After a one-year break, UH Fest is back between 28 September and 4 October! With almost 40 artists from the international and local experimental scenes, the festival celebrates free and adventurous music across Budapest. Two nights are co-hosted by Trafó!

Programme update! Brennan/Kutin (CAN/AT) will perform instead Kerosene Sneeze (BE/FR/UK). 

A French-American artist based in Brooklyn, Leila Bordreuil embraces the cello as a primary medium for crafting an intense music that moves fluidly between noise, contemporary composition, improvisation, and drone, without anchoring itself to defined canons. Mixing melancholic cello melodies with harsh noise walls, she creates “steadily scathing music, favoring long and corrosive atonalities.” (New York Times).Bordreuil challenges conventional approaches to her instrument and uses extreme amplification to summon torrents of noise, tense stillness and a melancholic aura that courses through her sonic flow to the extent she sometimes seems to be playing the P.A rather than her cello. Her panoramic vision of form and genre is reflected in her diverse collaborations with artists including Laurel Halo, Drew McDowall, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore and Tamio Shiraishi.

John Brennan and Peter Kutin is a blast of free jazz, noise and pummelling sonics. Brennan is a drummer/improviser and founding member of Canadian psychedelic freeform ensemble EarthBall, and has collaborated with artists including Chris Corsano, Raven Chacon and John Dieterich. Kutin works across experimental music, electroacoustic sound, kinetic sculpture and film, and is a founding member of Ventil Records, Vienna’s Westbahnstudios, and the trio PLF with Elvin Brandhi and Lukas König. Their appearance at UH Fest marks their first festival performance as a duo.

Limen is Márk Bartha's new deeply personal electroacoustic project: its sonic space was born from experiencing loss and absence, and is constructed and shaped by stripped down microtonal sounds and glissandos performed with cello, double bass and electronics.

Viktor Lois is an outsider, yet a key figure of the 1970's, 80’s and 90’s Hungarian avant-garde. Part of the Szentendre scene along with Bizottság members, contributor of Béla Tarr movies, recently he played at László Krasznahorkai’s book presentation in New York. His signature kinetic sound sculpture mechanics were presented in 1993 at the Biennale di Venezia, but he rarely plays on them in front of the audience. Living in the United States for two decades now, Viktor Lois will present a live performance on one of his sonic sculptures at the opening event of UH Fest 2026.

Organized by UH Fest in collaboration with Trafó, supported by Trafó, Pro Cultura Urbis Public Foundation and the Municipality of Ferencváros.