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SoundBrain #5, November 30 – with Hélène Fauquet & Nicolas Ceccaldi, Arvis Kantiševs, Kisling

Welcome to SoundBrain, event series
at our studio in Gersthof, Vienna.

19:00 Doors & Bar
20:00 DJ Set: Kisling
21:00 Concert: Arvis Kantiševs

With special artistic contributions by
Nicolas Ceccaldi & Hélène Fauquet

Saturday, November 30
Salierigasse 23, 1180, Wien
Entrance with free donation

Supported by Stadt Wien Kultur (MA7)

SoundBrain #4 - with kaitlin simotics, Plot Toy
October 11, 2024

Supported by Stadt Wien Kultur (MA7)

SoundBrain #3 - with Lucia Kagramanyan, Michael Franz, Elle Viies
June 15, 2024

Supported by Stadt Wien Kultur (MA7)

For Guiding Light V, Artjom Astrov, Kisling and Till Megerle are supported by Aziza Harmel and Andreas Harrer in weaving together tender gestures, brainstorms and melodious energy. They navigate themselves through various moments of sometimes weird, sometimes eerie fragments to form and perform a complex, intensive structure of audiovisual delight.

Feb 27 - Mar 4

Ticket info: saal.ee

Guiding Light V premiering at Kanuti Gildi SAAL on February 27. Additonal shows on Feb 28 + March 2, 3, 4.

More info: saal.ee

This photo was taken of "Guiding Light IV" (Artjom Astrov, Kisling and Till Megerle) last summer. On February 7th the concert is coming to SAAL!💫

It's a continuation of a practice that can be defined as deep “hanging out” that is neither predetermined nor random. The band plays with extremes and contradictions such as „realness“ and „artificiality“ as both visual and performative tools in order to continually question the essence of their work. To hang out deeply isn’t merely a genre of music but a form of labor that embodies inexplicable sounds, intimate or sometimes banal situations, and carefully assembled visuals. One could think of this concert as tracks that would form one song—a song that is shaped by the constellation of the voices of the three protagonists and the kind of exteriorization and meaning that they commonly convey.

More information and tickets: https://saal.ee/en/performance/guiding-light-iv-1764/

NEW! DJ Zoologist “He Who Makes A Beast Of Himself Gets Rid Of The Pain Of Being A Man”

Shipping out as of today. Also available at Biit Me Record Store & Sonic Belligeranza Megastore. Blu-ray disc in 7" sleeve. Two different label options, shipped randomly (unless asked nicely). Playstation-friendly!

Mixed by DJ Zoologist (aka DJ Balli)
Images by Mauricio Corradini
Digital glitch by KUZU

SRS17, 2022

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Guiding Light merch: white and black T’s. Check out our Bandcamp or drop a message or come to Guiding Light IV show on Oct21 at

SBRANG GABBA GANG: Gabber Reconstruction of the Universe by Riccardo Balli (Lupetti editore 2019, English Edition) presentation with the author + Hardcore Techno Living Sculpture Alessio Solletti.

Music by DJ Balli and DJ Renzooh.

More info about the book:
Movements that dig velocity. Movements that worship war. Movements that have been accused of being fascist. Sbrang gabba gang is the sound of two cultural movements violently crashing into each other at breakneck speed. What happens when the Italian futurist avant-garde clashes with gabber, a belligerent strain of hardcore techno and the Netherland’s first proper youth culture?

Sbrang gabba gang will introduce you to the strange custom of forming human pyramids at gabber raves, futurist after-shave cocktails and Pietro Cannata, the man who took a hammer to the toes of Michelangelo’s David.

In Sbrang Gabba Gang, Riccardo Balli explores the parallels of gabber and futurist ideas by way of personal accounts, literary mash-ups of Futurist manifestos and a storyline that follows the vandalistic shenanigans of a posse of gabber-futurists consisting of Dominator Marinetti, Luigi “Holy Noise” Russolo, Luciano “Thunderdome” Folgore and Giacomo Balla/Balli.

These ideas further come to life in a series of anaglyphic images to be explored with special magenta-green 3D glasses attached to each volume.

From the guitar subconsciousness: Kisling’s 11-track composition ‘Old Life’ is out on Serious Serious on July 26

Liner notes by Lona Gaikis

Guitars, violin by Artjom Astrov
Mastered by Andreas Harrer

Cover photo by Horst Dobnig
Graphic design by Florian Pfaffenberger

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Kisling “Old Life” | Serious Serious The old life is a dream life.