Kwiaty brzmiące i brzdące

We invite you to an excep­tion­al con­cert and shared cre­ative activ­i­ty for fam­i­lies with chil­dren aged 5–7.

What makes sounds in the grass and how is it even pos­si­ble that we don’t hear the sound of flow­ers in our dai­ly lives? Like bells, for exam­ple. Wind­ing or straight stems, leaf pat­terns, the shapes and colours of flow­ers: this entire diverse world of colour­ful chal­ices, cups, and gob­lets, the art nou­veau of plant shapes — these are ready-made graph­ic scores, i.e. notes that an expe­ri­enced con­tem­po­rary musi­cian can read and play.

So per­haps a piece by con­tem­po­rary Eston­ian com­pos­er Arvo Pärt will turn out to be a mul­ti-petalled daisy, and a mag­nif­i­cent red pop­py will sound like a clar­inet? Or a gui­tar will turn into a Span­ish pur­ple rose? Per­haps in a piece by Swedish com­pos­er Karin Rehn­qvist, corn­flow­ers and bells will sing in a blue cho­rus? What we hear will depend to some extent on the imag­i­na­tion of the par­tic­i­pants and per­form­ers of our concert.

What is cer­tain is that we will check whether ordi­nary grass can turn into a wind instru­ment (like a clar­inet, for exam­ple). We will also cre­ate our own graph­ic scores in the shape of flow­ers and find out whether the artists present at the con­cert can play and sing them. It will be colour­ful, cre­ative, and quite out of the ordi­nary. We invite you to the last ĄsąBąble con­cert before the sum­mer hol­i­days, in the gar­den of Hash­tag Lab.

Dur­ing the event we will be using poster paints. In the event of bad weath­er, the con­cert will take place inside the Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space building.

Per­form­ers:

Maria Mał­gorza­ta Złotek voiceAdam Eljasińs­ki clar­inetKostek Szem­raj gui­tarAn­na Kierkosz host­ed by

Anna Kierkosz — edu­ca­tor in art and con­tem­po­rary music, art edu­ca­tor, cura­tor of the Mała Warsza­wska Jesień Fes­ti­val, the “Smykow­iz­je” series of the “Muzy­ka jest dla wszys­t­kich” Foun­da­tion, and cura­tor for edu­ca­tion and projects at Teatr Lalek Guli­w­er. Author of poems, song texts, and books for chil­dren, moth­er of Róża.

About the series:

ĄsąBąble are per­for­ma­tive con­certs with new music for fam­i­lies with chil­dren aged 0–7. Each one is built around an orig­i­nal script in which lis­ten­ing to music, inter­ac­tive play, and edu­ca­tion­al val­ue are of equal impor­tance. In a space friend­ly to the very youngest, audi­ences can hear music by lead­ing con­tem­po­rary com­posers, in a ver­sion and pro­por­tion adapt­ed for small ears. The the­atri­cal for­mat of the con­certs encour­ages con­cen­tra­tion and allows lis­ten­ers to be enchant­ed by the sounds, while the invi­ta­tion to join in group impro­vi­sa­tions releas­es chil­dren’s nat­ur­al need for expres­sion. In the spir­it of Janusz Kor­cza­k’s words “There are no chil­dren, only peo­ple,” all par­tic­i­pants are treat­ed with respect and have a share in how the event unfolds. The series presents only 20th- and 21st-cen­tu­ry music. A per­ma­nent fea­ture is the pre­sen­ta­tion of a record­ing of a sym­phon­ic work or a work from the field of sound design and electronics.

Although each edi­tion of ĄsąBąble takes musi­cal tex­ture as its start­ing point, it is also rich in non-musi­cal con­texts close to Hash­tag Ensem­ble’s prac­tice: lit­er­ary, visu­al, and social. The events are inter­dis­ci­pli­nary: invit­ed artists who have long worked in prox­im­i­ty to chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion also con­tribute — dancers, per­form­ers, illus­tra­tors, and writ­ers. The­atre is the nat­ur­al are­na for new music, which is why the ĄsąBąble series also incor­po­rates act­ing train­ing for musi­cians as part of its edu­ca­tion­al character.

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

The ĄsąBąble project cre­ative­ly devel­ops the con­cept of the “Smykow­iz­je” series by the “Muzy­ka jest dla wszys­t­kich” foun­da­tion, in the con­text of which in 2016–2022 Hash­tag Ensem­ble and Anna Sza­w­iel per­formed togeth­er more than 130 con­certs and mini-per­for­mances, explor­ing the most inter­est­ing ways of pre­sent­ing new music. The cre­ator and cura­tor of Smykow­iz­je was Anna Kierkosz. It was the first series of events in Poland addressed to the very youngest, in which con­tem­po­rary music played the lead­ing role.

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

The part­ners of the series are ZAW Stoart and the War­saw Branch of the Pol­ish Asso­ci­a­tion of Musi­cal Artists. The media patron of the ĄsąBąble series is Kos­mos dla Dziewczynek.

Tickets

60 PLN