Lyra Pramuk presents Hymnal

Frankie & Battle-Ax open the evening with a live interpretation of their EP Angelwhack – a stark, elegant exchange of cello and violin shaped by noise, FX, and urgent restraint. Their acoustic interplay is rooted in improvisation and years of interdisciplinary performance.


Lyra Pramuk follows with Hymnal, her second full-length album and most expansive live project to date. Drawing from folk, techno, and classical traditions – not in sound but in spirit – Pramuk weaves processed vocals and string ensembles into ceremonial music. Both performances explore string music not as ornament, but as pulse: meditative, transgressive, and in conversation with the club, the cosmos, and the body.


Lyra Pramuk is a composer, vocalist, and performer whose work merges classical vocal training with the emotional charge of pop, the experimental edge of electronic production, and the spiritual roots of folk traditions. Her voice is both instrument and message – processed, layered, and reshaped into a vocabulary that feels ancient and futuristic at once.


Whether in clubs, cathedrals, or on record, Lyra’s music seeks the spaces where technology, identity, and ritual intertwine. With her 2020 debut Fountain, she carved out a distinctive artistic language – immersive, intimate, and post-human. With Hymnal, she expands this language into a vast, symphonic vision. At its core, Hymnal is a call to remember music’s ancient purpose: not as product, but as practice.


As shared medicine. As a form of collective memory and emotional release in times of planetary crisis. The album speaks from and to a trans experience that refuses to separate the personal from the political, the spiritual from the sensual. It’s an invitation to imagine a future where we live in deeper connection – with each other, with the Earth, with the stars.


Hymnal is a collaborative release on !K7’s imprint 7K! and her own pop.soil, out June 2025. pop.soil is an experimental hub and label that nurtures artistic growth, collaboration, and exchange through digital content, releases, events, and an NTS radio show.


Battle-ax is Sydney-born, Vienna-raised violist Beatrix Curran

With improvisation at its core, her performances are as much disruptive as they are refined. Distortion merges with relentless chains of reverb, testing the characteristics of her instrument as a means of both escapism and immediacy. Her debut EP Earther/Lysol (2018) featuring DJ Paypal reinforces the character of her live concerts in a delicate interplay of unfettered expression and rigorous arrangement.

She has performed and curated extensively across the arts, in most recent years as a fixture in collaboration with The Performance Agency. Battle-ax is as much at home in the Marble Hall of the Belvedere Palace as she is playing a noise set on top of a DJ booth with a sprained ankle.


FRANKIE (Franziska Aigner) is a Berlin-based cellist, vocalist, and producer, whose work spans music, performance, and philosophy. With roots in improvisation and experimentation, she has collaborated with artists across music, theater, film and performance, working with figures such as Anne Imhof (Deal, Rage, Angst, Faust), William Forsythe, Austin Lynch, and Thuy Han Nguyen Chi a.o. Her debut EP STYX (2022) and follow-up HEAVEN/HELL (2023) reflect a blend of dark, urgent, and reflective tones, pushing the expressive possibilities of her instrument and voice.


She holds a PhD in philosophy from CRMEP, Kingston University London, and lectures on Modern European philosophy and philosophy of technology at the New Centre for Research & Practice. Her monograph on Kant and technics was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2024.