Preparacje i reperkusje

This work­shop will enable par­tic­i­pants to begin or deep­en a prac­tice of free impro­vi­sa­tion. We will focus on expand­ing the son­ic pos­si­bil­i­ties of the piano through prepa­ra­tion, and on draw­ing sounds from any part of the instrument. 

Yield­ing to the hyp­not­ic effects of sounds out­side the grid of con­tem­po­rary tem­pera­ment, we will move towards free­ing musi­cal expres­sion from the dic­tates of acquired habits. Work in trios and duos will fos­ter a state of readi­ness for co-cre­at­ing musi­cal tex­ture with­out pri­or agreement.

Mar­ta J. Bogusławska

Music is a form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, a lan­guage through which we can con­vey mean­ings — and above all emo­tions. While per­form­ing music from nota­tion might be com­pared to recita­tion, impro­vi­sa­tion is a form of free con­ver­sa­tion. We have mono­logues, dia­logues and col­lec­tive con­ver­sa­tions. All peo­ple are capa­ble of this from the moment they begin to speak at a few years old. Musi­cians can do it too, but some­times these skills are sup­pressed in the process of musi­cal edu­ca­tion. In the per­for­mance we will present var­i­ous forms of musi­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tion, jux­ta­pos­ing, among oth­er things, the sounds of piano and per­cus­sion instruments. 

Hubert Zem­ler

This work­shop is part of the event “Esztényi in memo­ri­am” organ­ised by the Depart­ment of Music Edu­ca­tion and Eurhyth­mics at UMFC, ded­i­cat­ed to the mem­o­ry of Pro­fes­sor Szabolcs Esztényi — pianist, impro­vis­er, com­pos­er and pedagogue.

Programme:

Rhyth­mic and piano impro­vi­sa­tion work­shop pre­ced­ed by a short con­cert of impro­vised music.

Per­form­ers and work­shop leaders:

Mar­ta J. Bogusławska — piano

Hubert Zem­ler  — percussion

Production:

pro­gramme con­cept: Mar­ta J. Bogusławska, Hubert Zem­ler
pro­duc­tion: Lil­ian­na Krych, Mar­ta J. Bogusławska
visu­al iden­ti­ty: Alek­san­dra Ołdak
co-pro­duc­tion/­co-organ­i­sa­tion: Depart­ment of Music Edu­ca­tion and Eurhyth­mics, UMFC

Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is co-fund­ed by the City of War­saw.
The media patron of the Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is POLMIC​.PL. and Dwój­ka Pol­skie Radio.

Note regard­ing pos­si­ble appli­ca­tions for MKiDN, Nim­it or oth­er grant providers

If you’d like to know more about the artists/works:

Mar­ta J. Bogusławska (b. 1983)

Pianist, teacher. 

Hubert Zem­ler (b. 1980)

Per­cus­sion­ist, com­pos­er, music pro­duc­er, impro­vis­er, per­former and edu­ca­tor. Grad­u­ate of the Fry­deryk Chopin Acad­e­my of Music in War­saw (now the Music Uni­ver­si­ty). He moves freely between musi­cal cat­e­gories and cur­rents in art. A high­ly regard­ed inter­preter of new music, jazz drum­mer, author of solo albums span­ning avant-garde, elec­tron­ics and eth­nic music, and cre­ator of sound­tracks for films, ani­ma­tions, the­atri­cal works and sound instal­la­tions. An active mem­ber of the War­saw inde­pen­dent music scene cen­tred around

the LADO ABC asso­ci­a­tion. He is inter­est­ed in explor­ing musi­cal phenomena

from around the world and their interrelationships.

He co-leads the ensem­bles Mag­ne­to, Mitch & Mitch, Opla (with Piotr Bukows­ki), CEL (a duo with Ger­man elec­tron­ic artist Felix Kubin), Zemiter (with Marcin Dymiter), and togeth­er with Oskar Daw­ic­ki, Piotr Adams­ki and Mikołaj Małek the per­for­ma­tive-musi­cal ensem­ble PROSZEK.

Over the years he has steadi­ly expand­ed the range of his artistic

inter­ests, turn­ing his atten­tion wher­ev­er there exists

an oppor­tu­ni­ty to dis­turb or stim­u­late the pre­vail­ing real­i­ty. He is drawn to the sub­tle cross­ing of styl­is­tic bound­aries while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly focus­ing on organ­ic qual­i­ty and vivid emo­tion­al expression.