In 2012, the Interdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art shut up and listen! enters its seventh  season. Antarctica and Arctica, Baffin Island and Chukotka Peninsula, Helgoland and Iceland - under the  festival theme FAR OUT this year's edition is concerned with some of the world's most remote  places, in particular with both polar regions.  As in previous years, the festival offers a broad spectrum of artistic and musical positions - by  artists who found inspiration through shut up and listen! intends to build bridges across obsolete  genre borders. Since 2006, the festival presents concerts, performances, sound installations,  exhibitions, film and video presentations, as well as discursive activities, featuring cutting-edge  positions from a wide range of artistic production of Austrian and international provenience.  Belma Bešlić-Gál and Bernhard Gál ABOUT          PROGRAMME          SUAL AWARD           PRESS          IMPRINT          SUAL HOME shut up and listen! 2012 Interdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art