AżTak Festiwal Dzień 3: KREACJA

The third day of the fes­ti­val will take place under the ban­ner of cre­ation in art. The guides for the com­po­si­tions are mas­ters of visu­al art: Mark Rothko, Emanuel Vige­land, and pho­tog­ra­ph­er Faruk Yeşi­lyurt. We will begin at mid­day at the Lab, and at sun­set we will move to the Mokotów stu­dio of Wan­da Czełkows­ka, fin­ish­ing the fes­ti­val with the sounds of Elec­tro Ambi­ent Night.

Pro­gram:

12:00

Hash­tag Lab, Bars­ka 29

ĄsąBąble: Mykotony | Con­cert and work­shops for families

Alek­san­dra Chmielews­ka Mykotony*Anna Sza­w­iel script*world premiere

Per­form­ers:

Alek­san­dra Chmielews­ka Moog syn­the­siz­er­Mar­ta Grzywacz voice­Mar­ta Piórkows­ka vio­lin­Ju­lian Paproc­ki bass clar­inet­Ma­teusz Zawadz­ki per­cus­sion­Alek­san­dra Ołdak visu­al­i­sa­tions based on micro­scop­ic pho­tographs by Faruk Yeşilyurt

Pro­duc­tion:

artis­tic con­cept: Anna Sza­w­iel­sound engi­neer­ing: Szy­mon Nalepa­pro­duc­tion: Mar­ta Piórkows­ka, Aga­ta Krystek

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13:00–16:00

B383, Bars­ka 38 m.3

Sono­ra Sound Tube

Katarzy­na Suber­lak — Sono­ra Sound Tube

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Exhi­bi­tion of works by Mag­dale­na Lenartowicz.

19:00

Pra­cow­n­ia Wandy Czełkowskiej, ul. Mag­a­zynowa 14a

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Final con­cert

Mor­ton Feld­man Rothko Chapel*Teoniki Rożynek Tom­ba Emanuelle***Polish premiere**world premiere

The con­cert will be pre­ced­ed by a con­ver­sa­tion with the creators.

Per­form­ers:

Hash­tag Ensemble:Aleksandra Demows­ka-Made­js­ka vio­la­M­ag­dale­na Kordy­lasińs­ka-Pękala per­cus­sionE­mil­ia Sitarz celesta*Adam Eljasińs­ki clar­ine­tOli­wier Andruszczenko clar­inet­Do­minik Pło­cińs­ki cel­lo­ma­teusz Los­ka dou­ble bass­Wo­j­ciech Błaże­jczyk elec­tric gui­tarLil­ian­na Krych conductor*guest

Match Match Ensemble:

Sopra­nos: Alek­san­dra Dro­gosz-Szy­mańs­ka, Kon­stanc­ja Molews­ka, Maria Złotek, Weroni­ka Prasał-Banaszewska

Altos: Mał­gorza­ta Bartkows­ka, Ewa Kijew­s­ka, Agniesz­ka Zińczuk

Tenors: Andrzej Klepac­ki, Paweł Kowalews­ki, Marcin Kucińs­ki, Jakub Prasał-Banaszews­ki, M. Kozłowski

Bass­es: Tymo­teusz Cyrkun, Michał Kijew­s­ki, Michał Malec, Jacek Rąbiński

Pro­duc­tion:

Sound engi­neer­ing: Jan Jędrze­jczykPro­duc­tion: Katarzy­na StasiewiczVi­su­al iden­ti­ty: Alek­san­dra Ołdak

22:00

Hash­tag Lab, ul. Bars­ka 29

Elec­tro Ambi­ent Night

Mateusz Śmigasiewicz/Tomek Mirt

Pro­duc­tion:

Con­cept: Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk­Sound engi­neer­ing: Szy­mon Nalepa­Pro­duc­tion: Aga­ta Krys­tekVi­su­al iden­ti­ty: Alek­san­dra Ołdak

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About the programme:

The third day of the fes­ti­val will take place under the ban­ner of cre­ation in art. The guides for the com­po­si­tions are mas­ters of visu­al art: Mark Rothko, Emanuel Vige­land, and pho­tog­ra­ph­er Faruk Yeşi­lyurt. The inter­ac­tions of music, paint­ing, archi­tec­ture, micro­scop­ic close-ups, and nature became cat­a­lysts and inspi­ra­tion for musi­cal creation.

The day will open with a pro­pos­al for the youngest as part of the ĄsąBąble series. Mykotony (2025) by Alek­san­dra Chmielews­ka is a new eight-part work inspired by the world of fun­gi. The musi­cal fab­ric of the com­po­si­tion, scored for voice, vio­lin, bass clar­inet, per­cus­sion, and elec­tron­ics, fol­lows the arrange­ments and shapes of the inter­nal struc­tures of fun­gi, cap­tured in the micropho­tographs of Faruk Yeşi­lyurt. Anna Sza­w­iel’s script leads lis­ten­ers from the world of fruit­ing bod­ies vis­i­ble to the naked eye deep into their inte­ri­or, into the microworld of myceli­um and myc­or­rhizal com­mu­ni­ca­tion net­works. It encour­ages lis­ten­ers to imag­ine con­ver­sa­tions: “What would fun­gi say, if you asked them about their wish­es? About their favourite colour?” The microworld is illus­trat­ed in the music through micro­tones and tiny motifs that, mov­ing between the instru­ments, depict the ways in which fun­gi com­mu­ni­cate. Beau­ti­ful melodies will also con­vey the charm of abstract struc­tures, and a lul­la­by will con­nect the world of nature with the world of the child.

The evening con­cert will take us musi­cal­ly to chapels of art. For the first time in Poland, Mor­ton Feld­man’s Rothko Chapel (1971) will be per­formed for solo vio­la (Alek­san­dra Demows­ka-Made­js­ka), celes­ta (guest Emil­ia Sitarz), per­cus­sion instru­ments, and mixed choir (Match Match Ensem­ble). The inspi­ra­tion — and also the loca­tion of the world pre­miere — was the tit­u­lar Rothko Chapel in Texas: a non-denom­i­na­tion­al chapel con­tain­ing 14 large can­vas­es by the abstract painter Mark Rothko, a friend of Feld­man. The paint­ings in vio­let, black, and red are placed in an octag­o­nal space, and their shade changes depend­ing on the angle of the light. Rothko Chapel not only con­veys the calm and grav­i­ty of the series of paint­ings but also the afore­men­tioned shim­mer of colours. This unusu­al­ly short work (bare­ly 30 min­utes) stands out among Feld­man’s lengthy mature com­po­si­tions. This med­i­ta­tive work of slow­ly evolv­ing sound planes sur­pris­es with the melo­di­ous­ness of the solo vio­la line and occa­sion­al almost-tonal turns.

At the same con­cert we will also hear the world pre­miere of Teoni­ki Rożynek’s lat­est com­po­si­tion Tom­ba Emanuelle (2025), inspired by the acoustics and atmos­phere of Emanuel Vige­land’s mau­soleum in Oslo. This mys­te­ri­ous, church-like build­ing erect­ed by Vige­land in 1926 con­ceals the dynam­ic, erot­i­cal­ly charged fres­co Vita depict­ing human life from con­cep­tion to death. The mur­al cov­ers as much as 800 m² of sur­face. After the cre­ator’s death, the art chapel also became his mau­soleum. The atmos­phere is under­scored by dim light and remark­able acoustics. The aura of mys­tery is height­ened by the fact that it is open to vis­i­tors only on Sun­days for 4.5 hours. In her com­po­si­tion Teoni­ki Rożynek repro­duces the mys­ti­cal char­ac­ter of the place and its acoustics through pro­cess­ing by 22-chan­nel elec­tron­ics, an arrange­ment for 16 vocal voic­es and 6 instru­ments. The reverb of the mau­soleum becomes the main pro­tag­o­nist of the work, both metaphor­i­cal­ly and lit­er­al­ly, as the major­i­ty of the elec­tron­ic mate­r­i­al is based on microsam­ples of the room’s reverberation.

The con­clu­sion of the day (and of the fes­ti­val as a whole) will be Elek­tro Ambi­ent Night — an evening of live ambi­ent music per­formed by two artists — Mateusz Śmi­gasiewicz and Tomek Mirt. The first will present his pro­gramme of digi-post-piano, in which, using the sounds of a micro­ton­al­ly tuned and par­tial­ly pre­pared piano, he builds a mys­te­ri­ous atmos­phere. Elec­tron­ic pro­cess­ing and con­stant ambi­ences will cre­ate a mys­ti­cal, imag­i­na­tion-stim­u­lat­ing aura. In the sec­ond part of the event Tomek Mirt will per­form mate­r­i­al from Belat­ed Won­der­lust. The musi­cian known for his exper­i­ments with mod­u­lar syn­the­sis­ers weaves anoth­er pas­sion — field record­ing — into his pro­gramme. The gen­tle, med­i­ta­tive nar­ra­tive is com­ple­ment­ed by sounds from nature (includ­ing evening bird song), which will allow lis­ten­ers to find still­ness, con­tem­plate their rela­tion­ship with nature, or sim­ply rest. Belat­ed Wan­der­lust will con­clude the Fes­ti­val while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly clos­ing the artist’s nation­al tour.

text: Mał­gorza­ta Heinrich

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

Co-fund­ed by the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Nation­al Her­itage from the Cul­ture Pro­mo­tion Fund under the “Music” pro­gramme, imple­ment­ed by the Nation­al Insti­tute of Music and Dance.

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 fes­ti­val was cre­at­ed thanks to the col­lab­o­ra­tion and sup­port of: B383 Art Space, Sono­ra Sound Tube, Adam Mick­iewicz Insti­tute, Glis­san­do, ZAiKS, Stoart, Hard Rain Solois­t­Ensem­ble, War­saw The­atre Asso­ci­a­tion, Pol­ish Myco­log­i­cal Soci­ety, British Council.

AżTak Fes­ti­val is sup­port­ed by British Coun­cil as part of the UK/Poland Sea­son 2025.

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Dwój­ka Pol­skie Radio

Gaze­ta Wyborcza

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