SoundBank

On one side of the scales will be the music of Viach­eslav Kyrylov, born of philo­soph­i­cal reflec­tion, reach­ing into the aston­ish­ing and mys­ti­cal spir­i­tu­al­i­ty of the Mid­dle Ages; on the oth­er — the sound world of Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk — thor­ough­ly con­tem­po­rary, our own, rep­re­sent­ed by objec­to­phones. We invite you to the Sound­Bank con­cert per­formed by Spółdziel­nia Muzy­cz­na Con­tem­po­rary Ensemble.

For those for whom music is a way to fil­ter thoughts, exam­ine phe­nom­e­na or atti­tudes, and spark reflec­tion — the con­cert will undoubt­ed­ly offer an oppor­tu­ni­ty for such prac­tice. For those who pre­fer a more phe­nom­e­no­log­i­cal mode of lis­ten­ing — good news as well — expe­ri­ence shows that the son­ic worlds of both com­posers have some­thing mag­net­ic about them and allow them­selves to be absorbed with­out unnec­es­sary bar­ri­ers. Both com­posers approach son­ic mate­r­i­al with care and great sen­si­tiv­i­ty. There is no excess, yet one can feel an extra­or­di­nary degree of refinement.

Gen­tle­ness and humil­i­ty do not seem like com­pelling themes for con­tem­po­rary art, just as they are dis­tant from the real­i­ty of the 21st cen­tu­ry, marked by wars, a pan­dem­ic, demand­ing from us resis­tance, assertive­ness in polit­i­cal debates and tak­ing sides in a polarised soci­ety. Is dipped in meek­ness — a cool philo­soph­i­cal dis­course or a com­poser’s response to the needs of con­tem­po­rary peo­ple? Per­haps an expres­sion of hope? And here we move seam­less­ly to the music and obser­va­tions of Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk, who at one point diag­nosed the future of human­i­ty neg­a­tive­ly (as expressed in, among oth­ers, his Postk­wartet). At the same time the com­pos­er gives voice to a par­tic­u­lar fas­ci­na­tion with the sound world with­in our reach — in objects, often through elec­tron­ics, sound­ing in his work in extra­or­di­nary and cap­ti­vat­ing ways. In the work com­posed for the Kraków ensem­ble, Błaże­jczyk seems to con­tin­ue along the path chart­ed ear­li­er, includ­ing in Litur­gia obiektu.

The world pre­mieres of Sound­Bank of Mod­ern Human and dipped in meek­ness will take place dur­ing the recur­ring INTERAKCJE con­cert, on 7 Decem­ber in Kraków. With the kind sup­port of Hash­tag Ensem­ble, Spółdziel­nia Muzy­cz­na extends the cel­e­bra­tion of its 10th anniver­sary and also invites you to War­saw on 15 December.

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.

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