Thursday 7 August 2025, 7.30pm
VENTIL RECORDS is a Vienna-based platform and label for adventurous, experimental music, founded in 2015. For this special concert night at Cafe OTO, the label brings together a powerful lineup of artists they’ve collaborated with over the past decade—expect an intense night.
The full line-up includes:
The event is supported by the Austrian cultural form in London .
‘PLF propel punk’s DIY idealism into a new era … ‘ (John Twells – Unsound Festival)
PLF is an unique trio consisting of drummer Lukas König, instrument maker and sonic experimentalist Peter Kutin and vocalist Elvin Brandhi, also known as Fridge. The band emerged from their collaborative efforts, with origins dating back several years. PLF’s music blends post-punk, noise-pop, and experimental improvisations. Their sound is shaped by a distinctive approach to instrumentation, with Kutin using self-designed light-feedback machines and synthesizers, while König enriches percussion with electronics. Elvin Brandhi’s vocals add a wild, primal dimension to their music. They draw inspiration from various sources, creating their very own synthesis of sound art and experimental music.
PLF has performed at numerous prestigious festivals, including the Unsound Festival and Elevate Festival. They debuted with the album “EPDEMO” released by the UK label Opal Tapes, followed by their “ParziFoooooooooooL” under the Vienna-based avant-garde platform Ventil-records. A third record will be out in early 2025.
Described by The Wire as “one of the most technically adept and creatively daring artists to use the turntable as a musical instrument,” Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award-winning composer, turntablist and performer. Working at the nexus of experimental new music, free improvisation, mutant club musics and hip-hop, Rezaei uses a digital vinyl system, allowing her to manipulate an expansive range of samples in real time. Her work has been described as “genuinely ground-breaking” (London Jazz News 2022) and “high-velocity sonic surrealism” (The Guardian 2022). Praised by The Wire, Uncut and Bandcamp Daily, her latest release FRACTURED (Heat Crimes) is one of The Quietus’s cassette releases of 2024.In November 2022, she received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation #AwardsForArtists in recognition of her contribution to music composition. She previously led experimental arts projects TOPH, TUSK FRINGE and TUSK NORTH, and is writing a book on turntablism for Repeater.
In addition to her solo work, Rezaei’s projects include a Turntable Triowith Evicshen and Maria Chávez (making their US premiere at Big Ears 2025), supergroup The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (with saxophonist Mette Rasmussen, trumpeter/electronics Gabriele Mitelli and drummer Lukas Koenig), and orchestral compositions with Matthew Shlomowitz (6 Scenes for Turntable and Orchestra). She recently performed Anthony Braxton’s Ghost Trance Music with guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe. Other collaborations include duos with Jennifer Walshe, Edward George, Farida Amadou, Valentina Magaletti, Lasse Marhaug, Evicshen, Lukas Koenig, Mette Rasmussen, Gabriele Mitelli, Okkyung Lee and Ali Robertson, Black Top with Pat Thomas, Orphy Robinson, Cleveland Watkiss and Leon Foster Thomas, and a quartet with DJ Sniff, Rex Chen and DJ SlowPitchSound at Taipei Biennial 2023.
Billy Roisz is a Vienna-based musician and filmmaker. Self-taught, Billy Roisz sees her creative humus in the extremely open DIY environment of the digital and analog electronic and noise scene in Vienna at the Y2K turn (phonotaktik, rhiz, mego, vidok, klingt.org). Since 1998 she works with the media video and sound. The aesthetics of image and sound glitches, such as feedback and distortion, is one of her central fields of experimentation.
The artistic realization usually takes the form of audio-visual live performances, concerts, cinematic works and spatial installations, often solo, but also in close collaboration with artists from the fields of experimental electronics and noise, composed new and old music, film, theater and performance.
Billy Roisz's works have been presented at numerous renowned international festivals, including LUFF Lausanne, Meakusma Eupen, RISC @ Louvre Paris, Donaufestival Krems, Heart Of Noise Festival Innsbruck, Wien Modern, Musikprotokoll, Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, unlimited Wels, Sonic Acts Amsterdam, Biennale Sao Paolo, 8 Bridges Festival Cologne, Donaueschingen, Berlinale, IFF Rotterdam, Transmediale, Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Centre Pompidou, MACBA Barcelona, Museo Serralves Porto and many more.
Her music has been released on editionsMego, hathut, for/wind, mikroton. interstellar, and her latest solo 12" vinyl bajo has been released on ventil records. Her video works are distributed by sixpackfilm and lightcone.
In their project "The Answer is no" Maja Osojnik and Ursula Winterauer use the same sound sources - voice, electric bass and sampler. This conscious choice creates a live situation that creates an exciting mirroring on a visual and sonic level. Their goal is to explore, expand and deconstruct the sonic possibilities of their instruments, entering into an intense dialogue in the process. In their joint project, the musicians and composers Maja Osojnik and Ursula Winterauer move skilfully in the border area between analog and digital sounds and between virtual and real spaces.
Maja Osojnik works as a singer, composer, improvising electroacoustic musician, sound artist, producer, mostly using voice, paetzold bass recorders, field recordings, DJ-CDs, tapes and other lo-fi electronic devices, toys, trash and found objects. Maja made a name for herself in different musical fields, such as early music, contemporary, experimental, electronic, jazz, free improvisation, sound art and heavier music. Moving in limbo between analogue and digital art, virtual and real spaces, she tries to expand, deconstruct and reinterpret the tonal spectra of mentioned instruments and to assign them new roles – a process reminiscent of building anagrams. She composes music for dance, theater, film, radio plays, sound installations and various ensembles. In Addition to teaching composition and free improvisation she runs the Label Mamka Records, dedicated to the publication of high quality self-produced sound recordings in small hand-made/printed series. Her art, solo performances, works and formations, ao. Rdeča Raketa, ZSAMM, Broken.Heart.Collector, All.The.Terms.We.Are, Maja Osojnik Band, Subshrubs, Low Frequency Orchestra etc. were presented at various international festivals.
http://maja.klingt.org
https://www.instagram.com/majaosojnik/
Ursula Winterauer aka Gischt is a composer and producer for electronic music based in Vienna. Within her artistic practice she generates raw sounds between brutality and atmospheric diffusion. Her eclectic soundscapes deliver differentiated interpretations of the genres industrial, techno and ambient, which are reflected by means of bass guitar, synthesiser and electro-smog clouds. Her works have been performed at various Austrian festivals like donaufestival, musikprotokoll, unsafe+sounds, as well as in in cities such as Zurich, Berlin, Priština, Riga and New York. Winterauer has collaborated with artists from various fields, including Annja Krautgasser, Claudia Larcher, Elisabeth B. Tambwé, Conny Zenk and Antoinette Zwirchmayr. In addition to curatorial work, she runs the Ventil Records label and develops compositions for film and contemporary dance.
https://gischt.xyz/
https://www.instagram.com/gischt____
https://gischt.xyz/the-answer-is-no/
