-re: to the world

This time we invite you to a con­cert in two parts: the first will belong to the Dan­ish for­ma­tion K!ART, fea­tur­ing Mikkel Shou, Hsiao-Tung Yuan, Rob Durnin and Joss Smith, while in the sec­ond we will hand the stage to Pol­ish per­cus­sion­ist Julian­na Siedler-Smuga.

Hash­tag Lab is a wel­com­ing home in which con­tem­po­rary music res­onates not only through the com­mit­ment of Hash­tag Ensem­ble, but also of out­stand­ing com­posers and per­form­ers from around the world — from Aus­tralia, through South Korea, to Norway.

At the start of the sea­son, Hash­tag Lab opens its doors to cre­ators who, in two sep­a­rate pro­grammes — “-re” and “to the world” — grap­ple, exper­i­ment and play with the the­atri­cal­i­ty of sound, broad­ly incor­po­rat­ing new media into their pre­sen­ta­tions. If any of you have recent­ly been ask­ing your­selves what con­struc­tive con­tri­bu­tion the intro­duc­tion of dig­i­tal tools to clas­si­cal music can make, what pos­si­ble paths exist for broad­en­ing the recep­tion of con­tem­po­rary music, and whether there are valu­able pro­pos­als address­ing the cri­sis of the ever-shrink­ing “atten­tion span” of audi­ences, then on a Sep­tem­ber evening at Hash­tag Lab you may receive a par­tial, but cer­tain­ly inter­est­ing, answer.

In the first part of the con­cert, “-re” by Olga Szy­mu­la will be per­formed by the K!ART ensem­ble from Den­mark. The com­pos­er places four live instru­men­tal­ist-per­form­ers as well as video pro­jec­tions in diverse set­tings and cos­tumes. Freed from the bur­den of years of pro­fes­sion­al expe­ri­ence, the musi­cians trav­el back in time to the sources of their pas­sion and orig­i­nal curios­i­ty. “-re” inves­ti­gates the re-expe­ri­enc­ing of unin­hib­it­ed play with sounds and the re-immer­sion in an ini­tial pas­sion for music. “-re” is also a joy­ful cel­e­bra­tion of the indi­vid­ual and the col­lec­tive. Actions on stage rever­ber­ate in the video and vice ver­sa, cre­at­ing fur­ther lay­ers of “re”-interpretation. Diverse ver­sions of reworked mem­o­ries gain new qual­i­ties and new vitality.

In the sec­ond part of the evening we hand the stage to per­cus­sion­ist Julian­na Siedler-Smu­ga, who will present the pro­gramme “to the world”, com­pris­ing works by Pol­ish com­posers: Paweł Mali­nows­ki, Tomasz Golińs­ki, Nina Fukuo­ka and Mar­ta Śni­ady, well known to Hash­tag Lab audi­ences, as well as clas­sics of con­tem­po­rary music: Fred­er­ic Rzews­ki and John Cage. In an expan­sive solo recital we will expe­ri­ence a com­bi­na­tion of acoustic instru­ment play­ing with live elec­tron­ics, audio play­back and video, and the full range of new media will cre­ate illu­sions and col­lages com­posed of acoustic, elec­tron­ic and imag­ined sounds. We will also hear sim­ple sounds, close and drawn direct­ly from the sur­round­ings — cac­ti being played, the crack of snap­ping twigs, or the sound of a voice in plant pots.

Let #CURIOSITY unite us, invit­ing passers-by into Hash­tag Lab.

Pro­gramme:

Olga Szy­mu­la ‑re (2023)

-inter­val-

to the world

Tomasz Golińs­ki Lumi­nos­i­ty pt. I for solo marim­ba (2012) Mar­ta Śni­ady Być niczyją mamą for per­former, wave and audio play­back (2024)* Paweł Mali­nows­ki w o l n o for solo marim­ba and elec­tron­ic sounds (2024) Fred­er­ic Rzews­ki To the Earth for 4 plant pots and speak­ing per­cus­sion­ist (1985) Nina Fukuo­ka Bel­gian rare groove & break­beat for marim­ba and live elec­tron­ics (2014) John Cage Child of tree (1975) Mar­ta Śni­ady in the pink for pre­pared solo marim­ba, audio play­back and video (2019)

*world pre­miere

Per­form­ers:

K!ART Mikkel Schou ukulele, gui­tar Hsiao-Tung Yuan per­cus­sion Rob Durnin key­board Joss Smith clar­inet, flutes

and

Julian­na Siedler-Smu­ga percussion

Pro­duc­tion:

Ania Kar­pow­icz pro­gramme con­cept and text

Alek­san­dra Ołdak visu­al identity

Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk, Kos­ma Standera sound engineering

Mar­ta Piórkows­ka production

Przestrzeń Muzy­ki Współczes­nej Hash­tag Lab is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of Warsaw.

Tickets

40 PLN