This soundwalk by Messy Sensing is an invitation to reflect on the selective perception involved in interacting with urban spaces.
What are the sounds we are looking for and the ones we try to escape from? How does attraction and discomfort shape our paths in a park, between the desired and the unwanted? During the multisensory walk, we will collectively practice attentive listening to the uncomfortable and tune in to different kinds of privilege inscribed into walking in a park.
Meeting point:
Forum Stadtpark, Stadtpark 1, 8010 Graz
Voicing Places spring 2026 edition is kindly supported by BMWKMS.
be-sides 03
Im Namen des Ministeriums für Periphere Angelegenheiten und des Kollegs für Unwahrscheinliche Ereignisse wird hiermit amtlich verlautbart:
Wir öffnen die Tür zur Rückseite der Rückseite:
be-sides 03 findet exakt zur unbestimmten Stunde zwischen zwei Sicherheiten statt.
Das Nachtcafé des Forum Stadtpark, einem Ort, dessen Existenz nur unter Bedingungen gedämpften Lichts und übermäßiger Skepsis nachgewiesen werden konnte, wahrnehmbar ausschließlich für die Unaufmerksamen. Wir hören das, was nicht gesendet wurde. Hier ist alles etwas leiser, aber nichts weniger schief. Kaffee wird in negativen Mengen ausgeschenkt, alle Getränke sind theoretisch. Eine Nacht, die sich selbst zitiert, ein Kaffeefleck im Raum-Zeit-Kontinuum des Forum Stadtpark.
›be-sides‹ ist ein Experiment im Abseits:
ein Raum für das Nicht-Gehörte, das Fehlgegangene, das Beiläufige.
Ein Abend für die, die sich in Schleifen verheddern, in Echo-Räumen wohnen oder Glitches sprechen.
Diesmal mit:
Julia Caballera
Lake Urumia
Und wie immer:
Ein Drink, der dich vergisst.
Ein Raum, der nur im Rückspiegel existiert.
Ein Club, der sich selbst nicht ganz glaubt.
be-sides 03 – für die Nicht-Identischen, alle, die lieber Nebenwirkung sind, die sich unabsichtlich verwandeln und all jene, die sich jemals mit einem Echo verwechselt haben. Gemäß der Allgemeinen Theorie der Ausnahme ist die Anwesenheit aller, die nicht anwesend sind, verpflichtend.
Das Publikum wird gebeten, verspätet zu erscheinen, frühzeitig zu gehen
und währenddessen fortwährend woanders zu bleiben.
Mi, 29.10.25, 20-24Uhr
Lake Urumia is a solo project of @reza.kellner , Iranian-Austrian multimedia artist who explores enduring forms, long and minimalistic compositions, slow movements and immersive atmospheres. His compositions are subtle, permeated by aural textures and stretching outwards to the thresholds of silence and noise. Half of Graz-based artistic duo Messy Sensing.
Lake Urumia will be contributing a live set.
Amalgam: Foreign Bodies | 24.09.-28.09. | Hornig Areal: Waagner-Biro-Straße 39
in cooperation with @steirischerherbst
The lineup for Hydrotherapy 2025 keeps growing! We’re thrilled to present another artist performing with collectives Ssesi & AVA on 30–31 August. More info soon!
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Lake Urumia je sólový projekt @reza.kellner , íránsko-rakouského multimediálního umělce, který zkoumá jednoduché formy, dlouhé minimalistické kompozice, pomalé pohyby a imerzivní atmosféry. Jeho skladby jsou subtilní, prostoupené mezerami ticha, svádějící k pozornému poslechu. Nechte se vtáhnout do zážitku hlubokého poslechu, který zostřuje tělo i mysl.
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Lake Urumia is a solo project of @reza.kellner , Iranian-Austrian multimedia artist who explores simple forms, long and minimalistic compositions, slow movements and immersive atmospheres. His compositions are subtle, permeated by gaps of silence, seducing us to listen closely. Get involved in a deep listening experience that sharpens both body
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~𝓡𝓮𝓰𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓮𝓽𝓼~
https://tally.so/r/mYl6Dd
~𝓕𝓸𝓻 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓲𝓷𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷, 𝓯𝓸𝓵𝓵𝓸𝔀 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓕𝓑 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽 (🔗𝓫𝓲𝓸) 𝓸𝓻 𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓘𝓷𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓶!
About our collaborative work with @reza.kellner on the narrative performance < XHU خو > at @cafewolfgraz . First time using @instrumentsofthings SOMI-1 and performing in this historic venue!!
Thanks to @matea.aina for her beautiful footage
Mahtab Miandehi and Reza Kellner present XHU ( خو ).
@cafewolfgraz
20:00 21.05.2025
A collaborative and adventurous entity manoeuvring between poetic maximalism and intensity driven improvisations.
Incorporating midi chaos, string sound objects, and sensor articulations the project will be a rhizomatic diffusion of sonic fragments and textures.
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Reza Kellner is a shapeshifting experimental musician and multimedia. Over the past decade, he has inhabited multiple sonic identities, performing under various monikers at renowned stages including Elevate Festival, Unsafe+Sounds, and the Institute for Sonic Welfare.
Mahtab Miandehi is a violinist, sound artist and researcher. Her practice spans a broad spectrum from acoustic and electro-acoustic music across various media to the creation and performance of contemporary works. She has performed and presented her works at IRCAM Forum Paris, Ö1 Austrian Public Radio, Schauspielhaus Graz, among others.
Murky Voices
by Messy Sensing (Reza Kellner and Anna Jurkiewicz)
raum, Griesgasse 26, 8020 Graz
18-22.02.2025
opening hours: 16:00-20:00
soft opening: Di 18.02.2025 18:00
closing concert with Keyvan Paydar and Anna Jurkiewicz: Sa 22.02 18:00
Murky Voices attempt to interview Mur/Mura and hear its non-human stories on the move. The listening is entangled with swirling waves of human voices and perspectives on the presence and agency of Mur river in Graz. Travelling sediments and sensations soaking with murky Mur water. Sometimes deafening noise, sometimes whispers in wet wrinkles. Bodies craving the immersion in cold fluid. Dams, vibrating bridges, storm canals. The quick silent shine of a kingfisher near Augarten. What do we hear, feel and remember when we walk by the river? What and who is absent in our perception?
Sheasheushiishhhhhshsheaeshuee.
The exhibition consists of a selection of works created within the River Becoming project in 2024. They include audio and video installations, printed photography and texts presenting the outcomes of artistic research on Mur river, field recordings, interviews, and scores for Mur soundwalks.
Six soundwalks took place along the Mur, facilitated by artists who approached the river with their own ways of listening. In that process, Mur became a collaborator, a witness, and a medium. The results—scores, fragments of text, poetic reflections, and a selection of photographs—have been gathered into a booklet. This collection, a map of the river’s rhythms, roars, and silences, will also be presented in the exhibition, offering visitors a chance to retrace the paths of these sonic explorations.
by Reza Kellner and Anna Jurkiewicz
with contributions from Chloé Ryo, Anton Tkachuk, Eva Ursprung, Lain Iwakura
With many thanks to everyone who shared their Mur stories!
supported by Stadt Graz and Land Steiermark
