𝙉𝙀𝙓𝙏 𝙁𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 @ 𝙂𝙈𝘽 ╱ 𝙫𝙤𝙡̌𝙣𝙮́ 𝙫𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙥 ╱ 🏛 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘷 𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘢́𝘤

The last day of NEXT 2025: Advanced Music Festival will also take place in the Bratislava City Gallery. Entry is free. Please note that the capacity of the event is limited. Entry is allowed on a first-come, first-served basis. electro-acoustic textures and live manipulation of recorded sounds ╱ András ŝlaksek with sunset sonification ╱ and 𝘙yo 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘭𝘭𝘭, specialist in surround sound with multi-channel diffusion and live electronic transformation.

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Luciano Maggiore (IT/UK) is experimental musician and performer from Palermo, currently based in London. His work oscillates between musical gesture and conceptual art, focusing on the performativity of sound itself. He works with speakers, CD players, walkmans, cassette recorders and acoustic objects, from which he composes his own sound choreographies. His works balance on the border of minimalism and absurdity, where technical traces turn into poetic artifacts. Maggiore's aesthetic is post-digital, focused on how sound lives, breathes and wears out in space.

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Ryo Ikeshiro (JP/UK/HK) is an artist, researcher and composer who connects digital technologies with sound philosophy. In his work, sound becomes a medium of knowledge - a carrier of data, space and identity. He experiments with sonification, ambisonic sound and immersive projections, creating environments that are both analytical and sensory immersive. His works have been presented at the Asian Cultural Center in Gwangju, the M+ Museum in Hong Kong, and on television across Europe. Ikeshiro investigates how algorithms hear the world - and how a person can listen to an algorithm.

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András Blazsek (HU/DE/US) is an artist moving at the intersection of sound, space and light. He studied sculpture in Budapest and media in Cologne, where he developed a feeling for the materiality of sound and its physical presence. His installations and performances explore how sound can act as a plastic object that shapes the perception of space. Blazsek worked as a teacher in Hong Kong and is currently continuing his doctoral research at the University of Buffalo. In his works, technology becomes a silent sculptor – it models the shape of the sound that surrounds us.

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The NEXT festival presents the current work of artists from all over the world, playing live and inspiring contemporary music without genre restrictions. The name symbolizes the combination of the terms "NEW & EXPERIMENTAL".
Original musical techniques and concepts, spontaneous improvisations, raw sounds, acoustic instruments as well as innovative electronics and multimedia projects. Five days of inspiring music and sound art.


𝘏lavný organizer: Atrakt Art
𝘚half-organizers: A4 – space of contemporary culture, INA GRM, Paradiso, Sonic Acts, Bratislava City Gallery
𝘏lavný partner: Art Support Fund
Partners: MČ Bratislava – Staré Mesto, BKIS, Re-Imagine Europe: New Perspectives for Action + EU Creative Europe, Clarion Hotel, Creative Industries Fund NL, ICAS, Galéria mesta Bratislava
Famous media partners: Aktuality, Rádio_FM, Rádio Devín
Publishing partners: 3/4, Citylife, Kapitál, Hudubný život, Swine Daily, plan.art, QYS

╱ NEXT 2025 Advanced Music Festival takes place with support from public funds from the Art Support Fund (main partner), Hlavného mesta SR Bratislava and MČ Bratislava – Staré Mesto.
Co-organized by A4 - space of contemporary culture, as part of the New Perspectives for Action project as part of the international cooperation Re-Imagine Europe, co-financed by the European Union and from public resources from the Fund for the Support of Art and the Foundation of the City of Bratislava. ╱

╱ www.nextfestival.sk ╱
╱ www.gmb.sk ╱