Digital Rendez-vous presents the artistic duo Scenocosme: Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt

MAIN PROGRAM | May 4 – May 8
permanent exhibitions:

 Digital Rendez-vous presents: Scenocosme: Acousmaflore – interactive audiovisual installation @ Theatre &TD atrium

THURSDAY, May 5

8pm – Digital Rendez-vous presents: Scenocosme: La Maison Sensible + Metamorphy – opening – interactive audiovisual installations @ Gallery SC (till the end of Showroom)

In order to celebrate publishing of the catalogue of events that took place during 6 months in 2015, partners of the Festival of France in Croatia Rendez-vous, in collaboration with the Showroom of Contemporary Sound and Zagreb Academy of Music, invited the French artistic duo Scenocosme who will present four interactive sound installations. The artistic work of the Scenocosme Duo, comprised of French artists Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt, encompasses different forms and expressions: interactive installations, group performances, work in the field of visual and digital art, sound art etc. Apart from the use of different technologies in creating, Scenocosme uses possible hybrid technologies and live elements to create their own poetic artistic language. Interaction is the focal point of their actions, so the piece exists and changes through physical and social relations, actions and audience’s reactions.

Akousmaflore

Metamorphy

Interactive sound installation Akousmaflore is a garden made of musical plants that react to human touch, so they need to be touched in order to create sound. In the interactive audiovisual installation Metamorphy real reflections and virtual images are interlocked, thus creating an illusion of distorted reality. An elastic and semitransparent fabric react again to the human interaction – a touch or push, physically changing their shape and at the same time generating visual and sound content. La Maison Sensible enhances the physical space of Gallery SC as well as the relationship between the audience and the surround. Discreet sensors turn walls, floor and furniture into a sensible and sensitive reactive interface.

La maison sensible

May 5 – 7 @ Music Academy

Experience of a light-sound installation Urban Lights Contacts in front of the new building of the Zagreb Academy of Music is possible with an interaction by two or more people whose bodies become generators of sound through their mutual bodily interaction, but also the touch of a small shiny ball. The energetic fields of the participants are heard through mutual skin contact.

Urban Light Contacts

We compare our artistic intentions with technological experiments that open up unexpacted paths.

Scenocosme

www.scenocosme.com

Defibrillator

WEDNESDAY, May 4

11,59pm – Defibrillator – concert dedicated to Daniel Buess @ Theatre &TD semicircular hall (50′)

concert dedicated to Daniel Buess

Sebastian Smolyn, e-trombone
Artur Smolyn, electronics
Maxime Hänsenberger, drums

Sebastian Smolyn (trombone) and Artur Smolyn (electronics) are Defibrillator. They have committed themselves to improvised music and do enthralling performances full of energy. They have been educated in classical music in conservatories in Germany, France and Switzerland. They have played in numerous well-known orchestras and ensembles. Their experience is the matrix for a kind of music that follows its own rules, that makes use freely of what it needs. The music is pushed by two musicians who engage in everything that serves the organic thriving of their sound. They unfold their own acoustic vocabulary in a very convincing way. After the show you want to try to find out what their possible influences are and you will find New Music, Free Jazz, Noise and Hardcore in its many different shapes. There are familiar rhythmic patterns, harmonies and tonal references, which are broken and altered. The beat comes and goes, is dominant at times or gets pushed away by soundscapes and spherical sounds. When the Smolyn brothers meet it is a meeting of electronics and e-trombone on an equal level. Since they can trust each other blindly, they can also challenge each other and push their boundaries. The Smolyn Brothers played several concerts together with Peter Brötzmann, Oliver Steidle, Daniel Buess, Olaf Rupp and others. (Text: Matthias Kogon)

www.sebastiansmolyn.com
www.artursmolyn.com

Anthea Caddy & Miodrag Gladović: The Limen Cycle

Anthea Caddy & Mio Gladovic

The Limen Cycle explores the cyclic nature of vibrational energy that travels through the complex structural system of the violoncello. These sound vibrations move through a number of spatial energetic transductions within the instrument, before being radiated into vibrational sound waves within an environment. By physically expanding this radiation and its subsequent patterns through a specifically designed vibrational electro-acoustic system, the spatial movement of sound waves are magnified, creating a number of physical and acoustic phenomena. This generates a cyclic system, exploring the threshold between the physical and aural aspects of vibration and sound.

Anthea Caddy

Anthea Caddy is a cellist and artist living and working in Berlin, Germany and Sydney, Australia. Her practice explores the spatio-temporal aspects of sound and architecture, applying these to audio performances that manipulate and distort perceptions of time, space and experience. She is an active member of the Berlin experimental music scene, both as a soloist and in collaboration with a number of acclaimed musicians and artists. Her solo work focuses on the incorporation of acoustic, electro-acoustic and recorded space within performance, installation and concert presentation, often using amplified cello as her primary sound source. Anthea is currently studying a Ph.D at the UNSW, Sydney under Media Arts historian Douglas Kahn.

Miodrag Gladović

Miodrag Gladović is an engineer of electroacoustics, a musician and producer. With a wide range of artistic sensibilities, Gladović is active in a number of different musical projects, from punk and post rock bands to experimental works. His artistic work often incorporates technological development. In collaboration with Bojan Gagić, he is active as a part of the Lightune.G duo whose main focus is luminoacoustic composition.

Anthea Caddy & Miodrag Gladović

After the last year’s collaboration as a part of the experimental ensemble led by Hilary Jeffery, Anthea and Mijo began an electroacoustic and spatial-acoustic exploration. The experiment is set in the acoustically specific context of the French Pavilion, and the result is The Limen Cycle where cello is amplified by a highly sensitive accelerometer with the purpose of transferring the vibrations of the instrument’s body to a number of vibrating resonant plates, which act as vibrational amplifiers within the space.

This project is supported by Australia Council for the Arts.

www.antheacaddy.com

Pioneers of the Factory of Sound

WEDNESDAY, May 4

7pm – Pioneers of the Factory of Sound @ MM Centre (20′)

Pioneers of the Factory of Sound

In January 2016 The Music Showroom started a new project – a workshop of electronic and improvised music for children Factory of Sound led by musician and composer Nenad Sinkauz. The workshop took place each Tuesday during the past four months and it was intended for children from the age of 7 until 10 years old. In this educational projects the little musicians got acquainted with microphones, effects, synthesisers, … and with the use of their own voice (and body) and audio equipment, Sinkauz taught them basics of improvisation. In Factory of Sound music is made with the use of different objects, effects, live sampling, voice modulations, but firstly through play, where the Pioneers of the Factory of Sound reach a certain kind of instant composition on a level that suits their age, perception and knowledge of music art. At the end of these four months of getting together, musicians of the future with their short impro set, led by Nenad Sinkauz, open the fourth edition of the Showroom of Contemporary Sound.

Pioneers of the Factory of Sound are Mirej Đurović, Max Foretić, Vanda Heidl, Dan Herceg, Vlado Krpan, Melkior Midžić, Oskar Rasol, Alma Skadrak, Asiya Skadrak, Sofija Stajčić, Marica Vukelić, Rajna Vukelić, Šime Vukelić and Žana Zaninović.

Pioneers of the Factory of Sound

I am trying to explain to the children that music is not only what they can hear on television, a verse and refrain, it is not only pop songs nor just classical music. I put a lot of attention on listening. Actually, I am trying to teach them to listen to each other and what they are doing. Also, I try to teach them to play with different objects, garbage bags, styrofoam etc., and then together we modulate these sounds through effects. Nenad Sinkauz

To have someone like Nenad Sinkauz, a man who works in an experimental rock band, who knows global trends in experimental music, I find this to be an excellent situation. When such a person decides to work with children, it is an opportunity you don’t miss. Zoran Stajčić

Pioneers of the Factory of Sound

Nenad Sinkauz (1980) completed MA studies in ethnomusicology in Padova. By vocation he is a composer and a performer in music, dance, theatre and multimedia projects. In 2002 he founded East Rodeo, a music group that worked with a number of international jazz and rock musicians, connecting the avant rock, live electronics, noise, experimental and improvisational music. Sinkauz is the author and performer in the renowed audiovisual project …day of the year that uses improvisation and live sampling to explore relations between sound and video. As a composer and performer he collaborates with a great number of musicians, choreographers, theatre and film directors in Croatia and abroad: Mala Kline, Dalibor Matanić, Marc Ribot, Warren Ellis, Greg Cohen, Ivana Sajko, Franka Perković, Roberta Milevoj, Francesco Scavetta, Mikiko Kawamura, Matija Ferlin, Petra Hrašćanec, Saša Božić, BADco and others.

Explicit Music presents: Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger

WARMING UP

May 3 at 9pm – Explicit Music presents: Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger @ Theatre &TD semicircular hall (40′)

Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger

Franz Hautzinger (1963) is certainly ineluctable part of the avant-garde art scene today. A definite turning point in his career was the album Gomberg (2000) for quarter tone trumpet that conquered new sound horizons of the instrument. He worked with Kenny Wheeler, John Russel, Steve Noble, Derek Bailey, Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide etc. Hautzinger demonstrated that in the times when the postmodern has been placed in archives, it is still possible to invent a new instrumental sound. In this case, that of a trumpet. After her classical studies and performances in an array of ensembles, Isabelle Duthoit (1970) found her place in the field of experimental music. Clarinet player by vocation, she is also an excellent singer who constantly questions the boundaries of vocal possibilities in a number of music, theatre and audio-visual projects.

The concert is organized in collaboration with the Multimedia institute MaMa.

www.franzhautzinger.com

lpr.com/lpr_artists/isabelle-duthoit

Sumovi protiv valova

WEDNESDAY, May 4

10,30pm – Šumovi protiv valova @ Theatre &TD big hall (75′)

Šumovi protiv valova

Šumovi Protiv Valova (Noises Against Waves) is a rock band from Zagreb. They make psychedelic music and/or silence.

www.facebook.com/sumoviprotivvalova

https://soundcloud.com/sumovi-protiv-valova

Pajo’s Sound Tracks and Music of the Universe

MAIN PROGRAM | May 4 – May 8
permanent exhibitions:

Pajo’s Sound Tracks and Music of the Universe (introduction to Dragan Pajić Pajo’s archive) @ Theatre &TD caffe bar

Dragan Pajić Pajo

40 years of improvisational and experimental scene pioneer’s activity – not a small thing.

It’s hard to imagine a situation where Dragan Pajić Pajo appears without getting noticed.

Uncompromised critic with an amazing sense of humour and endless energy who used to put smile on people’s faces with his sharp and funny remarks, at the same time putting them in a situation of questioning their attitudes related mostly to art, culture or moral in general. That is perhaps the biggest reason why some accepted him wholeheartedly, while others couldn’t stand him. Pajo was not a part of the mainstream civil or uncivilized society… and he was a great fan of Monty Python.

Music was his means of expression, starting with the rock band Bordel, continuing later with expressionistic Cul-De-Sac, all the way to electronic and experimental phase when he collaborated with a number of musicians, continuing later in the direction of electroacoustic experiments: as a part of the Orchestra for Accelerated Evolution and as a soloist. Unconcerned about different styles, Pajo’s main field was improvisation.

Dragan Pajić Pajo

I’ve realized I fabulously can’t play the guitar.

Jesus is great, Allah is great, Buddha is great, but Belastingdienst (Tax Office) is the greatest.

Right, from now on, I play the plectrum!

Dragan Pajić Pajo (1956 – 2014)

Pajo’s extraordinary contribution to Zagreb’s improvisational and experimental underground scene is immeasurable. But, what can be measured is the great archive material he left on magnetophone and audio tapes, mini discs, CDs, video tapes, photos and other type of documentation. Pajo’s friends and colleagues intend to digitalize and archive the material in full, thus making it accessible for future research and enjoyment. The heads of this project are also active contributers to the contemporary music scene, Damir Prica Kafka, Ivan Marušić Klif and Višeslav Laboš. At the Showroom of Contemporary Sound they will present the entire project and further plans, and present the audience with the archive through a selection of exemplary material that covers the period of 30 years.

Digitalization and scanning: Damir Prica Kafka

Digitalization and processing of the video material: Ivan Marušić Klif

Digitalization, sound restoration and mastering: Višeslav Laboš

OZAFIN ALU

SATURDAY, May 7

6pm – OZAFIN ALU presents: Roko Crnić: Chair, Table and Stool (1st part) @ Carpenter’s Workshop in SC (20′)

7pm – OZAFIN ALU presents: Roko Crnić: Chair, Table and Stool (2nd part) @ SEK hall (20′)

OZAFIN ALU presents

Department of Animation and New Media (abbr.: OZAFIN) of the Academy of Fine Arts (ALU)  in Zagreb is unique in their simultaneous work in classical animation, contemporary, multidisciplinary and social artistic practices. OZAFIN is unique, both as the only study of fine arts that offers as a part of their BA studies classes that focus on sound, and so the students get to know the experimental work of the old masters like Alvin Lucier or Meredith Monk, as well as contemporary practices and theories about sound, at the same time developing and creating their own sound art pieces. In collaboration with Nicole Hewitt and Ana Hušman, this year’s Showroom presents a tiny piece of what is done as a part of the studies at the OZAFIN ALU.

Telefon, Karlo Metličić

Karlo Pavičić Ravlić: Media telephone

Karlo’s telephone rings when you get close to it. While picking up the phone, you can only hear one side of the conversation: the person tells You about their problem and You are the collocutor. The telephone has several different audio files that play randomly when picking up the phone. Some conversations were recorded by Karlo and part of the recordings was provided by his colleagues and he implemented them. Karlo is a second year BA student at the Department of Animation and New Media.

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Alvin Lucier: Vespers (1969)

My work was about revealing things, discovering things. It’s more interesting to me to discover something in the act of composition than in deciding beforehand and make it happen. I think that it’s one of the descriptions of experimental music. Not that you don’t know what you’re doing, certainly… A. Lucier

As a part of their study programme of the second year, students at the OZAFIN ALU study and perform the cult piece of experimental music, I am sitting in a room by Alvin Lucier, that we had a chance to hear at the last year’s Showroom, at the French Pavilion. Specific acoustics of the French Pavilion, importance and influence of Lucier’s work in the field of experimental music (and wider), his exploratory approach, at the same time simple and genius ideas, pioneering, working with perception of hearing, the use of acoustics and space frequencies as well as natural characteristics of the sound wave in music pieces,… all these will yet another time serve as the reason to perform another Lucier’s piece. It will be performed at the French Pavilion by the OZAFIN ALU students, and we will hear it as a part of the project More Light.

Roko Crnić: Stolac, stol i stolica

1^st part at Carpenter’s Workshop performed by Roko Crnić, Miro Manojlović, Dragan Pavlić

2^nd part in the SEK hall performed by Juraj Borić, Roko Crnić, Miro Manojlović, Ivan Marincel

Roko Crnić: Chair, Table and Stool

The performance Chair, Table and Stool explores relationship between the immaterial artistic piece and concrete material practices of skills and knowledge and their perceptions. Prior to the performance, the artist collaborated with a carpenter who made the chair, table and stool that are being used by the artist during the performance. Together with the musicians, he explores different readings of the roles of the stool and a music instrument, musician and the carpenter, sitting and playing.

By confronting the two practices (playing and carpenting) that, each in their own respectful way, can be characterized as performance, I take interest in differences in their social positioning, as well as the fact that a live music performance finds its meaning in the exact moment of its realisation, while carpenter’s performance in a capitalistic society doesn’t depend on public visibility while it happens. On the contrary, it meets its social function only through a realisation of a finished product that is then included in the processes of the market exchange. Roko Crnić

Roko Crnić recently graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. As a musician he took part in different projects of the Zagreb musical improvisation scene (Prepared Orchestra) and with bands Porto Morto and Franz Kafka Ensemble.

http://oskudnost.wordpress.com/

http://www.alu.unizg.hr/alu/cms/front_content.php?idcat=76&lang=1