Live is good in the new real!
is the motto of the SONIC TERRITORIES Festival 2025 – an artistic space for reflection on the tension between body, technology, and nature.
Instead of celebrating AI, the participating artists explore the digital as a fragile terrain – through sound, performance, and speculative acoustics between organic reality and synthetic fiction. From field recordings to electromagnetic noise, the result is a festival of friction, not escape.
Artists such as Nyokabi Kariũki (KE, pictured above), Fennesz (AT), Merche Blasco (ES/US), Ute Wassermann (DE), Jakob Schauer (AT), Sara Persico & Mika Oki (IT/FR), and Raphael Rogiński (PL) present works that don’t perfect digital tools, but rather unsettle them – with handcrafted instruments, electromagnetic sensors, field recordings, organ, voice, and speculative acoustics.
The club nights also reflect this spirit: with LOUFR, PÖ, Fæ Bestia, Misonica, and Natasha Moreno, hyperpop, noise techno, and modular systems meet radical narrative power.
All of Vienna as a field of experimentation – from the periphery to the center. Technology becomes noise. Sound addresses the question: How do we want to hear?
End of the Resilience
Jakob Schauer’s End of Resilience explores the breaking point of emotional resilience – that moment when overexertion is no longer suppressed and unexpected liberation arises.
At the festival opening on October 17th in the Church of the Redeemer, Schauer will present works for organ and electronics, a composition with fixed media, and a piece for organ and four waveform generators. An intense evening between drones, spheres, and silent catharsis.
Photos:
Left: Nyokabi Kariuki, Photo: Gianfranco Bello
Right: Ute Wassermann, Photo Ziga Koritnik
Jakob Schauer, Photo: Anna Breit
Sonic Territories: Vienna’s great festival for free improvisation, experimental music and sound art
Calendar below; Venues below the calendar
| Datum | Artist(s) | Country | Performance-Titel | Genre / Format | Venue | Bezirk | Beginn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17. Okt | Jakob Schauer | AT | End of Resilience | Organ, Waveform Generators & Electronics | Kirche am Schüttel (Erlöserkirche) | 2 | 20:00 |
| 18. Okt | Lea Karnutsch & Ferdinand Doblhammer | AT | warpspeed minnesang | Sound Performance | VHS Kulturgarage | 22 | 19:30 |
| 18. Okt | Boris Vitázek | SK | Narrative Absence | Live A/V (Austria Premiere) | VHS Kulturgarage | 22 | 19:30 |
| 18. Okt | Joanna Coleman & Conny Zenk | AT | - | Live A/V | VHS Kulturgarage | 22 | 19:30 |
| 18. Okt | Cortical | ES | - | Live A/V (Austria Premiere) | VHS Kulturgarage | 22 | 19:30 |
| 18. Okt | HUUUM | IT/AT | - | Live A/V | VHS Kulturgarage | 22 | 19:30 |
| 19. Okt | Alex Franz Zehetbauer | US/AT | - | Performance | Glaubenskirche Simmering | 11 | 17:00 |
| 19. Okt | Sanna Lu Una | AT | - | Live | Glaubenskirche Simmering | 11 | 17:00 |
| 19. Okt | Natasha Moreno | BY/AT | - | Live | Glaubenskirche Simmering | 11 | 17:00 |
| 21.–23. Okt | diverse (siehe Beschreibung) | AMP x STF25: Lecture Performances | Lecture Performance | WUK Museumsräume | 9 | 18:00–21:00 | |
| 23. Okt | Fæ Bestia, LOUFR, Misonica, hiff | CZ/PL/AT/DE | - | Live (Austria Premieres), DJ Set | rhiz | 8 | 21:00 |
| 24. Okt | Merche Blasco, Ute Wassermann, Marina Cyrino | ES/DE/BR | Plankturutaña | Performance (Austria Premiere) | WUK Museumsräume | 9 | 18:00 |
| 24. Okt | Raphael Rogiński | PL | Talán | Live (Vienna Premiere) | WUK Grosser Saal | 9 | 20:00 |
| 24. Okt | Nyokabi Kariũki | KE | - | Live (World Premiere) | WUK Grosser Saal | 9 | 20:00 |
| 24. Okt | Sara Persico & Mika Oki | IT/FR | Sphaîra | Live A/V (Austria Premiere) | WUK Grosser Saal | 9 | 20:00 |
| 24. Okt | Thao, Mika Oki, Marshrutka, Lucia Kagramanyan | FR/UA/AR | - | STF25 Clubnight – DJ Sets | B72 | 8 | 24:00 |
| 25. Okt | Fennesz, PÖ, NÂR / Nadia Daou, Dino Spiluttini | AT/GH/LB/AT | - | Live, A/V, World & Austria Premieres | WUK Grosser Saal | 9 | 20:00 |
| 25. Okt | PÖ (DJ Set) + tba | STF25 x Bestand Closing Party | DJ Sets / Club Closing | coco Bar | 8 | 24:00 |
Venues
→ Erlöserkirche Am Schüttel
Böcklinstr. 31, 1020 Vienna
→ Seestadt Studios / Studio 2
Am-Ostrom-Park 11, 1220 Vienna
→ VHS Kulturgarage
Am-Ostrom-Park 18, 1220 Vienna
→ Glaubenskirche Simmering
Braunhubergasse 20, 1110 Vienna
→ rhiz wien
U-Bahnbogen 37, 1080 Vienna
→ B72
Hernalser Gürtel 72-73, 1080 Vienna
→ Das WUK – Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus
Währinger Str. 59, 1090 Vienna
→ COCO Bar
U-Bahn Bogen 34+35, 1080 Vienna
→ Der Betrieb
Vogelweidplatz 13, 1150 Vienna