Next Saturday, the pillared hall of the World Museum Vienna will become a vibrating resonance room for an extraordinary sound trip: the Kenyan DJ, producer and sound artist alai k can be experienced live in Vienna for the first time. It will transform the place into a mighty sound space and a spiritual soundscape to the latest exhibition Tabita Rezaire. Calabash Nebula: Cosmological Tales of Connection create.
When Completion and musical climax of an interdisciplinary topic On the occasion of the latest exhibition of the Vienna World Museum, Alai K will offer a performance, which is as a concert as a ritual, as well as musical expedition as artistic statement. He interweaves old musical forms of the Swahili coast with contemporary electronics and thus creates a pulsating, hypnotic sound between voices, loops, percussion and atmospheric depth. Sound becomes the wearer of history, memory and spiritual knowledge.
Alai K became known as the co-founder of the hip-hop collective Ukoo Flani from Mombasa, today his sound goes beyond the underground scene: he is an invitation not only to hear African sound knowledge, but to feel. With his platform Disco Vumbi and publications on renowned labels such as Nyege Nyege Tapes (Uganda) or on the Corner Records (UK), he has long been part of a new generation of African musicians who have traditional forms of music merge with electronic avant -garde – without losing their cultural roots.
For everyone who is interested in progressive forms of music, global artistic networks and new cultural narratives, this Saturday offers a unique opportunity to experience Alai K Live – for a change in a museum.
Soundperformance mit alai k
Date: Saturday, September 20, 2025, 4.30 p.m.
Location: pillar hall of the World Museum Vienna
Free admission | No registration required
For the first time in Vienna: Alai K Live in the World Museum
A sound performance between spirituality, memory and club culture
Datum: September 20, 2025, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Performances/stage
Ort: World Museum Vienna, pillared hall
Heldenplatz, new castle
1010 Wien
Austria
URL: https://www.weltmuseumwien.at/ausstellungen/tabita-rezaire/?start=2025/09/18&page=1#rahmenprogramm
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