kv.r. – Hernalser Hauptstraße 86

Doors: 19:30

RYU HANKIL

Born and based in Seoul, Ryu Hankil is a computer musician, improviser and writer. He started his career as an electronic musician in 2005, exploring the potential for producing different music through non-musical objects. Focusing on how the inherent vibrations of objects create various forms of ‘fiction’ within a musical context through sonic thinking, he has recently expanded his interest to the creation of Sonic Fiction through digital synthesis. As a musician, he has released over 30 albums, including solo albums and collaborative albums with musicians both domestically and internationally.

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LEONIE STRECKER Release-Show “Chroma”

Leonie Strecker is a Vienna-based German composer and artist. Her current work deals with notions of presence, absence and the connections of memory and experience. She utilizes concrete, synthetic and instrumental sound to evoke ambiguous meanings, creating listening experiences that reflect individual perception and collective dynamics. Her works have been shown at La Biennale di Venezia, Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Kunstsammlung NRW and De Singel Arts Centre, as well as experimental music festivals such as Unsafe+Sounds (Vienna), Audio Art (Krakow), and Canti Spazializzati (Wroclaw). She studied electroacoustic composition in Rome and Düsseldorf before graduating from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.

Chroma: the pure shimmer of appearance that never settles into a thing. Leonie Strecker’s debut album takes this as its guiding figure, unfolding five compositions devoted to wavering states of sound, to layering and veiling, to emergence and disappearance, to the slow shifting of what is heard and what is almost heard. Again and again, the music moves along fault lines between abstraction and materiality, between synthetic construction and fragile presence, between stasis and barely perceptible transformation. What is at stake throughout is not simply sound as an object, but sound as something that blurs, is reinterpreted, covered over, or recalled like a memory, never entirely fixed, never entirely gone.

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JUNG AN TAGEN

Jung An Tagen invites us to reflect on the diffuse but persistent term ‘experimental’ not as deviation from aesthetic orthodoxy, but as the design and implementation of compositional systems that offer unpredictable results; ‘electronic’ as an annulment of the previous instrumental tradition, and as a simultaneous reversion towards aesthetic openness; as the fragmentation of a theoretical or mythical musical syntax by obsessive repetition, sequential motivic mutations, aleatoric arrays, pareidolic illusions and moiré effects; ‘electronic’ as the ultimate split, dehumanisation, mechanic strangeness.

Backed up by 2 decades of discographic activity under diverse pseudonyms and multiple collaborations on labels such as Editions Mego and Diagonal, Stefan Juster performs tirelessly at Festivals like Unsound or Sonic Acts, researching the boundaries of techno and dissociative computer music. Testing strategies of physical disorientation and forceful sonic phenomena, encouraging minds and bodies to calculate and intuit their own place in spacetime. It’s addictive music. Music in constant explosion.