A TASTE OF WATER
PEREGRINATION WITH WATER SOMMELIER, TEA ANDREOLETTI
/ WATER TESTING PILGRIMAGE
field walk
meeting: 8.09.22 - Mózg Club, 9.09.22 - Młyny Rothera
As part of the 18th Mózg Festival, Tea Andreoletti will carry out two activities in Bydgoszcz. They will take the form of joint walks in the immediate area, following the footsteps of water. The first one starts at Mózg club (16 spots only, registration: https://evenea.pl/pl/wydarzenie/teaspacerwterenie), while the second one will take place at Młyny Rothera (16 spots only, registration: https://app.evenea.pl/event/teaspacerwterenie2/).
The artist’s activities refer in secular form to the practice of pilgrimage, a journey whose meaning is realized simultaneously in emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions. Both will focus on considerations related to the theme of ownership and how we should understand it in relation to water, which is a resource so fundamentally shared that it is almost impossible to subject it to privatization. Yet in practical terms it functions almost all the time as a commodity.
The artist will try to get us to look at water as a carrier of knowledge. After all, nothing like water stores in its taste the memory of the earth, minerals, and infrastructure it meets on its way. It can therefore be considered as an archive, or a time capsule.
Tea Andreoletti (1991) grew up in Gromo, a rural village in the Alps of northern Italy. She is an artist who performs as a storyteller, water sommelier, guide of pilgrimages and a non-professional fencer. Since 2020, Tea has been working on a long-term project that will lead her and a civic list to run for mayor in her hometown’s 2026 elections through a leadership she calls "Povera". Her nomadic projects are documented through oral narratives and embroidery on her Sunday Dress. Tea Andreoletti studied in the MA programme of Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS), Uniarts Helsinki. She is currently co-curating the NoMad House Helsinki programme, a live art and performance platform in Helsinki. Tea lives and works between Helsinki and Gromo.
Photo credit: Antti Ahonen
https://www.madhousehelsinki.fi/uutiset/vuoden-2022-nomad-housen-kuraattorit
FOR G. KIESWALTER
performans
Klub Mózg
CentrumCentrum is a heretical institution founded in Szczecin in 2015, created by Łukasz Jastrubczak and Małgorzata Mazur. The institution’s activities focus on the relationship between former peripheries and former centres of the world, in the context of their economic and cultural dependence. The creators of the initiative weave threads from the past into the present-day web of dependency, animating unusual protagonists - unnoticed objects, overlooked events - and aiming to strengthen their presence in the contemporary narrative. As part of its activities, the institution organises events, produces publications, creates a collection of objects and situations, initiates discussions, conducts workshops, translates, recycles, reconstructs, cares for the soil, plants and harvests.
As part of the 18th Mózg Festival, CentrumCentrum will perform a live radio play composed of synthesiser music and stories. Its narrative will be based on excerpts from the diary of Maya Kust, a fictional geologist living in remote Siberia, and the memoirs of Russian conceptualist Georgi Kiesewalter, a member of the dissident Collective Actions Group. The duo will thus refer to their earlier action realised at the invitation of the Art Lab collective from Yakutsk, which is co-founded by female artists from the Sakha people. This mysterious collective has been working since the beginning of summer 2021 on a collective portrait of a fantasised figure, which is a screen for the memories, thoughts and points of view of the many individuals, collectives and institutions from different countries invited to collaborate. CentrumCentrum’s performance draws on the most interesting themes of the duo’s work. It brings together the geological scale of observation, a critical view of the relationship between humans and other elements of the ecosystem, and a fascination with the global reach of ideas and inspiration, made possible by the possibilities of recording and the ubiquity of internet connections.
Trio_io’s music is a result of three minds, three different musical languages, three different origins. The meeting of these three musicians resulted in open forms, drawing from the tradition of contemporary composers, experiments with instrument preparation and elements of free jazz and folk music. Trio_io’s music can be described simply as new music. In March 2019, Bółt Records released the trio’s first album titled "Waves". On 28 October 2021 the trio’s second album "New Animals" was premiered by Antenna non grata.
Zofia Ilnicka (transverse flute) graduated from the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz in 2016. She co-founded the contemporary music ensemble Trio Layers, which performs composed as well as improvised music. She has also collaborated with the Landjugendorchester NRW, the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz. She is a laureate of many national competitions.
Łukasz Marciniak (electric guitar) is a guitarist, composer and music enthusiast. He has written music for silent films and performances. Solo, he works on his own language of articulation.
Jakub Wosik (violin) is a violinist, composer and improviser. Apart from jazz, his main interests include contemporary and freely improvised music. He is a co-founder of the contemporary music ensemble Trio Layers. He also cooperates with numerous cultural institutions.
READING
performance
Mózg club
FOR THEM
installation
Młyny Rothera
Aleksandra Kubiak is a visual artist, author of performances, films and spatial forms. She explores the social effectiveness of art. From 2001 to 2013, together with Karolina Wiktor, she co-founded Grupa Sędzia Główny. In 2010, she resumed her individual activities with the film Dolce Vita (2011). Since 2014, she has been creating an autobiographical series of works in which she combines her often difficult family experiences with experimentation in the field of film action, at the interface of performance, documentary film and theatre. She works with actors, writes scripts, writes texts and directs. She is a two-time scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. With Grupa Sędzia Główny she was nominated for the Paszporty Polityki (2011) and Spojrzenia (2007) awards, the artists were the winners of the International Performance Competition in Trento (2007) and the TVP Kultura Award (2005). In 2016, at the University of Arts in Poznań, she defended her doctorate in art under the supervision of Prof. Izabella Gustowska (in collaboration with Prof. Marek Wasilewski). Since 2017 she has been working at the Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Zielona Góra. She lives in Zielona Góra, where she collaborates with the Salony Foundation and the BWA Gallery. She is the author of solo exhibitions including ’Śliczna jesteś, Laleczko’, 2017, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, ’Powietrze w domu’, 2017, MOS Gorzów, ’I made a model of you’, 2019, CCA Kronika in Bytom and BWA Zielona Góra.
In the realizations prepared for the 18th Mózg Festival, Aleksandra Kubiak reaches for a classic: text. The artist refers to its ceremonial function, a tool of power that enables the renewal of the community and the search for support in it. She uses it in two ways: as performative material, effecting change through the action of the spoken word, and as a record. In both the performance presented at the Mózg club and the public work exhibited in the space of Młyny Rothera, the artist works with the text of a poem based on her own experience. The text was the starting point for "Live, you silly!", the final part of a film triptych in which Kubiak confronts private herstory and delineates the space of personal freedom. The previous ones are "You’re a Cute One, Sweetie" and "Elephant Flesh."
Read in the universal plane of public space, the text of the poem acquires a surprisingly political character. It asks about the shape of community, which is no longer the result of national, local, biological or familial affinity, but can be the result of a mature choice.
http://aleksandrakubiak.com/
Jeremiah Cymerman (b. 1980) is a New York City based (since 2002) composer, clarinetist, producer, and podcaster. Noted for his prolific output, with an ever expanding body of work, Cymerman’s music stands uniquely at the nexus of contemporary classical, electroacoustic experimentation, free improvisation and dark ambient soundscapes. He released multiple albums on his own 5049 Records, as well as labels like Tzadik and Astral Spirits. Since 2007 much of his focus has been creating a unique and idiosyncratic approach to solo electroacoustic clarinet performance. With recent releases, Cymerman’s work for solo clarinet & electronics has become more seamless and refined, resulting in more intimate and personal explorations of tonal and atonal language.
In breaks between successive events, our sponsor Browar Tenczynek will conduct a tasting of beverages and CBD oil.
A TASTE OF WATER
PEREGRINATION WITH WATER SOMMELIER, TEA ANDREOLETTI
/ WATER TESTING PILGRIMAGE
field walk
meeting: 8.09.22 - Mózg Club, 9.09.22 - Młyny Rothera
As part of the 18th Mózg Festival, Tea Andreoletti will carry out two activities in Bydgoszcz. They will take the form of joint walks in the immediate area, following the footsteps of water. The first one starts at Mózg club (16 spots only, registration: https://evenea.pl/pl/wydarzenie/teaspacerwterenie), while the second one will take place at Młyny Rothera (16 spots only, registration: https://app.evenea.pl/event/teaspacerwterenie2/).
The artist’s activities refer in secular form to the practice of pilgrimage, a journey whose meaning is realized simultaneously in emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions. Both will focus on considerations related to the theme of ownership and how we should understand it in relation to water, which is a resource so fundamentally shared that it is almost impossible to subject it to privatization. Yet in practical terms it functions almost all the time as a commodity.
The artist will try to get us to look at water as a carrier of knowledge. After all, nothing like water stores in its taste the memory of the earth, minerals, and infrastructure it meets on its way. It can therefore be considered as an archive, or a time capsule.
Tea Andreoletti (1991) grew up in Gromo, a rural village in the Alps of northern Italy. She is an artist who performs as a storyteller, water sommelier, guide of pilgrimages and a non-professional fencer. Since 2020, Tea has been working on a long-term project that will lead her and a civic list to run for mayor in her hometown’s 2026 elections through a leadership she calls "Povera". Her nomadic projects are documented through oral narratives and embroidery on her Sunday Dress. Tea Andreoletti studied in the MA programme of Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS), Uniarts Helsinki. She is currently co-curating the NoMad House Helsinki programme, a live art and performance platform in Helsinki. Tea lives and works between Helsinki and Gromo.
Photo credit: Antti Ahonen
https://www.madhousehelsinki.fi/uutiset/vuoden-2022-nomad-housen-kuraattorit
READING
performance
Mózg club
FOR THEM
installation
Młyny Rothera
Aleksandra Kubiak is a visual artist, author of performances, films and spatial forms. She explores the social effectiveness of art. From 2001 to 2013, together with Karolina Wiktor, she co-founded Grupa Sędzia Główny. In 2010, she resumed her individual activities with the film Dolce Vita (2011). Since 2014, she has been creating an autobiographical series of works in which she combines her often difficult family experiences with experimentation in the field of film action, at the interface of performance, documentary film and theatre. She works with actors, writes scripts, writes texts and directs. She is a two-time scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. With Grupa Sędzia Główny she was nominated for the Paszporty Polityki (2011) and Spojrzenia (2007) awards, the artists were the winners of the International Performance Competition in Trento (2007) and the TVP Kultura Award (2005). In 2016, at the University of Arts in Poznań, she defended her doctorate in art under the supervision of Prof. Izabella Gustowska (in collaboration with Prof. Marek Wasilewski). Since 2017 she has been working at the Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Zielona Góra. She lives in Zielona Góra, where she collaborates with the Salony Foundation and the BWA Gallery. She is the author of solo exhibitions including ’Śliczna jesteś, Laleczko’, 2017, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, ’Powietrze w domu’, 2017, MOS Gorzów, ’I made a model of you’, 2019, CCA Kronika in Bytom and BWA Zielona Góra.
In the realizations prepared for the 18th Mózg Festival, Aleksandra Kubiak reaches for a classic: text. The artist refers to its ceremonial function, a tool of power that enables the renewal of the community and the search for support in it. She uses it in two ways: as performative material, effecting change through the action of the spoken word, and as a record. In both the performance presented at the Mózg club and the public work exhibited in the space of Młyny Rothera, the artist works with the text of a poem based on her own experience. The text was the starting point for "Live, you silly!", the final part of a film triptych in which Kubiak confronts private herstory and delineates the space of personal freedom. The previous ones are "You’re a Cute One, Sweetie" and "Elephant Flesh."
Read in the universal plane of public space, the text of the poem acquires a surprisingly political character. It asks about the shape of community, which is no longer the result of national, local, biological or familial affinity, but can be the result of a mature choice.
http://aleksandrakubiak.com/
Ensemble Nist-Nah is a contemporary Gamelan / percussion ensemble led by France-based Australian drummer and percussionist Will Guthrie. Nist-Nah explores Gamelan instrumentation, using the metallaphones, hand drums and gongs of Indonesia alongside drum kit, other percussion and objects, found and junk. Bringing together 9 of France’s finest (Will Guthrie, Prune Becheau, Charles Dubois, Thibault Florent, Colline Grosjean, Amelie Grould, Mark Lockett, Sven Michel, Jennifer Torrence, Arno Tukiman), Ensemble Nist-Nah hosts a wealth of experience and expertise, with it’s members coming from eclectic and mixed backgrounds, from traditional musicians, contemporary percussionists, to noise and free jazz fanatics. The music of Ensemble Nist-Nah aims to combine the rich, bright and lush sounds of Gamelan with his interests in free jazz, electro-acoustic music and diverse experimental music practices, exploring temperament play, extended techniques for percussion, and interlocking polyrhythmic and polymeric non metered pulse.
AMPLIFICATION
slideshow
Młyny Rother
Kama Sokolnicka (born 1978) lives and works in Wrocław and Berlin. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Her artistic practice is based on montage as a conceptual process. She is interested in misreading, listening and understanding, and her works are characterised by restraint in the use of materials and diverse in form - from collage, object, installation and painting to sculpture.
Emanuel Geisser (Born 1974 in St. Gallen, Switzerland) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He studied at Ecole Supérieure d´Art Visuel, Geneva (CH) and Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg (D). In 2002 he received his Diploma of Fine Arts. He participated in numerous international solo and group Exhibitions. His artistic practice involves installation, film/video-works and collage techniques. He investigates the principles of nature, the stubbornness of physical phenomenons and the fragile systems that hold everything together. He considers his work as calibrating the world with artistic instruments.
Kama Sokolnicka and Emanuel Geisser are currently working together on a mobile atelier and recording studio project covering various countries in the European area and northern Africa. During the months-long tour, where they make their way with their own customized van, the artists follow the mental, political and economic geography of the expanded continent, blurring the artificial division between nature and culture. During the 18th Mózg Festival, Kama Sokolnicka and Emanuel Geisser will present a performance composed of specially crafted images recorded during the trip. The duo’s joint work draws on the phenomenon of synesthesia, an effect related to incompletely explained brain processes. The montage of images will be constructed by the artists to suggest sound hallucinations in the mind of the audience.
Photo: Kama Sokolnicka, courtesy of the artists
https://kamasokolnicka.net/
Hélène Breschand is an international soloist, composer, and performer. She is an emblematic figure of the contemporary harp. She is co-founder of the ensemble Laborintus with Sylvain Kassap and Franck Masquelier. She collaborates with composers such as Luciano Berio, Pascal Dusapin, Luc Ferrari, Eliane Radigue, and plays with many improvisers. She belongs to a generation of musicians eager for cross-border experiences. She explores the fields of total art working in dance, cinema, theater and visual arts, with Christian Marclay, Karelle Prugnaud, The Dø, David Toop, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Caecilia Tripp, Christian Ubl. Her current groups: Chansons du Crépuscule with Elliott Sharp, Imaginarium with Wilfried Wendling, and IRE with Philippe Foch, Christophe Ruetsch, Kasper Toeplitz and Franck Vigroux.
Kasper T Toeplitz is a composer, electric bass player and musician who has developed his work in the no man’s land between academic composition (orchestra, ensembles, opera) and electronic new music or noise music. He has integrated the computer into the very heart of his work, as a tool of thought and composition, and as a live instrument, working on the sheer electronic noise or hybridising more traditional instruments,or developing a huge body of work on the hybrid he developed between his custom-built bass and live-electronics. He has won several prizes and distinctions such as 1st prize for orchestral composition at the Besançon Festival or 1st prize at the Opéra autrement/Acanthes competition. He prepared numerous commissions for the French Governement or the radio. He cooperates with electronic studios such as Ircam, GRM, GMEM, CRFMW, EMS, GRAME. He also works with experimental or unclassifiable musicians such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Dror Feiler, Art Zoyd, Eliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Francisco Lopez, Ulrich Krieger, z’ev and others. He works with leading "new music" ensembles such as Phoenix_Basel or Zeitkratzer, and through all those years he has collaborated with numerous projects of contemporary dance, always proposing live music.
Les Marquises is a duo of free improv music created by Emilie Škrijelj and Tom Malmendier in 2019. Two voices breathe together, exchange, scramble and curl up like a twining plant. A dance on the embers, ardent Marquises. They released their first album “Les Marquises” in 2020 on their own label eux sæm and the second one in 2021 "Tropism" on the French label Carton Records. To go further in their explorations, they invited the American rapper Mike Ladd in 2021 for a premiere at the Météo Festival in Mulhouse (FR).
Emilie Škrijelj (accordion, turntable, electronics) is a French accordion player. She explores her instrument in its smallest folds and uses it both as a percussion instrument and a generator of electroacoustic materials. She brings the accordion to the abstract territory of electronics by manipulating the bellows, rubbing its contours and exploring its extremities.
Tom Malmendier (drums, objects) is a Belgian mostly self-taught drummer. He has always been interested in the sound rather than in the pure technique of the instrument. Improvisation became a great part of his playing. He works on transdisciplinary projects and meets actors, dancers, visual artists, poets, jugglers.
The Intuition Orchestra gives concerts very rarely. Despite the fact that the history of The Intuition Orchestra dates back to the first half of the 1980s, the band has only appeared on stage a dozen or so times. It has never performed with the same line-up. The Intuition Orchestra plays intuitive music, however the starting point of the concert at Mózg Festival will be material from the album "Summa Intuitiva" released in September 2021 by Audio Cave.
At the 18th Mózg Festival in Bydgoszcz, The Intuition Orchestra will perform in the following line-up:
Ryszard Wojciul - saxophones, clarinets, EWI
Jacek Alka - drums
Wojciech Błażejczyk - electric guitar, objectophones
Krzysztof Majchrzak - bass guitar
Marta Grzywacz - piano, voice
guest musicians:
Wojciech Jachna - trumpet
Krzysztof Freeze Ostrowski - electronics
Fernando Castañeda aka Unstable Matter, always felt an admiration for Chicago, Detroit type of sound. The 90’s techno scene in Berlin had a major influence to combine various styles, a blend of original mix of electronic music, always navigating on the line between techno and house music. Fernando’s experiences of living in Malaga, Madrid, London and Berlin had also allowed him to connect with many people and get involved in both organizing and playing at various events. He still to this day enjoys mixing only vinyl records and at the Festival he will deliver an eclectic, original vinyl mix.
Joy Huebner was exposed to music early in his life as a child because his father was a drummer and jazz bass player. Joy was never interested in anything music related despite having music present at home until techno came his way. It was when all those jazz influences - percussion, bass frequencies and improvisation - found their meaning. Soon, he left university and moved to Madrid where the relationship with techno grew to a point that it was the only possible lifestyle for him. Meeting like minded people, going to parties, collecting records and playing in clubs had finally led to Joy making his first trip to Berlin and consequently changing his vision and future projects forever. Now living in Berlin since 2015, where he has found stability and inspiration to further continue his DJ career and develop a very specific sound. He is currently working hard and dedicating most of his time to make music with the idea of immersing himself in experimentation with analog hardware.
Anna Mituś is a curator, critic and historian of contemporary art. She holds a degree in German studies and art history from the University of Wrocław. From 2003 to 2021, she was associated with BWA Wrocław as a writer, exhibition curator and, since 2008, editor-in-chief of the magazine ’Biuro’. From 2017, she was co-author of the Awangarda gallery programme, and from 2019, she headed the BWA Wrocław Main gallery programme. She has also presented curatorial projects at Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław, Salon Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, CCA Łaźnia and Gdansk City Gallery. She deals with the relation of art to other areas of reality. She has published texts on art in "Obieg", "Format", "Umelec Magazine", "Odra" and "Szum", among others. From 2010 to 2014 she was a member of the Art Council of the Lower Silesian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts. In September 2014, her book “Aggressive Innocence. The history of the Luxus group” was published.
Ilona Witkowska is a poet, author of the books "splendida realta" (WBPiCAK, 2012), "Lucyfer zwyciężą" (Ha!art, 2017) and "gdzie są moje dzieci?" (Papier w dole/Katalog press, 2021); co-author of the screenplay for the etude ’Jeśli będziesz długo siedzieć w ciszy, przyjdą do ciebie inne zwierzęta’ directed by Jagoda Szelc (Erotica 2022, Netflix, 2020) and one of the authors of the project Nieswojość (Warstwy, 2019); she lives in Sokolowsko.
Anna A. Nogaj is a violinist and a psychologist with a specialisation in music psychology. She graduated from the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (faculty: instrumentalism; specialisation: violin), Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (faculty: psychology). She defended with distinction her doctoral dissertation on “Psychosocial correlates of musical achievements of music school pupils” at the psychology department of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. Anna Nogaj is invited to give lectures and lead psychological workshops. She specialises in the topics of psychological preparation for public performances, mental strategies for practising an instrument, motivation to take on the challenges of artistic education. She also works with parents and art school teachers in supporting the development of musically gifted students and children and adolescents with dysfunctions. She organises National Art School Psychological Conferences for art school teachers and workshops for school psychologists and educators. Her scientific interests focus on issues such as music perception, musical neuropsychology, psychology of musical development, individual differences among artists of different specialities, strategies for coping with stress and stage fright. As a violinist, she has worked for 25 years with the Zespół Pieśni i Tańca "Ziemia Bydgoska", where she is vice-president. For her artistic activity, she was awarded the badge of honour "Zasłużony dla Polskiej Kultury" by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and the Bronze Cross of Merit by the President of the Republic of Poland.
Dark as you like previously performed in Berlin, Glasgow and Edinburgh along with the likes of Orphx. The project will see its debut in Poland. Intense and psychotic force will give a world-first sneak peek of the latest audio sonic assault entitled “Head Cleaner”. This conceptual project will be one of the most far-ranging and well-rounded noise fests of recent years, with scorching overdriven sounds, heavy hypnotic dark textures and blended visual stimuli. Dark as you like, aims to expand and grow organically, incorporating more acoustic elements – deconstructing and moving beyond pure electronic aesthetic to deliver evenings of serious audio-visual dark experiences at selected worldwide locations.
ATTENTION!
ATTENTION! ATTENTION!
sound performance
Młyny Rothera
Viktoriia Tofan (b. 1993, Dnipropetrovsk) is an audiovisual artist, but she is also often active as an educator and animator, who uses art methods to explore and trigger social situations. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kiev and the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Tofan’s works have been presented within the framework of exhibitions such as "Mikstury Kultury (National Forum of Music, Wrocław), 11th TRIENNALE OF SMALL PAINTING FORMS, (Wozownia Art Gallery, Toruń), "Love Letters" (Almanac Projects, London), National Nerw. Studio Mistrzyni: Rajkowska (BWA, Wrocław),19th SURVIVAL Art Review in Wrocław, OBRZĘDY INTYMNE | Lewandowska / Marcjasz / Tofan (OP ENHEIM, Wrocław). In her works, she draws on traditional forms rooted in the language of not only contemporary art, including abstract painting, sculpture, objects, site-specific installations and embroidery techniques. In both her artistic and animation practice, she is concerned with the search for a language that would respond to the sense of alienation she experiences as an expat and which has brought her closer to the Deaf community, for whom phonic Polish is often not the first or most natural means of communication. Her interest in Deaf culture and sign language led her to create the accessibility art projects “Sensation of Silence” and “Sensation of the Senses”. She currently lives and works in Wrocław.
During the 18th MÓZG Festival Viktoriia Tofan will perform a sound performance in a specially prepared environment. The action refers to the sound, which, as of February 2022, has become a symbol of the current situation of residents of larger and smaller urban centers in Ukraine. Reducing human communication to basic signals, the artist attempts to lead participants from a unique to a universal experience.
Photo: author Michal Michalczak, courtesy of the artist
Timothée Quost is a young French improvisor, composer and trumpet player walking along the borders of different musical practices. He first trained in classical music then in jazz, from which he will obtain a master’s degree from the Conservatoire de Paris. His interest lays in free improvisation which lead him to develop a personal approach to his instrument by boosting / intensifying it with a specific amplification device. As a composer, Quost composed music for his own groups such as the QUOSTET sextet, the OCTOPULSE or the Matterhorn project cycle. He is the co-founder of the LIKEN orchestra with Léo Margue.
WRITE AT LEAST ONCE A DAY
film performance
Młyny Rothera
Yuriy Biley was born in 1988 in Uzhhorod (Zakarpatian region, Ukraine). In 2011 he graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Lviv. Since 2015, he has been living and working in Wrocław (Poland). He sie a visual artist and curator. His practice focuses on themes related to the experience of emigration. Most of his projects are based on personal experiences, which he constructs through borrowings and quotations. He is interested in text and the influence of language as a cultural factor. He creates installations, collages and works of a post-artistic character. Beyond the theme of emigration, his works are a reaction to current social and political events. They contain images of a world lacking today’s fundamental problems. The projects are based on personal experiences, which he constructs by borrowings and quotations. He is interested in text and the influence of language as a cultural factor. In his announcements we read a civic attitude and constant reference to the motifs of the author’s identity.
As part of the 18th Mózg Festival, Yuriy Biley will realize the performance "Write at least once a day". The activity will take the form of an unusual film screening. Unlike in the cinema, where we observe the action directed months before the premiere, we will observe the image updated a few minutes before the screening.
https://yuriy-biley.com/
Arnaud Rivière uses a rudimentary electroacoustic device built around a repaired turntable (pick-up), a prepared-mixer and other primitive equipment that need manipulation. He practises free improvisation, playing solo, in groups and through collaborations, since the late 90’s. He also creates sound installations such as LA TURBOTHEQUE (an absurd kind of juke-box that basically reads music vertically instead of the horizontally) or AUDIOMATON (a video made noises made exclusively with mouths by people in the streets of Valparaiso, Chile). Since more 20 years, he has also been active as a promoter for experimental music in Paris and around. After a solid time experience as booker for Instants Chavirés (Montreuil-France), he co-founded the festival Sonic Protest and still runs it. He also co-curate Concerts Disprersés, a nite of outdoor sonic adventures in le Lot.
Created by Marek Pospieszalski, the octet confronted the legacy of the giants of Polish contemporary music of the 20th century. Compositions by Krauze, Panufnik, Sikorski, Stachowski, Schaeffer, Baird, Serocki, Krenz, Palester, Szalonek, Kotoński, Rudziński became an inspiration to create completely new music. Twentieth-century pieces were transformed into the language of the twenty-first century, resulting in impressions of a trance character in which one can hear echoes of improvised music, electronic music, noise and sound art. The classical instrumentarium was enriched by such devices as a reel-to-reel tape recorder and a soundboard built by drummer Qba Janicki. The octet is a group of Polish improvisers of the 80/90’s generation: Tomasz Dąbrowski, Ksawery Wójciński, Tomasz Sroczyński, Piotr Chęcki, Adam Jędrysiak, Grzegorz Tarwid and Qba Janicki. Under Pospieszalski’s leadership, they created an album which was released by the Portuguese label Clean Feed.
Toby Driver developed an adventurous mind fascinated with exploration, rule breaking, and the unknown. Music was present in his life since birth, through his parents’ LP collection. It became a study at age eight following in his older brother’s footsteps. He studied composition at the experimental school, Hampshire College, with the jazz legend Yusef Lateef. Whereas most musicians identify themselves by their chosen genre, Driver’s rejection of idioms has resulted in a vast, unpredictable discography full of risks and liberties that invokes influences from every age and place, while never settling on one palette of colors. Toby Driver has most recently released a duo of opposing albums: the violent and pessimistic Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike by his long-running avant-garde goth ensemble Kayo Dot via the German dark music label Prophecy Productions, and Thymiamatascension by his newer project, Alora Crucible, an exploration of healing, semi-ambient transcendent composition via the elite British label House of Mythology, who also house Ulver and Current 93. Driver has also recently received classical commissions from Ludovico Ensemble (Boston, Massachusetts) and Sacrum Profanum Festival (Kraków).
Jeremiah Cymerman (b. 1980) is a New York City based (since 2002) composer, clarinetist, producer, and podcaster. Noted for his prolific output, with an ever expanding body of work, Cymerman’s music stands uniquely at the nexus of contemporary classical, electroacoustic experimentation, free improvisation and dark ambient soundscapes. He released multiple albums on his own 5049 Records, as well as labels like Tzadik and Astral Spirits. Since 2007 much of his focus has been creating a unique and idiosyncratic approach to solo electroacoustic clarinet performance. With recent releases, Cymerman’s work for solo clarinet & electronics has become more seamless and refined, resulting in more intimate and personal explorations of tonal and atonal language.
Mario Diaz de Leon is an NYC-based musician, and “Heart Thread” is the first electronic album under his own name. Released in July 2022 on the Denovali label, it comprises two side-long pieces scored for a vividly textured ensemble of synthesizers, encompassing a balance between minimalistic pulsating chords and expansive melodic variations. Pursuing an immersive, ecstatic live electronic soundscape, the gradually unfolding movements of “Heart Thread” convey a pilgrimage from the meditative to the kinetic and back. As a composer of modern classical works, Diaz de Leon released an acclaimed series of albums (featured in the New York Times, Pitchfork, and New Yorker), and received commissions from the International Contemporary Ensemble and Los Angeles Philharmonic. As Oneirogen, he released several albums of heavy ambient electronics via the Denovali label, and performed internationally at venues including CTM Festival, Donaufestival, and The Kitchen. He has also been active as the principal songwriter in industrial metal band Luminous Vault (Profound Lore Records), and as one third of the electroacoustic improvisation trio Bloodmist with Jeremiah Cymerman and Toby Driver.
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Post Scriptum’s identity might not be known, but the radioactive music he makes already has a very real place in the world. In an impressively short space of time, this previously unknown producer has made a live debut at Berlin techno institution Berghain, and was then signed for a debut album on Function’s Infrastructure label. It all came after Function unearthed Post Scriptum’s nuclear sounding tracks and used them on his Berghain 07 mix, clearly impressed by the faceless producer’s subtly futuristic, expertly reduced and richly detailed techno electronics. As well as making desolate music that is both for head and heel, Post Scriptum’s sounds manage to sound classically informed yet bravely modern all at the same time. Big basslines, impressive sound design and sci-fi imagery all characterise this producer’s beautifully bleak work. In 2016 Post Scriptum founded his own label Sonic Groove and released the Year Zero EP which represented a quantum leap into more distorted textures and ever-harsher beats while still maintaining the deadly sense of surgical precision, which distinguished Post Scriptum from the crowd.
The Techno Terapia duo are event organisers in Silesia, DJs, lovers of vinyl sounds, various genres of music and old school mixing. Able Archer grew up not far from the Kanty music club established in the 1990s. His first contact with the beat was the night radio shows hosted by the crew from Silesian scene. The myriad of sound production and modulation software he had to deal with showed him the way forward. During a long stay in the UK, he honed his DJ skills by exploring numerous raves and squats. He then began working with garage label Personal Division. With his friendly collective Wave Blender and future wife Kryshka in the Netherlands, he organised many events and took his first steps in production. Kryshka’s inspirations are hip-hop, punk rock, rave, drum’n’bass. After returning to Poland, together with many collectives, they created the InValid Techno Music project, periodically broadcasting live sets from various places in Poland and beyond. At the festival they will perform as a duo, it will be their absolute debut in Poland.
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