Orkiestra im. Bagna i Strumienia

Orkies­tra im. Bagna i Stru­mienia [The Swamp and Stream Orches­tra] is the first piece com­posed spe­cial­ly for the ĄsąBąble fam­i­ly series. We invite chil­dren aged 3 and over and their near­est grown-ups to the concert!

Spring, sum­mer, autumn, win­ter — this reas­sur­ing cycli­cal rhythm now appears more often in fairy tales than in real­i­ty. Mush­room-pick­ers walk through forests in Decem­ber, cranes no longer win­ter in warm coun­tries, and vine­yards are migrat­ing north­ward out of fear of heat­waves. “Orkies­tra im. Bagna i Stru­mienia” is a set of minia­tures by Jarek Kor­daczuk on the theme of cli­mate change and care for the envi­ron­ment, writ­ten with ten­der thought for the youngest rep­re­sen­ta­tives of homo sapiens.

Mov­ing towards the idea of a musi­cal work as an ecosys­tem, we will look at its suc­ces­sive lay­ers. Set­ting aside the anthro­pocen­tric per­spec­tive for a moment, we will give voice to plants, ani­mals and phe­nom­e­na; we will lis­ten to the con­tem­po­rary sto­ries of the riv­er, the for­est and the swamp. The har­mon­ics of the string quin­tet and the spo­ken word will enter into dia­logue with elec­tron­ics. Inter­ac­tive sen­sors dis­trib­uted through­out Hash­tag Lab are placed in the hands of our ĄsąBąble audi­ence. We are curi­ous how such an orches­tra of sen­sors will sound. What is cer­tain is that its com­po­si­tion, engage­ment and mood will give the per­for­mance a unique char­ac­ter and will serve as inspi­ra­tion for the impro­vised pas­sages of the piece played by the ensemble.

Pro­gramme:

Orkies­tra im. Bagna i Strumienia

Jarek Kor­daczuk music

Anna Sza­w­iel words

Per­form­ers:

Mar­ta Piórkows­ka violin

Agniesz­ka Guz violin

Bar­tosz Parad­ows­ki vio­la (Akademia PRO)

Dominik Pło­cińs­ki cello

Albert Myczkows­ki dou­ble bass

Jarek Kor­daczuk electronics

Anna Sza­w­iel performer

Co-financed from the funds of the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Nation­al Her­itage from the Cul­ture Pro­mo­tion Fund — a state ear­marked fund — with­in the ‘Com­po­si­tion­al Com­mis­sions’ pro­gramme, imple­ment­ed by the Nar­o­dowy Insty­tut Muzy­ki i Tańca.”

Part­ners: POLMIC, Wytwór­nia Zdarzeń Sonokine­ty­cznych, Kos­mos dla Dziewczynek.

About the series: ĄsąBąble are per­for­ma­tive con­certs fea­tur­ing new music for fam­i­lies with chil­dren aged 0–7. Each one is based on an orig­i­nal sce­nario in which lis­ten­ing to music, inter­ac­tive games and edu­ca­tion­al val­ue are equal­ly impor­tant. In a space friend­ly to the very youngest, one can lis­ten to the music of lead­ing con­tem­po­rary com­posers in a ver­sion and pro­por­tion adapt­ed for small ears. The the­atri­cal for­mat of the con­certs encour­ages focus and allows one to be enchant­ed by the sounds, while the invi­ta­tion to join in col­lec­tive impro­vi­sa­tions releas­es the nat­ur­al need for expres­sion in lit­tle peo­ple. In the spir­it of Janusz Kor­cza­k’s words “There are no chil­dren, there are peo­ple,” all par­tic­i­pants are treat­ed with respect and have a share in how the event unfolds. The series presents exclu­sive­ly music of the 20th and 21st cen­turies. A reg­u­lar fea­ture is the pre­sen­ta­tion of a record­ing of a sym­phon­ic work or a piece from the field of sound design and electronics.

While each edi­tion of ĄsąBąble takes musi­cal mate­r­i­al as its point of depar­ture, it also abounds in extra-musi­cal con­texts close to the prac­tice of Hash­tag Ensem­ble: lit­er­ary, visu­al, social. The events are inter­dis­ci­pli­nary in char­ac­ter: also tak­ing part are invit­ed artists who have long worked in close prox­im­i­ty to chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion — dancers, per­form­ers, illus­tra­tors and writ­ers. The­atre is a nat­ur­al are­na for new music, and so the edu­ca­tion­al char­ac­ter of the ĄsąBąble series also incor­po­rates actor train­ing for the musicians.

The cura­tor and host of the series is Anna Sza­w­iel — an actress and nar­ra­tor who spe­cialis­es in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al events. She likes to work at the bound­aries: between con­cert and per­for­mance, edu­ca­tion and play, the phys­i­cal and the abstract, always in con­nec­tion with chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion. The con­cert pro­grammes are co-cre­at­ed by musi­cians of Hash­tag Ensemble.

Tickets

60 PLN