Ąsąbąble: Ciōciō

We invite you to a con­cert for fam­i­lies with chil­dren aged 5–7. This time we will immerse our­selves in sounds asso­ci­at­ed with the light­ness of a but­ter­fly and seek inspi­ra­tion in the cul­ture of Japan.

Del­i­cate, light, colour­ful, qui­et. What else is a but­ter­fly like? The Japan­ese word ciō­ciō sounds soft and child­like, ten­der and fleet­ing in Pol­ish. And that is the kind of music-mak­ing we invite you to at the April ĄsąBąble. They lead us to Japan, where but­ter­flies appear not only in songs and poems but are an impor­tant sym­bol of time­less love. We will there­fore tell you the leg­end of the mys­te­ri­ous white but­ter­fly and the old, mad Taka­hama, who car­ried a great secret in his heart.

Dur­ing the con­cert we will immerse our­selves in music by Keiko Abe, Toru Takemit­su and the com­pos­er asso­ci­at­ed with the leg­endary Stu­dio Ghi­b­li — Joe Hisaishi, we will try to hum a tra­di­tion­al Japan­ese melody and cre­ate an ono­matopoe­ic minia­ture from winged, “but­ter­fly” sounds.

Part of the gath­er­ing will be an origa­mi work­shop dur­ing which we will make but­ter­flies that will then fly home with you.

Per­form­ers:

Ania Kar­pow­icz flute

Julian­na Siedler-Smu­ga per­cus­sion instruments

Karol Tomo­ki-Yamaza­ki piano sounds and con­tent collaboration

Ania Sza­w­iel script and story

The media patron of the event is the mag­a­zine Kos­mos dla Dziew­czynek. 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 Dwój­ka Pol­skie Radio.

ĄsąBąble are per­for­ma­tive con­certs of new music for fam­i­lies with chil­dren aged 0–7. Each one is based on an orig­i­nal script in which lis­ten­ing to music, inter­ac­tive play and edu­ca­tion­al val­ue are equal­ly impor­tant. In a child-friend­ly space, one can lis­ten to music by lead­ing con­tem­po­rary com­posers in a ver­sion and pro­por­tion adapt­ed for small ears. The the­atri­cal for­mat of the con­certs encour­ages con­cen­tra­tion and allows one to be enchant­ed by the sounds, while the invi­ta­tion to join in impro­vi­sa­tions releas­es the nat­ur­al need for expres­sion in small peo­ple. In the spir­it of Janusz Kor­cza­k’s words “There are no chil­dren, there are peo­ple,” all par­tic­i­pants are treat­ed with respect and have their share in the course of the event. The series presents exclu­sive­ly music of the 20th and 21st cen­turies. A con­stant ele­ment is the pre­sen­ta­tion of a record­ing of a sym­phon­ic work or one from the sound design and elec­tron­ics tradition.

Although each edi­tion of ĄsąBąble takes musi­cal fab­ric as its start­ing point, it also abounds in non-musi­cal con­texts close to Hash­tag Ensem­ble’s prac­tice: lit­er­ary, visu­al and social. The events are inter­dis­ci­pli­nary: also involved are invit­ed artists who have long been cre­at­ing in close prox­im­i­ty to chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion: dancers, per­form­ers, illus­tra­tors and writ­ers. The­atre is the nat­ur­al field of action of new music, and so the edu­ca­tion­al char­ac­ter of the ĄsąBąble series also encom­pass­es actors’ train­ing for musicians.

The cura­tor and host of the series is Anna Sza­w­iel — actress and voice artist, spe­cial­iz­ing in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al events. She likes to work at bound­aries: between con­cert and per­for­mance, edu­ca­tion and play, phys­i­cal­i­ty and abstrac­tion, always in con­nec­tion with chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion. The con­cert pro­grams are co-cre­at­ed by musi­cians of Hash­tag Ensemble.

The ĄsąBąble project cre­ative­ly devel­ops the con­cept of the “Smykow­iz­je” series of the foun­da­tion “Muzy­ka jest dla wszys­t­kich,” with­in which in the years 2016–2022 Hash­tag Ensem­ble and Anna Sza­w­iel joint­ly per­formed over 130 con­certs and mini-per­for­mances, search­ing for the most inter­est­ing forms of pre­sent­ing new music. The cre­ator of the con­cept and cura­tor of Smykow­iz­je was Anna Kierkosz. It was the first series in Poland addressed to the very youngest, in which con­tem­po­rary music played the lead­ing role.

Tickets

60 PLN