Ąsąbąble: Akorduszki

This sto­ry real­ly hap­pened. Even if it hap­pened a very long time ago. Even if it hap­pened only in some­one’s head. We will tell it to you through sounds, move­ment, shad­ow and… wind. We will lis­ten to accor­dion music.

The inspi­ra­tion for the inter­ac­tive con­cert “Ako­r­dusz­ki” are James Fry’s works steeped in mytho­log­i­cal themes: Odyssey Suite and Hal­cy­on days for solo accor­dion. The minia­tures that make them up are per­fect­ly suit­ed to a child’s per­cep­tion, and their rich­ness of colour, tex­ture and dynam­ics deserve the atten­tion of small ears. Between the pieces we will hear sto­ries about Odysseus return­ing home, about Aeo­lus who gave him an extra­or­di­nary gift, about the Four Winds, each of which sound­ed com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent, and about Posei­don — lord of the seas. These sto­ries will be illus­trat­ed on stage by actress­es Natalia Leszczyńs­ka and Anna Sza­w­iel, who will invite every­one to join in. Togeth­er with them we will hum, make noise and bring the char­ac­ters to life. Musi­cian, impro­vis­er and com­pos­er Paweł Janas will guide us into the world of all the accor­dion’s moods. And the but­tons, bel­lows, tun­ing reeds and reg­is­ters will hold no secrets from you!

Per­form­ers:

Paweł Janas accor­dion­Na­talia Leszczyńs­ka, Anna Sza­w­iel ani­ma­tions and nar­ra­tionsAn­na Sza­w­iel script

About the series

ĄsąBąble are per­for­ma­tive con­certs of new music for fam­i­lies with chil­dren aged 0–7. Each one is based on an orig­i­nal script in which lis­ten­ing to music, inter­ac­tive play and edu­ca­tion­al val­ue are equal­ly impor­tant. In a child-friend­ly space, one can lis­ten to music by lead­ing con­tem­po­rary com­posers in a ver­sion and pro­por­tion adapt­ed for small ears. The the­atri­cal for­mat of the con­certs encour­ages con­cen­tra­tion and allows one to be enchant­ed by the sounds, while the invi­ta­tion to join in impro­vi­sa­tions releas­es the nat­ur­al need for expres­sion in small peo­ple. In the spir­it of Janusz Kor­cza­k’s words “There are no chil­dren, there are peo­ple,” all par­tic­i­pants are treat­ed with respect and have their share in the course of the event. The series presents exclu­sive­ly music of the 20th and 21st cen­turies. A con­stant ele­ment is the pre­sen­ta­tion of a record­ing of a sym­phon­ic work or one from the sound design and elec­tron­ics tradition.

Although each edi­tion of ĄsąBąble takes musi­cal fab­ric as its start­ing point, it also abounds in non-musi­cal con­texts close to Hash­tag Ensem­ble’s prac­tice: lit­er­ary, visu­al and social. The events are inter­dis­ci­pli­nary: also involved are invit­ed artists who have long been cre­at­ing in close prox­im­i­ty to chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion: dancers, per­form­ers, illus­tra­tors and writ­ers. The­atre is the nat­ur­al field of action of new music, and so the edu­ca­tion­al char­ac­ter of the ĄsąBąble series also encom­pass­es actors’ train­ing for musicians.

The cura­tor and host of the series is Anna Sza­w­iel — actress and voice artist, spe­cial­iz­ing in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al events. She likes to work at bound­aries: between con­cert and per­for­mance, edu­ca­tion and play, phys­i­cal­i­ty and abstrac­tion, always in con­nec­tion with chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion. The con­cert pro­grams are co-cre­at­ed by musi­cians of Hash­tag Ensemble.

The ĄsąBąble project cre­ative­ly devel­ops the con­cept of the “Smykow­iz­je” series of the foun­da­tion “Muzy­ka jest dla wszys­t­kich,” with­in which in the years 2016–2022 Hash­tag Ensem­ble and Anna Sza­w­iel joint­ly per­formed over 130 con­certs and mini-per­for­mances, search­ing for the most inter­est­ing forms of pre­sent­ing new music. The cre­ator of the con­cept and cura­tor of Smykow­iz­je was Anna Kierkosz. It was the first series in Poland addressed to the very youngest, in which con­tem­po­rary music played the lead­ing role.

The media patron of the event is the mag­a­zine Kos­mos dla Dziew­czynek. The Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of War­saw. The media patron of the Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is Dwój­ka Pol­skie Radio and POLMIC​.PL.

Tickets

60 PLN