Speechless i Non-adaptive Dance Music

We invite you to a dance solo and a con­cert. An expe­ri­ence of sound and move­ment — on cross­ing bound­aries and mak­ing new discoveries.

Speech­less:

A dance solo for body and loop­er. The voice is some­thing very per­son­al and dis­tinc­tive, respond­ing to its sur­round­ings and con­nect­ing what is inside the body with what is out­side it. Lan­guage and speech are part of the body in the sense that they stim­u­late neu­rons, organs, sens­es. Lan­guage and speech are con­nect­ed to rhythm, sound, into­na­tion, breath, as well as to images of that body (J‑L. Nan­cy Cor­pus). How can the body be shown in a way that avoids mark­ing it or ascrib­ing mean­ing to it?

Per­form­ers:

Alek­san­dra Nowakows­ka dance, sound­sAn­drzej Józe­fczyk electronics

Non-adap­tive Dance Music

Where do the bound­aries of dance music lie? Are behav­iors con­nect­ed to music adap­tive? How can rur­al music exist today? Non-adap­tive Dance Music is research at the inter­sec­tion of Pol­ish dance music in crudo with live elec­tron­ics. The duo draws inspi­ra­tion from the sound of archival record­ings of rur­al music, Pol­ish elec­tron­ic tra­di­tions from the Exper­i­men­tal Stu­dio of Pol­ish Radio, and the appli­ca­tion of machine-learn­ing algo­rithms in music.

Per­form­ers:

Andrzej Józe­fczyk electronics

Maria Stępień vio­lin, drum, vocals

Pro­duc­tion:

Artis­tic con­cept, text: Alek­san­dra Nowakowskapro­duc­tion: Aga­ta Krys­tekvi­su­al iden­ti­ty: Alek­san­dra Œdak­Sound engi­neer­ing: Kos­ma Standera

Find out more about the artists:

Alek­san­dra NowakowskaShe cur­rent­ly stud­ies at the Insti­tute of Applied The­atre Stud­ies in the Chore­og­ra­phy and Per­for­mance pro­gramme in Giessen (Ger­many) and is a grad­u­ate of the The­atre and Dance Fac­ul­ty in Bytom. She has cre­at­ed act­ing and dance works, co-cre­at­ed doc­u­men­tary the­atre pro­duc­tions and ethno­graph­ic projects. Beyond the son­ic lay­er of dance, she is inter­est­ed in the top­ic of place and body mem­o­ry — the process of cre­at­ing one’s own paths and imbu­ing them with mean­ing, and move­ment in pub­lic space. Dra­maturg of the per­for­mance “Spra­woz­danie dla Akademii” direct­ed by Maciej Gor­czyńs­ki. She has cre­at­ed works with, among oth­ers, the Gdańsk Dance Fes­ti­val, the Wrocław Mime The­atre, the The­atre Based on Facts at the Gro­tows­ki Insti­tute, Teatr Barakah in Kraków, Teatr Mały in Tychy, and res­i­den­cies at Przestrzeń Sztu­ki in Katow­ice and Lublin.

Andrzej Józe­fczykHe moves flu­ent­ly in the field of tra­di­tion­al and elec­tron­ic music. Win­ner of a spe­cial award at the Tour­na­ment of True Musi­cians edi­tion 8.5, 2023, at the Phil­har­mon­ic in Szczecin. Author of an engi­neer­ing the­sis in Music Infor­ma­tion Retrieval address­ing the analy­sis of music using arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence algo­rithms (Wrocław Uni­ver­si­ty of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy, 2021). He has col­lab­o­rat­ed with Ania Bro­da (tra­di­tion­al and elec­tron­ic music), as well as with Dana Vyn­nyt­sa in an eth­no-jazz project and with the ensem­ble “Małe instru­men­ty” (Wrocław). He co-cre­ates Non-adap­tive Dance Music (NDM), research explor­ing the inter­sec­tion of Pol­ish dance music in crudo with live electronics.

Maria StępieńVi­o­lin­ist in the folk Kapela Dobrzelini­a­cy and in the ensem­bles Kożuch, Rad­i­cal Pol­ish Ansam­bl, Raraszek and Tranc­ex­press. Lau­re­ate of numer­ous awards in folk and folk music com­pe­ti­tions — includ­ing Basz­ta at the 46th Fes­ti­val of Folk Bands and Singers in Kaz­imierz in 2012, Grand Prix at the Pol­ish Radio Folk Fes­ti­val “Nowa Trady­c­ja” in 2016 with the ensem­ble Kożuch, and sec­ond place in the Folk Phono­gram of the Year com­pe­ti­tion with the ensem­ble Rad­i­cal Pol­ish Ansam­bl in 2019. She has per­formed on many stages in Poland (includ­ing Pol­skie Radio, Fil­har­mo­nia Łódz­ka, Fes­ti­w­al Wszys­tkie Mazur­ki Świa­ta) and abroad (Moscow, Tallinn, Prague).

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 POLMIC​.PL and Dru­gi Pro­gram Pol­skiego Radia.

Tickets

30 PLN