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In the organizer's words:

ᔕᗯIᔕᕼ is a concert series that brings together international and local artists in Leipzig to provide a platform for experimental music beyond fixed genre boundaries. The focus is on openness in musical and artistic forms of expression that challenge the audience and question listening habits and institutional echo chambers. The concerts and performances are based on a dramaturgy that arises from the tensions between new music, electroacoustic composition, and post-club music, with breaks and transitions unfolding as a curatorial principle.
ᔕᗯIᔕᕼ sees itself as a platform for critical engagement with established music formats, deliberately foregoing DJ sets in order to bring music production, performance, and collective listening experience to the fore.

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ᒪᑌᑕY ᗪᑌᑎᑕOᗰᗷE & ᖴEᖇOᑎIᗩ ᗯEᑎᑎᗷOᖇG
Lucy Duncombe and Feronia Wennborg's work is a repertoire of extended vocal technique with virtual voices, coerced into idioms of repetitious stutter, hums, yelps, barks, sighs, breaths, narration, choir.
Their first joint full-length music release, Joy, Oh I Missed You, was released by Warm Winters Ltd in July 2025. They have performed together at czirp czirp (Vienna), Radiophrenia (Glasgow), Heart of Noise (Innsbruck), Cafe Oto (London) and Fylkingen (Stockholm).

ŠTEᖴᗩᑎ ᔕᘔᗩᗷó
Štefan Szabó is a composer, improviser, and curator from southern Slovakia. He currently focuses mainly on improvised and folk music in collaborations with the Bratislava Improvisers Orchestra, Ranjevš & Óbasz, Adela Mede, and Noso & Ela. In 2024, he released the organ album "Clouds and Pulses" on the Czech label Ma Records. He is co-curator of the concert series U Strùn.

TEᖇEᔕᗩ ᗩᒪᒪGᗩIEᖇ & ᔕOᑭᕼIᗩ ᒍᗩᑎI
Violinist Teresa Allgaier shifts her focus between contemporary chamber music and experimental pop. Besides her own projects, she collaborates with composers and bands, and works as a composer, studio musician, and for interdisciplinary productions. Her debut album Six Pieces for Solo Violin was created in collaboration with composer Sophia Jani and was released in 2024 to international acclaim on Squama Recordings.
In the field of contemporary chamber music, she is co-founder of the string collective Kontai Ensemble and the concert series Feet Become Ears, which focuses on minimalist-influenced currents in New Music.

Funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.