Clor x Kozieł x Beliah

Sat­ur­day evening at Hash­tag Lab will be filled with impro­vi­sa­tion. French cel­list Stéphane Clor has invit­ed the Pol­ish-French duo Kozieł/Beliah to a musi­cal encounter, and the stage at Bars­ka will resound with fresh­ness, ener­gy and great intrigue.

In the first part of the con­cert we will hear the solo Rhi­zome by Stéphane Clor — cel­list and visu­al artist per­ma­nent­ly based in Stras­bourg. Stéphane com­pos­es music for a spe­cial­ly adapt­ed instru­ment known as a pic­co­lo vio­lon­cel­lo. In his music, along­side the sound of string instru­ments, he uses objects and elec­tron­ics. His activ­i­ty goes beyond the art of sound and touch­es at times on car­tog­ra­phy, pho­tog­ra­phy, draw­ing and ecology.

Stéphane Clor’s solo Rhi­zome is a musi­cal image of a weed that, in a state of con­stant meta­mor­pho­sis, enters into rela­tion­ships with places that might serve as its shel­ter. The acousti­cal­ly and elec­tron­i­cal­ly pre­pared pic­co­lo cel­lo becomes poly­mor­phic and high­ly ver­sa­tile. The son­ic land­scapes the artist cre­ates are com­posed of gran­u­lar lines, vibra­to­ry incan­ta­tions and sat­u­rat­ed rep­e­ti­tions, built on the inter­weav­ing of sound and silence.

The sec­ond part of the con­cert is the duo Kozieł/Beliah — an impro­vised inter­twin­ing of voice with dou­ble bass. Duo Kozieł/Beliah is a musi­cal dia­logue that has exist­ed for over ten years. The duo impro­vis­es draw­ing on motifs from tra­di­tion­al music, cen­tring on songs from var­i­ous regions of Cen­tral Europe. The artists search for the sound that will com­plete the mean­ing of the song texts. The dou­ble bass becomes voice, the voice becomes pure sound, and togeth­er they build a unique energy.

Per­form­ers:

Stéphane Clor pic­co­lo vio­lon­cel­lo, electronics

inter­val

Duo Kozieł/Beliah

Olga Kozieł singing

Sébastien Beli­ah dou­ble bass

Pro­duc­tion:

pro­gramme con­cept, text: Stéphane Clor, Sébastien Beliah

visu­al iden­ti­ty: Karol Tomo­ki Yamaza­ki pro­duc­tion: Lil­ian­na Krych

Przestrzeń Muzy­ki Współczes­nej Hash­tag Lab is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of Warsaw.

More about the artists:

Olga Kozieł: She sings, plays trum­pet and tra­di­tion­al per­cus­sion instru­ments, and teach­es singing. She has been fas­ci­nat­ed by tra­di­tion­al music since 2005, tak­ing part in numer­ous musi­cal projects, cre­at­ing singing, instru­men­tal and exper­i­men­tal ensem­bles. She per­forms on both small­er and larg­er stages. She sings in the ensem­bles Z Lasu, Sekun­da Mała, Pieśni Prze­jś­cia and The Gold­en Thou­sand. She plays trum­pet with Warsza­wsko-Lubel­s­ka Orkies­tra Dęta, Orkies­tra Jar­marku Jagiel­lońskiego and the ensem­ble Zvanai. She leads the Wołyń w pieś­ni­ach project. She is a mem­ber of field research expe­di­tions across East­ern Europe. With the Pieśni Prze­jś­cia and Wołyń w pieś­ni­ach projects she has released debut albums. Fur­ther albums are com­ing soon. She is a schol­ar­ship recip­i­ent of the May­or of the City of Lublin and of the Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Nation­al Her­itage. Grand Prix win­ner at the Nowa Trady­c­ja Fes­ti­val with the band Lumpeks.

Sébastien Beli­ah: He stud­ied jazz and impro­vi­sa­tion (CNSM de Paris), clas­si­cal music (CRR d’Aubervil­li­er-La Courneuve) and ped­a­gogy (CNSM de Lyon). After 8 years lead­ing the WARK quar­tet (win­ner of the AJC Migra­tion Jazz project), he decid­ed to draw on that expe­ri­ence by join­ing the col­lec­tive Umlaut, in which he has ini­ti­at­ed or par­tic­i­pat­ed in numer­ous projects, includ­ing the trio Un Poco Loco (AJC Jazz Migra­tion Prize win­ner, Jazz Mag­a­zine album of the month, Cit­i­zen Jazz album), Umlaut Big Band (Charles Cros Acad­e­my Record Prize, twice award­ed) and Ensem­ble Hodos. He is also a per­ma­nent mem­ber of the large Paris orches­tra ONCEIM. In 2017 he cre­at­ed the French-Pol­ish quar­tet Lumpeks, with which he won Grand Prix of Pol­ish Radio Nowa Trady­c­ja and per­formed exten­sive­ly in France, Ger­many and Poland. Sébastien Beli­ah has per­formed on many Euro­pean stages, includ­ing: Berlin Jaz­zfest (Berlin), Jaz­zdor (Stras­bourg), Phil­har­monie de Paris, Phil­har­monie de Berlin, Ban­lieues Bleues (Paris), Foun­da­tion for Con­tem­po­rary Art (Paris), Una striscia di ter­ra fecon­da (Rome), Acht­brück­en (Cologne), Angel­i­ca Fes­ti­val (Bologna), Guess Who? (Utrecht), Sacrum Pro­fanum (Kraków), Jazz in Mar­ci­ac (Mar­ci­ac), Arch­i­pel­ago (Gene­va). He has also been devel­op­ing his com­po­si­tion­al work for sev­er­al years, result­ing in pieces for the trio Un Poco Loco, Ensem­ble Hodos, the jazz quar­tet WARK and ONCEIM, arrange­ments for the Parisian string quar­tet Swing, and numer­ous edu­ca­tion­al pieces pub­lished by Recital Music. Since 2007 Sébastien has held a Cer­tifi­cate of Com­pe­tence in teach­ing jazz and taught dou­ble bass, jazz and impro­vi­sa­tion at the Con­ser­va­toire à Ray­on­nement Région­al de Reims from 2006 to 2015.

Stéphane Clor: He works in both the field of music and the visu­al arts. He is a grad­u­ate of the Académie Supérieure de Musique de Stras­bourg (HEAR) and the Uni­ver­sität für ange­wandte Kun­st in Vien­na. After return­ing to Alsace in 2018 he found­ed the coop­er­a­tive Dreieck Inter­férences, which sup­ports artis­tic and musi­cal ini­tia­tives, in par­tic­u­lar through the fes­ti­val Les Habitées.

Tickets

30 PLN