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picknick am wegesrand

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a snowball-initiative with finally more than 50 acts. just everyone was invited to perform for about 15 minutes – musicians, artists, djs, visual and media artists, communicators, networks. four thursdays in september highlighted the vibrancy and diversity of vienna's contemporary music scene. with strictly free admission, in one of the most dense programs of the last years more than 50 live bands and djs presented the sounds which made vienna renowned worldwide since the early nineties. at palais donaustadt the driving forces and creative networks of electro, techno, electronic music, pop, hip hop, alternative and improvised music assembled. on invitation by theatercombinat, picknik am wegesrand was initiated by several viennese artists, the evenings themselves considered as works in progress.

picknick am wegesrand

following the 'rules' of the evenings – each act takes 15 minutes time, the line-up is arbitrary – following artists, musicians, djs and networks took part:

hans platzgumer – cheap records - klein records - iftaf - martin siewert - dj beware - manfred hofer - karl kilian - karate joe – artonal - mieze medusa + tenderboy - fluc - rhiz - dubblestandart - oskar aichinger - vortex - icke micke - ulrich troyer - mego - microthol - dj glow - franz hautzinger - fm4 - run dem crew - play.fm - skug – noisecamp - nitro mahalia - club beton - united movement – trost - 1bomb1target - shortwave massacre - madame strang - rainer klang - helge hinteregger - 78+ - patrick pulsinger - sergej mohntau - pepi öttl - beattown - elisabeth + manfred grübl - formation ohne namen - werner möbius - villalog - alois huber - franz pomassl - cay taylan - umberto gollini - miooow - waldeck

08.09., 15.09., 22.09., 29.09.2005

between the river danube and the motorway along the riverbank, in the midst of event gastronomy, real estate investing and tower blocks, fall winds become signals: vital signs of one of the most famous parts of viennese cultural life. the electronic music scene explores the synergies between open spaces, architecture and artistic presentation in public space.

10 years after the founding of vienna's electronic musical scene's most important labels (g-stone, cheap, mego, to name but a few) and the first gatherings of this new musical movement at the PHONOtaktik.95 festival, spread over the whole city and followed two years later by picknick mit herrmann, pioneers and newcomers now present themselves together again.

including visuals and light designs utilising the surrounding architecture, temporary art space palais donaustadt, future site of the second highest building of vienna, becomes the stage and creates the atmosphere for the advanced sound of the city – opening the «electronic autumn» for more than 7000 employees and 3000 inhabitants of donaucity and excursions of the viennese musical community.