Sirenjaw

Kit Downes (piano), Vinicius Cajado (double bass) & Lukas Koenig (drums)

Sirenjaw brings together several long-standing musical relationships: Lukas Koenig and Vinicius Cajado share a deep-rooted connection within the Viennese music scene; Koenig and Kit Downes have collaborated both live and on record; and Downes and Cajado have recently worked together in a range of ensemble contexts in Berlin. Their upcoming release on Sonic Transmissions marks the beginning of a new ensemble, shaped through process, presence, and a commitment to collective exploration. 

A memorial concert one year after the passing of Peter Ablinger, with music composed by Peter Ablinger, Erhard Grosskopf, Chico Mello, and Georg Nussbaumer

First set: 

Erik Drescher (flutes), Nurit Stark (violin), Chico Mello (voice, piano), Chiyoko Szlavnics (spoken word), Christian Scheib (spoken word), Sophie Notte (cello), Georg Nussbaumer (electronics) and Bryan Eubanks (sound design)

Second set:

Nicolas Hodges performs Peter Ablinger's Voices and Piano (a selection: Bertold Brecht, Guillaume Apollinaire, Setsuko Hara, Bonnie Barnett, Morton Feldman, Hanna Schygulla, Lech Walesa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxiu (Mother Theresa) and Mao Tse-Tun)

Cosmic Egg 

Mathilde Conley, Olivia Newport (DJ FEMNMS) & Runa Roberts, with richi valitutto 

Cosmic Egg, a sonic ritual by queer artists Mathilde Conley, Olivia Newport (DJ FEMNMS), and Runa Roberts, draws on religious, electronic, and experimental traditions to explore medieval devotion and contemporary queer intimacy. Inspired by Hildegard von Bingen’s erotic hymn to the Virgin Mary, they transform her 12th-century chant into drone soundscapes influenced by minimalism and ASMR. This fusion invites reflection on limitless potential and the enduring themes of longing, desire, and transformation across centuries of queer history. 

Lanichinata

Lan Hungh (percussion, electronics), richi valitutto (piano, toy piano, melodica) & Renata Daguerre (analog video)

Lanichinata was born on 21 August 2024, under the compassionate rays of the Sturgeon Blue Moon in Aquarius, a rare supermoon of exceptional size and brightness. Channeling the multivalent energies of time and place has always been a guiding principle in each of their meetings: focused improvised performances in light, sound, and movement that reflect and refract the queer creative forces connecting each of us. 

Ka Baird & Audrey Chen, duo for voices, electronics, flutes

Ka Baird, Audrey Chen & Li-Chin Li, trio for voices, electronics, flutes & sheng

Ka Baird uses extended voice and microphone techniques along with electronics, feedback, field recordings, and traditional instrumentation to explore the outer dimensions of sound through performance. They create a present-tense sound with a vigorous, ritualistic delivery that seeks extreme release through physical exertion and psychic extension. 

Audrey Chen’s work explores the combination and layering of an analog synthesizer, preparations, and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language.

Li-Chin Li is a sheng performer and composer. Formerly a member of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, a leading exponent of contemporary Chinese music, Li-chin's work now focuses on integrating the sheng with performing arts, including electronics and visual media. 

Adam Goodwin, GRUMSIN for double bass, electronics, field recordings & video

Adam Goodwin's GRUMSIN is a multimedia solo project incorporating amplified double bass, electronics, field recordings and projected video material. Each composition is based on a particular ecosystem or biome, incorporating field recordings and video material created during solitary hiking and backpacking trips in these specific environments. This material is combined with double bass harmonics, melodic fragments, microtonal clusters and textural extended techniques to create durational compositions that suggest elements of contemporary classical music, dark ambient, drone, spectralism and noise music, all the while embodying their own sonic identity and conceptual integrity.

Valerio Tricoli, solo for reel-to-reel tape machines  

Hanno Leichtmann, SY-4 for the Pearl Syncussion SY-1 drum synthesizer 

Leichtmann's piece SY-4 follows the same encrypted logic as found on his The Future Of Discipline collab with Valerio Tricoli. Leichtmann treats the drum synth as a malleable object not just in terms of rhythm but also of substance, variously melting, diffusing and re-connecting it in various states thru an ER-301 Sound Computer.

Since the mid-2000s, Valerio Tricoli has used the Revox B77 reel-to-reel tape recorder in his live performances. This completely analog and ergonomic device is designed for live sampling and real-time transformation, processing, and mixing of pre-recorded studio recordings and sound sources, including spoken or sung voices. Small acoustic and electronic instruments, unusual objects, and even the concert venue itself serve as Tricoli's tools and inspiration. 

Abigail Toll, Idol

Caleb Salgado (double bass), Abigail Toll (electronics, flute)  

Toll & Kjartansson, Martírios | Work Songs (Studies for Guitar)  

premiered by Stirnir Kjartansson (solo electric guitar)  

Abigail Toll's Idol (Superpang 2025) is inspired by Malta's Hypogeum, a 5,000 year old burial site whose chambers cause trance-like sensations when they resonate with sound. Using the resonant frequencies of the Hypogeum as the basis for the tuning system, Toll re-contextualises the quantum aspects behind the ancient monument through drone, psychoacoustic soundscapes, and tonal deviations to form prismatic deep-listening environments.    

Martírios | Work Songs is the premiere of four studies for solo electric guitar, composed by Abigail Toll in collaboration with Icelandic guitarist and composer Stirnir Kjartansson. The studies fall within the broader framework of Toll’s pastoral sound research project “Where Words Fail.” These guitar studies deconstruct and explore the emotional and beating tonal qualities of the traditional Vos desafinada (“out of tune”) Portuguese song “Martírios” (Martyrdom), which was recorded and archived by Michel Giacometti & Fernando Lopes-Graça. 

Claudio F. Baroni, Re-Genetic Mutation for piano and tape

performed by Reinier van Houdt and Claudio F. Baroni

Giuseppe Chiari, INTERVALLI

Reinier van Houdt, piano

Re-Genetic Mutation (released on Unsounds in 2025) is part of Baroni's recent series on the spoken word, incorporating voice and lyrics from Robert Ashley's Love Sure Is a Good Example (1991).  Baroni sets recorded speech against acoustic and electronic pitched sounds. The instrumental material emerges entirely from digitally aided speech analysis, which identifies occurrences of Western scale pitches within the natural intonations of speech. From these pitches, Baroni selects and assigns certain tones to instruments and electronics.

Giuseppe Chiari's Intervalli (1951-58) might be the first truly minimalist piece in music history. There are no themes, motifs, sequences, or sets in this piece—not even patterns: only intervals, conjugated in various movements—movements of expansion, contraction, addition, subtraction, etc. In each of the 12 parts, 12 intervals are processed in various ingenious, breakneck ways that amaze with their diversity, timbre, and movement.

Reinier van Houdt is a leading contemporary pianist with a fascination for matters that escape notation: sound, timing, space, physicality, memory, noise, and environment—that which exists beyond composition, interpretation and improvisation. Aside from his own music, he has premiered works by Robert Ashley, Alvin Curran, Kaikhosru Sorabji, Francisco López, Christian Marclay, Charlemagne Palestine, Petra Strahovnik, Arnold Dreyblatt, Maria de Alvear, Jerry Hunt, Michael Pisaro, Walter Marchetti, Jürg Frey, Nomi Epstein, and Lucie Nezri. He has also worked with Annea Lockwood, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Luc Ferrari, Peter Ablinger.

DaughterDaughter 

Amalie Dahl (alto saxophone), Camila Nebbia (tenor saxophone), Elisabeth Coudoux (cello) & Sun-Mi Hong (drums)

DaughterDaughter is a new quartet featuring collectively composed music built around powerful melodies and structured forms, including more abstract textures and passages, leaving space for improvisation and each performer’s individual voice.

A three-day retrospective spanning early, middle, and recent works of the composer Michael Pisaro-Liu.

May 28 Thursday

• Mind is Moving IV (1996) for solo contrabass

• asleep, street, pipes, tones (2009) for clarinet, electric guitar, fixed media

Jon Heilbron (contrabass), Katie Porter (clarinet), Seth Josel (electric guitar) 

May 29 Friday

• Interference 1 (2003) for cello, electric guitar, live electronics, record player

• Moss (2004) for spoken voice, 2 woodwinds, piano, vibraphone

Peter Tracy (cello), Seth Josel (electric guitar), Eric Wong (live electronics), Jessica Gaynor (record player), Nina Guo (spoken voice), Katie Porter (clarinet), Lucio Capece (clarinet), Quentin Tolimieri (piano), Michael Weilacher (vibraphone) 

May 30 Saturday

• The Narrow Path (2020) for solo vibraphone

• Asleep, Forest, Melody, Path (2013) for open instrumentation

Michael Weilacher (vibraphone), Joe Kudirka and Ensemble (Lucio Capece, Rebecca Lane, Federico Pozzer, Ángeles Rojas, Lucio Tasca)