Second:ary

We invite you to the Polish premiere of the Second:ary project, which was first performed in Utrecht in September of this year.

On 7 Sep­tem­ber, as part of the Gaudea­mus con­tem­po­rary music fes­ti­val in Utrecht, Hash­tag Ensem­ble gave the world pre­miere of the Second:ary pro­gramme, realised under the artis­tic direc­tion of Ania Kar­pow­icz at the invi­ta­tion of the inter­na­tion­al ini­tia­tive ULYSSES’ InSitu/City.

For many years, Hash­tag Ensem­ble has been bring­ing con­tem­po­rary music into uncon­ven­tion­al spaces, direct­ing our activ­i­ties towards non-typ­i­cal audi­ences, and valu­ing col­lab­o­ra­tions of a social character.

The Second:ary pro­gramme shares some of its ambi­tions with Inhabitat:Stalowa, which was per­formed at the Warsza­wska Jesień fes­ti­val in 2022. On that occa­sion the ensem­ble gave a musi­cal inter­pre­ta­tion of the urban fab­ric in coop­er­a­tion with chil­dren from the Ped­a­gog­ics and Social Ani­ma­tion Groups who, under the guid­ance of Kacper Bartczak, cre­at­ed pho­to­graph­ic scores and led audi­ences through the court­yards of the Pra­ga district.

Before the con­cert there will be a con­ver­sa­tion with Dal­shad Hasan, a Kur­dish musi­cian liv­ing in the Nether­lands, and Span­ish com­pos­er Jonás Bis­quert. Togeth­er with the musi­cians of Hash­tag Ensem­ble they will talk about the process of cre­at­ing the Second:ary project, about musi­cal encoun­ters with immi­grants from around the world liv­ing in Utrecht, about the MuzikAz project, and about mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism in con­tem­po­rary music.

Per­form­ers:

Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk gui­tar, key­board instruments

Krzysztof Kozłows­ki piano

Paweł Janas accor­dion

Mar­ta Grzywacz voice

Dal­shad Hasan saz

Mar­ta Piórkows­ka vio­lin

Kos­ma Standera sound direc­tion

Pro­duc­tion

Mar­ta Piórkows­ka pro­duc­tion

Ania Kar­pow­icz pro­gramme con­cept and text

Alek­san­dra Ołdak visu­al identity

The Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of Warsaw.

Media patron: POLMIC​.PL

“Co-financed from the funds of the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Nation­al Her­itage from the Cul­ture Pro­mo­tion Fund – a state spe­cial-pur­pose fund, with­in the ‘Com­po­si­tion­al Com­mis­sions’ pro­gramme, imple­ment­ed by the Nation­al Insti­tute of Music and Dance”

An out­reach musi­cal event orga­nized in coop­er­a­tion with a local com­mu­ni­ty will be held in Utrecht in the frame of the Gaudea­mus Festival.

Pro­grammed by Ania Kar­pow­icz, the Second:ary project will be per­formed by mem­bers of the War­saw-based coop­er­a­tive Hash­tag Ensem­ble. Hash­tag Ensem­ble musi­cians have been bring­ing new music to uncon­ven­tion­al places and sit­u­a­tions for many years. The ensem­ble per­formed in degrad­ed urban areas, in a syn­chro­tron ded­i­cat­ed exclu­sive­ly to advanced sci­en­tif­ic research, in a glasshouse of a botan­ic gar­den, in a Ukrain­ian refugee sup­port cen­ter, etc. 

To learn about Utrecht as a sec­ond home, we will be guid­ed with small-moment sto­ries by vol­un­teers from the musi­cazc. Utrecht com­mu­ni­ty. The par­tic­i­pants don’t nec­es­sar­i­ly need to con­clude their con­tri­bu­tion with an essay, or a poem, they can come up with two words shared to the micro­phone, a smart­phone shot tak­en in front of the gro­cery store, or just the sole expe­ri­ence of music mak­ing. 

As a result of both work­shops, record­ings, texts, and pho­tographs will be inter­pret­ed by Hash­tag Ensem­ble musi­cians. The Second:ary pieces can prob­a­bly be posi­tioned some­where between instant com­po­si­tions and graph­ic score interpretations. 

If mutu­al­ly agreed, there is a pos­si­bil­i­ty of mak­ing sound record­ings with the cho­sen texts read by their authors, there is also a pos­si­bil­i­ty to engage vol­un­teers in the con­cert as per­form­ers. The final form of the project we leave to the dynam­ic of the coop­er­a­tion between Hash­tag Ensem­ble mem­bers and participants. 

Ania Kar­pow­icz

Tickets

40 PLN