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LEILA BORDREUIL

A French-American artist based in Brooklyn, Leila Bordreuil embraces the cello as a primary medium for crafting an intense music that moves fluidly between noise, contemporary composition, improvisation, and drone, without anchoring itself to defined canons. Bordreuil challenges conventional approaches to her instrument and uses extreme amplification to summon torrents of noise, tense stillness and a melancholic aura that courses through her sonic flow. Her panoramic vision of form and genre is reflected in her diverse collaborations with artists including Laurel Halo, Lee Ranaldo and Tamio Shiraishi.

Leila will present her upcoming release in Vienna.

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MEL KEANE

Mel Keane is a composer, visual artist, and designer from Dublin, Ireland. Over the last several years, he has been an active practitioner and audience member within the DIY music scenes of Ireland, Lisbon, and Amsterdam. He has released several records, primarily on Irish label wherethetimegoes, and performed live extensively across the continent of Europe in venues such as Cafe OTO (London), Les Enstants Chavires (Paris), Cosmos CAC (Lisbon), and The National Concert Hall of Ireland (Dublin) under his birth name, as Frog of Earth, and as a member of Princ€ess (ensemble) and NECK (duo with Seán Being). For the last two or so years, he has been researching and making work in response to the pipe band tradition of Ireland (bagpipe and snare drum military adjacent marching bands). He plays live using DIY chanter pipes, software, and electronics.

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VERSCHRIN

Simon Schneider aka Verschrin is a Vienna-based artist and producer working with found objects and field recordings, primarily releasing and performing electronic music on the peripheries of ambient and noise, sometimes described as “post-patchwork”. Together with Solo Isa, he runs a small shared studio in Vienna, hosts the irregular mix and event series Sad Crab Radio, and released the live tape ‘new songs from meraviglia’. His debut album ‘Fireworks’ appeared in 2025 on New York label Altamira Records.

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