Mi. 18.Nov.2026
Villa For Forest >
ab 18:00 (Programmänderungen vorbehalten)
Soundinstallation „The Spectral Parrot“ >
Eröffnung der Klanginstallation
von Adam Pultz Melbye
Tape music
(TBA)
Session für improvisierte Musik
geleitet von Elisabeth Harnik & Ingrid Schmoliner
Do. 19.Nov.2026
Villa For Forest >
ab 18:00 (Programmänderungen vorbehalten)
Soundinstallation „The Spectral Parrot“ >
Begehung der Klanginstallation
Tape music
(TBA)
SquarEars >
Duo
Berlinde Deman >
Solo
Lucy Railton >
Solo
Fr. 20.Nov.2026
Villa For Forest >
ab 18:00 (Programmänderungen vorbehalten)
Soundinstallation „The Spectral Parrot“ >
Begehung der Klanginstallation
Adam Pultz Melbye >
Solo (FAAB)
Peter Herbert >
Solo
Nava Hemyari>
Solo
Sixtus Preiss >
Solo
Sa. 21.Nov.2026
Villa For Forest >
ab 18:00 (Programmänderungen vorbehalten)
Soundinstallation „The Spectral Parrot“ >
Begehung der Klanginstallation
rouge >
Trio
Mieko Suzuki >
Solo
Künstler*innen 2026
The Spectral Parrot
Klanginstallation von Adam Pultz Melbye
The Spectral Parrot is a self-actuating (feedback) instrument with 8 strings, each of which is controlled by a motorized tuner. The motors are controlled by a deep reinforcement learning algorithm that learns to tune the instrument’s strings to approximate a target audio spectrum.
Adam Pultz Melbye
Adam Pultz Melbye is a double bass player, composer, and improviser working in the field of acoustic and electronic sound. Adam’s work spans live performance, sound installation, sound for dance, theatre, film, multimedia, sculpture, algorithmic design, and instrument building. They have performed and exhibited work in Europe, Australia, the US, and Japan, while appearing on close to 50 albums. Adam often performs with semi-autonomous feedback systems, such as the FAAB (feedback-actuated augmented bass) a feedback double bass created in — collaboration with Halldòr Ùlfarsson. Adam holds a practice-led PhD in music technology from SARC, Queen’s University Belfast.
https://adampultz.bandcamp.com/
Elisabeth Harnik
Elisabeth Harnik is undoubtedly one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Austrian music. As a pianist performing improvisations worldwide, her catalog of works as a composer includes pieces from all genres. Her multifaceted work ranges from collaborations in the field of improvised music to interdisciplinary projects, radio works and contemporary compositional works. Harnik studied classical piano and later composition with Beat Furrer at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. Her work in free improvisation has established her as one of the most accomplished pianists in the European experimental music scene. As an improviser, she works in an electroacoustically inspired sound world, pushing the boundaries of the piano. Her performances are characterized by physicality and introspection, intuitive playing, and high precision.
https://www.facebook.com/elisabeth.harnik/
https://www.instagram.com/elisabethharnik/
SquarEars
Paul Zlattinger & Sebastian Elias Weiss
Sinking deep into vast waters of thoughts. Losing the seemingly firm footing on the ground of reality beneath one’s feet. Letting go of the two-handed grip on consciousness. Instead of fending off the rain of emotions pelting down on the mind, welcoming it with open hands. These are just a few of the possibilities that Paul Zlattinger and Sebastian Elias Weiss offer their listeners through their sounds. As the collective SquarEars, the two close friends transcend new boundaries, allowing themselves and thereby their audience to experience sounds— — never heard before. Just as spoons provide access to rich soups, the SquarEars use their instruments (violin, guitar) as tools to pass through a portal into mysterious soundscapes.
https://www.facebook.com/SquarEars/
https://www.instagram.com/squarears/
Sebastian Elias Weiss
https://www.instagram.com/sebastianeliasweiss/
Paul Zlattinger
https://www.instagram.com/paulzlattinger/
Berlinde Deman
Belgian musician Berlinde Deman plays the serpent, a rare 16th-century wind instrument she has spent years mastering, extending its low, melancholy voice through extended techniques, quarter tones, and effects pedals across five deeply personal pieces. The result is an intimate sound world where breath, tone, and distortion intertwine in slow, deliberate passages that unfold like a meditative journey, with Deman’s own voice woven in alongside the ancient instrument she has made unmistakably her own.
https://www.instagram.com/berlindedem/
https://berlindedeman1.bandcamp.com/
https://npo.nl/start/afspelen/vpro-vrije-geluiden-sessies_10
Gaudenz Badrutt
He began as a pianist in the field of contemporary classic music and works since25 years as an electronics musician in the field of improvised electroacoustic music. He is best known in current times as an improvising electronics musician using computers (sampling) and various other electronic apparatus such as usual distortion devices, no-input-mixing or modular-synthesizer. Filigree, minimal noises, drones and dense structures are key characteristics of his music. Central to Badrutt’s activities are collaborations in different projects: the trio Tetrao Tetrix, the Baldrian Quartet, the Šalter Ensemble, Bruit group for–Music Creation, Tepih, duos with Jonas Kocher (accordion), Ilia Belorukov (electronics / saxophone) and ErikM (electronics), as well as strøm with Christian Müller (electronics). In the last few years, solo-performances became important too. He is further occupied in the fields of electronic composition, sound & video installation and videos (like ‚magma‘ and ‚Quiet Novosibirsk‘).More Collaborations with Hans Koch, Francesca Naibo, Andrea Neumann, Phil Durrant, Alfred Zimmerlin, Christof Kurzmann, Kai Fagaschinski, Urs Leimgruber, Daniel Studer, Jacques Demierre, Marjolaine Charbin, Morishige Yasumune, Irena Tomazin, Strotter Inst., Michael Vorfeld, Mark Wastell, Bryan Eubanks, Stephan Thut, Toshimaru Nakamura et al. with concerts at home and abroad, including at the Festivals Cerkno Jazz, (Ne)poslušno Ljubljana, RingRing Belgrad, Jauna Musika Vilnius, Music Unlimited Wels, Le Bruit de la Musique in Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx, Sanatorium of Sound Sokolowsko/Poland, Sound Reasons in Dehli/Goa/Bangalore India, Musikfestival Bern 2015 and 2023, Irtijal Beirut, Airegin/Improfestival Yokohama, SwissMusicDays Belgrade, Zwei Tage Zeit Zürich, Influx Toulouse, Transmediale Berlin, Rue du Nord Lausanne, Norberg, Taktlos/Tonart Bern. Gaudenz Badrutt lives in Biel (Switzerland).
https://gaudenzbadrutt.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/gaudenz.badrutt/
Lucy Railton
Lucy Railton is a British cellist, composer, cross-disciplinary collaborator whose practice reflects an endlessly innovative and restless approach to the cello and artistic self-expression. For the last 2 decades, her work has moved freely between Classical and contemporary music, electronic composition, improvisation and popular music performance. As a collaborator she has contributed to major works with artists including Soundwalk Collective and PattiSmith, Akram Khan, Philippe Parreno, Kali Malone and Stephen O’Malley, Peter Zinovieff, Maryanne Amacher, Laurel Halo, Beatrice Dillon and many others, as well as writing for dance, film and visual art installations. Follows a string of celebrated releases on labels including Modern Love, Editions Mego GRM – Portraits, PAN and ECM her solo album Blue Veil is a deeply intimate, meditative set of compositions for solo cello, released last year on the label Ideologic Organ.
Peter Herbert
Born leapday 1960 in Bludenz/Austria, grew up in Bregenz with the ideas of the ‘68ies, HTL (electrical engineering), classical family background in a household without TV, semiprofessional free climber from ’74-81, classical/Jazz studies upright bass in Graz from ’81 ’86, with a Fullbright scholarship to Boston’s – ‘Berklee College of Music’ (87-89), got stuck in NYC as freelance Jazz bassist for 14 years afterwards. There did everything from shopping mall Christmas Carols to Carnegie Hall. The list of collaborations is endless, more than 180 CD/vinyl productions, self taught composer. From 2007-2025 teaching at the JIM, Bruckneruni Linz, ensembles, composition and upright bass, now living and performing in Vienna, curator of the strenge Kammer at Porgy&Bess.
https://peterherbert.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@anpeterherbert/
Nava Hemyari
Nava Hemyari studied composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna under Wolfgang Suppan and Karlheinz Essl. Her works have been performed at venues such as the Musikverein, the Wiener Konzerthaus, the ORF
RadioKulturhaus, the Hofburgkapelle, and the Minoritenkirche in Krems, as well as by ensembles such as PHACE, Company of Music, Black Page Orchestra, and Ensemble Platypus. She has participated in festivals such as Manifeste (IRCAM) and Mixtur Barcelona. Her works have been performed at the musikprotokoll festival and on multiple occasions as part of Wien Modern, BLUDENZER TAGE ZEITGEMÄSSER MUSIK, Listening Closely, the SHIFT festival at the Royal Opera House in London, and Teatri del Suono (Trieste). In 2023, she was Composer in Residence at the Imago Dei Festival. In 2022, she received the City of Vienna’s working grant for her chamber opera “Taxidermic,” and in 2023, the State Grant for Composition from the Austrian Federal Chancellery.
As a singer in her own ensembles the punctum collective for contemporary music — and the Luxbrumalis Ensemble for Renaissance and early Baroque repertoire she — has composed numerous works for voice and choir.
The following program is a set that combines vocals, prepared instruments, synthesizers, and field recordings. The performance moves between song-based material and sound objects, as well as intimate, text-driven pieces.
https://navahemyari.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/navahemyari/
Sixtus Preiss
Sixtus Preiss, a native of Vienna, came into contact with making music as a child and deepened his knowledge in a classical piano training. However, he also developed a fondness for old electrical junk, especially radios, which had to be taken apart and reassembled. After an ensuing technical education, Sixtus Preiss studied drums with Howard Curtis and Walter Grassmann and has been tinkering with sounds, beats & bass but also handmade microphones and amplifiers with great passion for years.He is part of the Jazzwerkstatt Wien and has worked with many renowned artists and their productions over the years.
http://www.sixtus-preiss.info/
https://www.instagram.com/sixtuspreiss/
Sixtus Preiss
Sixtus Preiss, a native of Vienna, came into contact with making music as a child and deepened his knowledge in a classical piano training. However, he also developed a fondness for old electrical junk, especially radios, which had to be taken apart and reassembled. After an ensuing technical education, Sixtus Preiss studied drums with Howard Curtis and Walter Grassmann and has been tinkering with sounds, beats & bass but also handmade microphones and amplifiers with great passion for years.He is part of the Jazzwerkstatt Wien and has worked with many renowned artists and their productions over the years.
http://www.sixtus-preiss.info/
https://www.instagram.com/sixtuspreiss/
Andria Nicodemou
Andria Nicodemou is a multifaceted musician from Cyprus, specializing in vibraphone and improvisation. She is a graduate from Corfu University in Classical Percussion and has received a Master’s Degree from the New England Conservatory, in Contemporary Improvisation.
She has been working in diverse interdisciplinary art projects, with multi-media artists, dancers and actors in Europe and USA. She has worked with musicians such as Joe Morris, Anthony Coleman, Marty Ehrlich, Ikue Morri, Tayler Ho Bynum, Tatsuya Nakatani, Ab Baars, Anne La Berge, Gianni Lenoci, Jim Hobbs, Marc Sanders, among others. She was a guest performer at the London Improvisers Orchestra (2015) and the Royal Improvisers Orchestra in Amsterdam (2014).
rouge
Isabelle Duthoit & Yuko Oshima & Soizic Lebrat
The trio of clarinettist and vocalist Isabelle Duthoit, percussionist Yuko Oshima and cellist Soizic Lebrat works in the tradition of free improvised music. A fine sense of sound and slow, subtle lines of development characterise the ideally complementing interplay of these three outstanding musicians. At the same time, prudence and boisterous energy are not mutually exclusive. As is generally the case in improvisation, this trio also depends to a large extent on the personalities of the players, who develop their own expression while at the same time having the ability to congenially engage with the characteristics and impulses of the others. Their playing seems to follow a secret, unspoken dramaturgy. Listening to each other and giving the sounds their space is crucial: music as a non-standardised ritual, born of the moment.
Isabelle Duthoit was classically trained. She turned to contemporary music at an early age, working with various ensembles and composers. Her preferred field of activity is free improvisation. From 1995 to 2005 she dedicated herself to improvised music by founding the festival Fruits de Mhère Les Champs de l’Improvisation with Jacques Di Donato. Her unique vocal technique, developed from an early fascination with the voice, could be described as a language before language. In 2008, she was a resident at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto (Japan), where she created a solo vocal performance in connection with the sound world of Noh and Bunraku theatre. From 1997 to 2012, she taught clarinet and improvisation at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental in Evry (Essonne).
Yuko Oshima started making music in Japan at the age of 18. She discovered free noise rock and joined the group Gakusei-Jikken-Shitsu, which catapulted her into the Japanese avant-garde scene. She collaborates with contemporary butôh dancers, theatre groups and improvising musicians. In 2000, she moved to France to study improvisation and contemporary music at the École des Percussions de Strasbourg and the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. Since then she has worked with musicians from the jazz and improvisation scene. She composes and performs music for stage, film and theatre.
Trained as a classical musician (1st prize at the Conservatoire) and music historian (doctorate at the University), Soizic Lebrat has expanded her performance practice to include improvisation and composition. She has also designed and realised musical research and project spaces (Ope1000, La Fabrique de Musique, Cellule de Bass, Continuum) and performative installations (Amours d’Enfance, Double Frictional Wheel, olos uelB/Bleu solo). She performs as a soloist (Bleu solo) and is frequently involved in musical and transdisciplinary collaborations.
Soizic Lebrat
Yuko Oshima
https://www.instagram.com/oshima912/
Isabelle Duthoit
Winterreise
Clara Frühstück / Oliver Welter
Oliver Welter, musician and singer with the iconic Austrian band NAKED LUNCH, joined forces with pianist, sound artist, and performance artist Clara Frühstück for this euphoric border-crossing collaboration.Commissioned by the Burgtheater, the result is a radical yet emotionally moving reinterpretation of Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise,” which was celebrated with prolonged standing ovations and enthusiastic media coverage at its world premiere in June 2021 at the Akademietheater. Perhaps this marks a turning point in the reception of this existential masterpiece by Franz Schubert and Wilhelm Müller, whose eerily beautiful essenceWelter and Frühstück explore with a deepened understanding of pop music and passionate precision. A moving journey straight into the dark soul of the world’s most famous song cycle.
Clara Frühstück
https://clarafruehstueck.com/
https://www.facebook.com/clara.fruhstuck/
https://www.instagram.com/clarafruehstueck/
Oliver Welter
https://www.facebook.com/oliver.welter.1/
https://www.instagram.com/clarafruehstueck/
https://www.instagram.com/oliver__welter/
Mieko Suzuki
mieko suzuki is a sound artist, composer and DJ born in hiroshima and based in berlin. she deals with time and space as her primal matter. in highly unconventional sound performances, for which she uses drones and field recordings, the crackling of electrical circuits and fragments of vinyl records, mieko suzuki always goes for the unexpected. she couples the raw power of sound with the tenderness of subtle modulations and turns any space into a playground for sonic adventures.choreographer meg stuart, theater director johan simons and avantgarde techno label raster are among her regular creative collaborators. mieko suzuki’s signature take on sound creates equal effect in a basement club, a theater play or a dance performance as well as in the context of visual arts and haute couture.mieko suzuki is a member of the improvisation trio contagious together with andrea neumann and sabine erkelenz. their first album »contagious« was released from morphine records in 2019. since 2009, mieko suzuki has been running her own bi-monthly, multidisciplinary event kookoo, together with arno raffeiner at OHM gallery in berlin.
https://raster-media.net/artist/mieko-suzuki/
https://www.facebook.com/djmiekojp/
https://www.instagram.com/mieko_suzuki_/
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