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Matthew Ryals is a NYC-based synthesist and composer-improviser. He has released four studio albums and a series of EPs on 3OP, SØVN, and dingn\dents. His newest album, Exalge, was released on Infrequent Seams in fall 2025. Matthew performs internationally and was recently featured on High Zero Festival 2025 and Ex Nihilo Festival. He has collaborated […]

Venue: more infos soon! (or write to office@smallforms.org) Axel Dörner & Seijiro Murayama Since the modern era, the conventional concert format—performers facing an audience—has remained largely unchanged, even in improvisation. Sound-art practices, by contrast, often discard this setup and allow free movement in space. These formats reveal a divide: improvised music embraces spontaneity yet remains […]

Mit KNUSP möchten wir – das KuratorInnen-Team der Neuen Musik St.Ruprecht – ein neues Format der Begegnung etablieren. Einmal pro Saison laden wir geschätzte MusikerInnen der Echtzeitmusik ein um sich mit uns musikalisch auszutauschen. Für die Saison 2026/27 freuen wir uns, mit Tiziana Bertoncini und Teresa Doblinger zusammenzuarbeiten. Bei dieser Zusammenkunft sollen verschieden Formen von […]

With GLOW, composer and trumpeter Jakob Helling presents a quartet featuring four distinctive musical personalities from the Viennese scene, which creates musical space for moments of reflection, pause, and the conscious experience of tranquility. At the same time, the quartet questions cultural structures—for example, the conventions surrounding how music is presented in church-like spaces. In […]

Luisa Muhr: voice Jessica Pavone: viola Eric Arn: guitar Kenneth Jiménez: bass Luisa Muhr ist eine österreichisch-New Yorker experimentelle Vokalistin und interdisziplinäre Künstlerin, deren Arbeit sich auf Stimme, Klang und körperliche Bewegung konzentriert. Ihre Praxis umfasst Improvisation, Komposition, Installation, Performancekunst, Bewegung/Tanz sowie experimentelles Musiktheater. Muhr veröffentlichte ihr Debüt-Soloalbum TEUFLIN/SHE-DEVIL, das vom New York City Jazz […]

Two trumpets, two very diferent approaches: one electronic, the other acoustic. While Collins works with a computer program and cobbled hardware, Ulher uses metal sheets, radios, milk frothers and other everyday objects. The diametrically opposed sound production leads to oddly similar sonic results. Concerts in Berlin, at blurred edges festival in Hamburg, Ensemblia Festival in […]