Program
Warszawa 7-9.11.2019

RASP LOVERS 8:00 PM

RASP Lovers (Romantic Alternative Schizophrenic Punk Lovers) is Szymon Wojcik’s project that came to life in summer 2018. The main assumption underlying the leader’s compositions is to combine elements that are far apart from each other to create music based on contrasts, oxymorons and connection of consciously planned structures with huge amount of freedom. It is hard to classify the band’s music into any genre, it is a mix of punk, avant-garde jazz, electronics, improvised music and alternative rock.

Jerzy Mączyński - tenor and baritone saxophone
Szymon Wójcik - guitar and compositions
Marcel Baliński - piano and MICROkorg
Rafał Różalski - double bass
Bartosz Szablowski - drums

YEAH YOU 9:00 PM

Yeah You is Elvin Brandhi and MYKL JAXN. The project grew from a desire to make something during every spare moment. Using compact recording gear to turn the usual banal everyday family drives into spontaneous recording sessions in the car. JAXN’s distorted, alluringly jarred synthesisation’s acting as a jagged platform for Brandhi to writhe improvised stream of consciousness lyrical trips. In September 2017 they released “KRUTCH”, their latest and second LP on UK/Berlin imprint Slip, which is another burst of poisonous, weaponised pop, spat out on the roam captures the exhilaration of driving with your eyes closed. Recorded in a black Renault Clio in Holland and Germany, and at Aurora, Budapest throughout early 2017, “KRUTCH” is the duo at a freshly terrifying apex, filtering the desperation of black metal through an unerring pop nous. Father/daughter dada-leaning dyad, whose improvised musical and geographical excursions will leave your head spinning like a well rubbered doughnut in a car park.

SIKSA 10:00 PM

SIKSA (born: 21 November 2014 in Gniezno, died: 27 July 2019 in the Czech Republic), daughter of Shivers and Failure, nee Freiheit. She spent her formative years not competing. Extremely talented, she finished her trial without a diploma. She didn't collaborate when being invited, after experiencing great love she writes lyrical songs. She combines her imprecise workshop with a limited palette. In her work we can see the disappearing rural cottages, old mansions, clumps of trees, grass, reed beds and streams bathed in ashes and panic. Wild geese are getting ready to take off, the subject goes underground. A veteran never named the "Agnieszka Osiecka of the Polish Underground". After the war, SIKSA settled down in a ventricular septal defect, disguising herself as a heart murmur.

SVARTVIT 11:00 PM

SVARTVIT is the Hague-based sound experimentation that breaches the gap between harsh industrial noise music and performance art. Over the course of 10+ years Svartvit has been exploring the physicality of sound often using his own bodily functions as sound-sources. High volume, extreme frequencies, feedback, endurance & degradation are utilised to create a tension in which sound will not only be heard but also felt, experienced. This results in highly personal performances that remind one of the cathartic & confrontative nature of Viennese Aktionism and early industrial groups like Club Moral with an immediacy and rage that is often found in hardcore-punk.

Kevin Jansen has been active in various other projects (Erstwhile, Qualm, Clamor etc.) runs a record label (the тide øf тhe εnd) and has played over 250 shows in 25 different countries. Releases have appeared on labels like TESCO and Instruments of Discipline.

Ido Bukelman 8:00 PM

Ido Bukelman is an Israeli guitarist, multi instrumentalist and composer-improviser based in Berlin, whose work combines elements of modern music, folk, and free jazz. Ido played a large number of solo concerts in different international venues. Until today he released more than ten albums. He performed and recorded with international musicians like Mikołaj Trzaska, Aairto Moreira, Gunter Sommer Baby, Frode Gjerstad, Axel Dörner, Mark Sanders and others.

Ryuzo Fukuhara / Tracy Lisk 9:00 PM

War Saw – a performance to politicians and soldiers

To whom we should say “Make art not war”. To our neighbors? Friends? Or random people on a street? Definitely we should say it to politicians, shouldn’t we?

War and Art are comparable? What is war? What is art? War happens because of money, power, property, ideology, religion, freedom, right for life. War is taking life, clashes a lot of life. Why does war happen? By whom? Most of the time, by politicians. Then we follow them. Whether we wish or not, we go to war to kill an “enemy” of us, in order to achieve “our” goal,Win. Who is “us”? Is it including me? Why am I included? Because I’m a citizen of a state, living in a country, paying tax, having security to live in the society. You have duty. Why? Why do I have to have the duty to participate the war? Why I have to kill other people, why have to be killed by other people. No. We have no duty to kill people, to be killed by people. No duty to follow the politicians. The state is not inevitable, even we are living in a state. The state and a country is not one, is not same. We live, we don’t kill.

Art. My art is my dance. Dance has no purpose. Dance is personal. However, in this piece, I make my dance have a purpose. I imagine the performance to show to politicians who are about to wage a war, to change their mind to make art not war. How? Is it possible? Dance as an art has such a capability to change mind? What a dance performance can show to stop waging a war. Even if my dance couldn’t change the mind of the politicians, I can show my dance to the soldiers who are about to go to the war, in order to change their mind not to. Probably that sounds ridiculous, both for politicians and soldiers, for most of people. Most people think Art doesn’t have such a power, ability. I agree, I’m one of them to think this way. But I want to stop war as a dancer. I make a performance which has a purpose to stop war, change the politician’s mind about waging war, and the soldier’s mind about not going to war.

It seems we are perpetually at war, small wars to line the pockets of corporations and sold to the public as ideological necessities, or as a threat to the liberty of the nation-state. The artificial concept of a nation takes away our connections to each other, especially to people who do not look like us, or speak another language. As the two performers who come from radically different backgrounds and artistic practices, address the deeper bonds between humans through improvisation, and envision war as a thing of the past.

Performed by RHIZOMAS: Tracy Lisk (percussion), Ryuzo Fukuhara (dance)

Hania Piosik 10:00 PM

sala im. Gustawa Holoubka

di.ARIA is a project created by Hania Piosik, who is a musician, experimenter and vocalist. She grew up in the forests in western Poland, where she lives at the moment. In her compositions she primarily uses organic sounds (piano, kalimba, koshi bells, objects of everyday use) and she often modulates them. For over a decade she has been working with representatives of various music genres like Michał Urbaniak (Urbanator/Urbaniak Orchestra), Mateusz Rosiński (WRONG DIALS), Vojto Monteur (EABS), Jacek Mazurkiewicz, Ksawery Wójciński, Gunnar Geisse, Sławomir Janicki, Paweł Szamburski. Recently, she has been fascinated with the influence of the course of sound events on compositions that come from her (loosely translated as jamming with nature) and the anomalies she stumbles upon. The result of on of those experiments is an album entitled “LIFE IS A PING PONG DELAY (2019)“ released on Gusstaff Records (Jacaszek, Hugo Race, Tarwater), as LP i CD in March 2019.

11:00 PMChristopher Chaplin / Luma Launisch

Christopher Chaplin is a British composer and experimental music artist. He studied piano in Switzerland before moving to London in the early eighties. He now returns with a new epic solo album “Paradise Lost”, featuring the American vocalist and poet Leslie Winer and British tenor Nathan Vale. In a powerful soundtrack of winding paths through the un/conscious, Chaplin again combines experimental electronic with chamber and contemporary music approaches. For Christopher Chaplin's upcoming solo live shows the striking music is echoed by the projections of Visual Artists Luma.Launisch – assembled and processed in real time.

The visual art duo Luma.Launisch, alias Astrid Steiner and Florian Launisch, create their surreal worlds on screens from concert halls to museum walls. The basis of their video art are captured film sequences that get disassembled and newly-arranged in the process of live performances. Their shows are a visual journey, where abstract and real imagery are set into juxtaposition. Luma.Launisch also presented video installations at the Benaki Museum Athens, the Photobiennale Thessaloniki, the exhibition Sound:Frame at Vienna’s Künstlerhaus and MAK, Media Art Lab Moscow, the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York amongst others.

LXMP 12:00 PM

LXMP consists of Piotras (Moog/Roland/Korg) and Macias (Korg/Akai/Yamaha/Sonor/Premier) a.k.a. Pedrito and Maciozinho. They play music that is ideal for declarations of love in pachinko parlors. They travelled the world and took some pics in different places. Their most recent hit is 7” split with Deerhof. Also they are pretending to be working on a mythical “next album”.

BroShuda 8:00 PM

sala im. Gustawa Holoubka

Cross-pollinating a wide textural range of influences, Broshuda ́s music incorporates elements of sound art, electroacoustic techniques, processed spoken word / field recording excursions, as well as more rhythmically oriented and beat-heavy pieces.Though kaleidoscopically varied, the work is held together by a playful sense of experimentation and a willingness to explore new directions of sound through an experimental approach and the use of changing production techniques to expand and further his already broad sonic palette.

Pursuing a strong Fluxus inspired interdisciplinary ethos in his artistic output, the same attitude is applied to his audio works, resulting in detailed sketches which at the same time show and disguise their inner logic while transporting a range of carefully distilled emotions and feelings. His livesets mostly consist of unheard, new and upcoming material, often featuring pieces specifically created for the show and the setting he is performing in, while also drawing from his back catalogue and rearranging and remixing his material live.

9:00 PMPeter Brötzmann / Jon Dobie / Sławek Janicki / Michael Wertmüller

sala im. Gustawa Holoubka

Peter Brötzmann is a German saxophone and clarinet player born in 1941 in Remscheid. He is said to be one of the most important characters of free jazz and improvise music. His style is harsh and wild but also lyrical. His energetic style of playing was named brötzen and that gave him the name of the “loudest saxophone player in the world”. He also plays the clarinet and a Hungarian brass instrument tàrogató. Brötzman’s sound is very direct and his solos are often very intense. He did not forget the traditional jazz structures and themes play a big part in his music while his improvisation is often based on melody. This features are also significant for Albert Ayler, who is one of Brötzman’s inspirations. He worked with Anthony Braxton, Don Cherry, Cecil Taylor, Bill Laswell and Mikołaj Trzaska among others. His album Machine Gun recorded in 1968 is perceived as one of the most important ones in the history of free jazz.

Jon Dobie Jon Dobie was born in London in 1956, where he still lives when he is not travelling and performing in Europe. He studied at Swanley Comprehensive School and Bath University. He has received several arts awards to enable him to continue his performances most notably from the British Council. He is currently reorganising the No Wave label and preparing to tour with his bands. He is the co-founder and tour organiser for B-shops for the Poor; he plays with Pieces of Brain, Sonicphonics, Interference 3.0, The Dynamix, Total touch, Ken Hyder. He also plays in the 2near 2far 4tet with Vladimir Miller, Alexandr Alexandrov and in duo/trio with Peter Brotzmann and Michael Werthmuller, John Edwards, Dave Petts, Adrian Northover, Netlanka, Sainkho, Gendos, Scipio, Russian band ZGA, He has also has played with Charles Hayward and Billy Bang; Shoji Hano and with Kris Wanders. Recently he has been playing in a duo with Polish drummer Rafal Gorzycki. Their album called “nothing” was released by Requiem Records (Warszawa), The Dobie/Madry Project “body up” was also released by Requiem and features Amy Knoles (USA), Adrian Northover, Alex Maguire, Dan Maurer (USA), Mauro Sambo (Italy) among others.

Sławek Janicki is a musician, filmmaker and curator of artistic activity. He is the co-creator and main director of the legendary Mózg club founded in 1994 in Bydgoszcz. Over the period between 2014 and 2018 he also directed the club’s branch in Warsaw. His is the creator and director of the International Contemporary Festival of Music and Visual Arts MÓZG Festival that takes place in Bydgoszcz and Warsaw. He also created another special project called SuperSam+1 as well as many other bigger or smaller art events. He started his artistic activity in mid 80’s. For over 25 years he has been active on the international improvised music scene. He has played many concerts in Europe and Australia. As a musician he is entirely devoted to absolute improvisation as it is the purest form of creating music.

Michael Wertmüller is a composer and percussionist, a Berlin resident, born in Thun, Switzerland in 1966. He worked as a classical percussionist with the Berne Symphony Orchestra, The Concertgebouw Orchestra and in many chamber orchestras. Wertmüller composed for Christoph Schlingensief as well as the Cologne Theater, Schauspielhaus Zürich and Schauspiel Stuttgart. He completed his studies at the Swiss Jazz School (1982-1985), the Hochschule der Künste Bern (1986 - 1990) and the Sweelinck- Konservatorium Amsterdam (1991 - 1992) where he studied composition with Misha Mengelberg, among others. He was Dieter Schnebel’s student from 1995 to 1999 at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Michael Wertmüller’s music is, on the one hand, of raw power; on the other hand, it’s speculative – an unfolding expressionism in rhythm and sounds. Time with its divisions, breaks and extensions is – in addition to literary influences –the most important source of Michael Wertmüller’s inspiration. His compositions are often led by the most complicated beats and note values.

10:15 PMFOQL & Edka Jarząb:

Mother Earth's Doom Vibes

Mother Earth’s Doom Vibes is a project created by Justyna Banaszczyk and Edka Jarząb that exists only in the form of performance / live act. During their performances they explore noise, spoken word, ambient, field recording and each other. In April 2019 MEDV was invited to participate in a quadraphonic artistic residency organised by Biuro Dźwięku Katowice.

FOQL
Over the past few years Justyna Banaszczyk a.k.a. FOQL released an impressive amount of music on various media with the following labels: New York Haunted, Always Human Tapes, Gooiland Elektro and Pointless Geometry. Her hypnotic and unique style stems from dark industrial roots and thanks to her weakness for experiment, heaviness and the most innovative nooks of dance music, she is able to avoid truism. She is associated with Oramics collective. On April 26th she released a new album entitled “Dumpster diving know-how” with CGI Records from Atlanta.

Edka Jarząb
is a performer and sound artist. She works with voice and sonosphere in public space. She studied the method of deep listening with Pauline Oliveros and the Indian hindustani raga system in Waranasi. She is the founder of Pink Room DJ collective. She sings with Syreny improvisers group. She creates sound spaces for dance theatre and film. She works with U-Jazdowski Centre for Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, National Audiovisual Institute, Stół Powszechny/Strefa Wolnosłowa and QO2 in Brussels.

11:00 PMFILMS AGAINST WAR
„Grave of the Fireflies”, directed by. I. Takahata

sala im. Gustawa Holoubka

Od lat obecny w czołówkach rankingów najlepszych filmów w historii kina „Grobowiec świetlików” jest niezwykłym osiągnięciem japońskiej animacji. Roger Ebert zaliczył go do 300 najlepszych filmów na świecie, na liście IMDb został zakwalifikowany na pozycji 98, w topce magazynu TimeOut powstałej przy udziale Terry’ego Gilliama zajął 12 miejsce. Co do jego wysokiej wartości zgodni byli krytycy Empire, Total Film i recenzenci wymienieni przez serwis RottenTomatoes. Rozpowszechniany wspólnie z dziecięcą mangą z obawy, że nie trafi samodzielnie do szerokiej dystrybucji, stanowił zaskoczenie dla publiczności. W baśniowym świecie narysowanym delikatną kreską Studia Ghibli ukryty jest wojenny dramat dwójki bohaterów, nastoletniego Seity i jego czteroletniej siostry Setsuko, próbujących po utracie rodziców przeżyć we wstrząsanej wojną Japonii. Podążając za rodzeństwem coraz trudniejszą ścieżką film stawia pytanie o granice współczucia i wrażliwość na drugiego człowieka w czasach zagłady.

Vj Copy Corpo

Dariusz Pietraszewski is a VJ, tape jockey, promotor of tape culture and independent music. He co-leads a series of concerts V/A - Various Artist, a collective of initiatives WIDMA and a tape audio/video label Pointless Geometry. He also makes graphics for posters and tape release covers. As VJ Copy Corpo he creates visuals based on feedback and video materials from VHS tapes. In his improvised sets he uses analogue video mixers, peripheral devices or video cameras. In his duet with FOQL he presented his visuals on festivals such as Braille Satellite, Dym Festiwal, Rhizom Festival, Atom Festival or Hamselyt.

11:00 PMJulek Ploski LIVE
+ Vj Copy Corpo

once you become a master dj hero you have to move forward and do something more. you live too close to Tesco so you devote an album to it and BAS releases it. then you move to Warsaw, where someone likes your album, you play some concerts here, you play some concerts there, you record a second album, which you release with Gin&Platonic, you make a radio play, a second radio play, you start ?￰ﾝﾓﾵ?￰ﾝﾓﾶ?￰ﾝﾓﾾ?.?￰ﾝﾒﾶ?￰ﾝﾑﾒ? to release cool music, you take kickboxing classes bum bum and you finally go to sleep and and then you wake up and go to sleep and you do kickboxing bumbum.

11:40 PMFreeze LIVE
+ Vj Copy Corpo

Krzysztof Ostrowski is a musician, instrumentalist and producer from Bydgoszcz. In his works Freeze draws from techno, experimental music, ambient, dub, jazz, kraut and improvised music. He leans toward experimental and analogue solutions such as modular synthesisers or VHS sampling. He performs solo as well as in an audiovisual duet Soundscape Mirror with visual artist Tom Skof. His duet with Mateusz Wysocki (Fischerle) is called IFS. He recorded and performed with Piotr Cisak, Grzegor Pleszyński, Come Down to Earth improvised orchestra. He made his debut at the end of last year with a vinyl release in Jacek Sienkiewicz’s label Recognition. In April this year another album of his was released by Pawlacz Perski. Later this year he plans to release the second album of IFS duet and a new audiovisual version of Soundscape Mirror, which has already premiered during CoCArt festival.

0:25 AMJakub Lemiszewski LIVE
+ Vj Copy Corpo

Jakub Lemiszewski is a versatile musician from Poznań. In his solo pieces he discovers unknown spaces in electronic dance music. His work is characterised by intensity, multiple levels and tension between rationality and irrationality. One of his main necessity is to seek new musical identity of Eastern European music - futuristic, abstract and different from Western European or Anglosaxon patterns.

He released a few solo albums (30 Minutes, Hermes, Mixtape, Daaamn, Nielegal, Bubblegum New Age) and played over 400 concerts with various projects: experimental rock with Złota Jesień, noise punk with Sierść, shoegaze with Gołębie and free impro with duet Lemiszewski / Olter. This year he has already released an album with abstract electronics entitled “2019” on Pointless Geometry and a quasi-prog symphony “Podróż na Wschód” on Enjoy Life. For this year, he is also planning to finish working on a few albums for live ensembles while perfecting his producing skills. In his private life recently he has been working as a shoemaker.

BroShuda 1:15 AM

dj set
PRZEKRÓJ PROSI DO TAŃCA

Cross-pollinating a wide textural range of influences, Broshuda ́s music incorporates elements of sound art, electroacoustic techniques, processed spoken word / field recording excursions, as well as more rhythmically oriented and beat-heavy pieces.Though kaleidoscopically varied, the work is held together by a playful sense of experimentation and a willingness to explore new directions of sound through an experimental approach and the use of changing production techniques to expand and further his already broad sonic palette.

Pursuing a strong Fluxus inspired interdisciplinary ethos in his artistic output, the same attitude is applied to his audio works, resulting in detailed sketches which at the same time show and disguise their inner logic while transporting a range of carefully distilled emotions and feelings. His livesets mostly consist of unheard, new and upcoming material, often featuring pieces specifically created for the show and the setting he is performing in, while also drawing from his back catalogue and rearranging and remixing his material live.

Monster 2:00 AM

dj set
PRZEKRÓJ PROSI DO TAŃCA

Monster became a DJ 10 years ago. At the beginning she mainly performed in a squat in Poznań and social centre Rozbrat. She organised parties Squat The Electricity, where she invited local DJs to promote electronic music in non-commercial spaces. Throughout these years she performed and led DJ workshops in many cities in Poland as well as in Lviv, Prague, San Francisco, Amsterdam and London. In 2018 she won a DJing competition and she performed on the main stage of Wooded festival in Szczecin. She also performed during Tauron Nowa Muzyka, Up To Date afterparty and Unsound Festival. She is the resident of a Poznań club called Projekt LAB. Her mix for Naive label was distinguished as one of the mixes of the month by Pitchfork magazine, where her DJing style was described quite adequately: "this 99-minute set includes acid, breakbeat, wavy piano house, electro and even very early trance, it's makes us wonder why we haven't heard about her before".