Ars Electronica Center- Linz, Upper Austria 4040 Austria

 Tue 2. Sep 202521:00–21:30

Pianographique: Mishima-Suite by Philip Glass

Maki Namekawa (JP), Cori O’Lan (AT)

In 1925, one hundred years ago, the celebrated yet controversial Japanese author, actor, and director Mishima Yukio was born—one of the most emblematic figures of postwar Japanese literature. His extraordinary and at times unsettling life story was adapted into a film by Paul Schrader in 1985, with a score composed by Philip Glass. Independent of the film, the music gained its own acclaim in various instrumental forms. In 2018, at the request of Maki Namekawa, Philip Glass’s longtime musical director Michael Riesman arranged the score for solo piano.
Maki Namekawa—renowned as one of the most distinguished interpreters of Philip Glass’s compositions for piano—has released the complete repertoire on CD and will perform a suite of seven pieces from Mishima live in Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Center. The concert will be accompanied by real-time digital visualizations created by Cori O’Lan.

Ars Electronica Center, Level 0, Deep Space 8K

https://ars.electronica.art/panic/en/tickets/

photo: vog.photo

Ars-Electronica-Straße 1, 

4040 Linz, Austria

CAFE CENTRAL- 1000 BRUSSELS (BELGIUM)

14 Rue borgval, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

For the first time ever, four bold voices from across the globe come together on stage—unrehearsed, unfiltered, and completely in the moment.

Saxophonist Ada Rave (AR), cornetist and vocalist Felicity Provan (AUS), guitarist Giotis Damianidis (GR), and drummer Diogo Alexandre (PT) unite for an evening of raw, spontaneous creation. What happens when these singular artists meet for the first time? No one knows—not even them.

Expect deep listening, fearless interplay, and soundscapes shaped in real time! 

CAFE OTO. London (United Kingdom)

 

Sunday 31 August 2025, 7.30pm

Elaine Mitchener / Angharad Davies / Roger 

Turner (trio) 

+ Benedict Drew (solo)

£14 £12 Advance £7 MEMBERS

First-time OTO performance from this excellent trio of Elaine Mitchener (voice), Angharad Davies (violin) and Roger Turner (drums). Don't miss!

Elaine Mitchener

Elaine Mitchener is a veteran of vocal expression in the global Black Avant Garde, traversing free improvisation, cross-disciplinary music theatre and contemporary composition with clarity and joy.

Her debut album SOLO THROAT released in May 2024 under Café Oto’s OTOROKU label has been described as “An uncompromisingly imaginative approach to text that does credit to the power of the human voice, as well as the mind that pushes it on to previously unheard paths.” (Jazzwise)

Experimental musicians and improvisers she has worked with include Moor Mother, Joelle Leandre, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Pat Thomas, Black Top, David Toop, Xhosa Cole. Elaine is founder of the collective electroacoustic unit The Rolling Calf. Composers, visual artists and poets she has worked with include: George E Lewis, Jennifer Walshe, Matana Roberts; visual artists The Otolith Group, Christian Marclay, Sonia Boyce; Jay Bernard, Roy Claire Potter, Dante Micheaux; chamber ensembles Apartment House, ICE, Ensemble MAM, Klangforum Wien, Van Huynh Co.

www.elainemitchener.com

Angharad Davies

Angharad Davies is a violin player who’s work exists between the thresholds of improvisation, composition and experimental music.
Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument and performance expectation. Being an intrepid collaborator has seen her work with the likes of Tony Conrad, Elaine Radigue, Tarek Atoui, Gwenno, Lina Lapelyte, Richard Dawson, JG Thirlwell and Annea Lockwood.
As a composer she has been commissioned by Counterflows, LCMF, Tŷ Cerdd, Nawr, Explore Ensemble, GBSR duo, + AndPLAY and her music is often played on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show.
angharaddavies.com
Instagram : @angharaddavie

Roger Turner

Born 1946, ROGER TURNER grew up amongst the Canterbury musical life of the 1960s with a  strong foundation in jazz. Since 1974 his work has been focused on exploring a more  personal percussion language through the processes of improvisation. Solo performances, connections with experimental rock music & open-form song, extensive collaborations with  dance, film and visual art, and involvements in numerous jazz-based ensembles and workshop residencies have all formed part of that development.

http://www.roger-turner.com/ 

Benedict Drew

Benedict Drew (b. 1977, Kyneton, Australia) lives and works in Whitstable and Margate, UK. He has made installations, video, sculpture, drawing, painting, and music. Solo exhibitions include The Trickle-Down Syndrome (Whitechapel Gallery, 2017), KAPUT (QUAD, 2015), and Heads May Roll (Matt’s Gallery, 2014). Drew has released music on labels such as Mana Records and Bloxham Tapes, he often collaborates with artists and musicians, Currently active collaborations include a duo with Arianne Churchman, who have released two LP’s on Love’s Devotee & Folklore Tapes, the art collective Plastique Fantastique and the quartet Decentred (with Tom Chant, Angharad Davies and John Edwards). Drew founded the label Thanet Tape Centre in 2020 and regularly makes works for radio. He is a lecturer at Slade School of Fine Art and is represented by Matt’s Gallery. 

http://www.benedictdrew.com/
https://thanettapecentre.bandcamp.com/

Cafe OTO
18–22 Ashwin street
Dalston
London
E8 3DL

MADAME CLAUDE. Berlin (Germany)

 

Savic / Morimoto + Shelley Hirsch & Richard Scott + Lea Fabrikant (DJ-Set)

1 Sept 2025 / Doors 19:00 / Start 21:00 / Donation

Savic / Morimoto

Experimental / Croatia & Japan/ based in Berlin

Grgur Savic – alto saxophone, laptop, sound processing

Seiji Morimoto – modified sound modules

https://www.seijimorimoto.com/

https://grgursavic.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wal2kG6q9JQ

https://youtu.be/qKiu8BmuVoo?si=g-IxQMhPI6zCfKs3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaUB0X70wVU

https://www.instagram.com/gr_savic

https://www.instagram.com/seijimorimoto

Shelley Hirsch & Richard Scott

improvisation – Berlin/New York

https://www.richard-scott.net/

https://www.facebook.com/profile?id=673125170

https://www.instagram.com/funkychorlton/

Lea Fabrikant

DJ-Set / Berlin

Malicious Pussykitties / Salvation Chansons

Photo (c) Shelley Hirsch by Mikhail Vasilyev, Richard Scott by Cristina Marx, Seiji Morimoto by emitter micro, Grgur Savic (private collection)

CAFE OTO. London (United Kingdom)

 

                Water Damage

SOLD OUT

September 1 @ 19:30 - 22:00

There is something really special about music based on drones. Whether it’s the vocals of Pandit Pran Nath, the ARP 2500 of Eliane Radigue, or the nearly-blown amps of Sunn O))), by changing the listeners’s focus on details to one that favors flow, drones are uniquely capable of transporting our brains far far away. The music of Water Damage, the loudly droning Austin collective is a goddamn splendid example of how the process works. Using the motto, “Maximal Repetition Minimal Deviation,” Water Damage create glowing fields of drones that pretty much suck you right in and boil you alive. They prefer if each of their sonic ideas takes up a whole reel of tape, and once they start they don’t look back. Everything proceeds towards an imaginary end point that is only achieved when the tape starts flapping.

The members are all vets of various projects – Spray Paint, Black Eyes, USA/Mexico, more eaze, Thor & Friends, Marriage, Swans, SUR, Astral Spirits Records, among others. Their approach to the form is less front-loaded than most of their peers, and the surface of their sound is sometimes ruffled by aural events of an un-drone-like nature. But the main gush is usually a blend of harmonic tones and textures pointing towards a goal that is just out of ear-shot, just over the next bluff, and perhaps forever just beyond our reach.

Cafe OTO. 18–22 Ashwin street

Dalston, London E8 3DL

TRIO OWG - kULTURHAUS HÄSELBURG, GERA (GERMANY)

 

Jazz-Reihe: Trio OWG - zwischen Jazz und improvisierter Musik

Freitag, 29. August 2025, 20.00 Uhr

Einladung zu einer Reise ins klanglich Ungewisse zwischen Jazz und improvisierter Musik.

Rieko Okuda @rieko_okuda (Piano), Georg Wissel @georgwissel (Saxofon), Jonas Gerigk @jonas_gerigk (Kontrabass)

Altes Wannenbad in der Häselburg
Florian-Geyer-Str. 17, Eingang über Innenhof
Eintritt 12 € / ermäßigt 8 €

Foto: Arndt Grimm-Hartig

Die Jazz-Reihe 2025 wird gefördert vom Thüringer Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur. Das Alte Wannenbad in der Häselburg wurde ausgezeichnet mit dem Applaus Award 2024.

MÚSICA DIFÍCIL - Emisión 26 de agosto de 2025

PLAYLIST MÚSICA DIFÍCIL EN TIEMPOS DIFÍCILES 26 AGOSTO 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4JvNMMLTX8&list=RDy4JvNMMLTX8&start_radio=1

ZOLTAN ALMASHI - Cello Suite performed by the author

• ZOLTAN ALMASHI / LVIV CHAMBER ORCHESTRA “AKADEMIA”: City of Mary for String Orchestra (2022) (conductor Dmytro Lohvyn,S. Lyudkevych Concert Hall, Lviv, Ukraine, 16-3-2025)
• ZOLTAN ALMASHI / KYIV PIANO DUO: Carpathian Song (2022) (9th Days of Ukranian Music in Warsaw, Poland. Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio Warsaw, 3.09.2023)
• ZOLTAN ALMASHI / LVIV PIANO SEXTETT: Adventures of Khrysty (2024) (Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio Warsaw, Poland,14.05.2024)
• ZOLTAN ALMASHI / KYIV CAMERATA: Seasons of the Year (2011) (10th Days of Ukranian Music in Warsaw, Poland. Conductor Roman Rewakowicz.Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio of Polish Radio Warsaw, 13.09.2024)

VOLXKINO - Wien (AT)

 

       MONZA BLITZ & JOANNA COLEMAN

                 30 August  21:30 h

                 Konzert von Monza Blitz zur Live-Projektion von Joanna          

                 Coleman

                 ca. 60 Minuten

                 hosted by volxkino

Volxkino + ÖTF

Hernalser Gürtel 56-57, 1080/1160 Wien

http://www.volxkino.at

AUSLAND. Berlin (Germany)

                         foto: Dick Bleicker

                                                                                                          foto: Stephanie Rumpler

Freitag, 29 August, 2025 - 20:00- 10 €

AUSLAND. Lychenerstraße 60
Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin 10437

Aki Takase + Isabel Rößler

Aki Takase
Isabel Rößler

Doors 20.00 Uhr | Concerts 20:30 Uhr | Tickets (only at door) € 10,--

Takase–Rößler
Isabel Rößler - Bass
Aki Takase - Klavier

Die legendäre Pianistin Aki Takase trifft auf die ausdrucksstarke Kontrabassistin Isabel Rößler. Gemeinsam loten sie im Duo die Grenzen zwischen Komposition und freier Improvisation aus – voller Energie, Tiefe und spontaner Wendungen. Akustisch, direkt, überraschend.

Aki Takase wurde 1948 in Osaka geboren und studierte Musik in Tokio / Japan. Ab 1978 gab sie Konzerte und machte Aufnahmen in den USA und in Japan mit Lester Bowie, Joe Henderson, Dave Liebman, John Zorn und anderen. 1981 gab sie ihr erstes europäisches Konzert beim Jazzfest Berlin. Ab 1989 spielte und leitete sie gemeinsam mit Alex von Schlippenbach das Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, gab weiterhin weltweit Konzerte und beteiligte sich an Aufnahmen mit Maria Joao, David Murray, N.H.Ø.Pedersen, Rudi Mahall, Louis Sclavis, Nils Wogram, Han Bennink, Daniel Erdmann und mehr. Sie wurde 1999 mit dem Kritikerpreis der Berliner Zeitung und 2002 mit dem SWR-Jazzpreis ausgezeichnet. ”Aki Takase plays Fats Waller” wurde ihr 2004 der Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik verliehen. 2018 wurde ihr der Jazzpreis Berlin zuerkannt und 2021 wurde Deutscher Jazz Preis (Piano und Tasteninstrumente)ausgezeichnet. Aki Takase erhielt den Albert-Mangelsdorff Preis 2021. www.akitakase.de

Isabel Rößler ist Jazz Bassistin und Improvisatorin. Nach ihrem Musikstudium in Nürnberg und Tallinn, zog sie nach Berlin, wo sie in der freien Improvisationsszene aktiv ist. Neben zahlreichen Kollaborationen mit lokalen und internationalen Künstlern, tourte sie mit ihrem Trio „Flut“ durch Deutschland und Osteuropa. Über das rein musikalische Schaffen hinaus, kollaborierte sie unter anderem mit Künstler*innen aus den Bereichen Lyrik/Sprache, Objekttheater, Tanz/Performance, Bildender Kunst und Bühnenvisuals. Weitere aktuelle Projekte, in denen sie involviert ist, sind: OBSiDiAN, Rupp–Rößler–Hall, Trespassing Rooms, Brad Henkel Quartet, Red Color Trio, The Omniversal Earkestra. https://isabelroessler.com/

 

 

 

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