Otwieramy Hashtag Lab!

The opening concert is a reinterpretation of the program #ustroje and guides us from social resistance that sparks revolutions, through the madness of absolutist monarchy to the living synergy of union solidarity.

Hash­tag Ensem­ble opens its head­quar­ters on the anniver­sary of the Russ­ian aggres­sion on Ukraine and dur­ing the time of the bru­tal­ly sup­pressed demo­c­ra­t­ic rev­o­lu­tion in Iran. For many years we have tried to tell about the world around us through music, about what inspires us, moves us, trou­bles us in it.

The works we have cho­sen are not only son­ic inter­pre­ta­tions of polit­i­cal and social sys­tems, or com­men­taries on the real­i­ty of the 20th and 21st cen­turies, but reflect diverse mod­els of cham­ber ensem­ble work. “Surge” is a com­po­si­tion by a com­pos­er duo, in which we expe­ri­ence the full voice of both cre­ators using new media to express sol­i­dar­i­ty against vio­lence. “Eight Songs for a Mad King” strong­ly link form with strict hier­ar­chy based on the pri­ma­cy of the con­duc­tor and soloist, with whom cham­ber musi­cians com­pete. The final “Work­ers Union” fas­ci­nates with the democ­ra­ti­za­tion of nota­tion and is a man­i­festo of musi­cal egal­i­tar­i­an­ism with the qual­i­ties of a mul­ti-thread­ed symphony.

In dark times of blind vio­lence, every artist and every free per­son has the task of reflect­ing on the world around them and speak­ing up in defense of vic­tims. The artists from Spec­tro Duo, host­ing the open­ing of Hash­tag Lab, do not shy away from this oblig­a­tion. The work “SURGE” is their voice on the crimes tak­ing place in Iran, and at the same time the only thing we can do to express our sol­i­dar­i­ty with the ongo­ing Iran­ian rev­o­lu­tion. WOMAN.LIFE.FREEDOM.

Program

Spec­tro Duo Surge (2022) *Pol­ish premiere

Peter Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969)

Louis Joseph Andriessen Work­ers Union (1975)

Performers

Mar­ty­na Kosec­ka & Idin Sami­mi Mofakham

Hash­tag Ensem­ble:

Ania Kar­pow­icz flute

Kamil Stan­iczek vio­lin

Mar­ta Piórkows­ka vio­lin

Alek­san­dra Demows­ka-Made­js­ka vio­la

Dominik Pło­cińs­ki cel­lo

Mateusz Los­ka dou­ble bass

Adam Eljasińs­ki clar­inet

Oli­wier Andruszczenko clar­inet

Woj­ciech Psiuk sax­o­phone

Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk elec­tric guitar

Tymo­teusz Bies piano (guest)

Krzysztof Kozłows­ki syn­the­siz­er

Paweł Janas accor­dion

Mag­dale­na Kordy­lasińs­ka-Pękala per­cus­sion

Realization

Ania Kar­pow­icz con­cept and text

Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk sound direc­tion

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

Tickets

Free Entry