Since 2000 NEXT is the international festival of new and experimental music in the Slovakia (city of Bratislava). Its role is twofold: to present the outstanding personalities from the scene of ‘advanced’ music as well as to give a chance to perform a young upcoming artists from Slovakia and neighboring countries. The additional aim of the festival is to reflect selected trends in multimedia art, related to music.

The festival is focused especially on the musicians both composers and performers. In many cases they are a maverick virtuosos that gave up the ordinary playing techniques or common musical genres in order to find their own unique ‘language’. In the past there had performed several artists representing various countries and the wideness of the improvise music based on a free jazz, live-electronics, electroacoustic pieces, audiovisual performances performed here.