VLAN 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 - Second Edition Doors 20:00 sucre sucre (DJ) Afrodeo (Live) Nava Hemyari (Live) Sucre sucre’s musical foundation lies between classical music and reggae, a crossroad shaping her approach as a DJ based between Berlin and Vienna. Early influences include formative experiences in church choirs, traditional East African music and her sister’s garage records, sparking a fascination with the ambiguous and genre-fluid. Drawn to focused listening and sonic exploration, her ever-expanding collection favors unconventional tracks with unusual lyrics, offbeat energy and strong basslines. Guided by intuition and driven by curiosity and storytelling, sucre sucre continues to refine her musical identity—unafraid to cross boundaries and explore unfamiliar sonic landscapes. https://soundcloud.com/sucr3sucre Evrim Kuzu is a Vienna-based artist who makes and performs music as Afrodeo. His sampledelic practice blends diverse sonic materials into narrative-driven compositions. Treating every performance as a one-off, Kuzu creates sets that invite audiences to sink into circling layers of sound and memory. A montage of tape loops, voice and sampled media. Diary pages, enfolded in hiss and crackle. https://afrodeo.bandcamp.com Nava Hemyari composes precise, textural music that moves between intensity and restraint, unfolding with a strong sense of form and detail. Her works have been performed at venues including the Musikverein, Wiener Konzerthaus, ORF RadioKulturhaus, Hofburgkapelle, and Minoritenkirche Krems, by ensembles such as PHACE, Company of Music, Black Page Orchestra, and Ensemble Platypus. She has participated in festivals including Manifeste
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A theatrical production combining spoken dialogue, original songs, and often dance to tell a story, performed by a cast of singers and actors.
A live music performance by one or more artists or bands in front of an audience. The format and atmosphere vary widely depending on the genre and venue.
A DJ event features one or more disc jockeys mixing and playing recorded music live for the audience, creating a continuous flow of sound tailored to the dancefloor or setting.
A Jamaican genre born from reggae, using studio effects — echo, reverb, and delays — as instruments in their own right to create spacious, hypnotic soundscapes.
Raw, high-energy rock with a rough, unpolished sound rooted in the 1960s and revived in the early 2000s. Prioritises attitude and immediacy over technical refinement.
