LIVE@LOT: JOZEF VAN WISSEM
01. Nov. 2026, 20:00 – 22:00
Das LOT, Wien, Absberggasse 31, 1100 Wien, Österreich
22€ VVK
25€ AK
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Jozef Van Wissem is an avant-garde composer and lutenist who plays a unique all black baroque lute. His timeless music is often described as hypnotic, minimal, and hauntingly atmospheric, merging beauty with a dark, meditative edge. His lyrics have a mythical Christian appeal, incorporating themes of love, faith, and the afterlife, often with a repetitive, mantra-like quality. Bridging classical traditions with modern sounds like drones, electronics, field recordings and voice.
He collaborates with filmmaker and musician Jim Jarmusch, including the award winning soundtrack for "Only Lovers Left Alive", for which Van Wissem won the Cannes Soundtrack Award in 2013. He also scored the Sims Medieval Video game ( 2011), Uncle Howard ( 2016) Land (2018), Irma Vep (2022), Queens (2023) and Un Prince (2024). He did a world tour in duo with Jim Jarmusch in 2025 and their 5th record “ The Day The Angels Cried” was released.
Van Wissem tours extensively, performing in diverse venues from rock festivals to churches, and has worked with artists like Tilda Swinton and Zola Jesus. In 2019 he was commissioned by Cinematheque Francaise to score the silent horror film Nosferatu (1922). He released the soundtrack in 2022 on his own Incunabulum label. The New York Times wrote: Beginning with a solo played on the lute, his performance will incorporate electric guitar and distorted recordings of extinct birds, graduating from subtlety to gothic horror. “My soundtrack goes from silence to noise over the course of 90 minutes,” he said, culminating in “dense, slow death metal.” In 2024 Van Wissem did a sold out nationwide American tour with the film. He has scored numerous feature films and documentaries.
In 2024 Van Wissem was commissioned to score the silent film The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1928). In 2026 he will premiere his new live score for The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920).
In 2026 Van Wissem comes back to Vienna, presenting his newest masterpiece "This Is My Blood".
He will be performing all new material consisting amongst others of cinematic hypnotist slide lute pieces evoking contemporary deserted landscapes.
