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.

Kerosene Sneeze is a love improvisational project of Loto Retina on drums, Lukas De Clerck on telescopic aulos and drone, Ossia on electronics and effects. As a solo artist and also as member of Alto Fuero duo Loto Retina combines micro-sample chaos and gloopy bass with unpredictable percussion to create a congregation of organic and mechanical sounds. Lukas De Clerck as a composer and musician, he specialises in the aulos: a long-extinct double-reeded Greco-Roman instrument. On his new album The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas, released by Stephen O'Malley’s label Ideologic Organ, De Clerck reinvents the aulos as the eponymous telescopic aulos, which stands upright like a sculpture. Ossia is a key figure of Bristol leftfield bass and dub music, among the founding members of Young Echo collective.

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.

Full lineup coming soon!

Organized by UH Fest in collaboration with Trafó, supported by Trafó and the Municipality of Ferencváros.