MUSIC AFTER NATURE is a festival for music, performance and discourse. Over two days, on 13 and 14 February 2026, the festival in Vienna's Ottakring district offers an opportunity to explore the diverse connections between humans and other living beings, music and technologies, inviting visitors on a sensory journey of discovery into the surrounding area. Art and music are also related to climate change, species extinction and social change in the Anthropocene and post-human convergence. Can we forge a new relationship with landscapes and spaces, plants and animals, instruments, sounds and materials?
This year's edition will feature brand new and existing pieces, performances, improvisations and installations, complemented by selected works from Renaissance music. Musicologist Dr. Susanne Kogler will participate in the discussions. On both evenings, she will lead discussion rounds on the interactions between nature, matter, technology, music and the environment, as well as on the "pre-humanism" of the Renaissance and post-humanism today, with the musicians present, composer and artistic researcher Pia Palme, and the audience.
Further information on the programme