shut up and listen! 2025
PAST_20 → NEXT_∞
Saturday, October 18, 2025 @ echoraum, 9:00 PM
noid: You’re not here
sound projection
You’re not here
Starting from recordings of empty concert and rehearsal spaces, a sequence of silence emerges at varying volumes: – an imaginary architecture as acoustic intervention – a tightrope walk between recognition and abstraction – a reflection on the prerequisites of listening to music
In “you’re not here,” noid works with recordings of empty, unused spaces connected to his artistic practice. His studio at Vienna’s Dornerplatz is as much a subject of investigation as the Sculpture Center in New York or the New Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus. In “you’re not here,” noid attempts to construct an imaginary building—an open building with transparent walls. His focus is on “little surrounded by nothing.”
noid
“how can we compose without destroying more than we are able to evoke?
how can we improvise without just repeating the same patterns (while feeling ‘so free’)?”
Noid (b. 1970 in Steyr, Austria) is a composer, sound artist, cellist, and improviser whose work navigates between music, sound art, and performance, deliberately questioning the boundaries of these categories. His focus lies in exploring spatial sound and continuously engaging with the cello as both instrument and medium. After childhood cello lessons and studying natural sciences in Vienna, he discovered experimental cello playing in 1990 through a concert by Tom Cora and The Ex. In the following years, he became part of Vienna’s underground scene, founding various bands, touring through Czechia, Slovakia, and Austria, and composing electronic music for dance and theater productions. His fascination with field recording began in 1994 with his first performance at an international music festival. From 1994 to 2004, he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, graduating with a master’s degree in Music and Mathematics. In 2004, he released his first solo CD and realized his first sound installation—since then working as a freelance artist with appearances at international festivals, CD releases, commissioned compositions, and residencies.
Between 2004 and 2015, he was a member of the artist collective kleylehof13. From 2007, he took on curatorial and organizational activities, including the reheat festival (2007–2015), an annual SoundArt exhibition in Nickelsdorf (since 2009), and the performance series Der Blöde Dritte Mittwoch (since 2012). Since 2010, he has taught Multi Media Art at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg.
As a performer, he regularly collaborates with artists such as Klaus Filip, Elisabeth Schimana, Marina Džukljev, Matija Schellander, Angelica Castello, Joe McPhee, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Susanna Gartmayer, Taku Unami, Okkyung Lee, Billy Roisz, Burkhard Stangl, Franz Hautzinger, Carl Stone, and many others. His work encompasses solo cello pieces, band improvisations, compositions for ensembles, sound installations, tape pieces, performances with hybrid instruments, as well as videos and speculative music forms.