Warszawskie Studio Eksperymentu

The cura­tor of the first instal­ment of Warsza­wskie Stu­dio Ekspery­men­tu is Marek Chołoniews­ki, who has invit­ed Chris Cut­ler and Piotr Madej to col­lab­o­rate. The artists will present a project called FoMaTi.

Fold­ed Maps of Time (FoMaTi) is an immer­sive audio­vi­su­al work com­bin­ing biosen­so­ry elec­tro­mag­net­ic sys­tems (MC) with elec­tri­fied object per­cus­sion (CC). The audi­ence will be sur­round­ed by a mul­ti­chan­nel audio­vi­su­al sys­tem, as if they were inside a liv­ing organ­ism or a vir­tu­al brain, with numer­ous inlets and out­lets, chan­nels and an infi­nite num­ber of chaot­ic con­nec­tions: these are our com­plex maps of time; the flow of uncer­tain mem­o­ries, their unceas­ing stream. Brain activ­i­ty will be pro­ject­ed onto a vir­tu­al mod­el float­ing in a col­lage of graph­ics, pho­tographs, black-and-white films and images gen­er­at­ed in real time, at both macro- and micro-scale. The mul­ti­chan­nel sound pro­jec­tion will define an ana­logue inter­nal brain as one of the core ele­ments of the instru­ment set, since biofeed­back plays an impor­tant role at every lev­el of the per­for­mance: select­ed brain waves (delta, theta, alpha, beta, gam­ma, med­i­ta­tion, atten­tion, raw data) are used both as read­ers and as proces­sors of the artists’ behav­iour, medi­at­ing between the uncon­scious and the intu­itive selec­tion of pre-com­posed and pre-per­formed mate­ri­als. In oppo­si­tion to intu­ition stands pur­pose­ful­ness — while sounds and images dri­ven by brain waves are inter­pret­ed and inter­wo­ven in real time with con­scious­ly gen­er­at­ed sounds by the sec­ond per­former using elec­tron­i­cal­ly ampli­fied and spa­tialised per­cus­sion, the whole organ­i­cal­ly — or per­haps inverse­ly — cou­ples with the mon­i­tored men­tal state of the first performer.

Thus the brain biofeed­back will be mul­ti­plied and extend­ed in dura­tion through a mix­ture of con­scious and uncon­scious feed­back loops, trig­ger­ing cas­cad­ing reac­tions in both per­form­ers. The work is the result of an excep­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tion between Pol­ish artist and com­pos­er Marek Chołoniews­ki and British per­cus­sion­ist and com­pos­er Chris Cut­ler, com­bin­ing Chołoniewski’s sound and audio­vi­su­al achieve­ments in elec­troa­coustic per­for­mance with Cut­ler’s expe­ri­ence of cre­at­ing avant-garde works draw­ing on var­i­ous gen­res using refined instru­ments and techniques.

FoMaTi was pro­duced as part of the project +100. Three works envi­sion­ing a new avant-garde, part of the Pol­s­ka 100 pro­gramme — a project of the Adam Mick­iewicz Insti­tute respon­si­ble for the pro­gramme of inter­na­tion­al cel­e­bra­tions of the cen­te­nary of Pol­ish inde­pen­dence. +100 was brought into being by Rod­er­ick Coover — the pro­jec­t’s artis­tic direc­tor. The project was devel­oped under the insti­tu­tion­al lead­er­ship of Anna Szy­lar from the Adam Mick­iewicz Institute.

The Warsza­wskie Stu­dio Ekspery­men­tu project is car­ried out by MÓZG FOUNDATION in part­ner­ship with Fun­dac­ja “Sfera Har­monii” from the finan­cial resources of the City of War­saw. The project con­sists of cre­at­ing and run­ning a series of reg­u­lar events across the city, whose pri­ma­ry aim is to build a plat­form for inno­v­a­tive and uncom­pro­mis­ing cre­ative activ­i­ty, inde­pen­dent of finan­cial and mar­ket con­di­tions. With­in the project, sound/music activ­i­ties with no styl­is­tic restric­tions will take place, as well as inter­dis­ci­pli­nary activ­i­ties in which sound plays a key role.

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

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