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Friday, 14. June 2024

18:00-22:00 SONIC AGENCY – LISTENING SESSION XV

at Brunnenpassage (Brunnengasse 71, 1160 Vienna) – Free Entry

🌿 Listening to the contributions of CUCINA POVERA (FIN), MAKOSSIRI (KEN), AUTHENTICALLY PLASTIC (UGA), MASIMBA HWATI (ZWE/AT), ZS ZS (AT/TUR)

Open discussion moderated by Masimba Hwati, Samo Zeichen & Shilla Strelka

🌿🌿 DJ-sets by TUCIBI (AT/TUR)

* All contributions released via our Website & Soundcloud

MAKOSSIRI

Kenyan-born electronic music producer and DJ Makossiri makes club music that defies genre limitations. Rich in narration and soaked in a cinematic atmosphere, her music is a blend of both hard and hardcore techno, folk-punk, trance, industrial noise, and african polyrhythms mixed with outerwordly sounds, elements of Afro-Futurism and Egyptian mythology.

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AUTHENTICALLY PLASTIC

Authentically Plastic is an artist, DJ & producer based in Kampala, Uganda. Their genre-bending sets, at once dark and playful, use Gqom, Vogue & Techno as a base for exploring other unknown sounds. Their music is influenced by anything from quasi-electronic Northern Ugandan rhythms, to early acid experiments, and live noise/industrial shows. They got their start playing at secretive queer parties in the city (Kampala); which eventually led to their first festival gig at ‘Nyege Nyege’. Since then, they have played in several venues around the city for parties like Malkia (Queen) & Boutiq Electroniq, continuously exploring and reinventing their style. Authentically Plastic also curates a bi-monthly club night in Kampala called ANTI-MASS; which prioritises femme, queer & experimental DJ’s/artists. They describe ANTI-MASS as a “nomadic, femme, dance machine”. The party attracts a diverse, dedicated crowd, and aims to be a propulsive space for sonic & cultural experimentation.

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CUCINA POVERA

The solo project of Luxembourgish-Finnish musician Maria Rossi has been described as one of the most striking ones to emerge from Glasgow’s underground scene in a decade. Cucina Povera is named after the Italian culinary concept which emphasises the use of a few simple ingredients, she conjures gorgeous, otherworldly songs about nourishment and precarity from layered vocals and electronics. Live, her music unfolds beautifully, as beguiling melodies emerge from harmonic drones and looped phrases. recordings blend clear, unaffected voice and minimal synth. She released her debut album, Hilja, 2018 on Glasgow’s night school records. Her second album Zoom (2019) is a verité collection of situational recordings in intimate spaces full of acoustic or ideological intrigue, primarily using just her voice. It is a document of different locations and moods, a postcard-look into the stream-of-consciousness processes of an artist developing her language.

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MASIMBA HWATI

Masimba Hwati’s work is preoccupied with sculpture, sound, listening, micro-politics, resistance and negotiation. His exhibitions,projects and performances usually happen in Harare, Detroit, Johannesburg, Capetown, Blackburn, UK, Weimar, Berlin, South Carolina, Florida, Nova Scotia and currently in Leeds , Nottingham and Vienna.

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ZS ZS

ZS ZS improvises with live electronics to explore/merge harsh, rhythmical and atmospheric soundscapes together with text and field recordings within a dramaturgical concept. Since 2015 she has been collaborating with musicians from the fields of experimental, noise, breakcore, flashcore, extratone and other related genres. ZS ZS invents rules, creates short stories and defines specific technical limitations for each show.

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TUCIBI dj-set

The artist, producer and DJ Büsra Arli aka Tucibi is active in the Viennese underground since the 2020s. Her DJ-sets feature mesmerizing Techno and hypnotic, but minimal Acid tracks, often shifting over to Hardcore, House, and Trance.

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