Michael Masen
plays saxophone in the bands FS Massaker, Mozo Mozo, Ouls, Astro Black, Ezakimak and Tubi Trio. Concert and festival appearances have taken him to venues all over Austria as well as to Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Finland, where he has shared the stage with local and international musicians , including Linda Sharrock (USA), Mario Rechtern (AUT), Eric Zinman (USA), Virginia Genta (ITA), David Vanzan (ITA), Heli Hartikainen (FIN), Jukka Kääriäinen (FIN) Michael Fischer (AUT) and many more. In between, he also played in the bands Banana Chain and Darwinism 4 Dummies and was involved in studio recordings and concerts by Pulverin, Hella Comet, Rolltreppe, Meltdowner and Desolat as a guest musician. Michael Masen lives and works in Vienna.
plays saxophone in the bands FS Massaker, Mozo Mozo, Ouls, Astro Black, Ezakimak and Tubi Trio. Concert and festival appearances have taken him to venues all over Austria as well as to Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Finland, where he has shared the stage with local and international musicians , including Linda Sharrock (USA), Mario Rechtern (AUT), Eric Zinman (USA), Virginia Genta (ITA), David Vanzan (ITA), Heli Hartikainen (FIN), Jukka Kääriäinen (FIN) Michael Fischer (AUT) and many more. In between, he also played in the bands Banana Chain and Darwinism 4 Dummies and was involved in studio recordings and concerts by Pulverin, Hella Comet, Rolltreppe, Meltdowner and Desolat as a guest musician. Michael Masen lives and works in Vienna.
Christoph Ignaz Kirmaier
is a media artist, musician and interaction designer from near Cologne. He has lived and worked in Vienna since 2009. During and after his studies of Digital Media Technologies in the master class Experimental Media, he worked in various constellations and studios on commercial and artistic multimedia installations, sound design, electronics, animation, music videos, user experience and robotics. He also teaches creative coding and media art at the St. Pölten UAS and the NODE Institute in Berlin. In August 2023, he founded a production studio for digital art under the label 3e8, which specializes in multimedia and interactive installations for exhibitions, events and public spaces. He has been pursuing visual, musical and interactive projects for years, both alone and in other collectives such as Kunstkanal, Mozo Mozo, M-AK and the Tangible Music Lab at the University of Art and Design Linz.
is a media artist, musician and interaction designer from near Cologne. He has lived and worked in Vienna since 2009. During and after his studies of Digital Media Technologies in the master class Experimental Media, he worked in various constellations and studios on commercial and artistic multimedia installations, sound design, electronics, animation, music videos, user experience and robotics. He also teaches creative coding and media art at the St. Pölten UAS and the NODE Institute in Berlin. In August 2023, he founded a production studio for digital art under the label 3e8, which specializes in multimedia and interactive installations for exhibitions, events and public spaces. He has been pursuing visual, musical and interactive projects for years, both alone and in other collectives such as Kunstkanal, Mozo Mozo, M-AK and the Tangible Music Lab at the University of Art and Design Linz.
potzblitz!brak (aka Felix Linhart)
is a Vienna-based multi-instrumentalist (guitar, bass, voice, synth, sampler) and composer. Over the years, he has been active in a variety of projects and bands. From death metal (Mandragora), ethno (Maracatu Minimal), guitar sextet (6 to 6 string Dezibel) and noise rock (L’asino) to metajazzmetalfunkwalzernoisecore with When Yuppies go to Hell. With Greta Lauer he has worked on the interweaving of prose and music in the projects Wal wie der Fisch and Lunchbreak.
2014 Premiere of the first solo piece “23”. From May 2016, he published a one-minute piece on YouTube every day for a year (365 OneMinuteImpressions). In recent years, he has mainly played free improvised music, both in fixed bands (Banana Chain, Mozo Mozo, Ezakimak) and in one-off formations. He has performed with Michael Masen, Elisabeth Kelvin, Moritz Nolden, Susanna Gartmayer, Edith Steyer, Michael Prehofer, Alexander Babikov, Teresa Riemann, Rieko Okuda, Isabel Rößler, Jan Leipnitz and many others.
is a Vienna-based multi-instrumentalist (guitar, bass, voice, synth, sampler) and composer. Over the years, he has been active in a variety of projects and bands. From death metal (Mandragora), ethno (Maracatu Minimal), guitar sextet (6 to 6 string Dezibel) and noise rock (L’asino) to metajazzmetalfunkwalzernoisecore with When Yuppies go to Hell. With Greta Lauer he has worked on the interweaving of prose and music in the projects Wal wie der Fisch and Lunchbreak.
2014 Premiere of the first solo piece “23”. From May 2016, he published a one-minute piece on YouTube every day for a year (365 OneMinuteImpressions). In recent years, he has mainly played free improvised music, both in fixed bands (Banana Chain, Mozo Mozo, Ezakimak) and in one-off formations. He has performed with Michael Masen, Elisabeth Kelvin, Moritz Nolden, Susanna Gartmayer, Edith Steyer, Michael Prehofer, Alexander Babikov, Teresa Riemann, Rieko Okuda, Isabel Rößler, Jan Leipnitz and many others.
Lukas WÖBER
(toyboy28) born 1989 Lower Austria, district of Neunkirchen Has been drumming enthusiastically on various sound media since the age of 5. First in the youth orchestra of the music school, later in the Musikverein and in various bands, including NOMADE (VIENNA/rock), GUARANA(Linz/samba), Monika Zöchling (Vienna/jazz), Rea Raguna(Vienna/gypsy jazz), Psycotropicos (Vienna/cumbia/psychedelic rock), TOYBOY28(instrumental hiphop) and MOZO MOZO(Vienna/noise).
“Since 2008, I have also been performing on stage in the context of free improvisation, which I particularly enjoy. I live in the area where Ludwig Wittgenstein also spent a lot of time, so: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
(toyboy28) born 1989 Lower Austria, district of Neunkirchen Has been drumming enthusiastically on various sound media since the age of 5. First in the youth orchestra of the music school, later in the Musikverein and in various bands, including NOMADE (VIENNA/rock), GUARANA(Linz/samba), Monika Zöchling (Vienna/jazz), Rea Raguna(Vienna/gypsy jazz), Psycotropicos (Vienna/cumbia/psychedelic rock), TOYBOY28(instrumental hiphop) and MOZO MOZO(Vienna/noise).
“Since 2008, I have also been performing on stage in the context of free improvisation, which I particularly enjoy. I live in the area where Ludwig Wittgenstein also spent a lot of time, so: “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
