Songs of the Speechless – Studio Dan in Concert

Images: Ditz Fejer

October 7 | 6:30 PM

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In Songs of the Speechless, the Vienna-based ensemble Studio Dan launches an artistic intervention for unsettling times. Marking their 20th anniversary, the group responds to today’s growing threats to human dignity and democracy. Not with silence, but with sound.

About the Concert

Premiering live at the ACFNY, this first collection of Songs of the Speechless (March–September 2025) is a cycle of short and very short compositions born in response to January 20, 2025; a date already etched in the history of the 21st century. Studio Dan’s flexible instrumentation and genre-bending style allow the ensemble to raise their musical voice in ever-shifting forms. Urgent, inventive, and deeply human, the concert offers a defiant alternative to speechlessness.

About the Ensemble

Founded in 2005 by trombonist and composer Daniel Riegler, Studio Dan is a genre-defying ensemble working at the intersection of composition, improvisation, and experimental music. Known for collaborations with artists like Ingrid Laubrock, George Lewis, and Anthony Coleman, the ensemble has performed at leading venues including Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Roulette Intermedium New York, and Wien Modern. Their recording Braxton et al. was nominated for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Since 2024, they have curated the concert series YOU BETTER LISTEN at Vienna’s MuTh concert hall.