VietNamNet Bridge – The fifth Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival will take place in Hanoi on April 13-14, with the participation of over ten Vietnamese and foreign DJs.


The festival was initiated by Tri Minh, a Vietnamese electronic artist and event organizer in 2008, making it the first electronic artistic exchange music festival organized in Vietnam.

In 2009, 2010, and 2011, the Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival pushed the boundaries of electronic and experimental music performances in Vietnam, by presenting creative cross-border collaborations between International and Vietnamese musicians and by adding visual artists and installations to the mix.

In 2010 and 2011, the festival expanded its duration from a 1-day to a 2-day program. In 2011, Future Shorts Hanoi, a worldwide short film festival concept, joined the festival.

Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival 2012 is packed with an assorted mix of international and Vietnamese artists and new collaborations and activities, with the aim to reach an even broader range of audiences and music students, to join electronic and experimental performances and events. The Festival will support disadvantaged and disabled children’s development.

In 2012, the Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival will support the Morning Star Centre (MSC), a school for disabled children by raising funds to cover the school fees for poor and disabled children to attend the MSC, and by giving the students new experiences with music by organizing a ‘music afternoon’ in the center with Danish artist Michael Moller and inviting some of the students to participate in the performance in April 13.

The two main festival events are organized on April 13 and 14 in Hanoi. Day 1 (April 13) is a sit-down electronic event with a mix of Japanese, Danish, and Vietnamese artists organized in the courtyard of the Museum of History. The April 13 event will also include a fundraising or challenged and disabled children’s.
Day 2 (April 14) is a DJ dance event with artists from Germany, England, Austrian and Vietnam and with Hanoi Future Shorts and The Onion Cellar showing a set of new short films.

In 2012, Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival will for the first time collaborate with Hue Festival, which has invited a number of the International and Vietnamese artists to perform in Hue on April 10.
This year, Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival will also organize a number of master classes for musicians and music students in both Hanoi and Hue. The master classes will be taught by the International artists and will be organized in collaboration with Hanoi Cultural University in Hanoi and New Art Space in Hue.

Hanoi Sound Stuff Festival will collaborate with Hanoi Grapevine to organize the first ever Art Talk event in Hanoi. This will is an opportunity for interested audiences to hear and talk with German, Austrian, and Vietnamese artists about their experiences as experimental and electronic artists.

Artists 2012

Kimmese: Born in 1991, Kimmese is only 21 years old but speaks with the wisdom of someone much older and sings with the passion of a seasoned professional. For Kim music is the gift of life and no matter where you are, it connects people and creates a more meaningful world.

Manni Montana: Dating back to the 80’s, Vienna’s Manni Montana made his musical premiere playing bass guitar in projects focusing on a variety of sounds including industrial, punk, noise pop and rock. Showing his versatility in the different realms and genres of music, he continued to explore new technical alternatives in order to create original and fresh new sound.

Michael Moller is an award-winning composer and performer living in Copenhagen. He is the lead singer in the band moi Caprice and has released 5 albums with the band. He released a solo album in 2007 and a successful 31-song internet release in 2011. He recently won a Danish Music Award as Innovator of the Year and a Critics Award as Composer of the Year.

DJ SlimV: Born in Hanoi. In 1997 he began to study music and officially went to VietNam National Academy of Music in 1998. He started his DJ career in 2006 with House, Hip Hop. In 2007 he won the 1st place in the French-Vietnamese contest which held by the composer Nguyen Thien Dao who is one of the 10 musicians in the 21st century.

Tim Exile is a software developer, composer and live performer, bringing his work in all these areas together to create a radically new way of approaching composing, improvising and performing.

He has released critically acclaimed albums as such as 2009's Listening Tree, game-changing software products for musicians such as The Mouth and has recently been pioneering new ways of exploding the black box of the musical process with his online jamming project timexile.tv. During the live streamed shows at timexile.tv the online audience can send their own sounds to his machine live from the site while watching.

With the machine which he designed and programmed from scratch himself he creates entire concerts of improvised electronic music, using sounds sourced live from the audience and collaborators on stage.

VtSven von Thülen started DJing in 1997. Coming a long way from jungle and drum and bass, he finally rediscovered his love to house and techno, which had cooled down (after a short but passionate period of home taping early rave classics from the radio at the late 80s and early 90s) in his angry years of adolescence.

Sweet SusieDjane: Electronic composer, and fine artist, Sweet Susie successfully reveals her ability to experiment in several artistic realms and mediums. With ease, she manages to adhere to her authentic sound and style while also exploring new options of innovation.

Takahiro Kido & Yuki Murata: Takahiro Kido is a composer residing in Tokyo, Japan. He started the post-rock band Anoice as a leader & composer. Yuki Murata is a pianist, composer and sound programmer in Saitama, Japan, generally known for her work in the neoclassical/post-rock band, Anoice.   

Tim Exile is a software developer, composer and live performer, bringing his work in all these areas together to create a radically new way of approaching composing, improvising and performing. He has released critically acclaimed albums as such as 2009's Listening Tree, game-changing software products for musicians.

Tri Minh (Doan Huu Thang) is a pioneer electronic artist who has worked/performed with various international and local artists for the last 15 years. After a period of improvising with Jazz music, Tri Minh has started to explore his territory in electronic music.

Thu Ha