The conferences take place at mdw Campus (Sept. 17th & 19th) and TU at the Sky (Sept. 18th).
Thursday, September 17th, 2026
| 9:00am – 10:00am | Registration opens Location: mdw-Foyer Main Building | |||
| 10:00am – 11:15am | Performance & Introduction: Piano Mobile & Welcoming Words by mdw’s Rector Ulrike Sych and the Steering Committee Location: mdw-Campus Outdoor Contemporary Music Improvisation: The Pianomobile Welcome experience Karen Schlimp, Elena Arbonies Jauregui, Gyorgy Kurtag | |||
| 11:30am – 1:00pm | Keynote Lecture I: The intermingled histories of urban and music scenes and how this frames power and value in artistic contexts, Myrtille Picaud, commented by Will Straw Location: mdw-Haydn Hall The intermingled histories of urban and music scenes and how this frames power and value in artistic contexts Myrtille Picaud | |||
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Lunch Location: mdw-canteen | |||
| 2:00pm – 3:30pm | Parallel Session Ia: Listening to Bengal’s Twentieth Century Location: mdw-IKM Large Seminar room Listening to Bengal’s Twentieth Century: The Street, the Parlour, the Studio and states of In-Betweeness Priyanka Basu, Sahana Bajpaie, Sayandeb Chowdhury | Parallel Session Ib: The Street’s Collective Resonance, Everyday Life and Urban Resistance Location: mdw-Fanny Hensel Hall Sounding the Revolution: The Politics of Sonic Resistance in Tehran’s Urban Streets Narciss M.Sohrabi Protest through Music: Kolkata’s R G Kar Protest Movement Somrwita Ghosh “Real Art Must Be Able to See the Streets, and the Best Art—It Has to Move Something”: The Role of Music in Political Action for Refugee Rights Aleksandra Barjaktarević, PTK PTK | Parallel Session Ic: Street Music between Precarity, Commercialization and Social Interaction Location: mdw-Haydn Hall “Always on the Move”: Aging, Precarity, and Well-being among Street Musicians in New York City Melanie Ptatscheck Busk the City! Street Music Festivals as an Urban Cash Machine Alenka Barber-Kersovan Street piano. Sound in the public space – changes of the soundscape and social interaction Cäcilia Weber | Workshop Location: mdw- Clara Schumann Hall Economy of silence Justyna Anders-Morawska |
| 3:30pm – 4:00pm | Coffee Break Location: mdw-Foyer Fanny Hensel Hall | |||
| 4:00pm – 5:30pm | Parallel Session IIa: Contested Soundscapes and Streets Location: mdw-IKM Large Seminar room Sound, Youth, and Urban Conflict in Small-Town Sweden: Is it All About the Bass? Jan-Olof Gullö, Thomas Florén, David Thyrén Vulnerable Sound: Music Between Cultural Value and Noise Regulation Kai Ginkel Sounding the Street: Mobility, Agency, and Sonic Commons in Urban Public Space Asma Mehan | Workshop Location: mdw-Fanny Hensel Hall HÖR:RÄUME – Sound and Listening in Urban Space Anna Schürmer, Franziska Kollinger, Evelyn Buyken | ||
| 4:00pm – 6:00pm | Film Screening at mdw-Arthouse Cinema The Sinking Fringe: Housing, Protest, and the Fight for Collective Urban Futures Mirte Jepma, Benjamin Vanderveen, Alberto Morbelli | |||
| 5:30pm – 6:00pm | Coffee Break Location: mdw-Foyer Fanny Hensel Hall | |||
| 6:00pm – 7:00pm | Parallel Session IIIa: Creating Scenes, Events and Spatial Justice Location: mdw-Fanny Hensel Hall Sounding the City: DIY Music Practices and Urban Transformation in Thessaloniki Alexandra Karamoutsiou Musicking and placemaking in an urban environment Piet Severijnen, Huib Ernste | |||
| 6:00pm – 7:30pm | Parallel Session IIIb: Do-It-Yourself Concerts, Feminist Space and The Ludic City Location: mdw-IKM Large Seminar room Claiming the Space: DIY Concerts in Protesting Neighbourhoods of 2020 Belarus Pavel Niakhayeu DIY parties in the streets: our right to the (ludic) city Isa Nadal-Amengual Women’s Suffrage in the Streets. Protest Culture in first-wave feminism Susanne Heiter | Video Installation: ‘0.05RMP’ mdw-Arthouse Cinema Karl Salzmann | ||
| 7:30pm – 9:30pm | Dinner Location: mdw-Foyer Haydn Hall | |||
| 8:00pm – 9:30pm | Evening Programme: Re-Sounding the Past – Street Organs Performance Location: mdw-Haydn Hall Cosmopolitan Soundscapes of the Past: The Vienniese “Werkelmann” Oliver Maar and his Barrel Organs Oliver Maar | |||
Friday, September 18th, 2026
| 9:00am – 9:15am | Welcome and Introduction: Opening Words by TU Rector Jens Schneider (via video), the Steering Committee and the AESOP TG PSUC Location: TU Wien-TUtheSKy | ||
| 9:15am – 10:30am | Keynote Lecture II: Non-Movements and their Discontents, Asef Bayat, commented by Gabriella Esposito de Vita Location: TU Wien-TUtheSKy Non-Movements and their Discontents Asef Bayat | ||
| 10:30am – 11:00am | Coffee Break Location: TU Wien-TUtheSKy | ||
| 11:00am – 12:30pm | Parallel Session IVa: Performing Public Space – Cultural Citizenship and Urban Rhythms Location: TU Wien – Conference Seminar Room BA 10A Inside/Out, A Sonic Mapping of San Basilio Valentina Vavalà, Monty Williams, Barbara Pizzo Programming the Plaza: Public Stages, State Legitimacy, and Belonging in Mexico City and Los Angeles Alejandro Mercado-Celis, Yolanda Macias A Framework Towards Experimental and Sensorial Street Studies: Socio-Semiotic Challenges and Opportunities Robin Chang, Kai Qing Tan | Parallel Session IVb: Transatlantic Echoes – Diaspora, Resistance, and the Sound of Belonging Location: TU Wien-TUtheSKy Atlantic in Frequency: Urban Musical Encounters and Diasporic Narratives between Dino D’Santiago and Criolo Lúcia Garcia Drawing a path of post-colonial artivist reconciliation: the case of Dino d’Santiago and The Tubarões Paula Guerra ‘I Am Not Portuguese. I Am Portugal’. TheAutoethnographic Trajectory and Crossings of Dino D’Santiago Dino D’Santiago | Parallel Session IVc: Mnemonic Sounds, Urban Belonging and Artistic Interventions Location: TU Wien – Conference Seminar Room BA 10B Music, Migration and Urban Belonging – Theoretical Approaches to Musicking Jie Zhan Mnemonic Sounds of (Be)longing Sangram Shirke, Ebba Högström Artistic Interventions in Public Space: Pianomobile and the Dynamic Soundscape Karen Schlimp |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Parallel Session Va: Contested Street Paths, Performances and Poetry Location: TU Wien – Conference Seminar Room BA 10A Fabulating the city in the way: journeys and performances of musicians and poets on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Danielle Gama Hip Hop Artist as Ethnographer: Moving through Delhi with MC Kode Sarojini Sapru | Parallel Session Vb: Urban Soundscapes – Rights and Resistance Location: TU Wien-TUtheSKy Urban Sounds and Rights to Mobility Pedro Silva Marra Resonance & Resistance: Tracing the Sound of Vienna’s Counter-Culture Wanda Spahl, Conny Zenk | Parallel Session Vc: Grassroots Music Scenes, Queer World-Making and People as Infrastructure Location: TU Wien – Conference Seminar Room BA 10B ONLINE: Building a Hyperlocal Commons: MusicSeen and the Digital Infrastructure of Liverpool’s Grassroots Music Scene Nina Himmelreich Lesbian performance and belonging in the queue outside the women only-club night Venus Rising in Brixton in the 1990s Katherine Griffiths |
| 1:30pm – 3:00pm | Lunch (self-provided) Location: Naschmarkt Various Restaurants (self-provided) We will pre-reserve some seats in a couple of restaurants to facilitate group lunches based on participants’ individual expenses. | ||
| 3:00pm – 4:30pm | Parallel Session VIa: Resonant Cities, Sonic Citizenship and Urban Fabric Location: TU Wien – Conference Seminar Room BA 10A Sounding the City: Outdoor Electronic Co-Sounding as Urban Citizenship Oleksandra Nenko, Otso Aavanranta, Dominik Schlienger, Alejandro Montes de Oca SØØØNS: Rooted 1,ØØØ Meters High in the Sonic Fabric of La Chaux-de-Fonds — The City as a Living Body, Re-Sounding Urban Identity Orane Dourde Knowing the City Through Sound in Post-Industrial Łódź: Aligning Policy Analysis, Research-Based Art, and Participatory Pedagogy Justyna Anders-Morawska | Parallel Session VIb: Sonic Interventions, Street Music Movements and Spatial Controversies Location: TU Wien – Conference Seminar Room BA 10B Noise as Resistance: The “Adenauer SRP+” and the Normative Order of Sound Regulation Aaron Steiner The Leftwing Brass-Streetmusic-Movement in West-Germany (Linke Blasmusikbewegung in der BRD) Wolfgang Martin Stroh Why an opera house? The conflict surrounding the construction of a grand cultural institution Kohei Matsuura | Parallel Session VIc: Sounding Urban Commons Through Collective Agency Location: TU Wien-TUtheSKy From Asphalt to Autonomy: Music and the Making of Temporary Urban Commons in Prague Ondřej Daniel Turnout NYC: An Open Approach to Public Space Performances Matthew Clarke (ncopp o’ beat) Sounding the commons: Autoethnographic Insights from Naples’ blocks (Italy) Lorenzo Lodato, Stefania Ragozino, Sara Federico |
| 4:30pm – 5:00pm | Coffee Break Location: TU Wien-TUtheSKy | ||
| 5:00pm – 7:00pm | Performances: Collective Belonging, Collaborative Music and The Sound of Planning Location: TU Wien Campus – outdoor Reclaiming the Street: Maracatu as Cultural Resistance and Collective Belonging Ariela de Oliveira, Bartira Maués, Mariana Vázquez-Strauss, Isabella Wieser, Kate Dobinger, Lis Eder, Chiara de Zanet, Jade Perucci, Katharina Beclin Conductor Game – Karmesterjáték István Rimóczi, Lea Kőszeghy Kreischverkehr Band Performance Michael Getzner | ||
| 7:00pm – 9:00pm | Evening Social Event: Rhythms of Resistance Location: TU Wien-TUtheSKy Organizers: Sabine Knierbein (TU Wien) and Richard Pfeifer (TU Wien) | ||
| Groove the City – Move the Streets 2026 mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna |
Saturday, September 19th, 2026
| 9:00am – 10:30am | Parallel Session VIIa: Doing Street Music is Doing Democracy Location: mdw-IKM Large Seminar room Grooving the grid: Mapping the spatial ecology of spontaneous vs. programmed music on Ljubljana’s streets and squares Matej Niksic The Looking Glass Cabaret: Storefront Windows as Democratic Stages for Integrated Art During Crisis Chanda VanderHart, Sonja Schebeck Beyond Bourke Street: Melbourne Buskers in the Digital World (ONLINE) Daniel Bacchieri | Parallel Session VIIb: Groove your Veggies Location: mdw-Haydn Hall Groove your Veggies: Markets as Musical Centers in Four Latin American Cities. Beatriz Medeiros, Simone Luci Pereira, Natalia Bieletto-Bueno | Parallel Session VIIc: Street Music as Critique – Housing Movements, Cultural Resistance and Embodied Resonance Location: mdw-Fanny Hensel Hall No club is an island – Linking Jazz clubs to street life in European cities Robin Chang, Gerard Hutter How young people listen to music in the city: Generation Z is going out into the urban space Marek Jeziński Updating Scene for Urban Music Studies – from underground to ‘cultural habitat’ and infrastructure Robin Kuchar | |
| 10:30am – 11:00am | Coffee Break Location: mdw-Foyer Fanny Hensel Hall | |||
| 11:00am – 12:30pm | (Dialogic) Keynote Lectures III: Soundscapes of the Street – Acoustic Territories, Luciana Ferreira Moura Mendonça and Ebba Hoegstroem Location: mdw-Haydn Hall Afro-diasporic soundscapes on the streets: the local, the global and conflict Luciana Ferreira Moura Mendonça Sounds of Cities: Sonic-spatial Encounters and Sonic Fictions in the Urban Realm Ebba Högström | |||
| 12:30pm – 2:00pm | Lunch Location: mdw-Foyer Fanny Hensel Hall | |||
| 2:00pm – 3:00pm | Parallel Session VIIIa: Migrating Sounds and the Making of Urban Belonging Location: mdw-IKM Large Seminar room Soundscape of the Barrio: Urban Spaces and Chicano Rap in Los Angeles Dianne Violeta Mausfeld Looking for a Casa: Musical Resistance and Spatial Precarity of a Samba Collective Chiara De Dominicis, Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, Marco Roque de Freitas | Parallel Session VIIIb: Silent Resistance – Beyond Conventional Music Infrastructures Location: mdw- Clara Schumann Hall When the Sea waves protested Ulrika Varankaitė, Paulina Budrytė Track ID: Streaming Electronic Music – Urban Ordinariness Remix Tianyu Jiang | Parallel Session VIIIc: Underground Music Scenes and Cultural Memory Location: mdw-Haydn Hall Punks not Doom. Magdalena Canales “Das ist unser Haus!” – Leftism, Subculture and DIY aesthetics in the Strees of Berlin Kreuzberg 36 Sidney König | Workshop III Location: mdw-Fanny Hensel Hall Decolonial Situationist Praxis Innocent Kapula |
| 3:00pm – 3:30pm | Coffee Break Location: mdw-Foyer Fanny Hensel Hall | |||
| 3:30pm – 5:00pm | Parallel Session IXa: The Dynamic Interplay between Music and the City Today and Yesterday Location: mdw-IKM Large Seminar room Hang/handpan busking on social media Ahkok Chun-Kwok Wong Resonant Cities: Music and Democracy in Richard Sennett’s Urban Thought” Volker Kirchberg Between struggle and charity: barrel organ playing in Vienna in the 19th century Katharina Pecher, Oliver Maar | Parallel Session IXb: Sonic Negotiations and Resistance Location: mdw-Haydn Hall Contested Soundscapes: The Azaan Row and the Politics of Urban Acoustics in Contemporary India Torsa Saha Sacar la voz – Sonic resistance during the Feminist March 2025 in Mexico City Theresa Osburg Breathing While Black: Street Pressure and Protest Murray Forman | Parallel Session IXc: Street-Based Practices of Urban Resistance Location: mdw-Fanny Hensel Hall Reproducing vibrant communities through music vibrations: reclaiming desertified spaces through the sound of the new millennium Gabriella Esposito Housing is an Open Wound”: Music, Displacement, and Resistance in Portugal’s Tourist-Led Gentrification Inês Barbosa | Sound Walk I Location: Outdoor Vienna (Un)heard Neighbors: A soundwalk on religious sound and silence in Fünfhaus Isabel Frey, Ioannis Christidis, Jana Haab |
| 5:15pm – 6:00pm | Concluding Remarks Location: mdw-Haydn Hall | |||
| 6:30pm – 7:30pm | Sound Walk II: Vienna Sonic Memories Conny Zenk Location: Outdoor: Republic of Kugelmugel, Vienna Prater | |||