Lab Libitum — Festiwal Ad Libitum: dzień trzeci

Two con­cert sets of the Ad Libi­tum finale will be framed by two sound instal­la­tions invit­ing audi­ences to immerse them­selves in dense gui­tar sounds con­front­ed with the space of Hash­tag Lab.

Musi­cians in dia­logue across a dis­tance — Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk, Michał Sem­ber, Mateusz Śmi­gasiewicz — will fill it with a rich spec­trum of tim­bres incor­po­rat­ing per­for­ma­tive ele­ments, ad libi­tum play­ing, live elec­tron­ics, play­ing with space, and the sculp­tures with­in it.

“Żelazny Uścisk” [Iron Embrace], with sculp­tures made from met­al chains — forms that seem to have come alive, draw­ing us into their grip — is a metaphor for the real­i­ty of the glob­al “sys­tem” that has imper­cep­ti­bly begun to take on a life of its own, like an organ­ism gain­ing con­scious­ness… Per­haps the only lib­er­a­tion from it is art? Authen­tic art, not anoth­er mar­ket prod­uct or con­sumerist enter­tain­ment — says Mateusz Śmigasiewicz.

It is sur­pris­ing how eas­i­ly infor­ma­tion can be manip­u­lat­ed by mod­i­fy­ing the medi­um through which it reach­es the audi­ence. Real­i­ty reach­es us in the form of dis­tort­ed images, sen­tences torn from con­text, manip­u­lat­ed sounds. In “Re-amped”, gui­tars and ampli­fiers become the medi­um through which record­ings of the sounds of civil­i­sa­tion reach lis­ten­ers, manip­u­lat­ed live by the gui­tarists. They res­onate with the vibra­tion of strings, over­drive through the valves of ampli­fiers, grad­u­al­ly becom­ing music — com­ments Woj­ciech Błażejczyk.

[Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk — com­pos­er, gui­tarist, sound design­er, impro­vis­er, mem­ber of Hash­tag Ensem­ble. Mateusz Śmi­gasiewicz — sound artist, com­pos­er, musi­cian. Michał Sem­ber — gui­tarist, impro­vis­er, freestyler. The project is fund­ed by the “Com­po­si­tion­al Com­mis­sions” pro­gramme of the Min­istry of Cul­ture and Nation­al Her­itage, imple­ment­ed by the Nar­o­dowy Insty­tut Muzy­ki i Tańca.]

Lau­re Boer and Ben­jamin White­hill are two fig­ures who have been co-shap­ing the Berlin impro­vi­sa­tion scene for years, pre­sent­ing its under­ground, grat­ing, yet hyp­not­ic face. Pre­pare for a blend of noise and post-punk sen­si­bil­i­ty, with touch­es of rit­u­al­ism and hauntol­ogy, influ­ences from non-Euro­pean musi­cal tra­di­tions, as well as ampli­fied objects and self-built syn­the­siz­ers, inven­tive prepa­ra­tions, white noise, reverbs and overtones!

The Ad Libi­tum finale will be crowned by the fruit of the work­shop col­lab­o­ra­tion between our artist-in-res­i­dence Sharif Sehnaoui and a group of Pol­ish musi­cians. They are mem­bers of Hash­tag Ensem­ble — Mar­ta Piórkows­ka and Paweł Janas — as well as Aga­ta Kurzyk, Emil­ia Karoli­na Sitarz, Olgierd Dokals­ki and Wojtek Kurek. We have named this group Zespół Ad Libi­tum — it will fea­ture out­stand­ing impro­vis­ers, most of whom have already per­formed on our fes­ti­val stage. And with them: Sharif Sehnaoui!

All wel­come! Free admission.

Per­form­ers:

Mateusz Śmi­gasiewicz Żelazny uścisk, sound installation

Michał Sem­ber, Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk in set design by Piotr Matosek

Lau­re Boer elec­tron­ics, objects, dan bau

Ben­jamin White­hill elec­tric guitar

Woj­ciech Błaże­jczyk — Re-amped — sound installation

perf. Michał Sember

Woj­ciech Błażejczyk

Sharif Sehnaoui guitar

Zespół Ad Libitum:

Olgierd Dokals­ki trumpet

Mar­ta Piórkows­ka violin

Aga­ta Kurzyk cello

Emil­ia Karoli­na Sitarz piano

Paweł Janas quar­ter-tone accordion

Woj­ciech Kurek percussion.

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

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