shut up and listen! 2025
PAST_20 → NEXT_∞
Festival Programme, October 16-24, 2025
shut up and listen! will take place at two venues this year. For the second time, our established presentation venue echoraum will be complemented by the SP·CE listening gallery. In addition, a significant part of the festival will be presented as an online streaming festival from October 16-18, starting at 20:00 CET.
Thursday, October 16, 2025 @ echoraum
19:00 h
Opening of exhibits and installations:
petra sandner: TRI:LO:GIE – drawing:installation:collage
Kolektiv ПROSTORЪ: JⰀⰔⰅ – installation
SUAL ARCHIVES #20: Selected contributions from 20 festival years – media archive
20:00 h
Gertrude Moser-Wagner and Ulrich Kaufmann: bridge NOTHING – media art
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Radu Malfatti: shizuka ni furu ame – for bass harmonica and playback
21:00 h
Zimt (extended) – Echtzeitmusik
with Angélica Castelló (Paetzold flutes, electronics) | Kai Fagaschinski (clarinet) | Barbara Romen (dulcimer) | Gunter Schneider (guitar) | Burkhard Stangl (guitar) | Franz Hautzinger (trumpet)
Friday, October 17, 2025 @ echoraum
20:00 h
Josip Kalčič: Duboki Do / Deep Valley – sound projection
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Svetlana Maraš: Solo Performance – electronics
21:00 h
Damjan Jovičin: Merciful Sound Shield – music and social engagement in Belgrade today – lecture
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metacounterpoint – Performance
with Damjan Jovičin (concept, piano, percussion) | Damjan Marković (electric guitar, percussion) | Aleksandar Jakovljević (bass guitar, percussion)
Saturday, October 2025 @ echoraum
20:00 h
Ensemble echo_von_nichts: CRI DE COEUR – participatory concert
Works by Tamara Friebel (UA), Sofia Gubaidulina, Hannes Lingens, Pina Rücker, Giacinto Scelsi
with Ingala Fortagne (soprano) | Pina Rücker (quartz glass bowls) | Gobi Drab (recorders)
21:00 h
noid: You’re not here – sound projection
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Manuel Pessoa de Lima: Square – audiovisual performance
Sunday, October 19, 2025 @ SP•CE
[SP•CE _ Billrothstraße 6/2, 1190 Wien]
16:00-21:00 / SUAL ARCHIVES #20 – media archive
Selected contributions from 20 festival editions
Additional presentation times: October 20 to 24, 2025, 18:00-21:00
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SHUT UP AND LISTEN! 2006-2025 – listening room
Presentation of selected musical gems from 20 years of shut up and listen!
with Bernhard Gál (curation & sound direction)
Monday, October 20, 2025 @ SP•CE
[SP•CE _ Billrothstraße 6/2, 1190 Wien]
18:00 h
Kai Fagaschinski: The Evil of Banality (clarinet quartet) – sound installation
(opening and live performance)
Additional presentation times: October 21 to 24, 2025, 18:00-21:00
In cooperation with the artistic research project AUDIO GHOSTS.
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [PEEK AR 774-G].
SUAL ARCHIVES #20: media archive
21.–24. Oktober 2025 @ SP•CE
[SP•CE _ Billrothstraße 6/2, 1190 Vienna]
18:00-21:00 h
SUAL ARCHIVES #20: media archive
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Kai Fagaschinski: The Evil of Banality (clarinet quartet) – sound installation