From my room

From My Room is an eccentric, experimental form at the intersection of contemporary chamber opera, concert music, electronic music, performance, and sound installation.

It is also a spe­cif­ic vivi­sec­tion of the human being — a com­pos­er, an indi­vid­ual who expe­ri­ences their crises and grap­ples with their own prob­lems, while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly becom­ing aware of how sub­jec­tive and often ego­cen­tric their per­spec­tive is. Opti­mism — is it some­thing real? Pes­simism — is it some­thing destructive?

It is also a work about the rela­tion­ship between musi­cians, between cre­ators and per­form­ers, about the rela­tion­ship between what is defined and what com­plete­ly eludes con­trol and determination.

The com­po­si­tion calls for the per­for­mance of pre­cise­ly notat­ed parts along­side col­lec­tive intu­itive play­ing, based on var­i­ous forms of con­duct­ed and con­cep­tu­al impro­vi­sa­tion, and opens up live inter­ac­tion with a video track that serves as a sharp and wit­ty com­men­tary as well as a per­verse set of instructions.

From My Room is also a col­li­sion between the aes­thet­ic of oper­at­ic music and the con­tem­po­rary aes­thet­ic of Glitch — of mal­func­tion — with var­i­ous tim­bres of elec­tron­ics. In the work, the com­pos­er also draws on his many years of vocal expe­ri­ence — he has worked with elec­tron­i­cal­ly per­mut­ed voice for many years — and these tes­ti­monies are also reflect­ed in the unusu­al form that is From My Room.

Program:

Dominik Strychars­ki From my room*

*world pre­miere

Performers:

Dominik Strychars­ki flutes,electronics, voice

Mar­ta Bogusławska voice

Dominik Kujawa voice*

Mar­ta Piórkows­ka vio­lin

Alek­san­dra Demows­ka-Made­js­ka vio­la

Ania Kar­pow­icz flute

Adam Eljasińs­ki clarinet

Paweł Janas accordion

Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk bass guitar

Goś­ka Ispho­rd­ing harpsichord*

Bartłomiej Sutt percussion*

Lil­ian­na Krych conductor

*guest

Pro­duc­tion:

pro­gramme con­cept and text: Dominik Strychars­ki pro­duc­tion: Mar­ta Piórkows­ka, Alek­san­dra Demows­ka-Made­jskav­i­su­al iden­ti­ty: Alek­san­dra Ołdak­sound engi­neer­ing: Kos­ma Standera

Co-fund­ed by the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Nation­al Her­itage from the Cul­ture Pro­mo­tion Fund — a state-pur­pose fund — under the “Com­po­si­tion­al Com­mis­sions” pro­gramme, imple­ment­ed by the Nation­al Insti­tute of Music and Dance.

The Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is co-fund­ed by the City of War­saw. The media patron of the Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is POLMIC​.PL, Dwój­ka Pol­skie Radio, and Wybor​cza​.pl.

Tickets

40 PLN