Warsaw day of the festival begins a new page in the history of 'Mozg'. On 12 November, 2014 Mózg will open its branch at Teatr Powszechny, Warsaw, in a space formerly known as 'Workshop Scene'. Music, theatre, performance, exhibitions – with a strong emphasis on experimental and improvisation, art house cinema. meeting place for creative and artistic exchange of ideas, a good bar.

7:90 PM Elżbieta Jabłońska (Kozielec)
- INSTALLATION

Elżbieta Jabłońska
graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń, where, since 1996, she has been working in the Department of Drawing. From 1997 to 2004 she cooperated with Mózg club where she organised more than 30 exhibitions of many young Polish artists. Her works are often described as belonging to the feministic or post-feministic movement in art, however, the artist herself tries to escape this straightforward categorisation. She is interested in photography, creates installations, performance and time-space activities. Using and transforming pop cultural and female stereotypes the artist plays an ironic game with social roles assigned to women and, at the same time, with the mechanisms of artistic institutions. Her audience is forced to reflect upon the artist's social involvement e.g. series 'Pomaganie' 'Helping'). Jabłońska investigates semantic relations, troubles the audience with the inadequacy of form and contents of linguistic notation (neons).

In 2005 in a village close to Bydgoszcz I discovered a neon sign 'Nowe Życie' ('New Life'). It was mounted on a small building belonging to the Agricultural Production Co-operative, whose big time has already passed. The sign was the name of a company which was founded in the 70's of the previous century, so during the times when 'new life' was understood as the new, great communist world. Even though that world quite quickly turned out to be an illusion its' relics still exist and raise our interest. Sometimes they even become a reason for our sentimental journeys into the past. In 2009 this suggestive sign ended up in my house as scrap. In the following months the lighting structure was reconstructed, and some of the electric parts were exchanged and the sign was reactivated. Thanks to a few galleries I managed to reanimate New Life and then display it in different spaces, configurations and contexts.

8:00 PM Jerzy Mazzoll
Sławek Janicki
Qba Janicki
(Warszawa/Bydgoszcz)
- CONCERT

Mazzoll

Sławek Janicki

Qba Janicki

Jerzy Mazzoll
Music is an art where restraint and control are indispensable to success. Jazz requires more than that since at its heart lies trance, rhythm and abandonment of what is routine and predictable. Few musicians in Poland understood this truth as well as Jerzy Mazzoll. He is a representative of ‘yass’ movement and laid foundations for the development of avant-garde jazz in Poland. In those times he created Arhythmic Perfection band with which he explored the boundaries of improvisation not only in music but also in other arts. Since then he continued to pursue the ‘less traveled’ road. In the 90's he met with Derek Bailey and participated in his famous Company Week Festival. Tony Oxley became the producer of his then released ‘Perplex’ album. After that he collaborated with Django Bates Orchestra and Peter Brotzmann. He also started a project called Diffusion Ensemble which eventually led to recording a series of albums. He has also lead workshops together with Peter Kowald and Olga Szwajgier which influenced a whole generation of young musicians. He was the moving force in creating the Art Depot festival which gave Polish and international audience a unique opportunity to explore the nature of improvisation in cultures different from European or American. He released 15 albums which arguably changed the face of Polish free music. Currently he is working on a film and theatre projects made under the auspices of Bogusław Schaeffer. Jerzy Mazzoll proved to be one the most unconventional individualities in Polish music.

Sławek Janicki
He is a musician, a filmmaker and he also organises various artistic events. He co-created and is the current director of Mózg club in Bydgoszcz. He is the creator and the director of Mózg Festival. His artistic activity began in mid 80's with Henryk Brodaty band. He co-created bands such as Trytony, Mazzoll & Arythmic Perfection, Pieces of Brain. For the past 20 years he has been active as a musician on the international improvised music arena. In his performance he is entirely devoted to the absolute improvisation, which according to Janicki is the purest and the highest form of music.

Qba Janicki
Born on 6th of February 1989 in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Lives here and there. Creates many different things. Performs, produces, listens, plays music and does other works. Talks a lot, pretty often without any sense but mostly with it. By strangers seen as conceited, spoiled yob, who thinks that he is the smartest and the best. By friends loved for sense of humour, pretty feet, insolence, faultless style of life and existencial logorrheas. He likes to eat and drink. He doesn't like to write biographies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKj1L2tzJg

8:45 PM Michael Lytle & Eyal Maoz
(New York)
- CONCERT

Michael Lytle

Eyal Maoz

Michael Lytle
Michael Lytle a.k.a. elewhale, MA, University of Iowa, has been a New Music Improvisor since 1968. He has performed with William Parsons, Karl Berger, George Cartwright, Garette List, David Moss, John Zorn, Nick Didkovsky, Hans Burgener, Martin Schutz, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Dresser, Eyal Maoz, Mari Kimura, Robert Dick, Denman Maroney, Kyoko Kitamura, Kathleen Supove, Weasel Walter and has been involved in over 30 recordings since the 5* rated 'Iowa Ear Music' of 1976. In solo, projects with Karl Berger and Hans Burgener, as a member of Nick Didkovsky's band Dr. Nerve and a co-founder with Didkovsky & Hemingway of Swim This, he has played in festivals and venues all over the world. An early Electronic Music composer, Lytle invented the set of totally unique methods of clarinet family sonic modulation and performance, called the 'most radical of his generation' by Joachim Berendt.

Eyal Maoz
Eyal Maoz is a guitarist and composer. He leads a number of original music ensembles including Edom, Dimyon and Crazy Slavic Band. He is a member of John Zorn’s Abraxas and a guest guitarist at Cobra. He co-leads 9 Volts, Hypercolor, the Maoz/Sirkis Duet, electronic music trio with Guy Barash and trumpeter Frank London, and collaborates with the renowned poets Ronny Someck from Isreal and Jake Marmer from USA. Eyal’s ensembles have performed at major music festivals, such as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, NYC Winter JazzFest, Tzadik Radical Jewish Music Festival, Ephemerals Festival in Beijing, Lancaster Jazz Festival in UK, Erlangen Festival in Germany and many more. His music was featured in movies 'Keepers of Eden' by Yoram Porath, Raphael Nadjari’s 'A History of Israeli Cinema', as well as, MTV's 'Undress'. Eyal’s string quartet composition 'Boded' won the Orchestra of Our Time Call for Score Project in New York and the work was performed by the Praxis and Scorchio Quartets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWM337HA728&feature=youtu.be

9:30 PM Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldmann
(New York)
- CONCERT

Sylvie Courvoisier
Sylvie Courvoisier is a pianist, composer, sideman and band leader. She was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1998 she moved to New York and has lived in Brooklyn ever since. Courvoisier has led several groups over the years and has recorded over 40 records for different labels, notably ECM, Tzadik and Intakt records. She has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Commissions include the Vidy Theater of Lausanne, Pro Helvetia and Germany's Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival. Since 1995, she has been touring widely in USA, Canada, Japan and Europe. Currently, she co-leads the Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman Quartet with Scott Colley and Billy Mintz. She is also the leader of her own quintet Lonelyville and her new trio with Kenny Wollesen and Drew Gress. She performs regularly solo and in a duo with violinist Mark Feldman. She is a member of Mephista, an improvising trio with Ikue Mori and Susie Ibarra and she also plays in an improvising trio with Ellery Eskelin and Vincent Courtois. Since 2010, she has been working as a pianist and composer with the new project of the flamenco dancer Israel Galvan "la Curva".

Mark Feldman
Mark Feldman is a Brooklyn-based jazz, classical and improvisational violinist and a composer. He was born in Chicago and moved to New York in 1986. Feldman first became “enchanted” with the violin at his public elementary school. After a year of classical lessons at the age of nine, he knew that music was his life work. Feldman made a name for himself by using the traditionally classical, high-brow violin to reject musical convention in favor of a style that melds several genres. Through his music, he seeks to change the perception of a ‘truly serious violinist’ from someone whose focus is strictly the music of Mozart and Beethoven to a person who composes their own music or incorporates improvisation and multiple genres. Feldman most often performs with John Zorn’s Masada String Trio and Bar Kokhba Septet, John Abercrombie Quartet or leading his own Quartet performing music from his ECM Release ‘What Exit’. Feldman has performed as a violin soloist with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Amsterdam, The Het Barbants Orkest of Eindhoven Holland and the WDR Radio Orchestra of Cologne, Germany. He has also brought his unique style to Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Barbican Hall, Le Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and The Montreal, Montreux, Berlin Jazz Festivals.

http://www.sylviecourvoisier.com/videos.htm#zethar

10:15 PM Tirvyous Wagon
(Warszawa/Bydgoszcz
/Kraków/Poznań)
- CONCERT

Tirvyous Wagon
Have you ever had a chance to be in the ocean at the depth of 10000 metres? Have you ever checked what does forest soil breathe while at the same time you were relaxing in a shrunk state being inside a spongy structure of moss? Have you ever played hopscotch with a drop of mountain water while levitating above and endless field of rusty-yellow leaves? Or have you ever been on a flying motorcycle moving with the speed of 501 km/h through endless canals of an enormous metropolis? If you have not done anything from the above, you should listen to Tirvyous Wagon speak about it. He is a legendary writer from Estonia, who appeared on the planet as a result of a clash of the representatives of the rail industry and road transport. Evolving through years he abandoned literature and took the form of a few characters, in which form he expresses his old works. This compilation of calm stories will be presented through vision, sound and movement, all three performed on expaned analogue, digital and bodily machinery.

Marek Pospieszalski: saksofon, klarnet, flet, gramofony, elektronika
Bartłomiej Chmara: gitara, nord rack 2X
Tomasz Sroczyński: skrzypce, NI Maschine
Qba Janicki: perkusja i instrumenty perkusyjne, live sequencing
Karolina Jacewicz: wizualizacje

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nSvq4iieUg

11:00 PM Sylvie Courvoisier / Mark Feldmann /
Jerzy Mazzoll / Sławek Janicki /
Qba Janicki - CONCERT

Sylvie Courvoisier obecna jest na scenie “Mózgu” od roku 1997, kiedy to po raz pierwszy wystąpiła solo oraz z flecistą Tomaszem Pawlickim. Fragment ich CONCERTu znalazł się na płycie-składance wydanej z okazji 5 urodzin “Mózgu” w roku 1999 r.

Sylvie zapraszana była później dwukrotnie w duecie z Markiem Feldmanem, ale nigdy do takiego CONCERTu nie doszło. Widzieliśmy ją natomiast na naszej scenie w duecie z Ikue Mori.

Rozmawiając ostatnio z Mazzollem o programie tegorocznego festiwalu doszliśmy do wniosku, że nastał już czas aby spotkać się na scenie z Sylvią i Markiem. Propozycja nasza została przyjęta i tak oto dojdzie do CONCERTu kwintetu w składzie: Sylvie Couvoisuer/Mark Feldman/Jerzy Mazzoll/Sławek Janicki/Qba Janicki.

12:00 Grzegorz Pleszyński
- INSTALLATION/PERFORMANCE

Grzegorz Pleszynski
is an polish artist who lives and works in Berlin since 2009. In 1999 he became the director of Bydgoszcz Office International Artists Museum. In 2000 he co-organized Construction in Process 'This Earth is a Flower' in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He created a series of ANTIDEPRESSANT projects: an artistic-educational project for schools called ANTIDEPRESSANT SCHOOL – The Week of Colours, which has been realized in over 600 educational establishments all over the country for 10 years; an artistic-sociological project for the citizens of Bydgoszcz called ANTIDEPRESSANT OFFICE under the International Project: ART in the CITY – BWA Bydgoszcz; ANTIDEPRESSANT CITY - series of projects, in Chełmno, 1999-2001. Another project was HARMONY of ART – HARMONY of WORLD, which has been realized for many years in Polish penalty institutes.

Pleszynski recorded cd:
1. POT ONE TEA – Ann Noel, Grzegorz Pleszynski, Artur Maćkowiak
2. ANTIDEPRESSANT MUSIC in the CAR
3. ROCK and ROLL HISTORY of ART
4. SOUNDS of WOODEN FISH – Maćkowiak, Pleszynski with Mazzoll

During the festival Pleszyński will create installations SIGNS AND SIGNIFICANCE and a performance SOFT STREETS.

Mózg powszechny
12:45 Jae Ho Youn
(Seoul/Warszawa) - CONCERT

Jae Ho Youn
Jae Ho Youn is a native (South) Korean but he doesn't eat dogs. He has been living in Europe for quite a while now, residing in 3 different countries, 7 different cities. Despite the quite obvious asian features, he's actually believed to be a SLAV. Currently he lives in Warsaw, where he has a studio in a beautiful pre-communist building. He writes software that generates and modulates rough and heavy sounds layered by breakbeat, 'noise', sub-frequency drones and digital glitches...whatever. His general process of making music is based on various experiments on micro scale division/(re)arrangement of musical time, not only for the rhythmic structures but also for the general texturing of sounds. But his main musical interest is perception of sonic compositions by skin and other human organs, thus he somehow obsessively insists to play very very very loud, with a lot of sub/low frequency.

http://www.jaehoyoun.com/?p=183

8:00 PM Tomasz Gwincinskio
The piano trio „Cytera”: Piotr Słopecki, Katarzyna Składanek, Dominika Żur (Bydgoszcz/Warszawa)
- CONCERT / PERFORMANCE

Tomasz Gwincinski
Tomasz Gwincinski was born in Bydgoszcz. He is a self-taught musician. He mastered a quite advanced technique of guitar improvisation and partly classical composition. In spite of his partial knowledge of composition, Gwincinski managed to compose a piano trio in half-baroque style, in one fourth modernistic and in one fourth in his own style. He is one of the creators of yass scene. He then moved on to create a heavier genre, which constitutes a series of albums for chamber orchestra entitled 'Szkoła bydgoska'. Currently, he lives in the mountains on the Czech border and he mainly devotes himself to film-making. Gwincinski founded a company Syriusz Film which produced a feature film 'Sherlock Holmes i ludzie jutra'. He is the director and the screenplay writer. The film will appear in the cinemas late autumn of 2014.

The piano trio „Cytera” was composed in the quasi-baroque style. It consists of six parts and each one of them relates to the adventures of a group, that went to Kythira island, the island of love, to meet Venus. The last part of the trio is entitled 'Venusand' reflects the energy of the Godess. The music is a play with 17th and 18th convention. In the metaphorical french park of sound the performers 'step on the lawn' and show a typical Roussel persistence (Locus solus). The trio is 40 minutes long and, depending on the aura, incorporates the author's story about the idiots from Kythira island. This piece is very rare in nowadays Poland, where the life is mostly about paying off loans and where nobody cares about nuance of park composition or other nonsense like that. The author poses a metaphysical question: can we finally, at least for a moment, shit on everything?

Piotr Słopecki – piano
Piotr Słopecki is a pianist. He graduated from the Academy of Music in Gdańsk, where he finished the class of piano and studies of organ playing. He continued his education in Gdańsk where he did his PhD and currently he works on the Academy of Music there. He recorded two pieces for the record label DUX: 'Wariacje Goldbergowskie' and 'Die Kunst der Fuge'. Słopecki is a very versatile artist. Apart from playing the piano and organ, he also devotes himself to popular music, composition and orchestration. In 2012, together with workers and students of the Music Academy, he performed a series of concerts of Zygmunt Konieczny's songs, where he played the role of the pianist, arranger, as well as, musical director.

Katarzyna Składanek – violin
Katarzyna Składanek plays the violin. She was born in Radom in 1990. Currently, she is studying at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. She participated in many international music workshops. She co-operates with many orchestras and chamber groups with whom she performed in Germany, Spain, North Korea and Italy. Since 2012, she has been the concertmaster of a chamber orchestra Accademia dell'Arco that works under the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz.

Dominika Żur – cello
Dominika Żur plays the cello. She was born in 1992. Currently, she is studying at the Music Academy in Bydgoszcz. She participated in many festivals in Poland and abroad, such as: Eurochestries Festival in Spain and France, Festival of Contemporary Music Nowa Muzyka, 44th International Festival Wratislava Cantans. She has performed in many prestigious Polish venues, such as: Rzeszów Philharmonic Hall or Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio in Warsaw. In 2014, in a string quartet she performed a piece by Marcin Gumiela for Krzysztof Penderecki.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3S0gMo0qhY&list=UU0wiC-9M7wijG6tvonozYsQ

9:00 PM Trzy Tony (Bydgoszcz)
- CONCERT

Trzy Tony trio consists of musicians from Bydgoszcz: Tomasz Pawlicki (flute, computer), Mateusz Szwankowski (clarinet, bass clarinet) and Jacek Buhl (drums, percussion). This unusual trio was formed in 2013 during one of the Improvised music soirees in Mózg club in Bydgoszcz, where the musicians played together. They are inspired by many aspects of phenomena of mysterious magic of the Night and the Moon effect. Their music combines improvisation filled with energy drawn from various forms of the 20th century with a humble bow towards classics like Mozart, as well as, Schonberg’s Twelve-tone technique. Musicians don’t shy away from chaos which, to a certain limit and accelerated with fantasy, can sometimes lead them to undiscovered “sources” or a specific genre of never ending songs. The trio aims at playing concerts with a subtle use of electronics, that, at the same time, fully cooperate with musicians performing live. Their first project entitled ‘Efekt Księżyca’ (‘The Moon Effect’) is filled with city’s ‘night atmosphere’ and through music reflects thoughts which are hard to define. According to the musicians themselves, the night shows everything in a different dimension and makes everything three tones lighter. Without the tumult of the day, silence transforms into a harmony that can only be heard by those, who are not asleep yet…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Fo-XnLqW0

10:00 PM Kazuhisa Uchihashi & Jerzy Rogiewicz
(Tokyo/Warszawa)
- CONCERT

Kazuhisa Uchihashi

Jerzy Rogiewicz

Jerzy Rogiewicz
A percussionist, pianist and a composer. He graduated from Krakow Academy of Music, where he studied composition with Zbigniew Bujarski, Krzysztof Penderecki and Magdalena Długosz (computer music). He is a member of an independent Warsaw-based label Lado ABC. He has performed and recorded with numerous bands and artists, such as Levity, Pink Freud, Der Father, Futoma Ensemble, Marcin Masecki’s Sextet, Toshinori Kondo,Tomasz Duda, Dj Lenar, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Fred Frith. His interest as a composer ranges from post-classical music to children songs.

Kazuhisa Uchihashi
A composer, electric guitar and daxophone player, music producer, based in Berlin. He experimented thoroughly with many different kinds of machines and sound-devices to expand the expression possibilities of the electric guitar. He also composed music for films, theatre plays and dance routines. He has been working with a japanese theatre group ISHINHA for more than 27 years. He has been conducting his rock-oriented powerful improvised band Altered States for 23 years. Uchihashi was invited to hundreds of music festival and New Music Action Workshop for young musicians in many countries. Since 1996 to 2007 he has been organizing the New Music festival BEYOND INNOCENCE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XvF2HzqE98
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acK4Ueb1UOI

11:00 PM Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldmann
(New York)
- CONCERT

Sylvie Courvoisier
Sylvie Courvoisier is a pianist, composer, sideman and band leader. She was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1998 she moved to New York and has lived in Brooklyn ever since. Courvoisier has led several groups over the years and has recorded over 40 records for different labels, notably ECM, Tzadik and Intakt records. She has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Commissions include the Vidy Theater of Lausanne, Pro Helvetia and Germany's Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival. Since 1995, she has been touring widely in USA, Canada, Japan and Europe. Currently, she co-leads the Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman Quartet with Scott Colley and Billy Mintz. She is also the leader of her own quintet Lonelyville and her new trio with Kenny Wollesen and Drew Gress. She performs regularly solo and in a duo with violinist Mark Feldman. She is a member of Mephista, an improvising trio with Ikue Mori and Susie Ibarra and she also plays in an improvising trio with Ellery Eskelin and Vincent Courtois. Since 2010, she has been working as a pianist and composer with the new project of the flamenco dancer Israel Galvan "la Curva".

Mark Feldman
Mark Feldman is a Brooklyn-based jazz, classical and improvisational violinist and a composer. He was born in Chicago and moved to New York in 1986. Feldman first became “enchanted” with the violin at his public elementary school. After a year of classical lessons at the age of nine, he knew that music was his life work. Feldman made a name for himself by using the traditionally classical, high-brow violin to reject musical convention in favor of a style that melds several genres. Through his music, he seeks to change the perception of a ‘truly serious violinist’ from someone whose focus is strictly the music of Mozart and Beethoven to a person who composes their own music or incorporates improvisation and multiple genres. Feldman most often performs with John Zorn’s Masada String Trio and Bar Kokhba Septet, John Abercrombie Quartet or leading his own Quartet performing music from his ECM Release ‘What Exit’. Feldman has performed as a violin soloist with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Amsterdam, The Het Barbants Orkest of Eindhoven Holland and the WDR Radio Orchestra of Cologne, Germany. He has also brought his unique style to Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Barbican Hall, Le Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and The Montreal, Montreux, Berlin Jazz Festivals.

http://www.sylviecourvoisier.com/videos.htm#zethar

Mózg
1:00 AM Danilo Casti & Travis McCoy Fuller
(Cagliari/Boston)
- ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE

Danilo Casti
Danilo Casti is an electroacustic musician and composer born in Cagliari (Sardinia island, Italy). He has been present in the Italian electronic music scene since 2000. He began his music career with hardcore punk, then moved to noise-drone, glitch, acousmatic and electroacustic music. His music activity ranges from experimental theatre, to contemporary dance, video and multimedia installation. Over the years, he has developed an interest in real time composition methodologies, researching various performing possibilities, applied not only to sound performance but also to dance and video. In 2003 he organised the first edition of the festival EnToPan at the Foundry in London.

Travis McCoy Fuller
Travis McCoy Fuller is a visual, sonic and performance artist currently living and practicing in Cagliari, Italia. He was one of the founders and organizers of the late TEST performance art initiative in Boston, USA. He is a member of the Los Angeles based artist collective Obscurities and the Estonian Performance art collective Non Grata. He has exhibited his work widely throughout the USA, Europe and South America. His practice includes, live sound performance, live action performance, drawing, printmaking and experimental instrument building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg-i5UrvZgA&list=UUef2DFafFNbw2WpkqSkn4dg

8:00 PM „Great Waitress”
Magda Mayas, Laura Altman, Monica Brooks
(Berlin/Sydney)
- CONCERT

Laura Altman A clarinetist, improviser and composer, born and based in Sydney. She has been an important voice on the Sydney improvised music scene since 2007, playing with groups such as The Splinter Orchestra and Prophets, and collaborating with Australian improvisers including Jim Denley, Dale Gorfinkel, Monica Brooks and Peter Farrar. Laura has toured Australia and Europe with a range of projects. Laura graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with a B.Mus Composition (Honours) in 2011, and composes both instrumental and electroacoustic music.

Magda Mayas
A pianist living in Berlin. Developing a vocabulary utilizing both the inside as well as the exterior parts of the piano, using preparations and objects, she explores textural, linear and fast moving sound collage. Lately she has also focused on the clavinet, an electric piano from the 60s with strings and metal chimes, where she engages with noise and more visceral sound material, equally extending the instrumental sound palette using extended techniques and devices. Current projects are Spill - a duo with drummer Tony Buck, a duo with Anthea Caddy (cello), a duo with Christine Abdelnour (sax) and different collaborations with Andy Moor, Clayton Thomas and Peter Evans. Magda Mayas has performed and toured in Europe, the USA, Australia and Lebanon and collaborated with many leading figures in improvisation and composers.

Monika Brooks
Monica Brooks models compositions and improvisations on piano, computer and accordion. Long-term projects have toured nationally and internationally, including West Head Project, with Dale Gorfinkel & Jim Denley; and Embedded quartet. Monica’s sound installation works are often heavily inspired by the technology and usage of radio transmission. Brooks also fronts the eight-piece ensemble, Electronic Resonance Korps, developing compositions for multiple computer performance. Other projects include co-presenting/producing Shepard Tones on Eastside Radio 89.7FM, and currently undertaking a Masters at the University of Western Sydney.

Great_Waitress_press_info.pdf

9:00 PM Michael Lytle & Eyal Maoz
(New York)
- CONCERT

Michael Lytle

Eyal Maoz

Michael Lytle
Michael Lytle a.k.a. elewhale, MA, University of Iowa, has been a New Music Improvisor since 1968. He has performed with William Parsons, Karl Berger, George Cartwright, Garette List, David Moss, John Zorn, Nick Didkovsky, Hans Burgener, Martin Schutz, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Dresser, Eyal Maoz, Mari Kimura, Robert Dick, Denman Maroney, Kyoko Kitamura, Kathleen Supove, Weasel Walter and has been involved in over 30 recordings since the 5* rated 'Iowa Ear Music' of 1976. In solo, projects with Karl Berger and Hans Burgener, as a member of Nick Didkovsky's band Dr. Nerve and a co-founder with Didkovsky & Hemingway of Swim This, he has played in festivals and venues all over the world. An early Electronic Music composer, Lytle invented the set of totally unique methods of clarinet family sonic modulation and performance, called the 'most radical of his generation' by Joachim Berendt.

Eyal Maoz
Eyal Maoz is a guitarist and composer. He leads a number of original music ensembles including Edom, Dimyon and Crazy Slavic Band. He is a member of John Zorn’s Abraxas and a guest guitarist at Cobra. He co-leads 9 Volts, Hypercolor, the Maoz/Sirkis Duet, electronic music trio with Guy Barash and trumpeter Frank London, and collaborates with the renowned poets Ronny Someck from Isreal and Jake Marmer from USA. Eyal’s ensembles have performed at major music festivals, such as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, NYC Winter JazzFest, Tzadik Radical Jewish Music Festival, Ephemerals Festival in Beijing, Lancaster Jazz Festival in UK, Erlangen Festival in Germany and many more. His music was featured in movies 'Keepers of Eden' by Yoram Porath, Raphael Nadjari’s 'A History of Israeli Cinema', as well as, MTV's 'Undress'. Eyal’s string quartet composition 'Boded' won the Orchestra of Our Time Call for Score Project in New York and the work was performed by the Praxis and Scorchio Quartets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWM337HA728&feature=youtu.be

10:00 PM Szabolcs Esztényi & Stefan Węgłowski
(Warszawa/Budapest/Bydgoszcz)
- CONCERT

Szabolcs Esztényi Szabolcs Esztényi is a composer, pianist, improviser and a teacher of hungarian descent, who has been living in Poland since 1969. He studied piano in the class of Margerita Trombini-Kazuro and composition in the class of Witold Rudziński on Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Muzyczna in Warsaw (Warsaw Higher Musical Education Public School). As a composer and a soloist he performed in Poland and abroad on many festivals (Warszawska Jesień [Warsaw Autmun], Poznańska Wiosna Muzyczna [Poznań Music Spring], Warszawskie Spotkania Muzyczne [Warsaw Music Meetings], Musica Polonica Nova Festival in Wrocław, Biennale Zagreb, Budapesti Zenei Hetek, Donaueschinger Musiktage and many others. He cooperated with well-known artists such as: Jerzy Artysz, Andrzej Hiolski, Heinz Holliger, Roman Jabłoński, Jadwiga Kotnowska, Wilanów Quartet, Halina Łukomska, Olga Pasiecznik, Jadwiga Rappé, Zygmunt Krauze's Music Workshop, Jerzy Witkowski, Iwona Mironiuk (with whom he has been performing as a piano duo since 1999). He has made many archive recordings for Polish Radio. For many years he has been cooperating with Ferenc Lantos nad Maria Apagyi, the creators of creative music-visual pedagogy and founders of Free Artistic School in Pécs, Hungary. Since 1972 he has been working as a piano teacher in Fryderyk Chopin's Higher Education School in Warsaw, as well as on Music Academy in Warsaw and Łódź. He is a regular guest in many academic centres with his illustrated lectures related to creative pedagogy and teaching improvisation.

Stefan Węgłowski
A guitarist, composer, lecturer and music consultant. At the age of 7 he started playing the guitar and taking lessons in the field of composition. Then he met Szabolcs Esztényi, who taught him musical improvisation and contemporary composition. Węgłowski studied at the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz. In 2008 he began consultations in the field of composition and contemporary music with D. Jaskot. In 2009 he began a Masters degree in composition. He is focused on film music, theatre music, and experimental electronic music. He permanently cooperates with the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts Department at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and with the music department of Exklusiv magazine. Węgłowski also composes music for theatrical pieces, among others: Popiełuszko, Wiśniowy Sad, Europa (also displayed abroad). In 2013 he composed music for the film 'Cutaways' which premiered at the Festival Performa 12 in New York. In addition, Węgłowski and Qba Janicki co-created the TAPE project based on the musical trio. He also created a duo with a renowned virtuoso Adam Kośmieja, which combines modern electronics sounds with piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR2iDphMsfM

11:00 PM Sonic Boom
Han Bennink & Uri Caine
(New York)
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Han Bennink

Uri Caine

Sonic Boom
Han Bennink has long been known for his creative and groundbreaking approach to playing drums and is an integral part of the innovative Dutch scene. Uri Caine is a New York based keyboardist and composer who has played many forms of Jazz and improvised music throughout his career. Together they are known as Sonic Boom and their music is exciting, unpredictable and dynamic.

In 2012 Han Bennink and Uri Caine released a CD called 'Sonic Boom' which was a recording of a live concert they gave at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam. The duo plays original music composed by Uri and Han as well as free improvisations and spontaneous compositions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgkY2V-Wg4Q

Mózg
1:00 AM BATALJ
(Berlin)
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BATALJ is an experimental noise/auditory mayhem outfit currently based in Berlin. With distorted analog synthesizers accompanied by frantic drum assaults, effect-drenched guitar arrangements and shrieking vocals the four-piece concocts a barely comprehensible soundscape of deformed rhythms, riffs, blasts, bleeps and more or less controlled chaos. Taking their cues from diverse musical damaged goods hailing from hardcore punk all the way through to harsh experimental noise BATALJ creates a truly furious and highly inventive sonic assault. The past three years the band has extensively toured Europe and the UK, played shows alongside bands such as Melt Banana, Child Abuse, Staer, Retox and Divorce and released two 7-inch splits, a self-titled 7-inch EP ('Et Mon Cul C'est Du Tofu?' and 'Twintoe Records') as well as appeared on various compilations. Their most recent creation, a limited cassette release is out now on London-based label SixSixSixties Records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP2-mfMq248

Warsaw

Tickets are available for purchase at the cash desk
of Teatr Powszechny from October 10

Price: 30 zl

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Bydgoszcz

Tickets available for purchase in Mózg club from October 10

Price 25 zł / day and 40 zl / 2 days

Book tickets: mozg@mozg.art.pl

Tickets for concerts in Dom Sztuki allow the holder to enter events taking place in Mózg club. Admission to Mózg club Friday and Saturday (for those who didn't buy festival tickets) - 10 zl