Some of you might have been there this weekend, Lens mentioned it in an earlier post: Into The City / Asian Village as part of the Wiener Festwochen going from 8th of may til 14th of June.

Here are some of my personal impressions:

I started my little tour on Saturday, May 23rd with a delicious snack from one of the street kitchens hosted by the Thai and Indonesian embassies at Gumpendorfer Straße in the 6th district (which was the center of asian village and closed down for automobiles the whole weekend).
At about 7pm I went to Semper Depot to see/hear a sound/dance performance by Singapur artists sonicbrat (sound), Lim Chin Huat (Motion) and Lim Woan Wen (Light). The show, which lasted about an hour featured a dark light setting with multichannel sound art / piano improvisations and a dance performance. The combination of the three worked quite well in my opinion, although I'm not much of a fan of lenghty and dreamy piano variations. That aside the performance was a success, especially the middle part, where resonances of space were fathomed out, and the ending with its unique lighting, almost turning the poles of semper depot into some kind of dark forest.
After that we went out on the street again to hear a performance by Stereotyp, Cee and AraByrd from Malaysia which was a defintive banger and got the street crowd moving pretty intense. Ranging from Dubstep to Techno to HipHop, Stereo and Cee broke genre borders once again and AraByrd found an answer to every one of their tracks.

Now to my sunday highlight which started at noon, also at Semper Depot. Some of you might have seen Daito Manabes YouTube videos already, yesterday he held a 20 minute performance with a colleague which was quite impressive to see live be honest. Called "Face Visualizer, Instrument and Copy" they hooked themselves up to electrodes which stimulate their facial muscles according to the sounds played. Here's my own short documentation, taken from the middle of the show (Daito is the guy on the right):

That's all from my side, after the performance I went out to enjoy a wonderfully sunny Vienna City sunday. Lens J. might hit you up with a more precise update this week. Stay tuned!

two dates among Aphex Twin and Luke Vibert @ Donaufestival

• The JAHTARI RIDDIM FORCE with Soom T und Inspectah D @ FLUC Wanne/Klub Sirene. Don't miss this if you like heavy "8-bit" and analog dub styles hitting the chiphop and dubstep boarder. again and again: check their website and releases. pure dopeness!!!! a little teaser here for you: samurai showdown by disrupt

• For all you WEFUNK RADIO listeners and lovers out there and over the years. DJ STATIC and PROFESSOR GROOVE @ Cafe Leopold. read more about them in an older rotaug blog entry or the leopold website. Choose YOUR WEAPON!

features two films of rotaug related's__

I: "Muezzin" by Sebastian Brameshuber, one of the four opening films of today's starting crossing europe festival in linz. screenings: monday, april 20th, 6:30pm and 8:45pm @ movie 2; and april 26th, 9pm @ city 2

II: "untitled_in_case_no_03" by Markus Oberndorfer aka rotaug's very own lens screened at the local artist programm 4, tuesday april 21st, 9pm @ kapu kino; and april 26th, 1:30pm @ movie 2;

and by the way: Benga is playing at the tuesday crossing europe after party...