Xciting

01/08/2024

Tickets for Xciting 2024 are on pre-sale NOW! 😍💥

🎟 order your tickets at the link in our info.

💡 You can purchase tickets for either one or both of the festival days.

💎 Line-Up 💎
▶️ Susana Santos Silva, Bios Contrast (Nilotpal Das), Pierre Bastien, OFFICINE, HHY & The Macumbas

#2024 Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V.

25/07/2024

💎 INTRODUCING: Pierre Bastien

Pierre Bastien continues to compose with a screwdriver 🪛

His sound devices are made exclusively of raw, physical materials: metal, reed, horsehair, water, ebonite, wood... 💧🪵 all powered by electric motors 🎛🎶

His constructions have become increasingly compact and miniaturized so that they can now be inserted onto the small volume of a trumpet mute. They add explosions of water bubbles, bow strokes, flute flights, percussion, sanza riffs and harmonium chords to the trumpet sounds making it an orchestra of multiple timbres 💥

💡🎟 festival tickets will be available in pre-sale from August 1st and at the box office.

#2024 Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V.
📸 1: Le Petit Soir; 2: Katja Stonewood; 4:0 Parameters

18/07/2024

💎 INTRODUCING: Bios Contrast (Nilotpal Das)
Nilotpal Das will have his first appearance outside Asia and play his first ever show in Europe at Xciting 2024! 🎶

Born in Kolkata, India in 2001, Nilotpal Das got into learning music production through YouTube tutorials and self-improvised methods. He made some releases and started doing unpaid DJ performances a few years later.

Not long after, his music shifted from electronic towards instrumental and performance-oriented. In 2020 he started his solo project Bios Contrast to experiment with storytelling through sonic pieces, real events, physical objects and Natural phenomena.

In 2023 he dived more into experimental music and started a side project under Nilotpal Das where he releases music that doesn't fall under any genre or description.

💡🎟 festival tickets will be available in pre-sale from August 1st and at the box office.

#2024 Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V.

13/07/2024

⏰2 months to go! 🔥
Mark your calendars for Xciting 2024 „The Instrument Edition“ on September 13th and 14th 🎶

🌍 We’ve got some incredible uprising and established instrumentalists from all around the globe on our line-up who’ll be joining us for two unforgettable nights at Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V.!

#2024

08/07/2024

💎 INTRODUCING: Susana Santos Silva

Susana Santos Silva is a Portuguese trumpeter, improviser and composer based in Stockholm, Sweden.

“One of the most exciting improvisers in the world” (Downbeat), Susana’s artistic approach is influenced by classical, improvised and contemporary music, jazz and textural sound art. She loves expanding the sonic possibilities of her instrument, and creatively exploring the dissolution of boundaries of perception, genre and media.

Much in demand, she has performed with musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Joëlle Léandre, Mats Gustafsson and Ictus Ensemble, just to name a few.

💡🎟 festival tickets will be available in pre-sale from August 1st and at the box office.

#2024 Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V.

04/07/2024

💎 XCITING 2024 Line-Up! 💎
▶️ Susana Santos Silva
▶️ Nilotpal Das
▶️ Pierre Bastien
▶️ OFFICINE
▶️ HHY & The Macumbas

Can’t wait to see you all in September at Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V. in Stuttgart!

💡🎟 tickets will be available in pre-sale from August 1st and at the box office.

#2024

28/06/2024

Preparations are underway for XCITING 2024 kicking off in September! 🥳

In the meantime, we're reminiscing about the festival editions of these past years to get hyped for this year 🔥

We have great artists and a beautiful venue to celebrate some Xciting music! Stay tuned for more info!

#2024

26/06/2024

03/04/2024

Soon more info about XCITING 2024

26/09/2023

Another Xciting Festival is over.
What‘s left are memories of unforgettable moments, the beautiful photos by Florian Siegert, some audio recordings that will eventually see the light of day and an ear-ringing…

Thanx to all of you! 🖤

10/09/2023

Surprise! Sisterbitch will close X5 with one of her notorious sets 🖤
Sisterbitch / 16.9. / Container City

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Sisterbitch comes from the Stuttgart suburbs and has loved playing loud music systems since she was a child. What the neighbours wouldn't let her do, she found on the Wasen between Breakdance No 1 and Boxauto - the best sound systems in town.
In addition to all the freestyle and commercial rap, she was also influenced by Bollywood and Car service station music as a daughter of a trucker.
This transformed into a love of voluminous sound games between noise, instrumental grime, Miami bass and ambient. There are no limits to the Bpm. Technoid fairground soul with a bit of delicatessen paranoia served on sound plates (wav + vinyl).

10/09/2023

§Enjoy this poster for Shapednoise 🩸
Shapednoise / Live 16.9. / Container City

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10/09/2023

Shapednoise / Live 16.9. / Container City 🩸

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Footage from „Shapednoise - Know Yourself feat. Brodinski & Zelooperz (Official Video)“
Video by

Full Video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=acDUFFgU51Q

10/09/2023

Another day, another artist:
will play on 16.9. at Container City 🩸

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Born on the ancient island of Sicily and now based in Berlin, Nino Pedone is a sound designer, producer, DJ, and label founder who's best known for his work as Shapednoise.
He sculpts perplexing, mangled electronic textures, fusing them with abrasive, expertly designed rhythms and crashing across genre boundaries, pulling inspiration from industrial music, hardcore continuum, experimental noise, hip-hop, and rap.
Pedone's idiosyncratic technique has evolved across four vastly different releases: 2013's Opal Tapes-released 'Until Human Wakes Us,

' 'Different Selves' released on
Type in 2015, 2019's 'Aesthesis' on Scottish imprint Numbers, and 'Absurd Matter,' the inaugural release of his own multidisciplinary platform WEIGHT LOOMING. The latter is Pedone's most ambitious full-length
to date, structuring his ear-bending
sonic experimentation into unstable but familiar patterns and featuring guest spots from Armand Hammer, Brodinski, Dean Hurley, Moor Mother, and ZelooperZ.

📸 .leonardo

#2023

03/09/2023

Beautiful poster for Luis Fernandes 🎶
Luis Fernandes / Live / 15.9. at Werkstatthaus

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03/09/2023

Luis Fernandes Live at X5 / 15.9. at Werkstatthaus 🎶
His performance at X5 will be different from what you see in the video - but enjoy it anyways!

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Footage taken from „IN A LANDSCAPE Joana Gama e Luís Fernandes“ © SubPalco Teatro Viriato

Full video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9ZyAntqd3E&t=267s

31/08/2023

Next guest for X5 is Luis Fernandes (PT) 🖤
Live on 15.9. at Werkstatthaus

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Luís Fernandes' artistic activity has been marked by a multiplicity of approaches and formats, divided into collective projects, occasional collaborations and individual work; by performances,
compositio and exhibition; and by the establishment of
relationships with different disciplines.
His career has been marked by encounters with a wide range of artists, including Hans-Joachim Roedelius/Qluster, Black Bombaim, Rhys Chatham, Pierce Warnecke, André Gonçalves, Lloyd Cole, Lisbon Metropolitan Orquestra, João Pedro Rodrigues / João Rui Guerra da Mata or Salomé Lamas.
In 2019 Fernandes added a new dimension to his individual activity, with the release of "Demora" (Room40) and "Seis Peças Sintetizadas" (Holuzam), albums that he signed, for the first time, in his own name. It is from this body of work that a new stage on his career is settled.
His last record "A guide to getting lost" (Revolve), and the exploration of real-time electronics will be the starting point for a series of shows, in which Fernandes will weave particular
compositions in the moment, walking a fine line between the possibility of error and the dazzle of discovery.

30/08/2023

Poster for Elvin Brandhi (UK)
Live / 14.9. INS BLAUE 🌪️

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30/08/2023

A glimpse how Elvin Brandhi sounds live 🌪️
Elvin Brandhi Live on 14.9. INS BLAUE
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Footage taken from EP007///Part I - Elvin Brandhi [LIVE SET] © Irsh Cairo

Full Video here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yiS26KxwTaI&t=21s

29/08/2023

Next artist is 🖤
Live on 14.9. INS BLAUE

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Elvin Brandhi is an improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist from Bridgend, Wales, who builds aberrant beats from field recordings, tape, vinyl, instrument and voice. Using sound and voice as an expansive language transgressing intrinsic systemics and inherited syntactical etiquettes, her live shows are unyielding bursts of erupting animation where her caustic stream of consciousness cavorts with restless, glitched out heaviness. Her creative momentum comprises a range of collaborations and an endless nomadism.
Her first E.P ‘Shelf life’ was released on ‘C.A.N.V.A.S’ in 2018. She one half of father / daughter noise-improv berserkers Yeah You who released on Alter, Slip, Opal, Psychik Dancehall and Good Food. She also performs in collaborations such as the Avril Spleen project with Joseph Jadame (maltash), Bahk with Daniel Blumberg (MUTE), as well as contributions to Drew Mcdowall’s agalma, just to name a few.

28/08/2023

Poster for Elisa Kühnl (DE)
Live at KULTUR KIOSK on 13.9.

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26/08/2023

Elisa Kühnl Live on 12.9. KULTUR KIOSK 🖤
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Footage taken from „Elisa Kühnl / Makroscope 2018“
Makroscope, Mülheim an der Ruhr - 15th june 2018

Full Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7hfqT4cL9c&t=429s

26/01/2023

Xciting Xtra presents TEUFELSKELLER + support. May 6, PKW, Stuttgart.
More info later.

Антон Пономарев — саксофонКонстантин Королёв — басАндрей Ким — барабаныКонстантин Косенков — продюсированиеДанила Лошак — камера 1 & post-prodJohnny Newman —...

25/09/2022

T H A N K Y O U !!!
Thank you all for coming by the last to days and making XCITING XY a great success.
And also a big thank you to our partners at Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V. and PRISMA and all the incredible artists: Duma KE, Contagious, Lu Rizzo, SDEM Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg, Carthage, DIAMONDS.

See you next year for a new XCITING edition!

Credits: Florian Sieger

24/09/2022

FWhat an incredible start of XCITING XY yesterday!
Thank you to Duma, Contagious and Lu Rizzo for this great evening.

TODAY ⏩ Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V.:

Ditterich von Euler-Donnerspergg
carthage
SDEM

8 PM - Nordbahnhofstraße 1, 70191 Stuttgart.

Credits: Florian Sieger

23/09/2022

Setting up the stages for some great things to come at Prisma today & Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V. tomorrow!

XCITING XY starts TODAY 🖤

Pass by and check out today @ Prisma, Cannstatt:
Lu Rizzo
Contagious
Duma

Tickets at: pretix.eu/Xciting/xy