18-24.10, Ad Libitum Festival 2009. 4th Edition

18-24.10, Ad Libitum Festival 2009. 4th Edition Music-word-theater-experiment

Art Director: Krzysztof Knittel
Curators: Antoni Beksiak, Joanna Grotkowska, Krzysztof Knittel, Michał Libera


The festival program focuses on the relationship between sound, word, music and theater in new art genres, unconventional interdisciplinary works and syncretic projects.

tickets: 15 zł - regular, 10 zł - discount
workshops - free, after prior registration
submit registration requests to: fprm@prm.art.pl

Program:
Sunday 18.10
7 p.m., Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio
Samuel Beckett, Cascando, Three Poems, an evening of aural programs, art of sound and word, the art of radio
Performer: John Tilbury, piano, vocals
.but the clouds.film by: Jayne Parker
Curator: Joanna Grotkowska

Monday 19.10
5 p.m., CCA, Kino/Audytorium Hal
Q&A with John Tibury and Jayne Parker and an additional screening of the film .but the clouds.

7 p.m., CCA, Laboratory Hall
A reinterpretation of Mauricio Kagel's famous conceptual project Ludwig Van devoted to Ludvig Van Beethoven
Lead: Reinhold Friedl, piano
Artists: Zosia Gołębiowska, flute, DJ Lenar, turntables, Karolina Ossowska, violin, Dagna Sadkowska, violin, Małgorzata Szczepańska, viola
Curator: Michał Libera


Tuesday 20.10
7 p.m., CCA, Laboratorium Hall
dramma per musica, musical interpretation of drama
Quartludium - performer; Michał Gorczyca - collage of text fragments, synthetic and concrete sounds, Dariusz Błaszczyk - video projections; Maja Kleczewska - script
Curator: Michał Mendyk

Wednesday, 21.10
7 p.m. CCA, Laboratorium Hall
Jaap Blonk (Holland), Valeri Scherstjanoi (Germany), Anat Pick (Israel), Lautpoesie
Art at the intersection of sound poetry and music - a continuation of Russian Futurists' "zaumnovo yazyka" and Dadaist art
Curator: Antoni Beksiak

Thursday, 22.10
7 p.m., CCA, Laboratorium Hall
Andrei Smirnov, Sounds out of Paper. Music from Out of Nowhere, Russian music from the 1930s recorded on film and discovered in 2008 in the Russian state archives

Moscow Laptops Cyber Orchestra, Sensor Orchestra: Correlations
Concert by a group led by Andrei Smirnov, using Theremins and laptops [Moscow Theremin Electro acoustic Center, Peter Tchaikovsky Conservatory].
Curator: Krzysztof Knittel


Friday, 23.10
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., CCA, Kino / Audytorium Hall
Conference (pt. 1) Musicology and education - Teaching music appreciation - explaining culture organized in cooperation with Musicology Section of the Polish Composers Association

7 p.m. Theater Institute and outdoors
Węgajta Thater, Missa Pagana, outdoor play seeking the source of word and song in the context of the ritualistic tradition involving vocalists, musicians, actors and mimes.
Texts: Edward Stachura, music by: Mieczysław Litwiński, directed by: Mieczysław Litwiński
Curator: Michał Mendyk


Saturday, 24.10
9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., CCA, Kino / Audytorium Hall
Conference (pt. 2) Musicology and education - Teaching music appreciation - explaining culture organized in cooperation with the Musicology Section of the Polish Composers Association

7 p.m., CCA, Laboratorium Hall, concert to end festival
Malcolm Goldstein, violin, Tomasz Chołoniewski, percussion instruments, Karolina Ossowska, violin, Mikołaj Pałosz, cello, Dagna Sadkowska, violin - improvisation

Gary Smith, guitar, Andrei Smirnov, Theremin, Krzysztof Knittel, live electronics, workshop participants - improvisation with participants of guitar workshop

Tadeusz Wielecki, new composition composed at the commission of the Ad Libitum 4 Festival, pre-premiere
Performers: Krakow's Ad Libitum Orchestra, conductor - Monika Wolińska


Krakow's Ad Libitum 4 Orchestra consists of the participants of contemporary music workshops run by Krzysztof Knittl at Krakow's Academy of Music. Themes: instrumental vs. vocal (phonetic) sonoristics, sonic and semantic relations of music and speech, textual partitures by Karlheinz Stockhausen, improvisation techniques according to the 'conduction' method of Lawrence "Butch" Morris.

Curators: Michał Libera, Krzysztof Knittel, Antoni Beksiak

Workshops run by:
Malcolm Goldstein (violin): 21 - 24.10
Gary Smith (guitar): 21. - 24.10
Mieczysław Litwiński and artists of the Węgajty Theater: 17 - 23.10
Jaap Blonk, Valeri Scherstjanoi, Anat Pick (vocals): 19 - 21.10
Keith Rowe (guitar, electronics): 6 - 10.10
Reinhold Friedl (piano): 15 - 19.10


Organized by: Polish Council for Music Foundation

Co-organizer: Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle

Partners: Theater Institute, Polish Radio Program 2, Musicology Section of the Polish Composers Association, Peter Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory of Music, Turning Sounds 4, 4.99 Foundation


Media support: Gazeta Wyborcza, Aktivist, Exklusiv, Sztuka.pl, Artinfo.pl