Heavy Listening Season Closing

VLAN RADIO presents HEAVY LISTENING HEAVY LISTENING puts music first: immersive, patient and made for attentive ears. Ambient, New Age, Dub, Downtempo, Tribal and experimental electronics meet in a format that offers an alternative to the accelerated rhythms of digital culture and the constant pull of short-form content.

HEAVY LISTENING - Season Closing Doors 20:00 20:00 Ebhardy (DJ) 21:00 Sanna Lu Una (Live) 22:00 Archetype (Live) 23:00 A_Phan (Live) 24:00 Moosiqunt (DJ) 01:00 Annietime (DJ)

Paul Ebhart, lives and works in Vienna. Sporadic musical interruptions laying over perpetual ostinatos complement the sonic world of Ebhart with expertise and amateurism in a constant tension ratio. Fully dedicated to loose structures and improvisation as a core element. Likewise aiming for rhythmic repetition and synthetic sequences, supported by heavy signal processing.

Sanna Lu Una creates new worlds with her music, splashing into the wide waters of avant-garde pop, only to joyfully break the bounds of the genre over and over again. Her songs address existentialist questions, playfully wrapped in fantastic imagery.The lyrics are like a dream language, communicating in metaphors and symbols, enabling vivid and visual reflection.

Archetype is an abstract scream for something quite fragile, exploring personal experiences of a polarising society and disruptive isolation. Contrastingly, the project embraces digitized, precise sound design with bold hooks and dramatic vocals, evoking industrial trip-hop and post-punk-leaning electronics.

With his moniker A_Phan, Manuel Cyrill shifts his focus to the outer reaches of techno. Modulation sources, tape loops, and field recordings become anchor points in his sonified alpine mountain wall, situated at the borders between syncopated rhythms and intricate sound structures. A_Phan never sounds detached, but always remains grounded. The element of chance that lends patronage to improvisation is the essence of a counter-movement that neither predicts nor attempts to calculate the listeners. It’s an altruistic approach that A_Phan reveals, whispering through modulated tension: "Let yourself fall!".

Ferdinand Doblhammer, born 1996, works in the fields of media art, music and design. His works deal with data security in an environment of constantly growing virtualization, the thereby provoked borders and border crossings. He tries to point out problems regarding media policies in our nowadays world through the usage of augmented reality, video and installation. Since 2021 he is realizing interdisciplinary performances together with the dancer and choreographer Lea Karnutsch, situated between dance and media art and co-founded the collective "Flip the Coin". Ferdinand Doblhammer took part in several exhibitions, for example at Gallerie Krinzinger, Criatech Festival Aveiro (PT), at Parallel Vienna 2020, the series Ok&Jetzt at the 12-14contemporary Gallery Vienna and at the Medienwerkstatt Wien. In 2019 he worked with Chico MacMurtrie on the "border crosser" performances, which were shown in New York, Munich and Vienna. He studied at the class of digital arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna led by Ruth Schnell and finished with his diploma work "Sibling Inference". As a musician he performed i.E. in Leicester, Budapest and Berlin and released music on various labels in UK and the US.

Rooted in her family heritage and musical influences from the former Yugoslavia, annietime combines warm, emotional soundscapes with playful, rhythmic elements from around the world. Drawing on her diverse musical background, she creates productions that resist clear categorization and reflect her passion for music in all its forms. Alongside her work as a producer, she has contributed to numerous projects, including recording, mixing and mastering for film productions, fashion labels, renowned pianists, and collaborative works with artists from a wide range of disciplines.

Looking forward to seeing you there! 🧭

With kind support of the City of Vienna/MA 7.