zacherlfabrik
Nusswaldgasse 14, 1190 Vienna
10 €
*** bring your own drinks***
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Rent ist the pseudonym of artist and ecologist Katrin Euller. Rent’s sounds refer to industrial ecosystems, interconnections, dark landscapes and their stories and the stories of those who inhabit these places. At the same time, it is the processes of sound creation itself that emerge in Rent's compositions: sounds influence each other, reinforce each other, cancel each other out, dissolve and become noise, sound like the city, a car alarm for example. Then everything gets lost in the fog again.
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SKULPTUR captures a live performance of the Viennese duo schtum (Manu Mayr & Robert Pockfuß) in a studio environment. Equipped with electric guitar and bass, they introduce live re-sampling techniques and heavy use of stereo panorama effect pedals to weave layers of fluid rhythmic structures.
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We are pleased to present our new artist-in-residence program in cooperation with Westbahnstudios. This year, four great international artists will spend some time in Vienna to work on new projects: Victoria Shen, Mariam Rezaei, Yuko Araki & Mark Fell. The residency always ends with a performance by the respective artists at the Westbahnstudios.
Our first guest is none other than Mark Fell, who has been residing and experimenting at Westbahnstudios together with Studio Dan for some time now.
The final performance of his stay will already take place in two days on May 31, 2024 from 8 pm in the Westbahnstudios. We are also very pleased that the second concert of the evening will be contributed by Stefan Juster alias Jung an Tagen.
CONCERT PROGRAM
31th of May - Westbahnstudios
20:00 doors
21:00 performances by MARK FELL & STUDIO DAN, JUNG AN TAGEN
Graphics by Klimentina Li
Curated and organized by Isabella Forciniti, Peter Kutin & Ursula Winterauer
Kindly supported by SKE, MA7 Musik & BMKOES.
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The composer and pianist Ingrid Schmoliner writes and plays music the allure of which cannot be resisted. Her pieces are ecstatic cascades of sound which unite formal strictness and psychoactive effects. Her new work MNEEM is a musical monolith.It is a breathtaking one hour plus tour de force through complex uptempo pattern, played on the prepared grand piano.
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In their work, TEARING (Lens Kühleitner and Manu Mayr) deal with the hyperreality and artificiality of sounds. They draw on the rich potential of their diverse musical roots and skillfully move from ethereal clearness to sophisticated sound collages.
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Peter Kutin reinterprets the site-specific compositions he created for the choreographer Philipp Gehmacher over the past four years. It recreates the multi-channel sound experience for binaural headphone listening, capturing the key compositional parameters and spatial relations presented in the live work. Slow, but urgent.
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For their second album, the non-conformist trio PLF delves deeper into broken song structures and harsh rhythms. Restless, the »scream-of-consciousness« vocalist Elvin Brandhi, sonic dissident & producer Peter Kutin, and multifarious drummer Lukas König spew a fresh batch of tracks resembling post-apocalyptic rituals.
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doors: 9.00 pm
start: 9.30 pm
live
ISABELLA FORCINITI
GISCHT
KOENIG
KUTIN + LUDWIG WANDINGER
→ September 28rd 2023, 9.00 pm
Arkaoda, Berlin
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doors: 8.30 pm
start: 9.00 pm
MISONICA (dj-set)
NOUSHIN (dj-set)
PLF (live)
TEARING (live)
In cooperation with LICCHT.
→ September 23rd 2023, 8.30pm
Rhiz, Vienna
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Happy to announce TEARING's single »INVERT« and upcoming album »ALL SIDES FIND INSIDES«. Stay tuned!
Coming from differing musical backgrounds, the two musicians - Lens Kühleitner aka Lan Rex and Manu Mayr - draw from fuzz peaking synth sounds, wave-beating strings and rousing basses. Dealing with the hyperreality and artificiality of sounds, from ethereal clearness to multiplied voices - they offer you an immersive room. Drawing you in - until decisively releasing you.
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We're celebrating Ventil Record's 8th year of existence, and as part of that celebration we're joining an extraordinary & insane project for which the term #noisical seems to be the only accurate one.
following artists on stage...
Johanna Sophia Baader, Alessandro Baticci, Didi Bruckmayer (FUCKHEAD), Freya Edmondes (PLF), Katrin Euller (RENT), God's Entertainment, Gratis Kaiserin, Florian Kindlinger, Lukas König (PLF), Peter Kutin (PLF), Leon Leder, Mathias Lenz, Matthias Loibner, Chora Malik, Katharina Meves, Karolina Preuschl, Victoria Shen (EVICSHEN), Michael Strohmann (FUCKHEAD), Christopher Sturmer (STIRN PRUMZER), Akemi Takeya, Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe, Ursula Winterauer (GISCHT)
→ August 10th & 12th 2023, 9pm
Odeon Theater, Vienna
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Vienna's new space Westbahnstudios will host the release presentation BAJO by sound and video artist Billy Roisz. She will present her exciting new work with electronics and live double bass. On this evening she will share the stage with the duo dieb13 & Jérôme Noetinger.
→ May 24th 2023, 7.30pm
Westbahnstudios, Vienna
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Happy to share the newest solo work by drummer, composer, rapper, multi-instrumentalist Lukas König aka Kœnig.
»Solo« is, in fact, a misnomer, as each track features carefully chosen musicians from around the globe: Will Brooks (Dälek), Guilty Simpson, Moor Mother, Sensational, Nappy Nina, Elvin Brandhi, Rojin Sharafi , Viktoria Shen, Nik Hummer, Julien Desprez, Aquiles Navarro, Martin Eberle, and Chris Pitsiokos.
→ 29th of April 2023, Releaseconcert at donaufestival, Krems
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On the album »BAJO« Billy Roisz explores the frequency spectrum and the sound materiality of the double bass in her well elaborated experimental setting.
→ 24th of May 2023, Releaseconcert at Westbahnstudios, Vienna
MORE INFO SOON!
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The Wire Tapper 59, compiled by Shane Woolman, Astrud Steehouder and James Gormley contains a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from Gischt, Evicshen, Tegh & Adel, MimiCof and others..
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The music released on this album was composed and performed over the years 2019–2021 within the framework of the artistic research project »On the fragility of sounds«.
This project listened into intersections of contemporary composition, music theatre, and feminist practice from a unique position: from the position of the artist themselves while being at work.
The album features compositions from Elaine Mitchener, Séverine Ballon, Elisabeth Schimana, Electric Indigo & Pia Palme a.o. performed by Schallfeld Ensemble.
All digital formats are availabe from now on.
Please stay tuned for their releaseconcert on the 2nd of November 2022 in Echoraum, Vienna.
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»Not The Whole Truth« explores the themes of memory and emotional affect. Mo Nahold uses his online Subletvis moniker to further thread the line between abstract electronic composition and melodic hooks.
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With her latest release »Kariz» Rojin Sharafi opens up a very unique musical world, in which historicity and poetics intertwine.
2LP & all digital formats are availabe from now on.
Unfortunately, the vinyl can first be shipped approximately around 15 January 2022.
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On the new album »Sequencing Detachments«, the duo schtum transforms elements of electronic dance music into detailed, oversized sound close-ups.
Through repetitive structures, layers of sound eventually detach themselves, thus developing a life of their own, leaving behind an abstract impression of emotional depth.
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The trio lean inward, bestial and chaotic, Chen's primitive huffing and reptilian bubble blowing lending each track a human disorder which spars perfectly with the pugilistic pops of Koenigs digital kicks and Desprez desert of atomic guitar scree. (Opal Tapes)
The LP will be released via Ventil Records on 1st of October 2021, tape edition released via → Opal Tapes.
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Ventil Records and Sonica Festival collaborate on this very special evening of eclectic and exciting music. The evening can be seen as a pre-event of the Sonica Festival, which will take place from 27.9 - 2.10.2021 in Ljubljana. We will also celebrate the sixth anniversary of Ventil (and one more birthday).
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Rdeča Raketa combines abstract electronic sounds with heavy beats, inspired by acousmatic and industrial music. The artful interweaving of spoken and sung language (based on Osojnik’s texts) coalesces with the collaged sound material.
The LP will be released via Ventil Records on 4th of August 2021, followed by a special edition on Maja Osojnik’s own label → Mamka Records.
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Don't miss Elvin Brandhi's ecstatic live performance and the gorgious sets of GMNR and GAST this friday on the edges of the danube canal.
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Stephan Blumenschein approaches sound and music from a visual artist's point of view, though, if one were to expect that everything here would be about abstraction, reduction or deconstruction, one would be completely wrong. It is also not about noise or being radical. Rather, Blumenschein’s music seems to be an excursion about spaces, or about giving sounds a certain place.
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Ventil Records' very own Gischt was invited to curate a radio show on RES.Radio, an online community radio based in Vienna.
Listen to 5 hours of eclectic music in the fields of industrial, noise & techno feat. Misonica, Inou Ki Endo, Abu Gabi & Gischt.
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To watch, please klick this button at 8 pm:
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With ACHRONIE, Vienna-based composer and sound artist Peter Kutin releases his first purely solo album since 2013. It opens with the synthetic voice - generated by machine-learning (A.I.) - of philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, reading a short excerpt from Kafka's The Trial. Kutin deliberately incorporates a mistake into the text, which points to a temporal impossibility, a paradox. By having Adorno's voice talk about a laptop, Kutin subtly and clearly suggests that something must be wrong here, disrupting our linear view of time.
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Basically, all of Andreas Bergers very unique tracks are based on speech samples, of which mostly only fragments can be understood or guessed. Robbed of their syntax and semantics, they become musical building blocks from which Berger arranges minimal and finely woven sound worlds with surgical precision, cleverly combining them with electronic sounds and field recordings.
Releaseconcert: October 10th ODEON, Vienna
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ROJIN SHARAFI
MO NAHOLD
SHRACK!
Ventil Records looks back on five years of working with wonderful artists, adventurous projects and great friendships. Due to the current situation smaller than last year, but just as big in beauty, the evening will provide an insight into Ventil's aesthetics.
Oct 13th 2020, → Fluc Wanne, Vienna
Start: 20:00
AK 15€ / VVK 12€ / 50 Tickets / bestuhlt
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With »vessel 1.2 & suite pour une femme seule«, the Vienna based composer Katharina Klement presents a precise arranged album where instrumental approaches (piano on Side A and Zither on Side B) are almost invisibly connected to electronic manipulations.
Releaseconcert: September 18th ECHORAUM, Vienna
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»The complexities of an android learning to be human are conveyed through Peter Kutin’s stunning, tactile, and sometimes disturbing ambient sound design creating an understanding of these confrontations on an almost subconscious level.«
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The Wire Tapper 53, compiled by Shane Woolman, Astrud Steehouder and James Gormley contains a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from Kœnig, Beatriz Ferreyra, Max Eilbacher, Sheng Jie, Agnès Pe, damelove and others...
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Also listen to statements by Thomas Ankersmit, Olivia Block, Jim O'Rourke and Steve Roden.
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»MESSING« is a courageous statement that rejects straightforward pop and instead shines with artistic freedom and the will for change. The metal, the brass, always reverberates, at times mercilessly pounding on us, driving us forward, resonating.
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Listen to MR. KIWI'S (feat. Sensational) by KŒNIG and get sucked into the wildly radical aesthetics of his new album »MESSING«, which will be released in the beginning of June!
»MESSING« is a courageous statement that rejects straightforward pop and instead shines with artistic freedom and the will for change. The metal, the brass, always reverberates, at times mercilessly pounding on us, driving us forward, resonating.
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This compilation is a deep dive into some corners of Vienna’s vivid underground and advanced music-scene. You will find unreleased material from artists we will hear more from in the near future!
If you want to support artists & the scene, buying this sampler is a very pleasant way to do so.
FEAT. ANDREAS BERGER, ROJIN SHARAFI, KŒNIG, PATRIK LECHNER, KATHARINA KLEMENT, KATHARINA ERNST, SCHTUM and many more …
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David Schweighart (aka Schrecken) and Peter Kutin composed the original music for Sandra Wollner's latest feature film - The trouble with being born. This soundtrack lives from the interchange of experimental electronic music and classical song structures. The songs appear like islands to hold on to, in a world that has become difficult to grasp.
Ventil Records 2024