ZÜNDVORGANG 2026

Sara Persico is an Italian sound artist, composer and performer whose work explores the intersection of voice, analog electronics and field recordings. She has established herself as a significant presence in experimental music, with performances at celebrated venues and festivals including Berlin Atonal, documenta fifteen, Ballroom Blitz Beirut, CTM Festival, Nyege Nyege Festival, Ormside Projects, Dancity Festival, and Santarcangelo Festival.

Her collaborative practice spans diverse artistic communities, notably performing with Evelyn Saylor's vocal ensemble for Caterina Barbieri's light-years at Rewire Festival and London's Southbank Centre. Her artistic partnerships extend to work with Elvin Brandhi, Andy Moor(The Ex), Tony Elieh, Ludwig Wandinger, Dirar Kalash, and Francesca Grilli.

Persico's critically acclaimed solo debut album, Boundary, was released in March 2023 on Karlrecords, followed by her sophomore work Sphaîra in February 2025 on Subtext Recordings. Her innovative approach to sound has earned her selection for the Shape+ Platform 2023/24, a European initiative championing pioneering music and interdisciplinary art.

Jakob Schauer is a musician, performer and sound artist with an extensive CV of solo and collaborative performances featuring fixed media as well as audio-visual formats, both improvised and composed. 

His visually and emotionally evocative sceneries are created by analog and synthetic sources in an attempt to build hyper-realistic atmospheres. Interested in designing sounds as physical entities in a material reality and the creation of figurative sonic gestures, his approach to sound is visual, spatial and interdisciplinary.

He has performed at a wide range of city and festivals that include Unsafe&Sound, Klangmanifeste, Lichtfest Krems, Sonic Territories or Playground AV Festival and designed spatial sound installation, multi media installations and art works in virtual reality for various contexts.

His discography includes releases on ForWind, Smallforms, Moozak and Beachbuddiesrecords where his focus has been on music and sound that falls under the contemporary, electro-acoustic, ambient and noise umbrella.

He spends a considerable amount of time developing his music and ideas into a magnetic mix of deep drones, eerie atmospherics and blissful melancholy with a good dash of humour in his surreal and vibrant output.

He is the curator of the concert row „Wow! Signal“ and the annual “Wow Signal Festival” for audiovisual arts.

dj mackerschreck is a DJ living in Innsbruck, Austria, where she is part of EAT network. She is constantly trying to transform the scene and make it more accessible for marginalized people. Mainly she is focusing on fighting racism and patriarchal structures, especially in the "woke" club scene and taking a stand against the white, hedonistic club culture and drawing the audience's attention back to the music and the sound.

Her diverse identity is also reflected in her music, where there are no limits to the genre and tempo: Influenced by the hip hop and RnB sound of the 90s and 00er, she likes to play electro, dembow, breaks, drum & bass and trance.

FUAD is a diverse sound experimenter who has spent the last decade in the Drum’n’Bass genre and, since 2019, has been driven by new musical impulses. His sound combines driving rhythms, powerful basslines, and atmospheric pad sounds into a harmonious fusion. With a wide range of elements, including Breakbeat, Amen breaks, and Techno, he pays homage to UK Bass in his sets and mixes.