4. AżTak Festiwal: KONTEMPLACJA

For the fourth time we invite the res­i­dents of War­saw to the AżTak Fes­ti­w­al — an excep­tion­al cel­e­bra­tion of con­tem­po­rary art, which this year takes place under the theme CONTEMPLATION.

We pause to exam­ine dream images and pic­tures aris­ing in the imag­i­na­tion of a free per­son. We immerse our­selves in action through the expe­ri­ence of the state of flow. We search for traces of the cre­ative act, as well as moments of med­i­ta­tive com­mu­nion with art — son­ic and visual.

As every year, we prac­tice art with­out pre­ten­sion. We go out into the city space, com­bin­ing con­tem­po­rary music with oth­er art forms. What remains most impor­tant to us is direct con­tact: between audi­ence and work, and between per­son and artist.

Through­out all the fes­ti­val days we will be host­ed in the neigh­bor­ing Gale­ria B383, where it will be pos­si­ble to expe­ri­ence an immer­sive sound mas­sage. We will lit­er­al­ly enter inside an instru­ment — the unique con­struc­tion called SONORA SOUNDTUBE — and will also see an exhi­bi­tion of works by Mag­dale­na Lenartowicz.

DAY 1 — DREAM

The focus will be on the work of com­pos­er-in-res­i­dence Wojtek Blecharz — music intend­ed for inti­mate, bod­i­ly expe­ri­ence in move­ment. On this day Hash­tag Lab will trans­form into a sound lab­o­ra­to­ry. The pro­gram includes: a recital by Masashi Yamamo­to (Japan) and the spa­tial work “FIELD 6.O” per­formed by Hash­tag Ensem­ble. Check pro­gram details.

DAY 2 — IMMERSION

Awak­en­ing from the dream, we will set out on inter­con­ti­nen­tal sound jour­neys. Togeth­er with Hard Rain Solois­t­Ensem­ble (Ire­land) we will trav­el from Colom­bia to Ire­land and from Poland to the Unit­ed States. We will also hear a new work by Lena Micha­jłów, com­posed espe­cial­ly on com­mis­sion for Hash­tag Ensemble.

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DAY 3 — CREATION

The day devot­ed to cre­ation will be led by mas­ters of space and image: Mark Rothko and Emanuel Vige­land. For the first time in Poland the icon­ic “Rothko Chapel” by Mor­ton Feld­man will sound, and there will also be a world pre­miere of “Tom­ba Emanuelle” — a com­po­si­tion by Teoni­ka Rożynek, inspired by the acoustics of Vige­land’s mau­soleum in Oslo. The mon­u­men­tal sound of the work will be processed by 22-chan­nel elec­tron­ics, 16 vocal voic­es and 6 instrumentalists.

We will con­clude the fes­ti­val at home, that is at Hash­tag Lab, with an Elec­tro Ambi­ent Night — there will be time for con­ver­sa­tion, rem­i­nisc­ing and rest.

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We warm­ly invite you!!!

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