Next

Next is an international festival of new and experimental music organised annually by Atrakt Art in Bratislava since 2000. Its main role is twofold: to present outstanding personalities from the international scene of 'advanced' music and to offer upcoming young musicians from Slovakia and neighbouring countries a chance to perform on stage. An additional aim of the festival is to reflect selected trends in multimedia art, related to music.

The festival focuses particularly on musicians, both composers and interpreters. In many cases these are a virtuosos that have given up ordinary playing techniques or common musical genres in order to find their own unique 'language'. Since 2000 the festival has showcased the work of numerous artists representing various countries and a wide range of improvised music based on free jazz, live-electronics, electroacoustic pieces, audiovisual performances etc.