Sekrety na klarnety

Like a game of cha­rades, with ges­tures and sounds two vir­tu­oso clar­inet­tists will lead us into the realm of impro­vi­sa­tion and abstraction.

Some­times the instru­ments will trans­form into the­atri­cal props and the musi­cians into actors, and some­times silence will play for us. What will our secrets depict? A place, an ani­mal, an object, and a type of game. Short pieces by, among oth­ers, Richard Per­ci­val and Paul Har­vey will be heard, as well as much impro­vi­sa­tion. Although this time ĄsąBąble invites above all lis­ten­ing and watch­ing, there will be no short­age of moments for move­ment. We will clap rhythms, dance, sway and hum, and close con­tact with the instru­ments will allow lit­tle ears to pick out every tim­bre of the clar­inet and bass clarinet.

The inspi­ra­tion for this event is the mak­ing of “sekrets” (lit­tle win­dows, lit­tle angels) — an old chil­dren’s yard game involv­ing the cre­ation of small mas­ter­pieces hid­den under the sand. Flow­ers, peb­bles and oth­er found trea­sures arranged into a lit­tle scene were cov­ered with a piece of glass. Through the con­trast with their sur­round­ings, such colour­ful cre­ations dis­cov­ered sud­den­ly under a mound of sand could tru­ly sur­prise and enchant.

Before and after the con­certs, par­ents and car­ers with chil­dren are wel­come to enjoy treats at our café. The café is open from 9:00 to 14:00.

Per­form­ers:

Adam Eljasińs­ki and Oli­wier Andruszczenko clar­inet, bass clar­inet, silli­ness and pineap­ples Anna Sza­w­iel script and performance

The media patron of the event is the mag­a­zine Kos­mos dla Dziew­czynek. Tick­ets avail­able in the GOING app and at goin​gapp​.pl. Przestrzeń Muzy­ki Współczes­nej Hash­tag Lab is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of Warsaw.

About the series:

ĄsąBąble are per­for­ma­tive con­certs fea­tur­ing new music for fam­i­lies with chil­dren aged 0–7. Each one is based on an orig­i­nal sce­nario in which lis­ten­ing to music, inter­ac­tive games and edu­ca­tion­al val­ue are equal­ly impor­tant. In a space friend­ly to the very youngest, one can lis­ten to the music of lead­ing con­tem­po­rary com­posers in a ver­sion and pro­por­tion adapt­ed for small ears. The the­atri­cal for­mat of the con­certs encour­ages focus and allows one to be enchant­ed by the sounds, while the invi­ta­tion to join in col­lec­tive impro­vi­sa­tions releas­es the nat­ur­al need for expres­sion in lit­tle peo­ple. In the spir­it of Janusz Kor­cza­k’s words “There are no chil­dren, there are peo­ple,” all par­tic­i­pants are treat­ed with respect and have a share in how the event unfolds. The series presents exclu­sive­ly music of the 20th and 21st cen­turies. A reg­u­lar fea­ture is the pre­sen­ta­tion of a record­ing of a sym­phon­ic work or a piece from the field of sound design and electronics.

While each edi­tion of ĄsąBąble takes musi­cal mate­r­i­al as its point of depar­ture, it also abounds in extra-musi­cal con­texts close to the prac­tice of Hash­tag Ensem­ble: lit­er­ary, visu­al, social. The events are inter­dis­ci­pli­nary in char­ac­ter: also tak­ing part are invit­ed artists who have long worked in close prox­im­i­ty to chil­dren’s imag­i­na­tion — dancers, per­form­ers, illus­tra­tors and writ­ers. The­atre is a nat­ur­al are­na for new music, and so the edu­ca­tion­al char­ac­ter of the ĄsąBąble series also incor­po­rates actor train­ing for the musicians.

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

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The ĄsąBąble project cre­ative­ly devel­ops the con­cept of the “Smykow­iz­je” series by the foun­da­tion “Muzy­ka jest dla wszys­t­kich”, with­in which in 2016–2022 Hash­tag Ensem­ble and Anna Sza­w­iel gave over 130 con­certs and mini-per­for­mances togeth­er, seek­ing the most com­pelling forms for pre­sent­ing new music. The con­cept and cura­to­r­i­al direc­tion of Smykow­iz­je was by Anna Kierkosz. It was the first series of events in Poland aimed at the very youngest chil­dren, in which con­tem­po­rary music played the lead­ing role.

Tickets

30 PLN