Lab Libitum — Festiwal Ad Libitum: dzień drugi

Susan Alcorn, Mia Zabel­ka, Ben Dwyer are the pil­lars of this day’s fes­ti­val concerts!

The evening at Hash­tag Lab will be opened by Mia Zabel­ka, an Aus­tri­an impro­vis­er, vocal­ist and com­pos­er who ranks among the inter­na­tion­al elite of elec­troa­coustic per­for­mance artists, appear­ing togeth­er with the high­ly promis­ing duo Per­for­to, formed by Ola Rzep­ka — per­cus­sion­ist, pianist, com­pos­er and per­former — and Łukasz Marcini­ak — gui­tarist and com­pos­er, who will appear twice at this year’s Ad Libi­tum: at the Improv Gui­tar Sum­mit at Par­don, To Tu and here at Hash­tag Lab.

The sec­ond set of the evening is a solo per­for­mance by the great lady of those dis­tinct­ly Amer­i­can sounds of the Hawai­ian elec­tric gui­tar, Susan Alcorn. The gui­tar edi­tion of Ad Libi­tum can­not do with­out explor­ing the great Amer­i­can tra­di­tion of this instru­ment. The Hawai­ian gui­tar is per­haps the most Amer­i­can instru­ment of all, wide­ly used in coun­try and blue­grass, treat­ed here by Susan Alcorn in a thor­ough­ly uncon­ven­tion­al, even exper­i­men­tal man­ner, with ref­er­ences to the con­cepts of Pauline Oliv­eros, Edgard Varèse and Peter Kowald.

Clos­ing the evening is Ben Dwyer — remem­bered by us from the Blue Shroud Band for­ma­tion of Bar­ry Guy, which vis­it­ed the fes­ti­val: an excep­tion­al Irish musi­cian and com­pos­er who has spent years devel­op­ing a unique con­cept of using the fla­men­co gui­tar in the con­text of con­tem­po­rary and impro­vised music — in a quar­tet with Rafał Mazur, an artist well known to Ad Libi­tum audi­ences, with the phe­nom­e­nal Har­ri Sjöström return­ing to AL, and for the first time here, Vas­co Trilla.

All wel­come! Free admission.

Per­form­ers:

Per­for­to:

Ola Rzep­ka, piano, percussion

Łukasz Marcini­ak, guitar

and

Mia Zabel­ka violin

Susan Alcorn Hawai­ian elec­tric guitar

Ben Dwyer guitar

Rafał Mazur acoustic bass guitar

Vas­co Tril­la per­cus­sion, objects

Har­ri Sjöström saxophones

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

Tickets

Free Entry