Heavy Listening w/ h.i.f.f., Rojin Sharafi & Gischt

VLAN returns with HEAVY LISTENINGHEAVY LISTENING puts music first: immersive, patient and made for attentive ears. Ambient, New Age, Dub, Downtempo, Tribal and experimental electronics meet in a format that offers an alternative to the accelerated rhythms of digital culture and the constant pull of short-form content.For the season opener, hiff takes the decks, joined by live sets from Rojin Sharafi and Gischt. Three distinct approaches to electronic music, brought together for an evening of deep listening, spacious sound and carefully curated atmospheres.HEAVY LISTENING - Season Opening Doors 20:00hiff (DJ) Rojin Sharafi (Live) Gischt (Live) hiff is a Vienna based avid music listener and occasional dj. She moves between curated mixtapes and radio shows, as well as more experimental, non-exclusively electronic sounds in a danceable environment. An itch for a broader understanding of djing drives her to quirky places, ways with the joy of listening to music collectively at heart.https://soundcloud.com/ffiihh Rojin Sharafi is a Tehran-born, Vienna-based sound artist, composer, and performer working across electroacoustic music, noise, and experimental electronics. Her visceral sonic language blends analog, acoustic, and digital tools, exploring tension, rupture, and transformation. Praised by The Wire for her “thrilling, variegated” sound world, Sharafi’s latest album O.O.Orifice follows critically acclaimed releases including Urns Waiting to be Fed (2019), Zangaar (2020), and Kariz (2021). She also performs with the folk futurist ensemble HUUUM. Her work has been presented internationally, from London to New York, affirming her as a vital voice in experimental music. https://www.rojinsharafi.com Ursula Winterauer, who performs under the moniker Gischt, is a composer, electronic music producer, and curator based in Vienna. Her practice explores raw sonic structures shaped by digital processes, contrasted with analog warmth and the vulnerability of the human voice. This results in layered compositions that draw on industrial sound aesthetics, combining field recordings, bass guitar, synthesizers, and dense electronic textures into immersive environments. Often developed through close collaboration with musicians and performers, her works function as structural sound scores rather than fixed notation. Winterauer develops pieces for ensembles, works as a sound designer and film composer, and creates compositions for contemporary dance. In addition, she is the bassist of the doom-metal band Eaeres and one half of the noise duo The Answer is No alongside Maja Osojnik. She is the co-founder and label head of Ventil Records, co-organizer and commercial director of the Unsafe+Sounds Festival and was the curator of New Salt – Festival for sonic exploration & digital art within the framework of European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024.https://gischt.xyz With kind support of the City of Vienna/MA 7.