17-31 December
it’s the final edition of the year … i wrote and then considered that ideally the next one will actually go out before the end of the year and be released into a limbo state between being the last of 2025 and the first of 2026 … fingers crossed we’re going to deliver i guess! anyway not so many events this time; we hope all of you will have a good time with music or otherwise. would be very sweet to see some of you on monday or at the new year’s eve party!
15 December (Mon)
Letters to Gaza: Asifeh & Nour Sokhon + Firas Shehadeh + Yasmina Haddad + Abdullah Meqdad
Coco Bar ⏳
1080
donations (going directly to ppl in Gaza)
experimental artists, mostly Palestinian themselves. in addition to the still life-or-death cause, Vienna doesn’t get to see these people live often. come and bring your money (and opena ears & hearts).
17 December (Wed)
[via klingt.org] blöde dritte mittwoch: Sukandar Kartadinata + Gischt & Mona Matbou Riahi
Theater-am-Werk-Petersplatz ☑️
1010
?
avantgard, self built guitar and the like, also a performance by bernd oppl & gabriela gordillo
18 December (Thu)
drank: breath in definition (Ingrid Schmoliner + Alex Kranabetter)
echoraum 📶🅰️
1150
€ 10/€ 7 reduced
two Austrian experimental music OGs with prepared piano, trumpet and electronics (great winter music!)
HAL (Highly Addictive Light)
Celeste ⏳
1050
?
sci-fi progressive jazz (smooth, dark, and energetic!)
Gnoomes + Aki Traar
Flucc Deck ✅
1020
13€ pre/prob 15 doors
vienna experimental producer gone indie EP; russian-via-slovenia kraut-dreampop-…-whatever-just-show-up!
[via klingt.org] on the couch: stopkontakt (bogner/eberhard/gross)
Studio Eberhard ⏳
1030
?
electronics + viola + drums improv
Criss-Cross Sessions: Elisabeth Kelvin + Ed Reardon
Kulturcafe Max ⏳
1170
free?
jazz improv session with clarinet/sax and piano; one of the last occasions to join Kulturcafe Max before it closes down!
Sunken + Ultima Necat
Café Carina ⏳
1080
15€ doors
atmospheric black metal + support
19 December (Fri)
Gobi Drab & Lorenzo Abattoir + CONTINUUM - Forms of Being [Katarzyna Podpora & Laura Adel]
Vekks ☑️
1120
probs pay as you want
Gobi and Lorenzo: expecting experimental recorder playing meets microphone amplified sounds/noise; CONTINUUM - Forms of Being: AV show; expecting modified field recordings (Katarzyna Podpora) accompanied by audio-reactive videos (Laura Adel)
SÄGEZAHN Festival | DEC 19 + 20 - Day 1: Slumberland + Xenia Koghilaki & Noumissa Sidibé & Irini Georgiou + Tamara Kurkiewiecz + New Choir + Kasho Chualan & Omid Darvish
WUK ☑️
1090
€ 22 / € 18 / € 14 / € 10; 2 Day Pass: € 25
Saegezahn is series for unusual music/performance/visual art
Substanz Soliparty: Safari Bonuco (live) + Vinzenz Schwarz b2b Bast Van Krust + Jöhm b2b Grusel Gunther + DJ deiner Träume b2b Partner + MalouNadou b2b Ness T + Franjazzco b2b o0m
Celeste ⏳
1050
?
celeste needs money for updating the venue
Dubioza Kolektiv
Gasometer ✅
1030
57€ presale
“Bosnian avant-garde dub” - idk about avant-garde but hey!
[via schalltaucherin] vienna improvisers orchestra cond. Michael Foscher + dust in the groove
Westbahnstudios 📶
1150
donation from €8
“instant composition”, could be epic, hope I can go
[via schalltaucherin] jazzorchester vorarlberg feat. renee benson & vincent pongracz
Porgy & Bess ☑️
1010
€29/stream for free/donation
jazz opera!
Marx X Renton + Spion + Vomits
Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay what you want
hardcore transmission from prague with viennese support
20 December (Sat)
SÄGEZAHN Festival | DEC 19 + 20 - Day 2: Drug Searching Dogs + Alyona Pynzenyk + Manu Mayr + Manuel Riegler & Martina De Dominicis + Michael Fehr & Rico Baumann
WUK ☑️
1090
€ 22 / € 18 / € 14 / € 10; 2 Day Pass: € 25
Saegezahn is series for unusual music/performance/visual art
Castiel + Street to the Ocean + Beslzar + Coven + Paved
Flex Cafe ⏳
1010
€ 15 PS/€ 20 BO
christmas metal show by styrian, carinthian and viennese bands
Xmas Charity Party: Schlagobers Duck + Audio Red + Gorskiyy + DJ Terror + Catlex + Sunny + Schmeckes (Citysound + OYA)
Celeste ⏳
1050
€ 5 minimum donation
money going to Neunerhaus (help for homeless people)!
Anstalt + Zepter + Denim + Ludgar + DJs
Arena ☑️
1030
€16 PS/€18 doors
metal/punk/”underground rock” label (no fuss) xmas fest
(probably) Rhinoplasty Christmas Special?
Club-U 📶
1040
free
queer pop party
B.Ranks + Claromor + Rapha Ready + DJ Odd + DZC. + Peletronic + LNKMN + Spumantemike
Tagada ⏳
1160
€ 7
collectives Acid Lambada and Off The Grid are throwing a christmas party; expect UK-tinged bass/house/breaks
21 December (Sun)
INNODE (AT) + PLF feat. MARIAM REZAEI (AT/UK)
Westbahnstudios 📶
1150
Vvk € 17,- / Ak € 20,-
liccht & Ventil records team up for a somewhat christmas ⛄️ party at Westbahnstudios; be ready for noise, irregular rhythms, hauntingly beautiful soundscapes and glitchy harsh sounds
Sonntag’sdisco w/ Age Of Strange Cults & Drehli Robnik
Flucc Deck ✅
1020
10€
cultural institution. go there if you like music and fun (and a yapping boomer DJ). also a local live band that’s noise metal this time
22 December (Mon)
Monday Improvisers Session: Susanna Gartmayer + Thomas Berghammer + Didi Kern
Celeste ⏳
1050
?
final show of the year! bass clarinet, trumpet, and drums
23 December (Tue)
[via schalltaucherin] Karl Ritter & Lukas Koenig w/ Christian Reiner & Herbert Pirker
Porgy & Bess ☑️
1010
€24/stream for free/donation
26 December (Fri)
[via schalltaucherin] circuit fantome: tilen lebar x maria nokolić
Vronihof ⏳
1170
pay as you wish
multichannel live performance contextualizing bioacoustic recordings of the Adriatic Sea using oboe, horn, sax and live electronix
Patches 003: DJ Ayran + Meander + Peter Spielmann + Tursa
Flucc Deck ✅
1020
8€/12€
our boyz are throwing a party! expect bass, breaks, jungle, dub, fast beats and really smooth transitions
27 December (Sat)
SoundBrain#9: Artjom Astrov + Balmainjeans
SoundBrain ⏳
1050
€ 5 (solidarity price) / € 10 (standard)
local tape wizard Artjom Astrov pairing up with Relaxin Records operator Balmainjeans aka Lolina aka Inga Copeland for guaranteed experimentalist quality
30 December (Tue)
Timeshift + Wise Monkey
Chelsea ⏳
1080
€18 pre/€20 doors
vintage czech-austrian rock’n’roll/psych rock/
31 December (Wed)
Ashida Park x Hypertrash NYE Party
Opera Club 📶
1010
14€/18€/20€ at the door
ashida park is a vienna-based label for experimental electronic music. for NYE they’re teaming up with the hypertrash collective for a night of i guess pop but also experimental sets? idk it’ll be fun
