Superastral / Technical Reserve

At this con­cert from our elec­tro music series, we wel­come two excel­lent projects: War­saw-based Superas­tral and Tech­ni­cal Reserve from the Unit­ed States.

The SUPERASTRAL project was found­ed in 2021 at the PanDymińs­ka arts space and since then has appeared in many venues, includ­ing the Audio Art fes­ti­val in Kraków in 2021, where it was described as: “Steve Reich-style rhyth­mic loops invit­ed inner seat­ed danc­ing, and the incred­i­bly cre­ative, impec­ca­bly real­ized visu­als took the mind some­where into the deep orbits of inner uni­vers­es. A mag­nif­i­cent flight!” — Glis­san­do Mag­a­zine, 13 Decem­ber 2021, Sang­ha Audio Art. Review of the 2021 edi­tion, Wojtek Krzyżanowski.

SUPERASTRAL is a fusion of clas­si­cal musi­cal approach (Anna — an aca­d­e­m­ic com­pos­er, stu­dent of Prof. Scha­ef­fer) and free artis­tic flow (Kamil — a visu­al artist exper­i­ment­ing with sound).

The SUPERASTRAL con­cept draws on one hand from the tra­di­tion of 20th-cen­tu­ry avant-garde, min­i­mal music and con­tra­pun­tal think­ing, and on the oth­er from elec­tron­ic ambi­ent, explo­ration of rhyth­mic mod­ules and sam­ple mixing.

Ele­ments of struc­tural­ism and mod­ernism are also vis­i­ble in the mul­ti­me­dia lay­er — the video art is based on repeat­ed­ly processed image frag­ments, cre­at­ing unique and hyp­not­ic visuals.

Tech­ni­cal Reserve is a trio of Hunter Brown, Dominic Coles and TJ Bor­den. Their unique impro­vi­sa­tion­al lan­guage moves freely between clear rhyth­mic pas­sages, pre­cise, ener­getic sound and float­ing, misty abjec­tion. This is music for lovers of jazz weight­less­ness and road­side mad­ness. Come for a ride with us! Debut album: Tech­ni­cal Reserve — Per­son­al Watercraft

Per­form­ers:

Superas­tralAn­na Jędrze­jew­s­ka piano, electronics

Kamil Kowal­s­ki video, electronics

Tech­ni­cal Reserve

Hunter Brown electronics

Dominic Coles electronics

TJ Bor­den cello

Pro­duc­tion:

Pro­duc­tion: Aga­ta Krystek

Visu­al iden­ti­ty: Alek­san­dra Ołdak

Sound engi­neer­ing: Woj­ciech Błażejczyk

The Hash­tag Lab Con­tem­po­rary Music Space is co-financed by the Cap­i­tal City of War­saw. Media patrons: POLMIC​.PL and Dwój­ka Pol­skie Radio.

About the artists:

Anna Jędrze­jew­ska­Com­pos­er, direc­tor and cre­ator of mul­ti­me­dia projects such as instal­la­tions and audio­vi­su­al spec­ta­cles. Con­sid­ered one of the most ver­sa­tile artists on the Pol­ish art scene. Her work is root­ed in impro­vi­sa­tion and con­tem­po­rary musi­cal tech­niques. She com­plet­ed com­po­si­tion stud­ies in the class of Prof. Bogusław Scha­ef­fer at the Music Acad­e­my in Kraków, study­ing under teach­ers such as Adam Kaczyńs­ki, Krysty­na Moszu­mańs­ka-Nazar, Marek Chołoniews­ki and Krzysztof Knit­tel. At the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Kraków she stud­ied mul­ti­me­dia sculp­ture under Antoni Por­czak. Her projects, such as “Video Score” and “Ener­getic Res­o­nance,” have been pre­sent­ed at pres­ti­gious fes­ti­vals includ­ing Darm­städter Ferienkurse and Warsza­wska Jesień. Select­ed projects:

Kor­posza­man­izm – an audioscenic work for per­former and elec­tron­ics (2020, Audio Stage, Warsaw)

Duszysko – micro opera for col­oratu­ra alto and elec­tron­ics (2021, PanDymińs­ka, Warsaw)

UMBRA – micro opera for sopra­no, elec­tron­ics, piano and live video (2021, PanDymińs­ka, Warsaw)

HYBRID – rap opera for rap­per, per­form­ers and video (2022–2023, Prom Kul­tu­ry War­saw, Mózg Fes­ti­w­al Bydgoszcz)

Puls Życia – audio­vi­su­al per­for­mance at Warsza­wskie Stu­dio Ekspery­men­tu (2023)

Kamil Kowal­skiVi­su­al artist, graph­ic design­er (Acad­e­my of Fine Arts War­saw, mul­ti­me­dia spe­cial­iza­tion), painter and pho­tog­ra­ph­er. His day-to-day work is in applied graph­ics, while in his free time he cre­ates paint­ing and pho­tog­ra­phy. His graph­ic style is char­ac­ter­ized by econ­o­my of form, ref­er­enc­ing mod­ernism, futur­ism and unism. He pho­tographs urban spaces and peo­ple in a reportage style. Select­ed projects:

Niewidzialne Mias­ta – solo paint­ing exhi­bi­tion (2021, PanDymińs­ka, Warsaw)

Duszysko – set design for the micro opera (2021, PanDymińs­ka, Warsaw)

UMBRA – visu­als for the micro opera (2021, PanDymińs­ka, Warsaw)

SUPERASTRAL – audio­vi­su­al project (Audio Art 2021, Kraków)

Visu­als at the Syn­tezy Fes­ti­val “Trib­ute to Scha­ef­fer” (2023, Kraków)

Hunter Brown Com­pos­er, impro­vis­er and sound engi­neer from Chica­go, Illi­nois. His work focus­es on cre­at­ing unpre­dictable, idio­syn­crat­ic and unruly inter­ac­tions with dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy. He is par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in explor­ing the unsta­ble mate­r­i­al prop­er­ties of dig­i­tal sys­tems through exper­i­men­tal machine-lis­ten­ing tech­niques and push­ing the phys­i­cal lim­its of dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy to the point of fail­ure. In Chica­go he serves as tech­ni­cal direc­tor of Ensem­ble Dal Niente and runs the Par­ty Per­fect!!! record label focused on com­put­er music, togeth­er with his col­lab­o­ra­tor Dominic Coles. He is cur­rent­ly a vis­it­ing assis­tant pro­fes­sor in com­put­er music at Ober­lin Con­ser­va­to­ry of Music and a doc­tor­al can­di­date at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go. More information.

Dominic Coles Musi­cian from Queens, New York. Through com­po­si­tion and impro­vi­sa­tion he inves­ti­gates inter­ac­tions between place, iden­ti­ty and pow­er as artic­u­lat­ed in sound, seek­ing to inter­vene in these cat­e­gories through spe­cif­ic acts of tech­no­log­i­cal­ly medi­at­ed lis­ten­ing. Doc­u­ments of his work have been released by Edi­tion Wan­del­weis­er, Tripticks Tapes, Spricht Edi­tions and per­formed at venues such as Café OTO (Lon­don), KM28 (Berlin), Les Ate­liers Claus (Brus­sels), Shift: FourO­neOne (New York), Alyssa Davis Gallery (New York), Casa Del Popo­lo (Mon­tre­al), Index­i­cal (San­ta Cruz) and DIY spaces across the USA and Europe. Dominic has been a res­i­dent at Bald­win for the Arts and a Qubit Inno­va­tor Lab Fel­low. He also runs the Par­ty Per­fect! label togeth­er with Hunter Brown. More information.

Tyler J. Bor­den A cel­list who explores the lim­its and pos­si­bil­i­ties of his instru­ment. Orig­i­nal­ly from west­ern New York, he now lives in Brook­lyn, where he spends most of his time search­ing for ways to har­ness both the strengths and the weak­ness­es of his instru­ment and himself.

Tickets

40 PLN