The eighth instalment of Canti Spazializzati found its space in the beautiful Cinema Hall of the Centre for Audiovisual Technologies, which in the days of the Studio’s operation served as a recording studio and collation venue. The concert opened with the documentary “HOW TO DESTROY TIME MACHINES” about Jeph Jerman’s creative practice, directed by Jacek Piotr Bławut, with a bravura multi-channel soundtrack.
Jeph Jerman – improvising musician and constructor of sound objects, author of over 50 albums of experimental music. Collaborators include Tim Barnes, Greg Davis, Taku Sugimoto, Jon Mueller, Lawrence English, John Hudak and Aaron Dilloway.
http://ribexibalba.com/jj/
PROGRAM:
Magdalena Gorwa – Mrok_i!
Krzysztof Cybulski – Modular Process Music
Beniovska, Hubert Kostkiewicz – VR
Wilhelm Bras – Atomic Gardening – Quadrophonic Live (Excerpts)
ABOUT THE PIECES:
Magdalena Gorwa
Mrok_i!
During the concert, Magdalena Gorwa presented a quadraphonic electro-acoustic composition ‘ Mrok_i ’.
‘- You know what my life reminds me of?
– Well?
– An ice cube thrown on a heated cooker top; it melts before my eyes, and there is nothing I can do.’
Jaroslaw Borszewicz, ‘The Darkness’.
Krzysztof Cybulski
Modular Process Music
During the concert, Krzyszof Cybulski performed a quadraphonic liveact based on the MODULAR PROCESS MUSIC project – custom-built sound objects communicating with each other through sound alone, in the same way as musicians mprovise. Unlike a typical modular synthesiser, instead of connecting the modules via patch cables, each instrument has a speaker and a conference microphone, so they can listen to each other or other external sounds. Some instruments are controlled by sound only, while others can also be controlled manually. The instruments are designed so that their interactions and the process of creating sound can be clearly seen and understood by the audience – visual feedback provides the mechanical movement of the elements.
Beniovska, Hubert Kostkiewicz
VR
Beniovska (#5, #3, #2) and Kostkiewicz (#1), known from previous editions, in a premiere duet.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Krzysztof Cybulski
Composer and sound artist, creator of electroacoustic music, interactive sound objects and installations. Graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. Co-founder of the panGenerator group treating new media art as a laboratory of the future. Winner of Prix Ars Electronica 2017 in the “digital musics & sound art” category. He carried out projects together with Robert Curgenven, Krzysztof Knittel, Anna Zaradny, Norman Leto, Slawomir Wojciechowski.
Beniovska
A representative of the techno and acid house scene in Poland, when she’s humming a bit she also likes to play Bajm. When she is not mixing with a mixer, she is involved in production and multidisciplinary projects of the young artistic body in Poland. A member of the Gnojki collective. She has played live acts and dead sets in local clubs in Poland and Iceland. Currently she is delving into the secrets of field recording while creating intriguing sound stories.
Hubert Kostkiewicz
Guitarist of the band KURWS, with which he played several hundred concerts and released three albums. He is also involved in a number of others, such as Void and Polaroid Android. More recently, he has also been giving vent to his fascination with abstract electroacoustic and improvised music. In concerts he has performed with Lukasz Rychlicki, Mac Moretti, Piotr Lyszkiewicz and Erick Wong, among others. He is also a cultural activist and animator and one of the most experienced concert organizers in Wroclaw.
Paweł Kulczyński
Musician, experimenter and sound artist, author of outdoor concerts, sound installations and theater music. He uses complex methods of synthesis, composition and spatial sound projection, and conducts workshops and sound walks. He is interested in the social and spatial aspects of music, the phenomenology of the audiosphere, acoustics, random events and conceptualism. He creates electronic avant-garde music at the intersection of genres, with an idiom that is difficult to identify. His latest works include themes of mass extinction, planetary mourning and climate crisis. He collaborates with leading festivals and institutions in Poland and abroad. He has performed at festivals including: Unsound in Krakow, New York, Toronto and Bishkeku, Sacrum Profanum, CTM Berlin, Primavera Sound and Gwangju Biennale.
Magdalena Gorwa
Composer experimenting with new means of expression for electronic music and new media. She studies composition at the Academy of Music in Wroclaw, and has won many composition competitions, taking courses under the tutelage of Grazyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil and Johannes Kreidler, among others. She also composes for the theater.
ABOUT THE EVENT:
The concert, together with a screening of the film, took place on 16th of November 2019 in the Cinema Hall of the Audiovisual Technology Centre.
THE TEAM:
Curator: Daniel Brożek
Poster: Karolina Pietrzyk + Mateusz Zieleniewski
Organiser: Fundacja pozyTYwka
CO-organiser: Centrum Technologii Audiowizualnych
Series co-financed by the City of Wrocław.
