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On Thursday, November 19th, at Močvara, the onkraj program will mark the conclusion of a year spent peering beyond the edges of conventional concert, club, ambient, and collective listening experiences. Onkraj explores events of various formats and flavors, driven by a curiosity about how we listen to sound and music—as well as how we listen to ourselves and one another. Since September 2025, this pursuit has taken on many forms.
Wild club nights—fueled by Latin club and leftfield bass sounds, sensuality, and free expression through drag, elaborate monstrous costumes, or vogue—set in the scenographically transformed AKC Attack ablaze. Deep-listening zones for ambient, experimental, and noise performances were crafted—sometimes as a cozy living room amidst the mystical chill of autumn, other times as a spring grove dappled with colorful lights, where an approaching storm choreographed the movement of the treetops. A walk through the silence of a city cemetery at night laid bare both the presence and the absence of urban sounds. Creative workshops explored modes of collective listening, music-making through play with production software, and feminist spirituality expressed via perreo dance. The connective tissue of the program consists of intimate listening sessions—held monthly at the Suputnici gallery—where participants share their favorite albums and engage in open conversations about how we experience music, how we connect with it, and how we integrate it into our own inner worlds.
Dissolving into clouds of smoke, dazzling light, electronics, and guitar distortion—interdisciplinary and performance artist, composer, DJ, and vandal in high heels, SUUTOO, presents STARFIRE: a loud, blinding audiovisual experience forged through punk expression and improvisation. Blending performance, visual art, and club culture—and remaining inseparable from the artist’s broader body of work—STARFIRE demands a total sensory immersion into her subversive world. In SUUTOO’s own words: “Whoever said ‘The only good system is a sound system’ really ate.”
Accordingly, another artist who will take over the stage in Močvara is Ljubljana-based synth enthusiast Ribeiroia. Her singer-songwriter approach to electronic music crafts a nostalgic-yet-futuristic pop, which dissolves into emotional ambient waves before scattering into glitchy beats. Her debut album, Limerence—released via the audiovisual label P-A-G-A-T—evokes the soundtrack to a surreal video game, shifting seamlessly from theatrical elegance to frenetic drops.
The evening will kick off with the Zagreb-based “infamous indie” band kaleido, who balance raw dissonance and noisy outbursts with beautiful melodies and vocal harmonies. Their sound—straddling the line between post-rock and emo—is defined by a distinct sense of stripped-back vulnerability; small imperfections, moments of fragmentation, and subsequent reunions create an intimate atmosphere. Fresh off the release of a new album, they will guide us—gently yet noisily—into this distorted evening.
Tickets are available via tootoot.fm for 17 EUR; on the day of the event, the price will be 20 EUR. Ticket link: https://tootoot.fm/en/events/6adf7f2ad12d8fff43ddf7ff
If anyone interested is unable to afford the ticket price, please feel free to reach out via the onkraj inbox or at onkraj.events@gmail.com.
The onkraj 2026 program is supported by the City of Zagreb’s City Office for Culture and Civil Society.
