17-30 September
we might have reached autumn at last and it’s time to put on a jacket. over the last weeks we got to experience plenty of musical joy and stimulating sounds. not least due to unsafe+sounds which was beautiful from start to finish and we’re grateful to the team for curating and realizing this festival once more. a write-up of our impressions will follow shortly. on a different note, make sure to check out the review at the bottom of this post on a great show a while back. now, take care and see ya in the next one (^-^*)ノ
Just Announced
28 September (Mon)
[Budapest] UH Fest: Leila Bordreuil + Ghost Dubs + Able Noise + Voice Actor + Zoe Heselton + Heinali & Andriana Yaroslava Saienko (playing Hildegard) + Hautzinger/Cajado/König + Brennan/Kutin +++
about €110 festival pre-sale; day tickets at doors tba
28 sept - 4 oct; just listed a random assortment of the artists that I somewhat know or looked extra intriguing; looking like a really cool experimental lineup. Most stuff I’ve never listened to so my maybe random highlight is the duo reimagining Hildegard von Bingen thru Ukrainian traditional singing and synth, they have a really awesome (in the old sense) record check it out
1 October (Thu)
Waves Festival
72€ all days, day passes also available
indie showcase festival, mostly local/regional acts with the partner nation this year being the UK (may she R.I.P.). I went there once a few years ago and it was pretty legit imo, you can find some really cool acts
3 October (Sat)
Hypertrash invites Umru + Mavi Phoenix + dj dryhump + dj nabumms + hapuk + dj diamond + peter puenktlich + esti + Xavior + yarx
€12/€15/€18
this is gonna be fun
18 October (Sun)
[Augend & Addend: lineup tba soon]
flucc wanne ♿️
1020
I’ll just quote the bird who song this to me: “unreal headliners both times” (see 2 November too)
19 October (Mon)
Sonic Territories (19-25 October)
experimental festival thematically centering around “where water gathers” this time
2 November (Mon)
[Augend & Addend: lineup tba soon]
flucc wanne ♿️
1020
I’ll just quote the bird who song this to me: “unreal headliners both times” (see 18 October too)
25 November (Wed)
[Bratislava] NEXT Festival: Matmos + HUUUM + أحمد [ahmed] + Abdullah Miniawy Trio + Rian Treanor & Cara Tolmie + Kali Malone + Viktoria Arvayova + Raviv Ganchrow + Navid Navab + Vojda Drnek + Maryia Kamar + more
€ 69 festival pass (currently) / € 49 reduced (no questions asked)
well this looks extremely fucking promising; 25-29 nov
Next two weeks
17 September (Thu)
UCHRONIA: Choral Schola of the Cathedral Music Department + Jorge Sánchez-Chiong + Isabella Forciniti + Valeria Lanner + Chloé Ryo + Brigitte Wilfing
Stephansdom ☑️
1010
€26 (regular) / €16 (reduced)
1st stephansdom event of this newsletter! really interesting sounding performance “combining decolonial hyper-Gregorian chant, solarpunk organ and electronic music” as part of the Musiktheatertage Wien; it will also be performed on the 22nd and 23rd
Re_late: Mira + Gawdesque + zey
Coco Bar 📶
1080
free!
the best of the best - for free!!
[via klingt.org] Totem Series: Félicie Bazelaire + Slow Slow Loris
koje ⏳
1170
?
artists perform with and around installation by Angélica Castelló, interacting with its instable sonic environment
18 September (Fri)
PLUM! Day 1: Flora + KONOMONO + Milkweed + Zoomies + DJ Sweet Susie
Kollektiv Kaorle ⏳
1140
€29 (day ticket) / €46 (both days)
two-day festival organized by Fractal Nights and Siluh Records moving between lofi indie, post punk, experimental folk and psych/kraut/noise rock; this day features the amazing lofi slacker trad folk group Milkweed among many other great acts
Minten & González + Kasho Chualan & Ivar Roban Krizic & Thomas Grill
kv.r. ⏳
1170
?
live electronic & bass clarinet plus feeback-centered live improv
Circuit Fantôme S6 Ep12: Valentin Sismann
Vronihof ⏳
1170
pay as you wish
octophonic performance combining acousmatic composition and video
Herve Samb & The Teranga Band
Porgy & Bess ☑️
1010
€ 25
five piece group from senegal and france mixes jazz with west-african and afro-brazilian styles
Spice Mixers @ Foto Arsenal: Jama Supreme + zey + ZOBAYDA
Foto Arsenal ♿️
1030
free
closing the opening of two African (/diaspora) photographers, incl. international DJ guest?!
Krachklub: Zeq + Cobra + Wo.Izzy + Ave Maria + Liiav + SI7ver + Killpop
Celeste ⏳
1050
tba
first edition of a new club - no idea what it is
h3nce
Club Lucia ⏳
1080
€25
19 year old guy hitting the zeitgeist with an indie sleazy vibe
CitrusCue pres. JAZ IMSKY + SEQUENT + NADIN + DJ XY B2B SARAH ALLEN
Club Lucia ⏳
1080
€12,50 presale / €15 doors
jaz imsky is a promising young dubstep producer and dj, i think this could be really cool! also it’s a 100% FLINTA lineup*
19 September (Sat)
DESSI Soli Party 2026 💸
Arena ☑️
1030
free
soli event for https://deserteursberatung.at/; free donation based; donations going to the Deserteurs- und Flüchtlingsberatung (deserters and refugee counseling) organisation
SWANA Haus Summer Closing Celebration: T4nit + Dana + Anna Montaha + Open Decks
Otto Wagner Areal Pavillon 1 📶
1140
10-15€
Food, open decks, community, great DJs, the whole deal! Inside & outside long programme
Rebecca Minten & Luz Gonzalez + Aleksandar Škorić
Vekks ☑️
1120
pay as you wish
“Luz González (live electronics) and Rebecca Minten (bass clarinet) provoke and support each other in equal parts by the use of multiphonics, live processing, sinus tones and pure noise.”; Aleksandar Škorić is a serbian drummer; free jazz; Cool percussion work. “ability to weave Balkan rhythms with contemporary free improvisation”
Beyond The Beat + P:Y:G
Celeste ⏳
1050
VK 16€ AK 18€
CD presentation of the Album “Beyond the Beat” by Judith Schwarz and Arthur Fussy; “Beyond the Beat explore the borders of rhythm and beat in a symbiosis of acoustic and electronic sounds”; “at the border of jazz, electronic and avantgarde”; P:Y:G consists of e-guitare, percussions and electronics, tenor-saxophone; improv new music, Jazz-core, noise;
PLUM! Day 2: Brezel Göring & Psychoanalyse + Doc Flippers + GEO + Grumper + SMILE + THE HOMESICK + Drehli Robnik
Kollektiv Kaorle ⏳
1140
€29 (day ticket) / €46 (both days)
two-day festival organized by Fractal Nights and Siluh Records moving between lofi indie, post punk, experimental folk and psych/kraut/noise rock
Anaïs Tuerlinckx + Warelis / Stoffner / Fischerlehner
echoraum 📶,🅰️
1150
€ 10/7 (reduced)
inside piano (noise on the menu!); jazz/improv trio (piano, guitar, percussion)
Buchty/Nouze + Holding Pattern
Venster99 ♿️
1090
?
(noise) punk from czech republic with local support (first show alert)
Parken Wave Field Synthesis Special: Isabella Forciniti + Jung An Tagen + Cora Leli Hausch + Christian Schröder + Zosia Holubowska + Robert Schwarz + Luca Carlotta (dj)
Westbahnstudios 📶
1150
€ 10
crazy spatialization technique developed at AESR Sound Projection Lab (MDW) is being put on display by 6 local sound artists that will present their compositions; sounds absolutely amazing, so be fast if you want to go since space is limited
Through A Maddening Cloud
Das LOT ✅
1100
€ 10 (free for anyone with a ticket for a Musiktheatertage 2026 production)
percussion “playing” voice (duo)
Mina Naomi + Sanna Lu Una + Angelo Beltrame
Apartment Acht ⏳
1150
free
experimental? free opening for de/semble festival
fngrng & magnolia
erdstall 📶
1150
probs pay as you can?
sax + voice “sonic rite drawn from the medieval earth” at an anarchist bookshop :3
Hochwald + David Maresch
Chelsea ⏳
1080
16€ pre-sale / 19€ doors
NÖ/Vienna romantic/kinda kitschy indie, idk i actually like the sound and the songwriting
Descartes a Kant + Modula Nation
Club Lucia ⏳
1080
€25
Descartes a Kant make spacy pop/shoegaze kinda music that we think is pretty cool! some of the lärmletter crew saw them live shortly before an apocalyptic storm and can vouch for their live shows
20 September (Sun)
Edén Carrasco & Sara Zlanabitnig + La Cuerda y el Grito
koje ⏳
1170
?
live improv on sax & flute + voice & cello
21 September (Mon)
Kemo The Blaxican + Koko Cappelle
Arena ☑️
1030
€ 27.75
Kemo the Blaxican does hip hop with latin influences, mariachi band style horns, spanish and english lyrics;
Koko Cappelle is a vienna based latin american rapper; feminist, decolonial,
Monday Improv: Linda Sharrock + Mario Rechtern + Georg Edlinger
Celeste ⏳
1050
free
voice + sax + percussion improv + free session
22 September (Tue)
UCHRONIA: Choral Schola of the Cathedral Music Department + Jorge Sánchez-Chiong + Isabella Forciniti + Valeria Lanner + Chloé Ryo + Brigitte Wilfing
Stephansdom ☑️
1010
€26 (regular) / €16 (reduced)
really interesting sounding performance “combining decolonial hyper-Gregorian chant, solarpunk organ and electronic music” as part of the Musiktheatertage Wien
velak-gala #146: La Cuerda y el Grito + ErikM + Sajjra Xhrs Galarreta
echoraum 📶,🅰️
1150
€ 10/7 (reduced)
voice and cello improvisation; live digital sound art(?) + Andean-Amazonian ceramic whistle
Cave Club
Club Lucia ⏳
1080
pay as you wish
psych rock from vienna from people who write like they had a spiritual awakening through acid. lyrics kinda cringe but the music is a vibe and i feel like the live show could lk slap
23 September (Wed)
UCHRONIA: Choral Schola of the Cathedral Music Department + Jorge Sánchez-Chiong + Isabella Forciniti + Valeria Lanner + Chloé Ryo + Brigitte Wilfing
Stephansdom ☑️
1010
€26 (regular) / €16 (reduced)
really interesting sounding performance “combining decolonial hyper-Gregorian chant, solarpunk organ and electronic music” as part of the Musiktheatertage Wien
Hyphen Dash
Porgy & Bess ☑️
1010
€ 25
contemporary jazz fusion from kyiv
SOYUZ
Chelsea ⏳
1080
€24 pre-sale / doors tba
Warsaw-via-Minsk collective doing some kind of folk/jazz/pop thing, rather give it a listen it sounds better than those words might imply, live show said to be pretty improvisatory too, this honestly sounds pretty unique and beautiful
Ak’Chamel + Krampot
Flucc Deck ✅
1020
€23.50 pre-sale / 27 doors
Post-Apocalyptic Psych Folk
[via Schalltaucherin] Synesthetic Wednesday: Mel*E + Mina Naomi + Vincent Pongracz
Club Lucia ⏳
1080
€ 10
experimental groove music, progressive nu-jazz and live electronics
24 September (Thu)
Lothario + Useless Eaters + Los Tonnos
Venster99 ♿️
1090
?
garage punk out of melbourne and san francisco with local soft boy hardcore support
HEAVY LISTENING: hiff (dj) + Rojin Sharafi (live) + Gischt (live)
Coco Bar 📶
1080
€12 (PS)
different flavors of immersive, deep and spacious electronic music by three amazing artists and curators
[via Schalltaucherin] Vepsestikk
Sargfabrik ✅
1140
€25 (regular) / €17.50 (reduced)
indie jazz punk four-piece group from norway
[fjúžn] Festival day 1 with Mooki6 + Xavior + sxilence
Subdeck ⏳
Bratislava
€10/€13/€15
exciting small festival in Bratislava, festival pass costs €25
25 September (Fri)
Phal:Angst + Gebenedeit
Rhiz ♿️
1080
VK 13€ AK 15€
Album release party of PHAL:ANGST - dark industrial post rock; ambient, noise; they originated from the diy-hardcore scene but have moved to other sounds; harsh, dark, noisy, calm; very exciting; Gebenedeit - liturgical sounds meet metal meet spoken viennese word meets metal beats
Sniffin’ Glue: MME Psychosis (live) + Ora Et Labora (live) + Jung b2b Haskii (dj) + V01D (dj) + ADHS Lene (dj)
Flucc Deck ✅
1020
€ 6.66
vienna’s favorite post punk and wave function hosts two synthwave-ish live acts plus a great dj lineup
Steve Bates + knuRRhahn
kv.r. ⏳
1170
?
not sure where exactly this one is going but it’s going to be experimental and the mentioned themes & concepts sound quite interesting
Kaplan & Valencia + Hübsch aber verstrahlt
echoraum 📶,🅰️
1150
€ 10/7 (reduced)
trumpet and sax duo; sax, tuba and voice
Pony Says play Sara Stevanović, Benjamin Scheuer, Bernhard Lang
Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
free!
pieces that were created as part of examinations of the danube
Roman Grygoriv: Irrenaisance
Das LOT ✅
1100
€ 10 (free for anyone with a ticket for a Musiktheatertage 2026 production)
performance for a part of a russian rocket launcher, strings, voices, and live electronics
[fjúžn] Festival day 2 with bapari + Isama Zing
Studio 12 ⏳
Bratislava
€8/€10
exciting small festival in Bratislava, festival pass costs €25
flurfunk festival day 1
€63 for festival pass
initiative21 is organising a mysterious festival, there’s no lineup or location (we just know it’s outside of the city). apparently there’s 4 stages, each with its unique soundscape
Transparent Audio Label Night with SPEKTIV + EPHYRA + TWO TEE + GEOSTATIC + ANVO
Club Lucia ⏳
1080
€15
dubstepppp
26 September (Sat)
TECHNOLOT x FAVORITE FALL feat. Raqsouna: dia + Montaha
Das LOT ✅
1100
€ 8.20
favo drag show directly before!
Enter The Void: Gischt + Stele + Portia
Venster99 ♿️
1090
? (doors)
“textured dark electronics” + “ritualistic industrial” (debut, w/ Zosia Holubowska aka Mala Herba), “deep and floaty, psychedelic spacerock”. “lots of space for queers, geeks and nerdy souls” wanna go
Rui Aziz + Nafas + Bulut
Celeste ⏳
1050
?
Kamancheh player + ???
flurfunk festival day 2
€63 for festival pass
initiative21 is organising a mysterious festival, there’s no lineup or location (we just know it’s outside of the city). apparently there’s 4 stages, each with its unique soundscape
27 September (Sun)
Bestand x Spice Mixers x Fryz Block Party: Miyra Lim + Montaha + MZTAY + মm.
Urban-Loritz-Platz (in front of Fryz)
1070
free!
great people great music
Nick Neuburg + knuRRhahn
Vekks ☑️
1120
pay as you wish
in knurrhahn various recorders meet various electronic instruments; creating haunting, glitchy beautiful soundscapes; Nick Neuburg is an experimental solo percussionist
Dark Thoughts + Bad Weed + The Obsessions
Venster99 ♿️
1090
?
high energy melodic punk rock from philadelphia with cool punk rock support from vienna
[via klingt.org] false cathédrale: Maura Knierim + Florian Rabl
Ruprechtskirche ☑️
1010
10€ / 5€
adaption/variation on a piece for 2-16 harps; here they go for 1 solo harp + 7 played back ones with electronics
[fjúžn] Festival day 3 with Aldana Duoraan + Tomáš Niesner + Husam Abed
Studio 12 ⏳
Bratislava
€8/€10
exciting small festival in Bratislava, festival pass costs €25
flurfunk festival day 3
€63 for festival pass
initiative21 is organising a mysterious festival, there’s no lineup or location (we just know it’s outside of the city). apparently there’s 4 stages, each with its unique soundscape
28 September (Mon)
Monday Improv: Lionel Kaplan + Maria Valencia
Celeste ⏳
1050
free
trumpet + sax free improv + free session
29 September (Tue)
Into the wide
echoraum 📶,🅰️
1150
€ 10/7 (reduced)
guitar, trumpet, percussion trio
Airborne Extended: Prism #22 FLÆSH
Reaktor ✅
1170
€ 15
new experimental pieces for ensemble including harp and harpsichord!
Autechre + Patrik Lechner
Gasometer ✅
1030
€ 55
30 September (Wed)
Split System + Brower + Metalleg
Arena ☑️
1030
VV: 22€ AK: 25€
garage-punk meets power-pop meets “gutter pop”
Callahan & Witscher + Pfarre + yarx b2b Antonia XM + Subletvis (dj)
kv.r. ⏳
1170
?
experimental indie rock with minor hyperpop influence, dungeon synth, and DJ sets by local greats
Face-Off + Poguba + Tonal Shift
Venster99 ♿️
1090
pay as you wish
hardcore on a wednesday from wakefield, ljubljana and vienna; this one should go hard
Altera Inde Duo / Archiv – Gedächtnis – Geschichte
Alte Schmiede ♿️
1010
free!
sax and electronics duo playing new compositions reflecting on archival practices
Solo Cantando: Ritual
Reaktor ✅
1170
?
new pieces + ars subtilior (14th century) for voices and sax
The Lemon Twigs
Flex ☑️
1010
€ 33.70
The Lemon Twigs are great 60s/70s style power pop? songwriters. Just full on gorgeous harmonies and melodies; really great craftsmen. lotta heartbreak in their songs last time i listened but it’s deffo also whimsical. Also they kinda are giving gay/egg although i think it’s just their great style
Blue Bird Stage
Chelsea ⏳
1080
free
showcase singer/songwriter/folksy stuff open stage
Review: HEALTH + Carpenter Brut + Chat Pile + Sierra Vein (August 11, Arena Open Air)
here we go with our FIRST bilingual review by two anonymous collaborators (thank u!! <3 - and thank you again to Chat Pile & the people behind their tour for the press ticket!)
sierra veins:
“She was alone on stage and still had such a big and strong aura. Didn’t know her before but I was really impressed by her set, loved the vibe!”
chat pile:
one of our contributors went specifically to see chat pile and they loved it a lot: “they were weird, funny, but also depressed, just an all around good performance and really showed their politics - not least by playing the songs with the most sharply critical lyrics. overall a really fun and good show!”
Our other contributor: “This was an interesting one for me, because I personally don’t listen to much metal or go to metal shows. But it was proper fun and the band did a great job setting a vibe.”
health:
“I’m biased since I went to the whole show to see HEALTH but they were SOOO GOOD. Amazing live vocals, amazing show (the lights!!), the audience was feeling it too. The guitarist and drummer also went into the crowd after the gig to interact with fans which was really cute.”
“We listened to HEALTH a lot and also saw them live before, but were really disappointed this time. The production was really good, but it all came over very performative, which I also don’t remember from earlier shows. Perosnally I couldn’t take it seriously, it sounded like music they would play at a League of Legends tournament…”
carpenter brut:
“We went in with a negative bias but still enjoyed it more than HEALTH in the end. Still a similar synth metal vibe, still LoL music for me, but generally more fun.”
“SOOOOO GOOOOD
I was a fan before but am more of a fan after! The light show was extra amazing in the darkness, and the whole vibe was dark and mysterious but still fun and upbeat at the same time. Great culmination of the evening for me!”
and here’s the original in german by one of our reviewers in all its unadulterated glory:
sierra veins:
sie war soooo toll und obwohl sie allein auf der bühne war hatte sie SOOO eine grosse und starke ausstrahlung.
ich kannte sie davor nicht aber war richtig begeistert nach ihrem set!!!
es war ein richtig nicer vibe muss ich sagen
chat pile:
das war für mich eine richtig interessante experience weil ich persönlich nicht viel metal hör und daher auch nicht wirklich auf metal konzerte geh?
war aber auch richtig fun und die haben voll stimmung gemacht.
ich fands funny weil der frontman zwischen den liedern so österreich/wien spezifisch trivia ansprechen wollte, ich sag wollte weil die crowd nicht wirklich reagiert hat und dann meinte er immer nur „tough crowd…“
health:
bin biased weil ich extra für health hin bin aber das war SOOOOOO GUT.
live vocals richtig richtig amazing, show auch einfach cool mit den lights
stimmung im publikum war auch gut würd ich sagen.
der gitarrist und schlagzeuger sind auch nach ihrem set in die crowd und haben mit fans interagiert und gequatscht und fotos gemacht, was ich voll süss fand
carpenter brut:
SOOOOO GUUUUUUUUT
also von denen war ich vorher auch schon fan aber nachm konzert noch mehr.
da wurds beim venue dann auch richtig voll.
die show war richtig richtig cool weils da mittlerweile schon dunkel war und die voll mit den lichtern rumgespielt haben.
bei ihrem set war so ein richtiger dark mysteriöser vibe, aber trotzdem sehr fun und upbeat.
es war wirklich so ein krönender abschluss.
